Research Guides: Biblical Studies: Background Information

Background Information

Ministry Matters This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. Click on title of dictionary, then use Table of Contents on right hand side to choose article. Note that the author's name appears at the bottom of each entry.

The Anchor Bible Dictionary by David Noel Freedman (Editor)
Publication Date: 1998
Comprehensive biblical dictionary
Encyclopedia Judaica by Fred Skolnik; Michael Berenbaum
Publication Date: 2006
Overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online This link opens in a new window
Origins and development of the Bible & how it's been read, interpreted and integrated across disciplines

Bible Odyssey
Explore the fascinating origins of the Bible and its eventful history on this site maintained by the Society of Biblical Literature. On Bible Odyssey, the world’s leading scholars share the latest historical and literary research on key people, places, and passages of the Bible.

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible by Susanne Scholz (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020
A collection of studies that approach the Hebrew Bible from a feminist, womanist, gender, and/or queer perspective.
The Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender, and Sexuality by Benjamin H. Dunning
Publication Date: 2019
Studies that consider the presentation of sex, gender, sexuality, and sexual difference in the New Testament and early Christianity.
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Ecology by Hilary Marlow (Editor); Mark Harris (Editor)
Publication Date: 2022
Essays on ecological hermeneutics reflecting current trends in ecology and the Bible.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies by Julia M. O'Brien (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2014
Entries seek to illuminate the construction of gender in the texts and cultures that comprise the Bible and its world.
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America by Paul Gutjahr (Editor)
Publication Date: 2017
A collection of essays detailing the role that the Bible has played in American life.