SELECTED  RESOURCES
RELI 332—Life of Jesus
March 7, 2006
Gail Egbers
 535-8869  egbersgl@plu.edu

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.   Includes some full-text.

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

Religious & Theological Abstracts (via PLU Library Homepage) 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.

 

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 helps you identify online journals.

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 the number articles you think you will need and analyze them.  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?

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Abingdon Bible Handbook (ref BS475.2.B5)

Anchor Bible Dictionary (ref BS440.A54 1992)

Atlas of the Bible (ref BS620.R6 1985)

Atlas of the Biblical World (ref BS630.B337 1971)

Biblical World (ref BS622.P4)

Complete Literary Guide to the Bible (ref BS535.C56 1993)

Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels (ref.BS440.H3 1906)

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)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ref BS440.I6 1979)

Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible (ref BS440.I63)

Jesus and his world: an archaeological and cultural dictionary (ref.BR130.5.R68 1995)

Jesus in history, thought, and culture: an encyclopedia (REF BR145.3.H68 2003)

Literary Guide to the Bible (ref BS511.2.L58 1987)

Lives Of Jesus: A History and Bibliography (ref.BT301.9.K57 1985)

Macmillan Bible Atlas (ref G2230.A2 1993)

New Atlas of the Bible (ref BS621.N4413 1969a)

New Bible Dictionary (ref BS440.N48x 1982)

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)

Parables of Jesus: A History Of Interpretation And Bibliography (ref.BT375.2.K56)

Roget’s Thesaurus of the Bible (ref BS432.D34)

OTHER INTERESTING SOURCES

Faith and reason—multi-volume set (VIDEO BT50.F35)
From Jesus to Christ: the first Christians (VIDEO BR162.2.F76x 1998)
   

INTERNET:

Gospel of Thomas (http://home.epix.net/~miser17/Thomas.html)
Jewish Roman World of Jesus (http://www.uncc.edu/jdtabor/index.html)

PLU Library Homepage

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