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Theological Studies Research Guide - Reference Sources

Commentaries

There are commentaries on the Bible as a whole, or on particular books or sections of books. To find commentaries using the Sofia Discovery tool, perform a KEYWORD search and enter the word 'commentaries' and a book of the Bible (e.g. bible and commentaries and Acts), or perform a SUBJECT search using Library of Congress Subject Headings, using the format BIBLE NT or BIBLE OT (Old or New Testament), and the particular book of the bible of interest. For example:

  • BIBLE COMMENTARIES
  • BIBLE N T GOSPELS COMMENTARIES
  • BIBLE N T MARK COMMENTARIES
  • BIBLE O T JOB

Bibliography of commentaries:

Major commentaries:

Dictionaries

This is not a complete list. For more titles, please check Sofia Discovery tool or consult the Subject Librarian.

Encyclopedias

This is not a complete list. For more titles, please check the Sofia Discovery tool or consult the Subject Librarian.

Atlases
Bibles

The call number range for Bibles is BS135 - BS198. While most English translations and versions of the Bible are located in the general stacks, a few copies are also kept in the reference collection for consultation. Here are a few major versions:

Here are some Bibles you can find online, in an electronic, often searchable, format.

                 King James Bible (as pusblished by the American Bible Society, searchable)

                 Bible Reader App (by the American Bible Society)  

                 Bible Study Tools (different versions, different languages)

                 Lumina  (Bible.org, searchable, different versions)

                 Bibles (by l’Alliance Biblique Française, in French, searchable)

                 Bible en Ligne (by Centre biblique, in French, searchable, offers commentaries and

                    concordances search)

Bibliography

This is not a complete list. For more titles, please check the Sofia Discovery tool or consult the Subject Librarian.

Biography
Companions, guides and handbooks

This is not a complete list. For more titles, please check the Sofia Discovery tool or consult the Subject Librarian.

Bible:

Ethics:

Theology:

Concordances

Concordances are works which list the words of the Bible and give the passages where each word occurs. In the Sophia Discovery tool, works which list the ideas of the Bible and give the passages where the idea rather than the exact word occurs are entered under the subject heading "BIBLE - INDEXES". Concordances are available for a variety of translations of the Bible.

Indexes (abstracts)

These are the major indexes relevant to Theology that are only available in print format.

  • Elenchus of Biblica (1988-onwards) 
    Provides, in a classed arrangement, the most comprehensive indexing of journal and monographic literature for biblical studies.
  • New Testament abstracts (1956-2003) 
    Presents abstracts of articles on the New Testament which have appeared in Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish periodicals, in many languages. (Coverage from 1985-onwards also available in electronic format.)
Popes and papal documents

This is not a complete list. For more titles, please check the Sofia Discovery tool or consult the Subject Librarian.

Theological research
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