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DICTIONARIES & ATLASES

 

Aharoni, Yohanan, and Avi-Yonah, M. The Macmillan Bible Atlas. NY: Macmillan, 1968, rev. 1977. 3rd Revised Edition, A. Rainey, Z. Safrai, 1991. (G2230 .A2 1993)

*The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vol. David N. Freedman, ed. New York: Doubleday, 1993.

Bimson, J.J., et al, ed. New Bible Atlas. Leicester: Intervarsity Press, 1985.

*Brisco, Thomas. Holman Bible Atlas. Nashville: Broadman Holman, 1998.

Cleave, Richard. Pictorial Archive: ANE History; Student Map Manual. Jerusalem, 1975.

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. (rev. ed.) Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

Evans, Craig, and Stanley Porter, ed. Dictionary of New Testament Background. Leicester: Intervarsity Press, 2000. (BS2312 .D53 2000)

*Green, Joel B., et al, ed. Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. Leicester: Intervarsity Press, 1992. (BS2555.2 .D53 1992)

*Hawthorne, Gerald, et al, ed. Dictionary of Paul and his Letters. Leicester: Intervarsity Press, 1993.

*Holman Bible Dictionary. Trent C. Butler, ed. Nashville: Broadman Holman, 1991.

Martin, Ralph P., and Peter H. Davids, ed. Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments. Leicester: Intervarsity Press,1997. (BS2625.5 .D53 1997)

Pfeiffer, Charles, ed. The Bible Atlas. (rev. ed.) Nashville: Broadman, 1979.

Rasmussan, C. Zondervan NIV Atlas of the Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989.

 

GEOGRAPHY & HISTORY OF BIBLE LANDS

 

Aharoni, Yohanan. The Land of the Bible: A Historical Geography. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1979.(DS118 .A3313)

#Ahlstrom, Gosta. The History of Ancient Palestine. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993, 1994. (DS117 .A38 1993)

Avi-Yonah, Michael. The Holy Land: From the Persian to the Arab Conquest (536 BC-AD 640). Grand Rapids: Baker, 1966.

Baly, Dennis. Basic Biblical Geography.  Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987. (BS630 .B341987)

Ben-Sasson (ed.). A History of the Jewish People. Cambridge: Harvard, 1976.

Bickerman, E.J. From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees: Foundations of Post-Biblical Judaism. New York: Schocken, 1962. (DS121.65 .B5 1962)

Bimson, John J. (ed.), Baker Encyclopedia of Bible Places. Leicester: Intervarsity Press, 1995.

*Bright, John. A History of Israel. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1981. (DS121 .B72 1972 older edition)

*Bruce, F.F. Israel and the Nations. Grand Rapids: W.B.Eerdmans, 1969. Rev 1998. (DS118 .B78 1997)

Cooper, Jerrold S., and Glenn M. Schwartz. The study of the ancient Near East in the twenty-first century: the William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1996. (DS57 .S93 1996)

Grabbe, An Introduction to First Century Judaism: Jewish Religion and History in the Second Temple Period. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1996.

*Grant, Michael. The History of Ancient Israel. NY: Scribners, 1984. (DS117 .G894 1984)

Hayes and Miller, Israelite and Judean History. London: SCM Press, 1977. (BS1197 .I85)

Hallo, W.W. and Simpson, W.K. The Ancient Near East:  A History. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. (DS62.2 .H3)

Kuhrt, A. The Ancient Near East: c. 3000-330 BC. London, 1995. (DS62.23 .K84 1995 v.1)

#Leick, Gwendolyn. Who’s Who in the Ancient Near East. London & NY: Routledge, 1999. (DS62.2 .L44 1999)

Malamat, Abraham. History of Biblical Israel: major problems and minor issues.
Boston: Brill, 2001. (DS121 .M33 2001)

*Oxford History of the Biblical World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. (BS635.2 .O94 1998)

Shanks, Hershel, ed. Ancient Israel: A Short History from Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple. Washington DC: BAS, 1988. (DS117 .A66 1988b)

                   . The Rise of Ancient Israel. Washington DC: BAS, 1992. (DS121.3 .R37 1992)

*Smith, George Adam. The Historical Geography of the Holy Land. Jerusalem: Ariel Publishing House, 1931.

#Van Der Woude, A.S., gen. ed. The World of the Bible. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986.

