SELECTED
RESOURCES
RELI 330-Old Testament—Genesis
February 17, 2006
Gail Egbers
535-8869 egbersgl@plu.edu
BOOKS: Our computerized catalog provides access to the
materials in our library. Use the Library of Congress Subject
Headings to identify the best subject headings for your topic.
Some relevant topics include:
Bible. O.T.
Genesis Commentaries
Deluge
Joseph (Son of Jacob)
Eden
Women in the Bible
Creation -- Comparative studies
PERIODICALS: Periodical indexes provide the most
efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Following are some indexes you might want to use for this project:
ATLA
(via EBSCO) Indexes international periodicals, multi-author books,
and reviews in religion, from 1949 to present. Off campus access
requires PLU ePass username and password.
EBSCO (via PLU Library home page) A
multi-disciplinary database that indexes roughly 4,500 journals,
magazines, and newspapers with 3,600 titles in full text. Of those,
nearly 2,600 titles are full text scholarly (peer reviewed)
publications. This academic database provides full text journal
coverage for nearly all academic areas - including social sciences,
humanities, natural sciences, and education. Off campus access requires
PLU ePass username and password.
Catholic
Periodical and Literature Index, (via EBSCO) Indexes journals and
newspapers from the Catholic press.
Humanities
Index, (1974-1999 Index Area,
refAI3.R51)Indexes sources from all areas of the humanities including
philosophy, religion, history, and literature.
Old
Testament Abstracts, (1978+
ref BS410.O4) Abstracts journal articles on Old Testament topics.
Religion and Philosophy
Collection This database provides extensive coverage of
such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies,
religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of
language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion
& Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals,
including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential
tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical
studies. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Religious &
Theological Abstracts Provides summaries of scholarly
journal articles. Lists a wide variety literature, including Christian,
Jewish, and other world religions. Coverage also includes policy issues
in areas such as aging, violence, abuse and neglect, crisis
intervention, urban development, and development policy.
Do not stop at the first articles that come up in a search. Look
at many of the articles and evaluate them. Pick at least twice as
many articles as you
think you will need. Which articles are the best ones for your
project? Who are the authors?
Are the articles peer
reviewed? Are the articles primary or secondary research? Do the
journals have a political or religious slant?
| LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:
Periodicals are arranged according to the Library of Congress
classification system. Use Journals at PLU
to identify the call number
of the journal you need. Current issues of journals are shelved
on the
first floor. Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are
interfiled
with the books in the main collection on the second and third floors.
Journals at PLU
also gives access to any full-text journals we have
online. |
RESEARCH SOURCES
Encyclopedia of
creation myths (ref. BL325.C7L44 1994)
Routledge Religion
Resource(via library webpage) (on trial) Thousands of
pages of content from essential reference collections, including: Encyclopedia of
Religion and War, Encyclopedia of
Religious Rites, Rituals, and Festivals,
Fifty Key Jewish
Thinkers, The
North American Muslim Resource Guide: Muslim Community Life in the
United States and Canada, and many more. (not available off
campus)
Dictionaries
Anchor Bible Dictionary
(ref BS440.A54 1992). The most comprehensive of the modern dictionaries
Dictionary of the Bible
(ref.BS440.B73 1996)
Eerdmans Bible
Dictionary (ref BS440.G7613 1987)
Harper’s Bible
Dictionary (ref BS440.H237 1985)
Illustrated Dictionary
& Concordance of the Bible (ref BS440.I36 1986)
Interpreter’s
Dictionary of the Bible (vol. 1-4: ref BS440.I63; supplement:
BS440.I63 Supp.)
Mercer Dictionary of
the Bible (ref BS440 .M429 1990)
More
specific:
Ancient Near Eastern
texts relating to the Old Testament (ref BS1180 .P83 1969)
Ancient Near East in
pictures relating to the Old Testament (BS1180. P833 1969)
Archaeological
encyclopedia of the Holy Land (ref. DS111.A2A73 2001)
Civilizations of the
Ancient Near East (DS57 .C55 1995)
Dictionary of Biblical
Interpretation (ref BS500 .D5 1999) Useful background essays
Dictionary of Judaism
in the Biblical Period (BM 50 D525 1996)
Encyclopedia Judaica
(ref DS 102.8 E496)
Atlases
Atlas of the Bible
(ref BS620.R6 1985)
Harper Atlas of the
Bible (ref G2230 .H47 1987)
Commentaries
Series
Anchor Bible
(ref. BS192.2.A1 1964.G3 )
New Interpreter's Bible
(ref.BS491.2.N484 1994)
Word Biblical Commentary
(BS491.2.W67 1982)
One
Volume:
New Jerome Biblical
Commentary (ref.BS491.2.N485 1990)
The Literary Guide to
the Bible (ref BS511.2.L58 1987)
Complete Literary Guide
to the Bible (ref BS535.C56 1993)
The HarperCollins Bible
Commentary (ref BS491.2.H37 2000)
Women’s Bible Commentary
(BS491.2.W66 1992)
Word
study tools:
The NRSV Concordance
(ref BS425 .K645 1991)
NIV Complete Concordance
(ref. BS 425 .G6)
Theological Dictionary
of the Old Testament (ref BS440.B5713) Essays on interpretation
of words
INTERNET
The Internet is an attractive source
of information but it does not have the best information for
all situations. Use the
Internet only for supplemental information. Read the handout
"Evaluating Information from the Internet” (http://www.plu.edu/~egbersgl/evalinternet.html).
ABZU (http://www.etana.org/abzu)
Biblical Studies
Resources (http://web.infoave.net/~jwest/)
Links to other sites.
BEYOND PLU
PLU's library may not own all of the
materials you want to use. You may either order them from
Interlibrary Loan or go to a local library personally. We are
part of a consortium of libraries that includes: Northwest
University, St. Martin's University, University of Puget Sound, Seattle
Pacific University, and Seattle University. You may use your PLU ID
card to check out materials from these libraries. If you wish to
order from Interlibrary Loan, be sure to allow sufficient time for the
materials to arrive.
| If
you have questions while doing
library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an
appointment with me for personal research assistance. My
office hours
for spring semester are Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:00-5:00. |
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