====== Scriptural Books ======

====== Particular Fields of Theology ======

  * [[:books:theology|Theology Index]]
  * [[:books:theology:scripture|Scripture]]
  * [[:books:theology:dogmatic|Dogmatic]]
  * [[:books:theology:liturgical|Liturgical]]
  * [[:books:theology:moral|Moral]]
  * [[:books:theology:spirituality|Spirituality]]
  * [[:books:theology:primary-sources|Primary Sources]]
  * [[:books:theology:theologians|Theologians to Read]]
  * [[:books:theology:abbreviations|Abbreviations]]


====== Journals ======

  * [[https://www.cuapress.org/journals/old-testament-abstracts/|Old Testament Abstracts]]
  * [[https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/stm/faculty/new-testament-abstracts.html|New Testament Abstracts]]
  * [[https://www.cuapress.org/journals/the-catholic-biblical-quarterly/|Catholic Biblical Quarterly]]
  *  [[https://www.bsw.org/biblica/|Biblica]]
      * By the Pontifical Biblical Institute
  * [[https://brill.com/view/journals/vt/vt-overview.xml?language=en|Novum Testamentum]]
  * [[https://brill.com/view/journals/nt/nt-overview.xml?language=en|Vetus Testamentum]]

====== References ======

===== Bibliographies =====

  * An Introductory Bibliography for the Study of Scripture by Joseph A. Fitzmyer
      * 1990
  * A guide to biblical research: introductory notes by Stanislaw Bazylinski
      * 2006
  * Metodologia del Nuovo Testamento: Introduzione allo studio scientifico del Nuovo Testamento by Wilhelm Egger
  * Metodologia dell'Antico Testamento by Simian-Yofre Horacio

===== Dictionaries (General) =====

  * Temi teologici della Bibbia by I Dizionari San Paolo
  * Le immagini bibliche. Simboli, figure retoriche e temi letterari della Bibbia by I Dizionari San Paolo
  * Ebraismo by I Dizionari San Paolo
  * Dizionario di critica testuale del Nuovo Testamento. Storia, canone, apocrifi, paleografia by I Dizionari San Paolo
  * Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (AYBD)
  * Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (EDB)

===== Magisterium =====

  * Dei Filius
      * [[https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-ix/it/documents/constitutio-dogmatica-dei-filius-24-aprilis-1870.html|Italian]]
      * [[https://www.papalencyclicals.net/councils/ecum20.htm|English Session 3]]
  * [[https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html|Dei Verbum]]
  * [[https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_30091943_divino-afflante-spiritu.html|Divino Afflante Spiritu]]
  * The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church by the Pontifical Biblical Commission
      * [[https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/interpretation-of-the-bible-in-the-church-2319|EWTN (English)]]
      * [[https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/pcb_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19930415_interpretazione_it.html|Vatican (Italian)]]
  * [[https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/pcb_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20140222_ispirazione-verita-sacra-scrittura_it.html|The Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture by the Pontifical Biblical Commision]]
  * [[https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/pcb_doc_index.htm|Pontifical Biblical Commission Documents]]

===== General Series =====

  * Studi biblici

===== Commentary Series =====

  * The Navarre Bible Commentary
      * [[https://scepterpublishers.org/collections/navarre-bibles|https://scepterpublishers.org/collections/navarre-bibles]]
  * Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS)
      * In 29 Vol
      * [[https://www.ivpress.com/ancient-christian-commentary-on-scripture|https://www.ivpress.com/ancient-christian-commentary-on-scripture]]
  * The Paulist biblical commentary
  * Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible
  * [[http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/it/|Fathers' Commentary on the Lectionary]]
  * [[http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/it/|Fathers' Commentary on the Bible]]
  * Anchor Yale Bible Commentary Series (AYBC)
  * Collegeville Bible Commentary
  * New Collegeville Bible Commentary
  * Sacra Pagina Commentary Series (SP)
  * International Critical Commentary Series (ICC)
  * New International Commentary: New Testament (NICNT)
  * New International Commentary: Old Testament (NICOT)
  * Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture (CCSS)
  * UBS Handbook Series
  * Through Old Testament Eyes
      * Commentary on the New Testament through the perspective of the Old Testament

===== Texts and Translations =====

  * Nova Vulgata Bibliorum Sacrorum. Editio minor 2163 60,00
  * Novum Testamentus et Psalterium iuxta Novae Vulgatae editionis textum 7384 20,00

