DICTIONARIES / ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Some of the titles available in the Adelaide Theological Library Reference collection:

  • Anchor Bible Dictionary [220.3 A539]
  • New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible [220.3 N532.S]
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible [220.3 O98.C]
  • Dictionary of New Testament Backgrounds [225.3 D554.E]
  • Dictionary of the later New Testament and its developments [225.3 D554]
  • Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels [225.3 D554.G]
  • New International Dictionary of New Testament theology [225.3 N532.B]
  • Theological dictionary of the New Testament [225.3 T392]
  • Exegetical dictionary of the New Testament [225.48 E96.Z]
  • Dictionary of Paul and his letters [227 D554]
  • Who’s who in the New Testament [225.92 B885w]
  • Westminster dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric / edited D. Aune, 2003 [270.103 A926w]

Oxford Biblical Studies online: includes thousands of reference articles drawn from Oxford’s major print publications.

BOOKS

Browse the shelves in Adelaide Theological Library at the following locations for books about:

  • 220 – Bible
  • 220.48 – Greek versions
  • 220.52 – English versions
  • 225 – New Testament
  • 225.6 – Interpretation
  • 225.7 – Commentaries
  • 225.77 – Commentaries with Biblical text
    • (Note: this pattern is repeated within each book subdivision eg 226.2077 for commentaries on Matthew)
  • 225.95 – History
  • 226 – Gospels and Acts (Matthew – Acts, Miracles, Parables)
  • 227 – Epistles (Romans, Corinthians 1 & 2, Galatians et.al.)
  • 228 – Revelation
  • 229 – Apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, intertestamental works  (Esdas 1 & 2, Todit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Maccabees etc)
  • 220.07 G883 Grove Biblical Series aims to make the best in current thinking about the Bible and its application accessible to those teaching and preaching in the local church.

Ebook Collections

The ATL subscribes to over 4,000 eBooks via two main collections. Books are easy to find, can be read online or downloaded offline. If you know the name of the book you can search for it via the Findit@Flinders catalogue or search via the links below.

Additional eBook Links

JOURNALS

ARTICLES / DATABASES

EBSCO Databases is a suite of religious and theological databases including electronic books. These databases can be searched separately or concurrently.

  • EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials Plus combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with Atla’s largest collection of full text religion and theology journals. AtlasPLUS contains more than 480 full text titles, including all AtlaSerials® (Atlas®) titles. This database is an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 44,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 16,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts.
  • Religion and Philosophy Collection: provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, Biblical studies. Over 300 full text journals

Australasian Religion Index: is an author and subject index covering over eighty religious and theological serials published in Australia or New Zealand and representing all religious traditions.

Oxford Biblical Studies online: provides a comprehensive resource for the study of the Bible and biblical history. In addition to the Bible texts, Oxford Biblical Studies Online offers quick access to a wealth of other Oxford references. Research is enhanced by timelines, a special Tools & Resources section with informative tables and charts, a list of Internet resources approved and recommended by specialists in the field, a lectionary calendar, and suggested reading lists for further research.

Oxford Religion Handbooks Online: is a collection of 113 peer reviewed electronic handbooks on Religious issues. The collection contains in-depth research and high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. Oxford Handbooks is one of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing. Click here for the complete list of titles. For more information: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/page/about 

Oxford Very Short Introductions – Religion Collection: offers short original introductions to a wide range of religious subjects. Each eBook is written by experts in a given field to provide key points, facts, analysis and insights on topics. The books are an excellent resource to develop your core understanding on a given subject. The Religion subject area offers access to 70 key eBook introductions from ‘Abrahamic Religions’ to ‘Zionism’. Click here for the complete list of titles. For more information: https://www.veryshortintroductions.com/page/about

Bibles

Other Bible Texts

OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES

Bible Gateway is a tool for reading and researching scripture online — all in the language or translation of your choice! It provides advanced searching capabilities, which allow readers to find and compare particular passages in scripture based on keywords, phrases, or scripture reference.

