Religion, Comparative Subject Guide
The Bible
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Here are just a few of many reference books devoted to the study of the Christian and Jewish Bible. These sources help to elucidate meaning, identify people, and identify Biblical quotations.
Literature Online (LION) A full-text database of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, literary criticism from over 200 literature journals and various reference resources. Includes biographies, bibliographies, and links to Web sites. This database has a personal folder option where you can save articles. This database also has a citation export feature into Refworks, and Endnotes. This subscription is limited to four simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
Credo Reference (Formerly Xreferplus) Full text online from over 400 encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books. Search a topic, build a concept map or browse information sources organized by subject. Find text, images, sound files, sortable data tables and more.
Librarian's Comment: Click on the category of Religion and you then have an electronic version of the King James Bible and the Macmillan Dictionary of the Bible to search.
You can also search some specialized Biblical sources called:
Who's Who in Christianity
Who's Who in the Old Testament
Who's Who in the New Testament
The Anchor Bible Dictionary
BS 440 .A54 1992 (Ref)
Six volumes defining people, places, things, and beliefs in the Bible. Includes bibliographies. More info
The Home Book of Bible Quotations
BS 432 .S667 (Ref)
Subject arrangement, with a separate keyword index, of passages the editor thought worthy of inclusion, with notes and commentary. Includes the Apocryphas. References are to the King James Version. Subject arrangement allows comparison between different books and testaments. More info
The Interpreter's Bible
BS 491.2 .I55 (Ref)
The text of the King James translation of the Bible is contrasted, passage by passage, with the Revised Standard version, at the top of each page of this multi-volume set. Each "working page" also includes a section of exegesis, which sets the passage in its original historical context, followed by expository remarks, in which a commentator draws possible religious and ethical (from a Christian perspective) implications from the Biblical passage. More info
Nelson's Complete Concordance of the Revised Standard Version
BS 425 .E4 1984 (Ref)
An alphabetical list of all the major words in the Bible, referencing them by book, chapter, and verse. Omits very common words such as a, an, about, above, it, its, the, etc. More info
Librarian's Comment: As an example of text examination, once you have entered LION, scroll down on the left column to "Reference Shelf" and choose "King James Bible." This is an excellent electronic fully searchable text.