 

GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY & THE BIBLE

 

Aharoni, Yohanan. The Archaeology of the Land of Israel. Trans. by Anson Rainey. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1982. (DS111 .A3913 1982)

*Albright, William F. The Archaeology of Palestine. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1949, rev. 1960, reprinted by Peter Smith Publishers, 1971. (DS108.9 .A6)

Avi-Yonah, Michael, and Stern, Ephraim ed. Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavation in the Holy Land, 4 vols, Jerusalem:  Massada Press, 1975. (DS111.A2 E5313 1975 v.1)

Baez Camargo, Gonzalo. Archaeological Commentary on the Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984.

Bard, Kathryn, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt.  New York: Routledge Press, 1999. (DT58 .E53 1999)

Ben-Tor, Amnon, ed. The Archaeology of Ancient Israel. NY: Yale, 1991. (DS111.A2 M3513 1992)

*Blaiklock, E.M. The Archaeology of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1970.

                    and R.K. Harrison, ed. The New International Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1983. (BS622 .N48 1983)

Dever, William. What did the biblical writers know, and when did they know it?: What archaeology can tell us about the reality of ancient Israel. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2001.

#Finegan, Jack. The archeology of the New Testament: the life of Jesus and the beginning of the early church. Rev. ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. (BS2375 .F5)

                   . The archeology of the New Testament: the Mediterranean world of the early Christian Apostles. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1981. (BS2375 .F52)

#Finkelstein, Israel. The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1988. (DS111 F5513 1988)

#                    and Neil Silberman. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. New York: Free Press, 2001. (BS621 .F56 2001)

Freedman, David Noel and David F. Graf, Eds. Palestine in Transition: The Emergence of Ancient Israel. Social World of Biblical Antiquity Series, 2. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1983.

Frick, Frank S. The Formation of the State in Ancient Israel. Social World of Biblical Antiquity Series, 4. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1985. (BS 1199 .P6 F75 1985)

Gibson, Arthur. Text and tablet: Near Eastern archaeology, the Old Testament, and new possibilities. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000. (BS1184 .G53 2000)

*Hoerth, Alfred. Archaeology and the Old Testament. Baker, 1998. (BS621 .H56 1998)

Jeffers, James S. The Greco-Roman world of the New Testament era: exploring the background of early Christianity. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1999.

Kelso, James.  An Archaeologist Looks at the Gospels. Waco: Word Books, 1969.

Kenyon, Kathleen. Archaeology in the Holy Land. NY: Nelson (reprinted), 1960, 1985. (DS111 .K4 1965)

Levy, Thomas E. The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land. London: Leicester University Press, 1995. (DS112 .A73 1995)

#Lloyd, Seton. The Archaeology of Mesopotamia:  From the Stone Age to the Persian Conquest. Rev. ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 1984. (DS68 .L57 1984)

#Mazar, Amihai. Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, 10,000 - 586 B.C.E. Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday, 1990. (BS621 .M39 1990)

*McRay, John.  Archaeology and the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991.

*Meyers, E., et al, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Archaeology in the Near East. Oxford, 1997. (DS56 .O9 1997 v.1)

Moorey, Roger. Excavation in Palestine. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981.

Negev, Avraham, ed. Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Lands. 3d Ed. NY: Prentice Hall Press, 1990. (DS111.A2 A73 1990)

                   . Nabatean Archaeology Today. NY: New York University Press, 1986. (DS154.22 .N45 1986)

Stern, E., et al, ed. The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. Simon and Schuster, 1992. (DS111.A2 E5813 1993 v.1-4)

Stiebing, William.  Uncovering the Past: A History of Archaeology. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1993. (CC100 .S75 1993)

*Unger, Merrill. Archaeology of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1962. (BS2375 .U5)

                   . Archaeology of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1954.

*Wright, G. Ernest. Biblical Archaeology. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1962, 1974. (BS621 .W7 1962)

#Yamauchi, Edwin. Archaeology of New Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1980.

 

ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN PEOPLES

 

*Aldred, Cyril. Egypt to the end of the old kingdom. New York: McGraw Hill, 1965.

*Baines, John, and Jaromir Malek. Atlas of Ancient Egypt. NY: Facts on File, 1980. (DT56.9 .B34 1980)

Bierling, Neal. Giving Goliath His Due: New Archaeological Light on the Philistines. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1992.

