8'0 New Testament Research with an Introduction to Judaica, Greek

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8.0 New Testament Research with an Introduction
to Judaica, Greek Roman Sources
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8.1 Textual Aids

• 1. Greek Texts
• 1.1 Aland, Kurt, and Aland, Barbara.ed. Synopsis
  Quattuor Evangeliorum Locis Parallelis
  Evangeliorum Apocryphorum et Patrum Adhibitis.
  13th rev. ed. Stuttgart Deutsche
  Bibelgeselleschaft, 1985.

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8.1 Textual Aids

• 1.2 Aland, Kurt. Greek New Testament with
  Dictionary, 4th ed. United Bible Societies,
  1993.
• 1.3 Nestle, Eberhard. Novum Testamentum Graece.
  27th Ed. Alliance Bible Seminary, 1994.

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8.1 Textual Aids

• 2.1 Greek Texts (OnLine)
• Titus Novum Testamentum Graece
• http//titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcs/grie/gnt/
  gnt.htm
• Nestle-Aland Prototype
• http//nttranscripts.uni-muenster.de/
• LaParola
• http//www.laparola.net/greco/
• Center for the Study of NT Manuscripts
• http//www.csntm.org/Manuscripts.aspx

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8.1 Textual Aids

• 2.2 Greek Texts (OnLine-Critical Ed.)
• http//rosetta.reltech.org/Ebind/docs/TC/
• 7.2.1.8 Tischendorf, Novum Testamentum Graece,
  8th major critical ed.
• 7.2.1.9 von Soden, Griechisches Neues Testament
  Text mit kurzen Apparat.
• 7.2.1.10 von Soden, Die Scriften des Neuen
  Testaments.
• 7.2.1.11 Westcott Hort, The New Testament in
  the Original Greek.

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8.1 Textual Aids

• 2.3 Greek Texts (OnLine-Manuscripts)
• 1. TC Ebind Index Bible Manuscripts Project
  http//209.19.227.1698080/
• 2. Greek Manuscripts at Duke University (The
  Kenneth Willis Clark Collection)
  http//scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/codex/
• 3. University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
  http//www.lib.umich.edu/pap/
• 4. Princeton University Papyri
  http//www.princeton.edu/papyrus/digitalimages.htm
  l

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8.1 Textual Aids

• 3.4 Greek Texts (OnLine-Manuscripts in General)
• 1. Ancient Greek Manuscripts on the WWW
  http//www.greek-language.com/greek.manuscripts.ga
  teway/
• 2. Open Text Project http//www.opentext.org
• 3. Sola Scriptura Publishing Early English
  Bibles Greek New Testaments on CD-Rom
  http//www.solascripturapublishing.com/

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8.1 Textual Aids

• 3.5 Greek Grammars
• 1. Blass, Friedrich, and Debrunner, Albert. A
  Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other
  Early Christian Literature. Chicago University
  of Chicago Press, 1961.
• 2. Brooks, James A., and Winbery, Carlton L.
  Syntax of New Testament Greek. Washington, D.C.
  University Press of America, 1988.

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8.1 Textual Aids

• 3.5 Greek Grammars
• 3. Moulton, J. H., et al. A Grammar of New
  Testament Greek. 4 vols. Edinburgh T T Clark,
  1906-1976.
• Vol 1 Prolegomena
• http//solascripturapublishing.com/
• Vol 2 Accidence and Word Formation
• Vol 3 Syntax
• Vol 4 - Style

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8.1 Textual Aids

• 4. Smyth, H. W. A Greek Grammar. Revised by G. M.
  Messing. Cambridge Harvard University Press,
  1956.
• Smyths Classical Greek Grammar (Early Edition
  Online) - http//www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/pt
  ext?docPerseustext1999.04.0007layoutloc1qu
  erytoc

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8.1 Textual Aids

• 5. Zerwick, M., and Grosvenor, M. A Grammatical
  Analysis of the Greek New Testament. Rev. ed.
  Rome Biblical Institute Press, 1996.
• 6. Zerwick, M. Biblical Greek Illustrated by
  Examples. Rome Biblical Institute Press, 1979.

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8.1 Textual Aids

• 7. Wallace, Daniel B., Greek Grammar Beyond
  Basics. Grand Rapids Zondervan, 1996).
• CD-Rom Version

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8.1 Textual Aids

• 3.6 Lexicons
• 1. Bauer, Walter. A Greek Lexicon of the New
  Testament and Other Early Christian Literature.
  Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2000.
• CD-Rom in Win Mac
• 2. Lampe, G. W. H., ed. A Patristic Greek
  Lexicon. 5 vols. Oxford Clarendon Press,
  1961-1968.