Bible Odyssey is constantly being updated under the auspices of the international Society of Biblical Literature. Information from this website is overseen by an editorial board.

Biblical Studies Online: provides both biblical scholars and the interested wider public with ease of access to quality biblical scholarship, as it comes available online.  Biblical Studies Online offers a gateway for the dissemination and publicizing of worthwhile open-access, online biblical scholarship.

Biblicalstudies.org.uk hosts over 25,000 full text theological articles linked into bibliographies on each book of the Bible. It also covers such subjects as hermeneutics, biblical languages, criticism, language, etc. – in short almost everything connected with the Bible and its study.

Five Gospels Parallels This HTML presentation of the Five Gospels is designed to be a teaching tool for introductory level classes in New Testament and Christian Origins. For this reason, and because of the particular constraints of HTML, it does not offer the same level of detail as a printed synopsis (i.e. Throckmorton 1979, 1992; Aland 1985). Its advantage is that it allows more “play” than a printed synopsis and that it presents the materials in the same order as the canonical Gospels.

NT Gateway A web directory of internet resources on the New Testament.

Noncanonical Literature Documents to Aid Students and Scholars in Biblical Interpretation including Introductions and Summaries of Many Noncanonical Works.

Resource Pages for Biblical Studies Focusing on the early Christian writings and their social world.

Sharing the word: Full text open source theological library resources freely available through the Internet. It is specifically intended to assist seminarians, theology students, clergy and pastoral workers.

STEP Bible Scripture Tools for Every Person. It is an amazing free online resource containing Bibles and commentaries. Tyndale House provides oversight of STEP Bible, with Crosswire serving as a partner for software and Bible translations. STEP Bible contains the Vulgate and works with Strong’s numbers.

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines

Oxford Index: A free discovery service, the Oxford Index lets you search across Oxford’s digital academic content with a single click, and find related content every step of the way.

Dictionaries / Encyclopaedias

DICTIONARIES / ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Some of the titles available in the Adelaide Theological Library Reference collection:

  • Anchor Bible Dictionary [220.3 A539]
  • New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible [220.3 N532.S]
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible [220.3 O98.C]
  • Dictionary of New Testament Backgrounds [225.3 D554.E]
  • Dictionary of the later New Testament and its developments [225.3 D554]
  • Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels [225.3 D554.G]
  • New International Dictionary of New Testament theology [225.3 N532.B]
  • Theological dictionary of the New Testament [225.3 T392]
  • Exegetical dictionary of the New Testament [225.48 E96.Z]
  • Dictionary of Paul and his letters [227 D554]
  • Who’s who in the New Testament [225.92 B885w]
  • Westminster dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric / edited D. Aune, 2003 [270.103 A926w]

Oxford Biblical Studies online: includes thousands of reference articles drawn from Oxford’s major print publications.

Books

BOOKS

Browse the shelves in Adelaide Theological Library at the following locations for books about:

  • 220 – Bible
  • 220.48 – Greek versions
  • 220.52 – English versions
  • 225 – New Testament
  • 225.6 – Interpretation
  • 225.7 – Commentaries
  • 225.77 – Commentaries with Biblical text
    • (Note: this pattern is repeated within each book subdivision eg 226.2077 for commentaries on Matthew)
  • 225.95 – History
  • 226 – Gospels and Acts (Matthew – Acts, Miracles, Parables)
  • 227 – Epistles (Romans, Corinthians 1 & 2, Galatians et.al.)
  • 228 – Revelation
  • 229 – Apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, intertestamental works  (Esdas 1 & 2, Todit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Maccabees etc)
  • 220.07 G883 Grove Biblical Series aims to make the best in current thinking about the Bible and its application accessible to those teaching and preaching in the local church.

Ebook Collections

The ATL subscribes to over 4,000 eBooks via two main collections. Books are easy to find, can be read online or downloaded offline. If you know the name of the book you can search for it via the Findit@Flinders catalogue or search via the links below.

