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BTS 1850: Introduction to the Bible (Willitts)
Biblical Commentaries
Online Resources for Biblical & Theological Studies
- Online Resources for Biblical & Theological StudiesSee this research guide for a list of online reference books and biblical commentaries for BTS courses.
Finding Commentaries in Brandel Library
- Commentaries on the Bible provide interpretations of Scripture passages, usually for a book of the Bible or portion of a book of the Bible.
- You can find commentaries in two places in Brandel Library:
- the Reference Section (on the 1st floor, behind the Reference Desks)
- the General Collection (on the 3rd floor).
- The same classification system applies to both collections, so the call number will be identical, but the location listed in the catalog differs.
- Reference copies of commentaries cannot leave the Library, so these copies cannot be checked out, but can be read in the Library or portions of them scanned or photocopied.
- The General Collection copies may be checked out of the Library.
- The Reference collection contains many of the most important commentaries, so it is a good place to begin your browsing for commentaries.
- In some cases, we have copies of a commentary in both places, but not often.
- Only a few biblical commentaries are available digitally as yet, but we are purchasing them as they are published.
- Separate records in the library catalog are retrieved for the print and the digital/electronic formats (which are marked with an 'eb' at the end of the call number), so it is easy to see when these commentaries are available for your subject.
- Commentaries are shelved in the order of the Protestant canon (as distinguished from the Roman Catholic canon of the Bible or the order of the Hebrew Bible).
- Commentaries may be individual, free-standing books or they may be part of a series.
- Some (mostly older) commentary series are shelved all together, but most series are shelved separately, so that the volumes are in the appropriate section for the book/books/portion of book on which they comment.
- Call numbers for the Old Testament are BS 701-BS 1830.
- Call numbers for the New Testament are BS 1901- BS 2970.
Bible Commentaries: Old Testament
- IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament byCall Number: Ref BS1151.2 .W35 2000
- IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament (online) byCall Number: BS1151.2 .W35 2000eb
- Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary, 5 vols. (OT) byCall Number: Ref BS1151.52 .Z66 2009
- Africana Bible byCall Number: Ref BS1171.3 .A37 2010
Bible Commentaries: New Testament
- IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament byCall Number: Ref BS2341.2 .K445 2014
- IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (online and print) byCall Number: Reference - BS2341.52 .K44 2014
- Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary (NT) byCall Number: Ref BS2341.52 .Z66 2002
- True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary byCall Number: BS2341.52 .T78 2007; Ref BS2341.52 .T78 2007
- Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament Writings byCall Number: Ref BS2361.3 .P67 2007
Commentary Series on Entire Bible
- Women's Bible commentary, 3rd ed. (print & online) byCall Number: Ref BS491.3 .W66 2012
- IVP Women's Bible Commentary byCall Number: Ref BS521.4 .I97 2002
- International Bible Commentary byCall Number: Ref BS511.2 .I57 1998
- Global Bible Commentary byCall Number: Ref BS491.3 .G57 2004
- The Peoples' Bible byCall Number: Ref BS191.5.A1 2009b .M56 2009
- New Interpreter's Bible byCall Number: Ref BS491.2 .N484 1994