Online Scholarship

The ability to do scholarly tasks online is revolutionizing the world of academia. Information is being shared via personal websites, blogs, e-lists, and the like. On top of full articles, full books and previews of books of tremendous relevance to scholarship are available online. The art of scholarly networking is vastly changing as many scholars are even mingling on Facebook! I would therefore like to dedicate a page on my little corner of the web to finding a few places that might be helpful to scholars or scholars-in-the-making, particularly related to issues of New Testament, Christian origins, and Second Temple Judaism. If all this interests you, you should also check out Mark Goodacre’s one-stop-shop for NT studies online at The New Testament Gateway.

Biblioblogging

I can honestly say that being a member of the biblioblogging community has pushed me in directions that I otherwise would not have gone. Trying to stay up-to-date with all the many blogs out there on biblical studies is impossible, unless one makes a career out of it. And by “career,” I mean, is unemployed and in front of the computer all day. That said, one “canonical” mother-list of the ever changing world of bibliobloggers can be found at John Hobbins blog, Ancient Hebrew Poetry. He helpfully breaks it down in terms of informed laypersons, students, clergy, scholars otherwise employed, and professors. It would be nice if they were divided into categories of, say, New Testament and Hebrew Bible, but many blogs cannot be so easily defined. You may also find interesting Biblioblogs.com, which is not nearly as comprehensive, but offers excellent monthly interviews with featured bibliobloggers (the list on that page is not up-to-date, but they’re further along than it would imply). One helpful resource is Deinde’s custom Google search of biblioblogs, of which I have made use on a number of occasions as I try to find what the bloggers may have said about some book or topic.

Primary Texts

• April D. Deconick’s List of Internet Resources - especially helpful for gnostic literature
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library - especially helpful for the “early church fathers”
• Early Christian Writings - quite comprehensive
• Early Jewish Writings - covering the Tanakh, Deuterocanon, Pseudepigrapha, Philo, and Josephus. Has an introduction to the Talmud.
• Online Critical Pseudepigrapha - excellent start to an amazing project

Online Articles

There are way too many articles available online and your library database would be the best place to have them if you’ve got access to a good database. But here I’ll point to a few places with collections of articles of interest.

• BiblicalStudies.org.uk - covers a vast range of topics related to biblical studies
• N. T. Wright - extensive listing of Wright’s publications
• The Paul Page - articles regarding the New Perspective on Paul

Google Books

In this category, I’ve inspired by the extensive work of Mischa Hooker at the Loyola University in Chicago, who has compiled a gargantuan list of books related to biblical studies available on Google Books (also note the work in progress by Danny Zacharias and Bob Buller). Works available for Full View in Google Books are nice because you can not only search through them, but download a PDF copy as well. I am basing some of my entries on Hooker’s list, but mostly searching on my own . . . slowly. My main concern at the moment is New Testament (as I’m taking a class on “History of NT Scholarship” this quarter), but I also hope to include works in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity. For classic scholarly texts online beyond Google Books, you may be interested in the list compiled at Early Christian Writings. The bibliography is awkward with multiple editions and volumes. Perhaps I’ll figure out a less awkward bibliographical method as time goes on.

Second Temple Judaism

New Testament

Texts and Translations of the NT (chronological order)

• Leander van Ess, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine expressum, ad binas editiones [Erasm., Complut., Vulg.] (Tübingen, 1827).
• Edward Burton, The Greek Testament with English Notes (vol. 1: Oxford University, 1831; vol. 2: Oxford University, 1831; 3rd edition, single volume: Oxford, 1848; 4th edition: Oxford 1852).
• Ferdinand Florens Fleck, Novum Testamentum Vulgatae editionis juxta textum Clementis VIII.: Romanum (Leipzig, 1840).
• Abraham Kuenen and Carel Gabriel Cobet, Hē Kainē Diathēkē/Novum Testamentum (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1860).
• Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort, The New Testament in the Original Greek (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1881, 1881, 1885, 1896, 1898).
• Richard G. Moulton, St. Luke & St. Paul, Modern Reader’s Bible (vol 1: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900; vol 2: Macmillan, 1898).
• William Robertson Nicoll, The Expositor’s Greek Testament (vol. 3 [2 Cor. - Coloss.]; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1903).

General Studies (alphbetical order from here)

• William Baird, History of New Testament Research: From Deism to Tübingen (vol. 1; Fortress Press, 1992). [LIMITED PREVIEW]
• Adolf Deissmann, Licht vom Osten: Das neue Testament und die neuentdeckten Texte der hellenistisch-römischen Welt (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1908). ["Light from the East"]
• Adolf Deissmann, New Light on the New Testament: From Records of the Graeco-Roman Period (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1908).
• Adolf Deissmann, The Philology of the Greek Bible: Its Present and Future (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908).
• Johann David Michaelis, Introduction to the New Testament: Translated from the Frourth Edition of the German [1788], and Considerably Augmented with Notes, and a Dissertation on the Origin and Composition of the Three First Gospels by Herbert Marsh, B.D. F.R.S. (2nd ed., 1802: vol. 3; vol. 4; London: F. & C. Rivington; 4th ed., 1823: vol. 1; vol. 2; vol. 3; vol. 4; London: F. C. & J. Rivington)
• William Mitchell Ramsay, Luke the Physician and Other Studies in the History of Religion (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908).
• Willard M. Swartley, Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2006). [LIMITED PREVIEW]
• Johannes Weiss, Christ, the Beginning of Dogma (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1911).