Boardman, John; Griffin, Jasper; and Murray, Oswyn.  The Roman World.  The Oxford History of  the Classical World. Oxford: University Press, 1988. (DE 59 .O94 1986)

Boling, Robert. The Early Biblical Community in Transjordan. The Social World of Biblical Antiquity Series, 6. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1988. (DS154.2 .B64 1988)

Bunnens, Guy, ed. Essays on Syria in the Iron Age. Sterling, Va. : Peeters Press, 2000. (XX(1628159.1))

*Ceram, C. W. The Secrets of the Hittites. NY: Schocken Books, 1955. (DS66 .M283)

*Cook, J. M. The Persian Empire. NY: Schocken Books, 1983. (DS281 .C66 1983)

*Cornell, Tim, and Matthews, John.  Atlas of the Roman World.  NY: Facts on File, 1982. (DG77 .C597 1982)

#Craigie, Peter. Ugarit and the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983.

#Currid, John. Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997.

Daviau, P.M. Michele, John W. Wevers and Michael Weigl. The world of the Aramaeans. England: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

Dothan, Trude. The Philistines and Their Material Culture. NY: Yale, 1981. (DS90 .D613 1982)

Dothan, M. and T.  People of the Sea: The Search for the Philistines. NY: MacMillan, 1992. (DS90 .D63 1992)

                    . The Sea Peoples. Jerusalem: IES, 1992.

*Durant: Will. The Life of Greece. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1966. (CB53 .D85 1935, v.2)

*Fine, John. The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. (DF214 .F5 1983)

Gallagher, William R. Sennacherib's campaign to Judah: new studies. Boston: Brill, 1999.

Gardiner, Sir Alan. Egypt of the Pharaohs. Oxford:  University Press, 1961. (DT83 .G2)

*Gibbon, Edward. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. NY: Bison Books, 1979. (DG311 .G5 1960 different edition)

#Grant, Michael. The Classical Greeks. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. (DF214 .G776 1989)

*          .  History of Rome. NY: Scribners, 1978.

#            .  The Rise of the Greeks. NY: Scribners, 1987. (DF214 .G78 1987)

#          .  The Roman Emperors: A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome, 31 BC - AD 476. NY: Scribner's, 1985.  (DG274 .G73 1985)

*Hicks, Jim. The Persians. New York: Time-Life Books, 1975.

*Hindson, Edward. The Philistines and the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1989.

#Hoerth, Alfred, J., et al, ed. Peoples of the Old Testament World. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994.

Holloway, Steven. Assur is king! Assur is king!: religion in the exercise of power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Boston: Brill, 2001.

Kramer, Samuel Noah, ed. Mythologies of the Ancient World. Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. (BL311 .K7)

*Levi, Peter. Atlas of the Greek World. NY: Facts on File, 1980. (G2000 .L48 1980)

MacDonald, Burton, and Randall W. Younker. Ancient Ammon. Boston: Brill, 1999. (DS154.215 .A53 1999)

#MacQueen, J.G. The Hittites and their Contemporaries in Asia Minor. Rev. ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986. (DS 66 .M23 1986)

Malamat, Abraham. Mari and the Bible. Boston: Brill, 1998. (DS99 .M3 M343 1998)

More, Daisy, and Bowman, John.  Aegean Rivals: The Persians, Imperial Greece.  Empires: Their Rise and Fall. Boston: Boston Publishing Co., 1986.

#Oates, Joan. Babylon. Rev. ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986. (DS71 .O35 older ed.)

Olmstead, A.T. History of the Assyrian Empire. Chicago: University Press, 1960.

#                  . History of the Persian Empire. Chicago:  University Press, 1959.

Oren, Eliezer D., ed. The Hyksos: New historical and archaeological perspectives.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1997.

*Pfeiffer, Charles. Ras Shamra and the Bible. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1968.

*                   . Tel el Amarna and the Bible. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1980.

#Pitard, Wayne. Ancient Damascus: A Historical Study of the Syrian City-State from Earliest times Until Its Fall to the Assyrians in 732 B.C.E. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1987. (DS99.D3 P58 1987)

*Pritchard, James, ed. Ancient Near Eastern Texts:  Relating to the Old Testament, 2nd & 3rd ed., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955, 1969. (BS1180 .P83 1955, 1969)

*                  . The Ancient Near East, vols 1 and 2: Anthology of Texts and Pictures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958, 1975. (BS1180 .P82 1958 v.1-2)

Redford, Donald. Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1992. (DT82.5 .P19 R43 1992)

                   . Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. 3 vol. London: Oxford, 2000. (DT58 .O94 2001 v.1-3)

Saggs, H. W. F. Babylonians. London: British Museum Press, 1995. (DS71 .S24 1995)

                   . Everyday Life in Babylonia & Assyria. NY: Putman, 1965. (DS69.5 .S26)

*                  . The Might That Was Assyria. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984. (DS73.2 .S23 1984)

*Sasson, Jack M., et al, ed. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. 2 Vol. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2000. (DS57 .C55 1995 v.1-4)

#Sawyer, John F.A., and David J.A. Clines, ed. Midian, Moab, and Edom:The History and Archaeology of Late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and North-West Arabia. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, vol. 24. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1983.