===== Dictionaries (Lexicons) =====

  * Theological Lexicon of the New Testament (TLNT) (3 vols.)
  * New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology and Exegesis, 2nd Edition (NIDNTTE)
  * Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT) (10 vols.)
  * A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. (BDAG)
  * Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT) (5 vols.)
  * Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament (TDOT) (16 vols.)
  * New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis (NIDOTTE)

===== Grammars =====

  * The Elements of New Testament Greek by Wenham
  * Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar by William Mounce

====== Biblical History ======

===== General =====

  * The Oxford History of the Biblical World
  * Atlante di Gerusalemme by D. Bahat
  * Greer, Jonathan S., John W. Hilber, and John H. Walton, eds. 2018. //Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic.
  * Arnold, Bill T., and Brent A. Strawn, eds. 2016. //The World around the Old Testament: The People and Places of the Ancient near East//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic.

===== Archeology =====

  * Terra Sancta. Archeologia ed esegesi by G. Paximadi - M. Fidanzio
  * L’architettura di Erode. Il grande costruttore by E. Netzer
  * Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit. Jewish daily life in the time of Jesus by J. Magness
  * The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant, c. 8000-332 BCE by M.L. Steiner – A.E. Killebrew
  * The Archaeology of the Holy Land: from the destruction of Solomon’s Temple to the Muslim conquest by J. Magness

===== Textual History =====

  * //Textual History of the Bible//. 2016. 10 vols. Leiden: Brill.
  * Person, Raymond F. 2023. //Scribal Memory and Word Selection: Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible//. Atlanta: SBL Press.
  * Mastnjak, Nathan. 2023. //Before the Scrolls: A Material Approach to Israel’s Prophetic Library//. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  * Schmid, Konrad, and Jens Schröter. 2021. //The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture//. Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

===== Jewish Literature =====

  * Neusner, Jacob, ed. //The Mishnah: A New Translation//. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1988.

====== Old Testament ======

===== General Topics =====

==== General ====

  *  [[https://www.sefaria.org/texts|https://www.sefaria.org/texts]]
      * Digital Tool for viewing the Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, etc.

==== Introductions ====

  * Bergsma, John Sietze, and Brant James Pitre. 2018. //A Catholic Introduction to the Bible. The Old Testament//. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
  * Brueggemann, Walter, and Tod Linafelt. 2020. //An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination//. Third edition. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press.
  * Goldingay, John. 2015. //An Introduction to the Old Testament: Exploring Text, Approaches and Issues//. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic.
  * Longman, Tremper. 2024. //The Old Testament as Literature: Foundations for Christian Interpretation//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
  * Pritchard, James Bennett, ed. 1969. //Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Relating to the Old Testament//. 3rd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press.


==== Jewish Feasts ====

  * Overview of Passover: [[https://www.biblistica.it/?page_id=822|https://www.biblistica.it/?page_id=822]]
  * Barry IV, Richard J. //Jewish Temple Theology and the Mystery of the Cross: Atonement and the Two Goats of Yom Kippur//. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2023.

==== Kingship ====

  * Shepherd, David. 2023. //King David, Innocent Blood, and Bloodguilt//. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

==== Temple ====

  * Haran, Menahem. 1978. //Temples and Temple-Service in Ancient Israel: An Inquiry into Biblical Cult Phenomena and the Historical Setting of the Priestly School//. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns.
  * Smith, Steven C. 2017. //The House of the Lord: A Catholic Biblical Theology of God’s Temple Presence in the Old and New Testaments//. Steubenville, OH: Franciscan University Press.

==== Emotion (Love) ====

  * Lapsley, Jacqueline E. “Feeling Our Way: Love for God in Deuteronomy.” The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 65, no. 3 (2003): 350–69.
  * Levenson, Jon Douglas. 2016. //The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism//. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  * Moran, William L. “The Ancient Near Eastern Background to the Love of God in Deuteronomy.” The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 25, no. 1 (1963): 77–87.
  * Park, Song-Mi Suzie. 2023. //Love in the Hebrew Bible//. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press.

==== Emotion (Anger) ====

  * Schlimm, Matthew Richard. 2011. //From Fratricide to Forgiveness: The Language and Ethics of Anger in Genesis//. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns.