General Commentaries

Jesus and the Gospels

• James D. G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered, Christianity in the Making 1 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2003). [LIMITED PREVIEW]
• Adolf von Harnack, Luke the Physician: The Author of the Third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, New Testament Studies 1 (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907).
• Adolf von Harnack, The Sayings of Jesus: The Second Source of St. Matthew and St. Luke, New Testament Studies 2 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1908).
• Johann David Michaelis, The Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, According to the Four Evangelists (London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1827).
• William Mitchell Ramsay, Was Christ Born at Bethlehem?: A Study on the Credibility of St. Luke, 2nd ed. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1898).
• Albert Schweitzer, Das Abendmahl: Im Zusammenhang mit dem Leben Jesu und der Geschichte des Urchristentums (Tübingen and Leipzig: J. C. B. Mohr, 1901). ["The Last Supper"]
• Albert Schweitzer, The Mystery of the Kingdom of God: The Secret of Jesus’ Messiahship and Passion (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914).

Matthew

Mark

• Johannes Weiss, Das älteste Evangelium: Ein Beitrag zum Verständnis des Markus-evangeliums und der ältesten evangelischen Überlieferung (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1903). ["The Oldest Gospel"]

Luke

John

Acts

• Adolf von Harnack, The Acts of the Apostles, New Testament Studies 3 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1909).

Studies on Paul

• Ferdinand Christian Baur, Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ: His Life and Work, His Epistles and His Doctrine (vol 1 [2nd edition]; London: Williams and Norgate, 1876).
• Adolf Deissmann, St. Paul: A Study in Social and Religious History (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912).
• William Mitchell Ramsay, St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen, 3rd ed. (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1896).
• William Mitchell Ramsay, The Cities of St. Paul: Their Influence on His Life and Thought : The Cities of Eastern Asia Minor (New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1908).

Romans

1-2 Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Philippians

Colossians

• Joseph Barber Lightfoot, St. Paul’s Epistles to the Colossians & to Philemon: A Revised Text with Introductions, Notes, and Dissertations, 2nd ed. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1876).

1-2 Thessalonians

1-2 Timothy

Titus

Philemon

• Horatio Balch Hackett, Notes on the Greek text of the Epistle of Paul to Philemon, as the basis of a revision of the common English version; and a revised version, with notes (New York: American Bible Union, 1860).
• Joseph Barber Lightfoot, St. Paul’s Epistles to the Colossians & to Philemon: A Revised Text with Introductions, Notes, and Dissertations, 2nd ed. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1876).
• Nathaniel Sheldon Wheaton, A Discourse on St. Paul’s Epistle to Philemon: Exhibiting the Duty of Citizens of the Northern States in Regard to the Institution of Slavery: Delivered in Christ Church, Hartford; Dec. 22, 1850 (Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1851). [a pro-slavery hermeneutic]

Hebrews

James

1-2 Peter

1-3 John

Jude

Revelation

• William Mitchell Ramsay, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia: And Their Place in the Plan of the Apocalypse (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1904).

Early Christianity

• Ferdinand Christian Baur, The Church History of the First Three Centuries (vol. 1; London: Williams and Norgate, 1878; vol. 2; London: Williams and Norgate, 1879).
• Adolf von Harnack, The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries (vol 2; New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1905, 1908).
• William Mitchell Ramsay, The Church in the Roman Empire Before A.D. 170, 9th ed. (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907).

Christianity and Judaism

• Gustaf Dalman, Christianity and Judaism: An Essay by Gustaf H. Dalman (London: Williams and Norgate, 1901).
• John Howard Yoder, The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2003). [LIMITED PREVIEW]

Slavery

• Robert Lewis Dabney, A Defence of Virginia: And Through Her of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party (New York: E. J. Hale & Son, 1867). [pro-slavery]
• Nathaniel Sheldon Wheaton, A Discourse on St. Paul’s Epistle to Philemon: Exhibiting the Duty of Citizens of the Northern States in Regard to the Institution of Slavery: Delivered in Christ Church, Hartford; Dec. 22, 1850 (Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1851). [pro-slavery]

Women’s Concerns

• Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe, The Women’s Bible Commentary (Westminster John Knox Press, 1998). [LIMITED PREVIEW]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Women’s Bible (1898); Reprinted by Plain Label Books; Reprinted by Forgotten Books, 2007.

War and Peace

• Willard M. Swartley, Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2006). [LIMITED PREVIEW]