Additional eBook Links

Journals

JOURNALS

Articles / Databases

ARTICLES / DATABASES

EBSCO Databases is a suite of religious and theological databases including electronic books. These databases can be searched separately or concurrently.

  • EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials Plus combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with Atla’s largest collection of full text religion and theology journals. AtlasPLUS contains more than 480 full text titles, including all AtlaSerials® (Atlas®) titles. This database is an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 44,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 16,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts.
  • Religion and Philosophy Collection: provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, Biblical studies. Over 300 full text journals

Australasian Religion Index: is an author and subject index covering over eighty religious and theological serials published in Australia or New Zealand and representing all religious traditions.

Oxford Biblical Studies online: provides a comprehensive resource for the study of the Bible and biblical history. In addition to the Bible texts, Oxford Biblical Studies Online offers quick access to a wealth of other Oxford references. Research is enhanced by timelines, a special Tools & Resources section with informative tables and charts, a list of Internet resources approved and recommended by specialists in the field, a lectionary calendar, and suggested reading lists for further research.

Oxford Religion Handbooks Online: is a collection of 113 peer reviewed electronic handbooks on Religious issues. The collection contains in-depth research and high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. Oxford Handbooks is one of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing. Click here for the complete list of titles. For more information: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/page/about 

Oxford Very Short Introductions – Religion Collection: offers short original introductions to a wide range of religious subjects. Each eBook is written by experts in a given field to provide key points, facts, analysis and insights on topics. The books are an excellent resource to develop your core understanding on a given subject. The Religion subject area offers access to 70 key eBook introductions from ‘Abrahamic Religions’ to ‘Zionism’. Click here for the complete list of titles. For more information: https://www.veryshortintroductions.com/page/about

Bibles

Other Bible Texts

Open Access Resources

OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES

Bible Gateway is a tool for reading and researching scripture online — all in the language or translation of your choice! It provides advanced searching capabilities, which allow readers to find and compare particular passages in scripture based on keywords, phrases, or scripture reference.

Bible Odyssey is constantly being updated under the auspices of the international Society of Biblical Literature. Information from this website is overseen by an editorial board.

Biblical Studies Online: provides both biblical scholars and the interested wider public with ease of access to quality biblical scholarship, as it comes available online.  Biblical Studies Online offers a gateway for the dissemination and publicizing of worthwhile open-access, online biblical scholarship.

Biblicalstudies.org.uk hosts over 25,000 full text theological articles linked into bibliographies on each book of the Bible. It also covers such subjects as hermeneutics, biblical languages, criticism, language, etc. – in short almost everything connected with the Bible and its study.

Five Gospels Parallels This HTML presentation of the Five Gospels is designed to be a teaching tool for introductory level classes in New Testament and Christian Origins. For this reason, and because of the particular constraints of HTML, it does not offer the same level of detail as a printed synopsis (i.e. Throckmorton 1979, 1992; Aland 1985). Its advantage is that it allows more “play” than a printed synopsis and that it presents the materials in the same order as the canonical Gospels.

NT Gateway A web directory of internet resources on the New Testament.

Noncanonical Literature Documents to Aid Students and Scholars in Biblical Interpretation including Introductions and Summaries of Many Noncanonical Works.

Resource Pages for Biblical Studies Focusing on the early Christian writings and their social world.

Sharing the word: Full text open source theological library resources freely available through the Internet. It is specifically intended to assist seminarians, theology students, clergy and pastoral workers.

STEP Bible Scripture Tools for Every Person. It is an amazing free online resource containing Bibles and commentaries. Tyndale House provides oversight of STEP Bible, with Crosswire serving as a partner for software and Bible translations. STEP Bible contains the Vulgate and works with Strong’s numbers.

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines

Oxford Index: A free discovery service, the Oxford Index lets you search across Oxford’s digital academic content with a single click, and find related content every step of the way.