===== Pentateuch =====

==== Pentateuch (General) ====

  * [[https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/pcb_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19480116_fonti-pentateuco_it.html|LE FONTI DEL PENTATEUCO E IL GENERE LETTERARIO DEI PRIMI UNDICI CAPITOLI DELLA GENESI by the Pontifical Biblical Institute]]

==== Genesis ====

=== Commentaries ===

  * Hendler, Ronald. 2024. //Genesis 1-11: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary//. Anchor Yale Bible. New Haven: Yale University Press.
      * Replaces: Speiser, E. A. 1963. //Genesis//. Anchor Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
  * Wénin, André. 2008. //Da Adamo ad Abramo o l’errare umano. Lettura narrativa e antropologica della Genesi//. Bologna: EDB.
  * Westermann, Claus. 1992. //Genesis: An Introduction//. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
  * Westermann, Claus. 1994-2002. //Genesis: A Continental Commentary//. 3 vols. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

=== Particular Questions ===

  * Boyd, Samuel L. 2023. //Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy//. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.

==== Exodus ====

==== Leviticus ====

==== Numbers ====

==== Deuteronomy ====

  * Arnold, Bill. 2022. //The Book of Deuteronomy: Chapters 1–11. //NICOT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

===== Historical Books =====

  * Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn. 2023. //Ezra: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary//. Anchor Yale Bible Commentary. New Haven: Yale University Press.

===== Prophets =====

==== General ====

  * Cook, Stephen L., John T. Strong, and Steven Shawn Tuell. 2022. //The Prophets: Introducing Israel’s Prophetic Writings//. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
  * O’Brien, Julia M. 2024. //Prophets beyond Activism: Rethinking the Prophetic Roots of Social Justice//. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press.


==== Isaiah ====

  * McConville, J. G. 2023. //The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53 for the Life of the Church//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group.


===== Wisdom Literature =====


==== General ====

  * Dell, Katharine J., Suzanna R. Millar, and Arthur Jan Keefer, eds. 2022. //The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Wisdom Literature//. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  * Murphy, Roland E. 2002. //The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature//. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans.

==== Psalms ====

  * Quinn, Carissa. 2023. //The Arrival of the King: The Shape and Story of Psalms 15-24//. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic.
  * Whybray, R. N. 1996. //Reading the Psalms as a Book//. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press.


====== Inter-Testament Period ======

  * Chilton, Bruce, and Jacob Neusner. 1995. //Judaism in the New Testament: Practices and Beliefs//. London: Routledge.
  * Daniel-Rops, Henri. 1962. //Daily Life in the Time of Jesus//. New York: Hawthorn Books.
  * Neusner, Jacob. 1984. //Judaism in the Beginning of Christianity//. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.
  * Neusner, Jacob. 2002. //Judaism When Christianity Began: A Survey of Belief and Practice//. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press.
  * Nickelsburg, George W. E. 2003. //Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins: Diversity, Continuity, and Transformation//. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
  * Novick, Tzvi. 2025. //Judaism: A Guide for Christians//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  * Sanders, E. P. 1992. //Judaism: Practice and Belief, 63 BCE-66 CE//. London: SCM Press.
  * Sanders, E. P. 2016. //Comparing Judaism and Christianity: Common Judaism, Paul, and the Inner and Outer in the Study of Religion//. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.


====== New Testament ======

===== General Topics =====

==== General ====

  * An Introduction to the New Testament by Raymond E. Brown

==== Historical Jesus ====

  * Allison, Dale C. 2010.// Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History//. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic.
  * Allison, Dale C. 2025. //Interpreting Jesus//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  * Bailey, Kenneth E. 2008. //Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels//. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic.
  * Pitre, Brant James. 2024. //Jesus and Divine Christology//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  * Ferda, Tucker S. 2024. //Jesus and His Promised Second Coming: Jewish Eschatology and Christian Origins//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  * Sanders, E. P. 1985.// Jesus and Judaism//. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.
  * Sanders, E. P. 1993. //The Historical Figure of Jesus//. New York: Penguin Books.


==== Last Supper ====

See also the bibliography for the [[:books:theology:liturgical#early_church|Mass in the Early Church]].

