LibGuides: Master of Arts in Christian Practice: Old Testament

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Bible--Old Testament

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Databases

ATLA Religion Database
Indexes journals and book essays in religion and theology. Use the scripture button to search specific scriptures.
Bible in English
Contains twenty versions of the Bible in English from 990-1970.
BibleWorks (at Divinity School Library only)
A biblical concordance and morphological analysis program containing the full text of 44 versions of the Bible in English, Greek, Hebrew plus 9 other languages.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
A primary index for Roman Catholic journal articles, essays, book reviews and monographic literature; 1981 to date.
Dead Sea Scrolls (CD-ROM only)
A collection of digitized images the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Volume 1 comprises a complete collection of digitized images of all the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls. Volume 2 covers all non-biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Nabatean, and Greek texts from Qumran and a selection of texts from Wadi Murabba'at and Nahal Hever. Volume 3 gives a more complete coverage of all published materials including scrolls identified in 2004 and 2005.
Gutenburg Digital
The Gottingen copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the Model Book and the Helmasperger Notarial Instrument are accompanied by explanatory texts about Gutenberg and his life, the early period of letterpress printing and its impact.
Ministry Matters
Ministry Matters provides a collection of commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and other reference works with which to prepare sermons, lessons, and research papers.
Old Testament Abstracts
A primary resource of bibliographic information for the study of the Hebrew Bible. Indexes journal articles, books, collected essays and Festschriften; 1978 to date. Provides abstracts for non-English scholarship.
Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Provides access to six Oxford editions of the Bible, with commentary and annotations from study Bibles combined with reference material and source texts.
Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Database (CD-ROM only)
The 2 cds contain Latin and Bible texts from the Center for the Computer Analysis of Text at the University of Pennsylvania, the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri, and texts in Arabic and Coptic.

Reference Books

Anchor Bible Dictionary by David Noel Freedman
Call Number: Ref BS440 .A54 1992 at Divinity and Perkins
ISBN: 0385193513
New international dictionary of Old Testament theology & exegesis by Willem A. VanGemeren
Call Number: Ref BS440 .N438 1997 at Divinity
ISBN: 0310214009
Old Testament Exegesis by Douglas Stuart
Call Number: Ref and Stacks BS476 .S83 2001 at Divinity
ISBN: 066422315X
Theological wordbook of the Old Testament by R. Laird Harris
Call Number: Ref BS440 .T49 1980 at Divinity
ISBN: 0802486312
[Torah, Neviʾim u-Khetuvim] = Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
Call Number: Ref BS715 1984 at Divinity
ISBN: 3438052180