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  Tools & Resources Historical Jesus
  Gospels Acts of the Apostles
  Pauline & Deutero-Pauline Epistles Other NT Epistles
  Revelation New Testament Apocrypha


Tools & Resources
 
Tools
Cartlidge, David R. and David L. Dungan.  Documents for the Study of the Gospels, rev. ed.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.
 
Kloppenborg, John S.  Q Parallels: Synopsis, Critical Notes and Concordance.   Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1988.
 
Robinson, James M., Paul Hoffmann and John S. Kloppenborg.  Critical Edition of Q, Hermeneia Supplement.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.
 
--------.  The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.
 
 
Criticism & Exegesis
Aageson, James W.  In the Beginning: Critical Concepts for the Study of the Bible.  Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 2000.
 
Adam A. K. M., Stephen E. Fowl, Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Francis Watson.  Reading Scripture with the Church: Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2006.
 
Collins, John J.  Encounters with Biblical Theology.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.
 
Conzelmann, Hans and Andreas Lindemann.  Interpreting the New Testament: An Introduction to the Principles and Methods of N. T. Exegesis.  Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1999.
 
Donahue, John R.  "The Bible in Roman Catholicism since Divino Afflante Spiritu."   Word & World 13:4 (1993) 404-413.
 
Fee, Gordon D.  New Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors, 3rd ed.   Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002.
 
Fitzmyer, Joseph A., S. J.  The Biblical Commission's Document, "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church": Text and Commentary, StudBib 18.  Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1995.
 
Green, Joel B., ed.  Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation, 2nd ed.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2010.
 
Green, Joel B. and Michael Pasquarello III.  Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching: Reuniting New Testament Interpretation and Proclamation.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2003.
 
Harrington, Daniel J., S.J.  How do Catholics Read the Bible?  Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
 
Hartin, P. J.  Text and Interpretation: New Approaches in the Criticism of the New Testament, New Testament Tools and Studies 15.  Leiden: Brill, 1997.
 
O’Keefe, John J. and R. R. Reno.  Sanctified Vision: An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible.  Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 2005.
 
Pontifical Biblical Commission.  "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church."   Washington, D. C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1996.
 
Porter, Stanley E., ed.  Handbook to the Exegesis    Leiden: Brill, 2002.
 
Pregeant, Russell.   Encounter with the New Testament: An Interdisciplinary Approach.   Minneapolis: Fortress, 2009.
 
Prior, Joseph G.   The Historical Critical Method in Catholic Exegesis, Tesi gregoriana, Serie teologia 50.  Rome: Pontifial Gregorian University, 1999.
 
Sandys-Wunsch, John.  What Have They Done to the Bible? A History of Modern Biblical Interpretation.  Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2005.
 
Williamson, Peter S.   Catholic Principles for Interpreting Scripture: A Study of the Pontifical Commission’s The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church, Subsidia Biblica 22.  Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 2001.
 
Detailed bibliographies of method and New Testament applications can be found at the Exegesis tab to the left.
 
General New Testament
Aland, Kurt and Barbara Aland.  An Introduction to the New Testament, ABRL.  New York: Doubleday, 1997.
 
deSilva, David A.  An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods and Ministry Formation  Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2004.
 
Duling, Dennis C.  The New Testament: History, Literature, and Social Context, 4th ed.  Belmont, California: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003.
 
du Toit, A. B., ed.  The New Testament Milieu, Guide to the New Testament 2.  Halfway House, South Africa: Orion, 1998.
 
Ehrman, Bart D.  The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 2d ed.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
 
Jacobsen, Anders-Christian, ed.  The Discursive Fight over Religious Texts in Antiquity, Religion and Normativity 1.  Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2009.
 
MacDonald, Dennis R., ed.  Mimesis and Intertextuality in Antiquity and Christianity, Studies in Antiquity and Christianity.  Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 2001.
 
Metzger, Bruce M.  The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1997; original 1987.
 
New Testament Ethics
Donahue, John R., S.J.  "The Bible and Catholic Social Teaching: Will this Engagement Lead to Marriage?"  In Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations (ed. Kenneth R. Himes; Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005) 315-32.
 
Spohn, William C.  Go and Do Likewise: Jesus and Ethics.  New York: Continuum, 1999.
 
--------.  What Are They Saying about Scripture and Ethics?, 2d ed.  New York: Paulist, 1995.

Historical Jesus
 
Please see the Course Bibliography for my course, SCTR 27 The Historical Jesus.
Gospels
 
Please see the Course Bibliography for my course, PMIN 206 The Synoptic Gospels, which includes resources on the Gospel of John.
Acts of the Apostles
 
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Pauline & Deutero-Pauline Epistles
 
Paul and His Context
Engberg-Pedersen, Troels, ed.  Paul in His Hellenistic Context.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
 
Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome.  Becoming Human Together: The Pastoral Anthropology of St. Paul, 3rd ed.  Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.
 
Still, Todd D. and David G. Horrell, eds.   After the First Urban Christians: The Social-Scientific Study of Pauline Christianity Twenty-Five Years Later.   New York: Continuum, 2009.
 
Thompson, James W.   Pastoral Ministry According to Paul: A Biblical Vision.    Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2006.
 
Wright, N. T.   Paul: In Fresh Perspective.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.
 
Undisputed Pauline Letters
Adams, Edward and David Horrell, eds.  Christianity at Corinth: The Quest for the Pauline Church.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004.
 
Malherbe, A. J.  The Letters to the Thessalonians: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, Anchor Bible.  New York: Doubleday, 2000.
 
 
Deutero-Pauline Letters
Other New Testament Epistles
 
Epistolary Literature in Antiquity
Blumell, Lincoln H.  Lettered Christians: Christians, Letters, and Late Antique Oxyrhynchus.  Leiden: Brill, 2012.
 
Non-Pauline NT Epistles
Entry
Revelation
 
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New Testament Apocrypha
 
Carlson, Stephen C.  The Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith’s Invention of Secret Mark?  Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2005.
 
Jay, Jeff.  "A New Look at the Epistolary Framework of the Secret Gospel of Mark."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 16:4 (2008) 573-97.
 
Klauck, Hans-Josef.  The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: An Introduction.   Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2008.
 
 
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