N. T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God

Bibliographical details:
Wright, N. T. (1992). The New Testament and the People of God. Christian Origins and the Question of God, vol. 1. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
Publisher’s information:
This major new five-volume project presents a comprehensive, detailed, yet highly readable assessment of the historical and theological questions surrounding the origins of Christianity.
‘In this volume Wright trains a penetrating [...]

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Gordon McConville, The Old Testament

Bibliographical details:
McConville, J. G. (1996). The Old Testament. Teach Yourself Books. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
Publisher’s information:
The Bible has had a profound effect on the whole of Western culture – through the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also through literature and art. It has been the often unrecognised inspiration behind many of the [...]

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Review of Adam, Fowl, Vanhoozer and Watson, Reading Scripture with the Church: Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation

Bibliographical details:
Adam, A. K. M., S. E. Fowl, K. J. Vanhoozer, and F. Watson. (2006). Reading Scripture with the Church: Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
Publisher’s information:
Reading Scripture with the Church is the result of years of debate and discussion among four leading scholars of biblical interpretation – A. K. [...]

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Susan E. Gillingham, One Bible, Many Voices: Different Approaches to Biblical Studies

Bibliographical details:
Gillingham, S. E. (1998). One Bible, Many Voices: Different Approaches to Biblical Studies. London: SPCK.
Publisher’s information:
No single approach to reading the Bible can possibly do justice to its complex history and content.
Advocating a pluralistic reading, Dr Gillingham offers theological, historical and literary insights into both the compilation of the Bible and the development of [...]

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Raymond E. Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament

Bibliographical details:
Brown, R. E. (1999). An Introduction to the New Testament. The Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday.
Publisher’s information:
From the experience of a lifetime of scholarship, preaching, teaching, and writing, Raymond E. Brown covers the entire scope of the New Testament with ease and clarity. He walks readers book by book through the basic [...]

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Biblical eSources (by Ted Hildebrandt)

The Biblical eSources site, maintained by Ted Hildebrandt of Gordon College in Wenham (MA), lists electronic books, articles and bibliographies on the Old and New Testament as well as on New Testament Greek. Some areas of biblical studies are well covered, while others (such as most of the minor prophets) don’t feature at all.
There is [...]

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John Barton (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation

Bibliographical details:
Barton, John (ed.) (1998). The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Publisher’s information:
This book provides the first complete guide for students to the present state of biblical studies. The twenty-one specially commissioned chapters are written by established scholars from North America and Britain, and represent both traditional and contemporary points of view. [...]

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