  * ​Jeremias, Joachim. 1966. //The Eucharistic Words of Jesus//. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.
  * Pitre, Brant James. 2011. //Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper//. New York: Doubleday.
  * Pitre, Brant James. 2015. //Jesus and the Last Supper//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

==== Various Topics ====

  * Barnett, Paul. 2024. //The Trials of Jesus: Evidence, Conclusions, and Aftermath//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  * Challis, Mallory A., and Joseph Foltz. 2025. //Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts//. Edited by Christy Cobb and Katherine Ann Shaner. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

==== Mimesis ====

  * Bennema, Cornelis. 2017. //Mimesis in the Johannine Literature: A Study in Johannine Ethics//. London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark.
  * Bennema, Cornelis, and Michael J. Gorman. 2025. I//mitation in Early Christianity: Mimesis and Religious-Ethical Formation//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.


===== Synoptic Gospels =====

==== Matthew ====

  * Leiva-Merikakis, Erasmo. 1996-2021.// Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word: Meditations on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew//. 4 Vols. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.

==== Mark ====

  * Luttick, Janine. 2023. //Jairus’s Daughter and the Female Body in Mark//. Atlanta: SBL Press.
  * Mirus, Christopher V. 2024. “Plato’s Timaeus as a Symbol of Greek Culture in Mark 10:46–52: A Contextual Interpretation.” //Communio: International Catholic Review//  51 (2): 367–410.

==== Luke ====

  * Potter, Jonathan M. 2025. //Rewritten Gospel: The Composition of Luke and Rewritten Scripture//. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  * Smith, David Anthony. 2024. //Luke and the Jewish Other: Politics of Identity in the Third Gospel//. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.


===== Pauline Literature =====

==== Paul the Man ====

  * Murphy-O’Connor, J. 1996. //Paul: A Critical Life//. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  * Novenson, Matthew V., and R. Barry Matlock, eds. 2022. //The Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies. First edition//. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  * Sanders, E. P. 2016. //Paul: The Apostle’s Life, Letters, and Thought//. London: SCM Press.
  * Sanders, E. P. 2017. //Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion//. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
  * Thielman, Frank. 2025. //Paul: Apostle of Grace//. Grand Rapids Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub.
  * Wright, N. T. 1997. //What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity?//  Grand Rapids Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub.
  * Wright, N. T. 2013. //Paul and the Faithfulness of God//. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
  * Wright, N. T. 2015. //Paul and His Recent Interpreters: Some Contemporary Debates//. Minneapolis Minnesota: Fortress Press.
  * Wright, N. T. 2018. //Paul: A Biography//. New York NY: HarperOne.


==== Pauline Theology ====

  * Gupta, Nijay K., and Michael J. Gorman. 2025. T//he Affections of Christ Jesus: Love at the Heart of Paul’s Theology//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  * Sanders, E. P. 1983. //Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People//. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.
  * Wilson, Annalisa Phillips. 2022. //Paul and the Jewish Law: A Stoic Ethical Perspective on His Inconsistency//. Leiden: Brill.


==== Letter to the Romans ====

  * ​Gaventa, Beverly Roberts. 2024. //Romans: A Commentary//. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press.
  * Wright, N. T. 2023. //Into the Heart of Romans: A Deep Dive into Paul’s Greatest Letter//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan.


==== Letter to the Ephesians ====

  * deSilva, David A. 2022. //Ephesians//. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

===== Johannine Literature =====

==== The Gospel of John ====

  * Cirafesi, Wally V. 2022. //John within Judaism: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Shaping of Jesus-Oriented Jewishness in the Fourth Gospel//. Leiden: Brill.
  * Irwin, Luke. 2025. //Jesus and the Visibility of God: Sight and Belief in the Fourth Gospel//. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
  * Smith, David Anthony. 2024. //Luke and the Jewish Other: Politics of Identity in the Third Gospel//. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
  * Zimmermann, Ruben. 2025. //Breaking New Ground in John: Imagery, Parables, Characters, Christology, and Ethics in the Fourth Gospel//. Edited by Dieter T. Roth. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.


===== Catholic Epistles =====

===== Letter to the Hebrews =====

  * ​Moffitt, David M. 2011. //Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews//. Leiden: Brill.
  * Peeler, Amy L. B. 2024. //Hebrews//. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
  * Vanhoye, Albert. 2015. //The Letter to the Hebrews: A New Commentary//. New York: Paulist Press.
  * Urga, Abeneazer G. 2023. //Intercession of Jesus in Hebrews: The Background and Nature of Jesus’ Heavenly Intercession in the Epistle to the Hebrews//. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck.