This subject guide provides resources related to research on the bible. Methodological approaches to the study of the bible can vary between literary studies, historical criticism, homiletical approaches, and postcolonial research. On the second tab, you'll find direct links to the library catalog on specific books of the bible.
Key eresources available to our students include:
Key eresources available to our students include:
- The abstracting services Old Testament Abstracts
and New Testament Abstracts - The index and full text database ATLASerials Religion PLUS
- The online Encyclopedia of the history of interpretation, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception
- The online, polyglot bible tool and reference collection Oxford Biblical Studies Online
- The online bibliography, Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies
- The online, polyglot bible tool The NET Bible
- The online concordance, the Blue Letter Bible
- BILDI
A bibliography of biblical and biblical-archaeological literature, covering articles, collected works, and monographs. Coverage for some of its 540 periodicals begins in 1985.
Note: Open Access - Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies
OBO offers over 150 bibliographies on topics in Jewish Studies, including historic figures, Jewish culture (US and Europe), the Shoah, and modern Jewish politics.
Note: Access: current students, faculty, staff, on campus visitors - Oxford Scholarship Online
Access nearly 2,000 recent scholary books published by Oxford University Press at this link or through the library catalog. All areas of religious research are included.
Note: Access: current students, faculty, staff, on campus guests - Bible Basics Pronunciation Guide
NET Ministries guide to pronouncing most words relevant to biblical and theological studies, from Aaron to Zuphite. Provides audio files as well as written phonetic notation.
There are three different style guides available for students of the Bible. Listed below, in order of preference & accessibility, are your professors' preferred citation styles:
- SBL Handbook of Style
The Student Supplement for the SBL Handbook of Style. This offers students resources on the basics of SBL Style as well as information on the many, many abbreviations that are used in Biblical studies. - Chicago Manual of Style Online
Find it. Write it. Cite it. The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. Turabian is a shortened version of The Chicago Manual of Style. - Turabian -- A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations is available in print at both libraries in the reference room at LB2369 .T8
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In the following two columns you will find a set of weblinks that will take you directly to the library's book catalog, ECCO. These searches are a little fuzzy (clicking on the link for the Gospel of John will also bring up books on the Epistles of John, etc.). Some of the books do not have weblinks, as we have no items in the collection that are specifically about that book. However, the majority of those texts are from the Apocrypha, which are oftentimes discussed together in one-volume commentaries, found via this link.
The library also owns several ebook commentaries. The two most useful sets are the Hermeneia series and the Wisdom Commentary series from Liturgical Press.
The library also owns several ebook commentaries. The two most useful sets are the Hermeneia series and the Wisdom Commentary series from Liturgical Press.
- Genesis
- Exodus
- Leviticus
- Numbers
- Deuteronomy
- Joshua
- Judges
- Ruth
- Samuel
- I & II Kings
- I & II Chronicles
- Ezra
- Nehemiah
- Tobit
- Judith
- Esther
- I & II Maccabees
- Job
- Psalms
- Proverbs
- Ecclesiastes
- Song of Solomon / Song of Songs
- Wisdom
- Sirach / Ecclesiasticus
- Isaiah
- Jeremiah
- Lamentations
- Baruch
- Ezekiel
- Daniel
- Hosea
- Joel
- Amos
- Obadiah
- Jonah
- Micah
- Nahum
- Habakkuk
- Zephaniah
- Haggai
- Zechariah
- Malachi
- Letter of Jeremiah
- Apocrypha
- Azariah
- Susanna
- Bel and the Dragon
- Prayer of MAnasseh
- I & II Esdras
- III Maccabees
- IV Maccabees
- Enoch
- Jubilees
- Maccabees (Ethiopic)
- Letter of Baruch
- Oxford Very Short Introductions
The ULS Library offers current students, faculty, and staff electronic access to 59 Very Short Introductions in religion, which offer concise introductions to important topics. - Oxford Handbooks Online
Oxford Handbooks offer introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in over 80 topical areas. - Oxford Scholarship Online
Access nearly 2,000 recent scholary books published by Oxford University Press at this link or through the library catalog. All areas of religious research are included.
Here we list miscellaneous related collections that may guide the researcher in their work.
- Bible Web App
Developed by Digital Bible Society, the Bible Web App offers researchers the opportunity to view parallel versions of the Bible in English with Greek (Tisch) and Hebrew (WLC), including parsings, morphology, and lemma. While not nearly as powerful as desktop software for Greek study, this free tool can be useful.
- Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
SDBH is created and maintained by the United Bible Societies. Its aim is to build a new dictionary of biblical Hebrew that is based on semantic domains, comparable to Louw & Nida's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1989). Several Hebrew scholars from various parts of the world serve as contributors, with Dr. Reinier de Blois serving as editor. - Ancient Hebrew Research Center
A resource for those interest in the ancient Hebrew alphabet, philosphy, and culture. - History of the Hebrew Language
A site dedicated to all things related to the history of the Hebrew Language. The site also includes a comparative essay on the similarities and differences between Semitic languages.
- Perseus Word Study Tool
The Perseus Word Study Tool offers users both multiple lexical resources as well as word frequency statistics of its massive corpus of Greek works. Highly recommended by faculty. - OpenText.org
The OpenText.org project is a web-based initiative to develop annotated Greek texts and tools for their analysis. The projects aims to both serve, and to collaborate with, the scholarly community. - Greek Dictionary
An online, fully searchable version of the Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon, from Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG); faculty recommend the Perseus Word Study Tool over the TLG.