Selected Bibliography

Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible For All It’s Worth, 2nd ed., Zondervan, 1993.

Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible Book By Book, Zondervan, 2002.

Howard Hendricks, Living By The Book, Moody Press, 1991.

Kay Arthur, How To Study Your Bible, Harvest House, 1994.
(Kay has a bibliography of Greek and Hebrew study helps in the back of her book)

I. Howard Marshall, Alan Millard and J.I. Packer, The New Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, Downers Grove, Il: InterVarsity Press, 1996.

Yohanan Aharoni, The MacMillan Bible Atlas, Revised 3rd Edition, Ed. Anson F. Rainey, New York: MacMillan, 1993.
(currently out of print, so search on used book web sites). It is now called Carters.

Bible handbook: Eerdman’s Handbook to the Bible or The Handbook of Life in Bible Times

Bill Arnold and Bryan Beyer, Encountering the Old Testament, A Christian Survey, Baker Books, 1998.

Walter Elwell and Robert Yarbrough, Encountering the New Testament, A Historical and theological Survey, Baker Books, 1997.

Concordance: Zondervan’s NIV Exhaustive; NASB Exhaustive; Strong’s Exhaustive

Commentary: Use a commentary by a trusted source, such as:

• Single Volume Commentary-New Bible Commentary, 21st Century Edition, 4th Edition, ed. By Gordon Wenham and D.A. Carson. Downers Grove, Il: InterVarsity Press, 1994.
  
• Refer to appendix (pp. 246-254) of Fee and Stuart’s book, second edition, for a list of individual commentaries
  
• Douglas Stuart, A Guide to Selecting and Using Bible Commentaries. Dallas: Word, 1990.
  
• Tremper Longman, Survey of Old Testament Commentaries,
  
• Baker D.A. Carson, Survey of New Testament Commentaries, Baker
  
• Warren Wiersbe, The Be Series
  
• Bible Promise books (ex: Billy Graham’s Christian Worker’s Handbook)

For those of you interested in doing some further study in the Greek or Hebrew to prepare for your Bible study, here are some selected resources that will aid you in the process. These resources and others can be found on p. 175 of Kay Arthur’s book, How to Study Your Bible

Vine, Unger, and White, eds. Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, Nashville: Nelson, 1985.

Zodhiates, Spiros, The Complete Word Study Dictionary: Old Testament Chattanooga: AMG, 1993.

Zodhiates, Spiros, The Complete Word Study Old Testament, Chattanooga: AMG, 1993.

Zodhiates, Spiros, The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament, Chattanooga: AMG, 1992.

Zodhiates, Spiros, The Complete Word Study New Testament, Chattanooga: AMG, 1991.

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