Appendix A: Selected Reference Tools for Bible
Study
Concordance
1.
The NRSV Concordance Unabridged, ed. John R. Kohlenberger III. Grand
Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1991.
2.
The NIV Exhaustive Concordance, ed. Edward W. Goodrick & John R. Kohlenberger
III. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan
Publishing House, 1990.
General Dictionary
1. The
Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 4 vols. & Supplementary, ed. George
A. Buttrick. New York
& Nashville:
Abingdon Press, 1962, 1976
2.
The Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. David Noel
Freedman, 6 vols. New York:
Doubleday, 1992.
3.
The New Unger’s Bible dictionary. Edited by M.
F. Unger, R. K. Harrison. Chicago: The Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.
(1988).
Archaeology and Geography
1. Aharoni,
Yohanon. The Archaeology of the Land of Israel.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1982.
2.
Aharoni, Y. & Avi-Yonah.
The Macmillan Bible Atlas. New York:
Macmillan, 1968.
3.
Baly, Denis. The
Geography of the Bible. New York:
Harper & Row, 1974.
4.
Shanks, Hershel & Dan P. Cole, ed.
Archaeology and the Bible, 2 vols. Washington,
DC: Biblical Archaeology Society,
1990.
5.
May, Herbert G., ed. Oxford Bible Atlas. New
York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1984.
6.
1Bimson, John J., ed. Baker Encyclopedia of
Bible Atlas. Grand Rapids:
Baker Books, 1995.
7.
1The Zondervan
pictorial encyclopedia of the Bible. Edited by M. C. Tenney.
Grand Rapids, MI: The Zondervan
Corporation. (1975).
8.
1Nelson’s illustrated encyclopedia of Bible
facts. Edited by J. I. Packer, M. C. Tenney, W.
White, Jr. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc. (1985).
Old Testament
1. 1Pritchard,
James. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Princeton, NJ: PrincetonUniversity Press, 1969.
2.
Bright, John. A History of Israel. Philadelphia:
Westminster
Press, 1981.
3.
Rad, Gerhard von. Old
Testament Theology, 2 vols. New York:
Harper & Row, 1962, 1965.
4.
Boadt, Lawrence.
Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction. New York: Paulist
Press, 1984.
5.
Anderson, B. W..
Understanding the Old Testament. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1985.
6.
Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period 450
BCE to 600 CE, ed. Jacob Neusner. New
York: Macmillan Library Reference USA and Simon & Schuster
Macmillan, 1996.
7.
The Encyclopedia of Judaism, ed. Geoffrey Wigoder. New York:
Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989.
New Testament
1. Duling,
Dennis C. & Norman Perrin. The New Testament: Proclamation and Paranesis, Myth and History. Forth Worth: HarcourtBraceCollege Publishers, 1994.
2.
Barrett, C. K., ed. The
New Testament Background: Writings from Ancient Greece
and the Roman Empire That Illustrate Christian
Origins. SF: Harper & Row San
Francisco, 1989.
3.
Kee, Howard Clark.
Understanding the New Testament. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: PrenticeHall, 1997.
4.
Synopsis of the Four Gospels, ed. Kurt Aland. United Bible Society, 1985.
5.
Koester, Helmut. Introduction to the New
Testament, vol. 1: History, Culture and Religion of the Hellenistic Age. NY:
Walter dy Gruyter, 1995.
6.
Harrington, Daniel J..
Interpreting the New Testament. Wilmington,
Del.: Michael Glazier, 1979.
7.
Stephens, William H..
The New Testament World in Pictures. Nashville:
Broadman Press, 1987.
8.
Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, 2 vols, ed. Everett Ferguson. NY and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997.
Bible Software
1. CD-ROM
versions are available for some of the titles listed above. Visit the CBD web
site at http://www.christianbook.com
2.
For a powerful yet inexpensive piece of Bible
software on CD-ROM, consider the Online Bible, available for Windows and Mac.
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