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7.2 Textual Aids

• 7.2.3.3 Liddell, H. G., and Scott, R., eds. A
  Greek-English Lexicon. New edition revised and
  augmented in 2 vols. by H. S. Jones, et al.
  Oxford Clarendon Press, 1948.
• Liddel-Scott-Jones at Perseus Site
  http//www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/lexindex?entr
  yfe/rw
• 7.2.3.4 Louw, J. P., and Nida, E. A., eds.
  Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based
  on Semantic Domain. 2 vols. New York United
  Bible Societies, 1988.

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8.2 Introductions

• 1. The Difference between a Introduction
  (Einleitung) and a Survey (Einführung).
• 2. Critical Introductions
• 2.1 R. Brown. Introduction to the NT, Anchor
  (Doubleday, 1997) .
• 2.2 Childs, The NT as Canon An Introduction,
  revised (Trinity, 1994).

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8.2 Introductions

• 3. Kummel, Introduction to the New Testament
  Revised and Enlarged (Abingdon, 1986).
• 4. Koester, Helmut, Introduction to the New
  Testament History, Culture and Religion of the
  Hellenistic Age, Volume 1-2, 2nd Edition, Walter
  de Gruyter Co., 1995-.

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8.2 Internet Introductions

• 1. Smith - New Testament and Its Content
  http//www.abu.nb.ca/courses/NTIntro/indexNTIntr.h
  tm
• 2. Heard - An Introduction to the New Testament
  http//www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.
  dll/showbook?item_id531
• 3. Robert Grant A Historical Introduction to
  the New Testament http//www.religion-online.org/
  cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showbook?item_id1116

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8.2 Introductions

• History of Interpretation
• 1. Kummel, W. G. The New Testament The History
  of the Investigation of Its Problems. Trans. H.
  C. Kee. Nashville Abingdon Press, 1972.
• 2. Neil, Stephen Tom Wright. The Interpretation
  of the New Testament 1861-1986. Oxford Oxford
  University Press, 1988.
• 3. Baird, William. The History of New Testament
  Research. 2 Volumes. Augsburg/Fortress Press, 2002

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8.3 N.T. Theology

• 1. Bultmann, Rudolf. Theology of the New
  Testament. (2 vols.) Trans. Kendrick Grobel. New
  York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951-1955.
• 2. Hasel, Gerhard F. New Testament Theology
  Basic Issues in the Current Debate. Grand Rapids
  Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1978.

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8.3 N.T. Theology

• 3. Morris, Leon. New Testament Theology. Grand
  Rapids Zondervan, 1991.
• 4. Ladd. New Testament Theology. (Eerdmans,
  1993).
• 5. Jeremias, J. New Testament Theology.

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8.4 Archaeology

• 1. Finegan, The Archaeology of the New Testament,
  revised (Princeton U., 1992).
• 2. Frend, The Archaeology of Early Christianity
  A History (Fortress, 1996).
• 3. Koester/Hendrix, eds., Archaeological
  Resources for NT Studies (2 vols., Trinity, 1995)
  

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8.5 General Background

• Overviews
• 1. Ferguson, Everett, Backgrounds of Early
  Christianity, 2nd Edition, Eerdmans, 1993.
• 2. Gowan, Donald, E., Bridges Between the
  Testaments A Reappraisal from the Exile to the
  Birth of Christianity, 2nd Edition, Revised,
  (Pittsburg Theological Monograph Series),
  Pickwick Publications, 1984.

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8.4 General Background

• Overviews
• 3. Newsome, James D., Greeks, Romans, Jews
  Currents of Culture and Belief in the New
  Testament World, Trinity Press International,
  1992.

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8.5 General Background

• Anthologies of Primary Sources
• 1. Barrett, C. K., The New Testament Background
  Selected Documents, HarperCollins, 1986.
• 2. Danby, H., The Mishnah, Oxford University
  Press, 1933.
• 3. Neusner, Jacob, The Mishnah A New
  Translation, Yale University Press, 1988.

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8.5 General Background

• Digitized Mishnah Tulmudic Sources
• In Hebrew Aramaic http//www1.snunit.k12.il/kod
  esh/kodesh.html
• Soncino Classics Collection
• Soncino English translation of the Talmud,
  Midrash Rabbah, and Zohar, complete with
  footnotes
• Complete Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Talmud,
  Midrash Rabbah and Zohar
• Rashi's commentary on Talmud (Hebrew only)
• Complete text of the Tanach with English
  translation (Hebrew text of the Chumash includes
  vowels and cantillation marks)
• Rashi's commentary on Chumash (Hebrew only)
• Tosafot on Talmud (Hebrew only)?

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8.5 General Background

• 4. Charlesworth, James H. ed., The O.T.
  Pseudepigrapha, Volumes 1 2, Doubleday, 1983,
  1985.
• 5. Charles, R. H., ed., The Apocrypha and
  Pseudepigrapha of the O.T. in English, Volumes 1
  2, Clarendon Press, 1913.
• 6. Schneemelcher, W. ed., New Testament
  Apocrapha, Volumes 1 2, trans. and ed., R. McL.
  Wilson, 1991, 1992.

