Biblical Studies

Botterweck, G. Johannes and Helmer Ringgren eds. Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, vols. 1-10 (not yet complete).  Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1974-1999.

Carson, D.A. Douglas Moo, and Leon Morris. An Introduction to the New Testament. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1992. 

Kittel, Gerhard and Gerhard Friedrich eds. Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, 10 vols. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1964-1976.

Lasor, William S., David A. Hubbard, and Frederic W. Bush. Old Testament Survey. 2d. ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1996.

Metzger, Bruce M. and Bart D. Ehrman. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. 4th ed. New York: Oxford, 2005.

Sailhamer, John. How We Got the Bible. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1998.

Sailhamer, John. The Pentateuch as Narrative. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1992.

Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center

Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts

Codex (Prof. William’s Old Testament studies page)

Online Critical Pseudipigrapha

Resource Pages for Biblical Studies

Interpretation:

Fee, G., and D. Stuart. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth.  Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1993.

Fee, Gordan D. New Testament Exegesis. 3d ed. Louisville: John Knox Press, 2002.

Klein, William W., Craig L. Blomberg and Robert Hubbard. Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. Vancouver: Word, 1993.

Ryken, Leland. Words of Delight: A Literary Introduction to the Bible. 2d. ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1992.

Stuart, Douglas. Old Testament Exegesis. 3d ed. Louisville: John Knox Press, 2001. 

Greek:

Nestle-Aland’s Novum Testamentum Graece (Greek New Testament; lists more textual variants in the apparatus than UBS).

United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament (virtually the same as Nestle-Aland’s; less textual variants listed; some consider slightly more user friendly).

Goodrich and Lukaszewski’s  A Reader’s Greek New Testament (good for beginners; lists definitions for all words with a word count of 30 or less).

Rahlfs, Alfred, ed. Septuaginta. New York: American Bible Society, 1979.

The LXX Online (Septuagint; Greek translation of the Old Testament)

Nestle-Aland LXX

Learn Biblical Greek (Mounce’s website) 

Mounce, William, D. Basics of Biblical Greek. 2d ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2003. (beginner)   

Wallace, Daniel. Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics. Grand Rapids Mich.: Zondervan, 1996. (intermediate) 

Greek Tools:

Bauer, Walter, F.W. Danker, W.F. Arndt, and F.W. Gringrich. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature. 3rd edition. ed. Frederick W. Danker. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Brenton, Lancelot C.L. The Septuagint with Apocrypha: Greek and English. Peabody, Mass.: Henderickson, 1986.

Brown, Colin (ed). The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, 3 vols. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1975-1978.

Eynikel, J., E. Hauspie, J. Lust and A. Rahlfs (eds). Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint, 2 vols. New York: American Bible Society, 1998.

Hatch, Edwin and Henry A. Redpath.  A Concordance to the Septuagint and the Other Greek Versions of the Old Testament, 2 vols. 3d ed.  Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1999.

Moulton, William F. and A.S. Geden. A Concordance to the Greek Testament according to the Texts of Westcott and Hort, Tischendorf and the English Revisers. 5th ed. by H.K. Moulton. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1978.

Hebrew:           

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Hebrew Bible)

Arnold, Bill and John Choi. A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. New York: Cambridge, 2003. (intermediate) 

Pratico, Gary and Miles VanPelt. Basics of Biblical Hebrew. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2001. (beginner)  

Hebrew Tools:

Brown, F., S. Driver,  and C. Briggs. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon. 7th ed. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2003. 

Harris, R. Laird, Archer Gleason and Bruce K. Waltke (eds). Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, 2 vols. Chicago, Ill.: Moody Press, 1980.

Kohlenberger III, John R. and James A. Swanson. The Hebrew-English Concordance to the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1998.

Hermeneutika BibleWorks (excellent software program for working with the biblical text; Old and New Testaments)

Logos System (another good software program)