Jesus Preaching

SELECTED RESOURCES
RELI 331—Parables
October 11, 2004
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:
 

Jesus Christ—Parables

Bible. N.T. Gospels – Commentaries

Bible. N.T. Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc

Kingdom of God -- Biblical teaching

 
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:

American Humanities Index  (via EBSCO) A collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. This database contains over 1,000 journals published from 1975 to the present.

Arts & Humanities Search (via FirstSearch) A citation index referencing 8,795 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals Requires PLU ePass username and password.

ATLA, (via PLU Library Home page) Indexes international periodicals, multi-author books, and reviews in religion, from 1949 to present.  It includes some full text articles.

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (via EBSCO) Indexes journals and newspapers from the Catholic press.

EBSCOhost (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.

 

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 identifies any full text online journals we subscribe to.

RESEARCH MATERIALS

Abingdon Bible Handbook  (ref BS475.2.B5)
Anchor Bible Dictionary (ref BS440.A54 1992)
Atlas of the Bible and Christianity (ATLAS G2230.A84x 1997)
Biblical World (ref BS622.P4)
Complete Literary Guide to the Bible (BS535.C56 1993)
Dictionary of biblical interpretation (ref. BS500.D5 1999)
Dictionary of New Testament background (ref. BS2312.D53 2000)
Dictionary of the Bible (ref.BS440.B73 1996)
Eerdmans Bible Dictionary (ref BS440.G7613 1987)
Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible (ref. BS440.E44 2000)
Evangelical  dictionary of biblical theology (ref. BS440.E78 1996)
Exegetical dictionary of the New Testament (ref. BS2312.E913 1990)
Harper’s Bible Dictionary (ref BS440.H237 1985)
Illustrated Dictionary & Concordance of the Bible (ref BS440.I36 1986)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ref BS440.I6 1979)
Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible (ref BS440.I63)
Literary Guide to the Bible (ref BS511.2.L58 1987)
Macmillan Bible Atlas (ATLAS G2230.A2 1993)
New Atlas of the Bible (ref BS621.N4413 1969a)
New Interpreter's Bible (ref.BS491.2.N484 1994)
New Jerome Biblical Commentary (ref.BS491.2.N485 1990)
New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible (ref BS440.G4)
Oxford Bible Atlas (ref BS630.O96 1984)
Roget’s Thesaurus of the Bible (ref BS432.D34)
   

INTERNET:
 
Bible Gateway (http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=NIV)
New Testament Gateway (http://www.ntgateway.com)

World Wide Study Bible (http://www.ccel.org/wwsb/)

 

 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 fall are 3:00-5:00 Tuesdays & Thursdays.

 

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