Library Research:  Biblical

 

Reference Guide: http://scils.rutgers.edu/~blakerd/BibleRef/Reference_Guide--Bible.htm

            See especially:  How This Site Can Help with Biblical Research

Levels of Inquiry  after engaging the text itself with appropriate language helps.

            Encyclopedic/dictionary—topical, overview, summary

            Commentary—another point of view with methodological and/or theological bias, hopefully faithful to the text and to past scholarship, bibliographic, immediately dated.

            Monographs: historical and/or topical—like the commentary, often more specific than summary, but selectively expository. As with commentaries, use for dialogue, not authority.

            Articles: (journals & polygraphs) more detailed and pointed, often technical and experimental.  The stuff from which future commentaries, theologies and history monographs are shaped with sifting, rebuttal and refinement.

 

Points of Access:

Online Resources:  (on or off campus)

From library home page  http://www.ctsnet.edu/Resources/Library/MainPage.htm

JBCL Catalog http://web2.ctsnet.edu/  (titles/author/keyword/subject headings)

            Religions Index http://firstsearch.oclc.org/html/fs_pswd.htm (ATLA web version )

                        Need password (citations: title/author/keyword/subject headings/scripture)

            (for: articles, polygraphs reviews, essays ,reviews)(also WorldCat/ArticleFirst shortcuts)

            Galileo  http://www.galileo.peachnet.edu  automatic on-campus  (Password changes quarterly, call Ref Desk 404/687-4610)

WorldCat—book, dissertation & periodical title inquiries (for articles use ArticleFirst)

 (search citations by title/author/keyword/subject headings, etc.)

Religion/Philosophy=EBSCO— full text (search by: title/author/keyword/subject headings, publication)

                        ProQuest— full text (search by: title/author/keyword/subject headings)

                        NetLibrary— full text e-books: (search by title/author/topic).

                        Encyclopedia Britannica useful overviews and topical discussion.

            Periodicals Listing (off library home page)

–some full text (=access), some abstract/toc (=info)

                                    --includes EBSCO & ProQuest.

Paper & Computer Resources

NOTE: online vs. paper index: neither 100% comprehensive—online has selective 15-20 year coverage, but is more current, yet selectively indexed.

Don’t neglect paper indices.

 

JBCL Periodicals Listing: spiral bound booklet at Reference cluster/desk.

Book Review Index (gives periodical citation for reviews) ) in Reference Index Shelf

Book Review Digest (gives brief review) in Reference Index Shelf;

OT/NT Abtracts—(paper) in Reference Index Shelf

(Also:OT Abstracts  at Ref Computer Cluster from appropriate icon—DOS-based.)

ATLA Religion Index (at Reference Computer Cluster/ icon—DOS-based.)

            (will track books and dissertations better than Web Version—but clunky)

Bible Studies Index    (at Reference Computer Cluster/ icon—DOS-based.)

            (a subset of ATLA Religion Index specifically Biblical)

ATLA Index (paper)= RIT/RIO on Reference Index Shelf arranged by topic & scripture

            Includes polygraph books & articles back to 1949

Elenchus of  Biblica   on Reference Index Shelf  arranged by topic & scripture Very useful—back to 1920

Internationale Zeitschriftenshau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete on Reference Index Shelf  arranged by topic & scripture—back to 1951