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  • By the Pontifical Biblical Institute
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• Vetus Testamentum

• 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

• 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)

• Dei Filius
  • Italian
  • English Session 3
• Dei Verbum
• Divino Afflante Spiritu
• The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church by the Pontifical Biblical Commission
  • EWTN (English)
  • Vatican (Italian)
• The Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture by the Pontifical Biblical Commision
• Pontifical Biblical Commission Documents

• Studi biblici

• The Navarre Bible Commentary
  • https://scepterpublishers.org/collections/navarre-bibles
• Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS)
  • In 29 Vol
  • https://www.ivpress.com/ancient-christian-commentary-on-scripture
• The Paulist biblical commentary
• Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible
• Fathers' Commentary on the Lectionary
• 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

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

• 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)

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

• 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.

• 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 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.

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

• https://www.sefaria.org/texts
  • Digital Tool for viewing the Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, etc.

• 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.
• Pritchard, James Bennett, ed. 1969. Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Relating to the Old Testament. 3rd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• Overview of Passover: 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• LE FONTI DEL PENTATEUCO E IL GENERE LETTERARIO DEI PRIMI UNDICI CAPITOLI DELLA GENESI by the Pontifical Biblical Institute

• 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.

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

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

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

• O’Brien, Julia M. 2024. Prophets beyond Activism: Rethinking the Prophetic Roots of Social Justice. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

See also the bibliography for the 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.

• 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.

• 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. Imitation in Early Christianity: Mimesis and Religious-Ethical Formation. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Gupta, Nijay K., and Michael J. Gorman. 2025. The 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.

• ​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.

• deSilva, David A. 2022. Ephesians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• 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.

• ​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.