Seter, J. Van. The Hyksos:  A New Investigation. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1966. (DT86 .V3)

Unger, Merrill F. Israel and the Aramaeans of Damascus. NY: James Clark & Co., 1957. Reprinted by Baker Book House, 1980.

Wilson, John A. The Culture of Ancient Egypt. Chicago: University Press, 1951. (DT61 .W56 1951)

#Wiseman, Donald J. ed. Peoples of Old Testament Times. Oxford: University Press, 1973. (DS57 .P44)

Yamada, Shigeo. The construction of the Assyrian empire: a historical study of the inscriptions of Shalmanesar III relating to his campaigns in the West. Boston: Brill, 2000. (DS73.75 .Y35 2000)

*Yamauchi, Edwin. Persia and the Bible. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1990.

#Young, Gordon D., Editor. Ugarit in Retrospect: 50 Years of Ugarit and Ugaritic. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1981.

 

SPECIALIZED STUDIES

 

Biran, Abraham, ed. Temples and High Places in Biblical Times. Jerusalem: Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, 1981. (DS56 .C58 1977)

Borowski, Oded. Agriculture in Iron Age Israel. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1987.

Crenshaw, James L. Education in Ancient Israel. New York: Doubleday, 1998. (LA47 .C74 1998)

#DeVries, Lamoine. Cities of the Biblical World: An Introduction to the Archaeology, Geography, and History of Biblical Sites. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1997. (BS621 .D495 1997)

Elwell, Walter, and Robert Yarbrough, ed. Readings from the first-century world: primary sources for New Testament study. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998.

Gottwald, Norman. The politics of ancient Israel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000. (DS111.2 .G68 2001)

#Gower, Ralph. The New Manners and Customs of Bible Times. Chicago: Moody Press, 1987.

Grant, Robert M. Paul in the Roman World. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001.

#Harrison, R.K., ed. Major Cities of the Biblical World. Nashville: Nelson, 1985.

Ishida, Tomoo. History and historical writing in ancient Israel: studies in biblical historiography. Boston: Brill, 1999. (DS121.3 .I75 1999)

King, Philip J., and Lawrence E. Stager. Life in Biblical Israel. Louisville, KY : Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.

Liverani, Mario. International relations in the ancient Near East, 1660-1100 B.C. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Matthews, Victor H. Manners and Customs in the Bible: An Illustrated Guide to Daily Life in Bible Times. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1988. (DS112 .M35 1988)

*Matthews, Victor and Don Benjamin. Old Testament Parallels. 2d ed. New York: Paulist, 1997.

#                   . Social World of Ancient Israel, 1250 - 587 BC. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1993. (DS112 .M355 1993)

Miller, Patrick. The religion of ancient Israel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000. (BS1171.2 .M55 2000)

Nissinen, Martti, ed. Prophecy in its ancient Near Eastern context: Mesopotamian, biblical, and Arabian perspectives. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000. (BL633 .P75 2000)

*Schiffman, Lawrence, et al., ed. Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. (BM487 .E53 2000 v.1-2)

Snell, Daniel C. Life in the ancient Near East, 3100-332 B.C.E. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. (DS62.23 .S65 1997)

Vanderkam, James, and Peter W. Flint, ed. The Dead Sea Scrolls After Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment. 2 vol. Boston: Brill, 1998. (BM487 .D4495 1998)

*                    . The Dead Sea Scrolls Today. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994. (BM487 .V26 1994)

Vaux, Roland de. Ancient Israel. vol. 1: Social Institutions: vol. 2: Religious Institutions. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1961.

*Vermes, Geza. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls In English. New York:  Allen Lane Penguin Press, 1997. (BM487 .A3 V4 1997)

                   . The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977, 1981. (BM175.Q6 V47 1978)

*                   . An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999. (BM175 .Q6 V47 1999)

Walton, John, et. al. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2000.

*                    and Victor Matthews. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Genesis-Deuteronomy. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 1997.

Wold, Donald J. Out of order: homosexuality the Bible and the ancient Near East. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998.


[1] Call numbers are for Rice Fondren Library

 * in the HGST library

 # in professor’s personal library—on reserve in library