B 102: Introduction to New Testament

Bible Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Most of these resources define terms, summarize and discuss recent scholarship, and offer suggestions for further reading.

Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. Doubleday, 1992. Ref BS 440 .A54 1992

Blackwell Reference Online: Religion
Full-text of 23 Blackwell religion reference works, including the Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture.

Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible. Ref BS 440 .D495 2005

Dictionary of Biblical Imagery. InterVarsity, 1998. Ref BS 537 .D48 1998

Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation. Abingdon, 1999. Ref BS 500 .D5 1999

Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. InterVarsity, 1992. Ref BS 2555.2 .D53 1992

Dictionary of Paul and his Letters. InterVarsity, 1993. Ref BS 2650.2 .D53 1993

Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its Developments. InterVarsity, 1997.
Ref BS 2625.5 .D53 1997

Eerdman's Dictionary of the Bible. Eerdmans, 2000. Ref BS 440 .E44 2000

Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. Garland, 1997. Ref BS 162.2 .E53 1997

Encyclopedia of Religion
Full-text of the comprehensive, scholarly reference work published by Macmillan, 2005.

Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Baker, 1996. Ref BS 440 .E78 1996

HarperCollins Bible Dictionary. HarperSF, 1996. Ref BS 440 .H237 1996

Handbook of Biblical Criticism. Westminster John Knox, 2001. Ref BS 511.3 .S68 2001

Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters. InterVarsity, 1998. Ref BS 501 .A1 H57 1998

Interpreting the Bible: a Handbook of Terms and Methods. Hendrickson, 2006. Ref BS 511.3 .T38 2006

IVP Dictionary of the New Testament. Intervarsity, 2004. Ref BS 2312 .I89 2004

New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. ? vols. Abingdon, 2006. Ref BS 440 .N445 2006

Oxford Reference Online: Religion and Philosophy
Includes searchable fulltext of several Oxford Bible reference tools.

Reference Universe
A unique tool that can search across the indexes of many reference works. Earlham does not have all of them; the little book icon next to the title indicates we have it. Remote students can use Document Delivery to request specific reference articles not available online.

Women in Scripture: a Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the ... Bible.
Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Ref BS 575 .W593 2000

PALNI Online Catalog

Search by Author Keywords or Title Keywords (or use Browse Search to scan an alphabetical list under Author or Title) to find works listed in the encyclopedias' bibliographies, the course syllabus, etc.

Search by Subject Keywords or Keywords anywhere to find other books that contain information on your subject. Note that many books about biblical texts can be searched effectively by going to Browse Search and searching "Subject beginning with... " Try Subject Headings constructed as "Bible N T Mark" (or other book of the Bible.)

Help searching the online catalog for commentaries
How to renew your books online

Finding articles

ATLA Religion Database.
Indexes international journals and magazines in religion from 1949 to the present. Also indexes some chapters in books. Includes some full text.
Help with ATLA Scripture Index
Help interpreting ATLA citations

Academic Search Premier
Indexes journals since 1990 in many disciplines, including religion, history, philosophy, the arts, etc. Includes some full text.

JSTOR
Full text of over hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s.

New Testament Abstracts. Lilly Reference index shelves
Offers summaries of recent New Testament scholarship, three times per year. For scripture index, see the third secion per year.

How to Cite Sites (and Other Electronic Documents)

Chicago Manual of Style Online
Full text of the 15th edition of the University of Chicago's style manual, on which Turabian is based. Especially useful is the Quickguide page, with examples of notes and citations for a variety of document types.

Assembling a List of Works Cited.
Duke's guide to formating the bibliography, including examples of electronic documents, in several styles including Turabian and Chicago.

Turabian Citation and Format Style Guide
Bucknell University's guide to Turabian style includes examples of citing electronic resources and websites.

RefWorks: Manage Citations and Generate Formatted Bibliographies
(off-campus users must obtain Earlham's "Group Code" from a librarian)
Create your own (free) account on this web-based bibliographic manager. Then, you can import citations manually or from databases to manage your citations and generate bibliographies formatted in your preferred style.