This guide is meant to serve as a helpful resource as you navigate and complete your exegesis assignments. The guide contains helpful resources and tools for this exegetical work.
In addition to the resources in the other tabs, there are various other types of physical (handbooks, atlases, and anthologies) and online resources that may be helpful as you exegete your pericope. Below is a sampling of the possibilities.
This database is a great place to search for articles and allows you to search by specific pericopes. See the Atla Research Guide for tips and tools for using this resource.
The Bible in English contains twenty versions of the Bible. In addition to the twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations. The complete English text of each edition is included, with all prefatory matter, notes, running heads and glossaries.
New Testament Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts of articles, reviews, and software. In additional almost 19,000 book summaries are included in this database. The areas of study encompassed by this resource include New Testament , Gospels-Acts, Epistles-Revelation, Biblical Theology and the World of the New Testament.
Old Testament Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. The majority of records in this index are for journal articles. Areas of study include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, and philology.
This resource provides peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on Biblical studies, including perspectives from fields ranging from archaeology, Egyptology, Assyriology, and linguistics through textual, historical, and sociological studies, to literary theory, feminism, philosophy, and theology. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable.
The CAL is a text base of the Aramaic texts in all dialects from the earliest (9th Century BCE) through the 13th Century CE, currently with a database of approximately 3 million lexically parsed words, and an associated set of electronic tools for analyzing and manipulating the data, whose ultimate goal is the creation of a complete lexicon of the language.
The Interlinear Bible is keyed to the Greek and Hebrew text using Strong’s Concordance. Read the original and literal Greek or Hebrew text with Strong’s words using the King James Version or New American Standard. The interlinear allows for each parallel reading and lexicon study.
Many Biblical texts are a part of a larger series. When you open an item record, scroll down to the Details section with the publication information. If there is a Series Title, click on the link to discover the other items in the series. There may be other relevant items within the same series. Alternatively, you can add the word compliation to your search, or you can search for an author and open up an item record to see the other chapters in a work. These usually appear in the Details section under Contents.