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8.5 General Background

• 7. Josephus, Works, (Loeb Classical Library),
  Harvard University Press.
• Josephus Project (Brill) See
  http//www.josephus.yorku.ca/brill.htm
• Josephus at Perseus See http//www.perseus.tuft
  s.edu/
• Mason, Josephus and the New Testament
  (Hendrickson, 1992).
• Rajak, Josephus The Historian and His Society
  (Fortress, 1983).

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8.5 General Background

• 8. Philo, Works, (Loeb Classical Library),
  Harvard University Press.
• Philo of Alexanderia HomePage http//www.torreys.
  org/bible/philopag.html

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8.6 History

• 1. Davies, W. D. Louis Finkelstein, eds., The
  Cambridge History of Judaism, Volumes 1- 3,
  Cambridge University Press, 1984, 1989, 1999.
• 2. Grabbe, Lester L., Judaism from Cyrus to
  Hadrian, Volumes 1 2, Fortress Press, 1992.
• 3. Schürer, Emil, The History of the Jewish
  People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D.
  135), Revised and edited by Geza Vermes and
  Fergus Millar, T T Clark, Volumes 1, 1973 2,
  1979 3a, 1986 3b 1987.

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8.7 Judaica

• 1. Hengel, Martin, Judaism and Hellenism Studies
  in their Encounter in Palestine during the Early
  Hellenistic Period, Fortress Press, 1974.
• 2. Hengel, Martin, The Hellenization of Judaea
  in the First Century after Christ, trans. By John
  Bowden, Trinity Press International, 1989.
• 3. Kraft, Robert A. George W. E. Nickelsburg,
  eds., Early Judaism and its Modern interpreters,
  Fortress Press, 1986.

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8.7 Judaica

• 4. Jeremias, Joachim, Jerusalem in the Time of
  Jesus An Investigation into Economic and Social
  Conditions during the New Testament Period,
  trans. F. H. and C. H. Cave, Fortress Press,
  1969.
• 5. Nicklesburg, George W. E., Jewish Literature
  Between the Bible and the Mishnah, A Historical
  and Literary Introduction, Fortress Press, 1981.

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8.7 Judaica

• 8. Sanders, E. J., Judaism Practice Belief (63
  BCE-66 CE), Trinity Press International, 1992.
• 9. Schiffman, Lawrence H., From Text to
  Tradition A History of Second Temple Rabbinic
  Tradition, Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1992.

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8.8 Miscellaneous

• 1. Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum Ad Novum
  Testamentum, Van Gorcum / Fortress.
• 1.1 Mulder, M. J. ed., Mikra Text, Translation,
  Reading, and Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible
  in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 1990.
• 1.2 Stone, M. E. ed., Jewish Writings of the
  Second Temple Period Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha,
  Qumran Sectarian Writings, Philo, Josephus, 1984.

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8,8 Miscellaneous

• 1.3 Safrai, S. ed., The Literature of the Sages
  Oral Tora, Halakha, Mishna, Tosefta, Talmud,
  External Tractates, 1987.
• 1.4 Tomson, P. J., Paul and the Jewish Law
  Halakha in the Letters of the Apostle to the
  Gentiles, 1990
• 1.5 Schreckenberg, H. K Schuber, Jewish
  Historiography and Iconography in Early Medieval
  Christianity, 1992.
• 1.6 Runia, D. T., Philo in Early Christian
  Literature A Survey, 1993.

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8.8 Miscellaneous

• 2. Ferguson, Everett, ed., The Encyclopedia of
  Early Christianity.
• 3. Meeks, Wayne A. ed., Library of Early
  Christianity, Westminster Press.
• 3.1 Grant, R. M., Gods and the One God, 1986.

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8.8 Miscellaneous

• 3.2 Stambaugh, J. E. D. L. Balch, The New
  Testament in Its Social Environment, 1986.
• 3.3 Kugel, J. L. R. A. Greer, Early Biblical
  Interpretation, 1986.
• 3.4 Malherbe, A. J., Moral Exhortation, A
  Greco-Roman Sourcebook, 1986.
• 3.5 Stowers, S. K., Letter Writing in Greco-Roman
  Antiquity, 1986.

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8.8 Miscellaneous

• 3.6 Meeks, W. A., The Moral World of the First
  Christians, 1986.
• 3.7 Cohen, S. J. D., From the Maccabees to the
  Mishnah, 1987.
• 3.8 Aune, D. E., The New Testament in Its
  Literary Environment, 1987.

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8.9 Greco-Roman Background

• 1. Aune, ed., Greco-Roman Literature and the NT
  Selected Forms and Genres (Scholars, 1988).
• 2. Balch/Ferguson/Meeks, eds., Greeks, Romans and
  Christians (Fortress, 1990).
• 3. Burkert, Greek Religion (Harvard U., 1985).
• 4. Long, Hellenistic Philosophy (Duckworth, 1986)
  .
• 5. MacMullen, Paganism in the Roman Empire (Yale
  U., 1981).