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RS 111 Resources

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Selected Electronic Books -- Periodical Databases -- Selected Books in Busse Library -- Selected Websites

Selected Electronic Books

Cohen, Shayne J.D. The Beginnings of Jewishness. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Jacobs, Louis. The Jewish Religion. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Pink, A.W. The Divine Inspiration of the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

Sternberg, Meir. The Poetics of Biblical Narrative. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985.

 

Periodical Databases
 

EBSCO Database (password required)

  • EBSCO Academic Search Premier -- Contains full-text articles for over 3,400 scholarly journals and is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database. Subject areas include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, languages, linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies.

FirstSearch Databases (password required)

After you key in your login and password, you will need to select again from the list of available databases on the search screen.  To do this click on the dropdown menu in: Jump to Advanced Search: Select a Database to Search.  Select the required database and begin your search. You may initiate an InterLibrary Loan request from FirstSearch databases to the Busse Library. Use the linked Tips for help in using the databases. 

  • ArticleFirst - Index to citations from of over 12,600 journals. Tips on using this database.
  • GPO Monthly Catalog - Index to information printed by the US Government Printing Office. Tips on using this database.
  • PsychInfo -- Index to psychological journal articles, books, chapters, technical reports and dissertations from 1887 to the present.
  • World Almanac - Facts and figures
  • WorldCat - Over 30 million catalog records of books and audiovisuals held in libraries around the world. A good way to see if a book has been published on a topic which you may want to borrow through InterLibrary Loan. Remember to select books with at least 15 library holdings indicated. Tips on using this database.

 

Selected Books in Busse Library

Anderson, Bernhard W.
Understanding the Old Testament.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1986. BS1197 .A63 1986

Barton, John.
Reading the Old Testament: method in biblical study.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, c1984. BS1171.2 .B33 1984

Bigger, Stephen.
Creating the Old Testament: the emergence of the Hebrew Bible.
Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1989. BS1140.2 .C73 1989

Boadt, Lawrence.
Reading the Old Testament: an introduction.
New York: Paulist Press, c1984. BS1140.2 .B63 1984

Brooks, Roger.
Hebrew Bible or Old Testament? : studying the Bible in Judaism and Christianity.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, c1990. BS1160 .H45 1990

Castel, Francois.
The history of Israel and Judah in Old Testament times.
New York: Paulist Press, c1985. DS117 .C28 1985

Craigie, Peter C.
The Old Testament: its background, growth, and content.
Nashville: Abingdon Press, c1986. BS1140.2 .C65 1986

Drane, John William.
Introducing the Old Testament.
San Francisco: Harper and Row, c1987. BS1197 .D7 1987

Dumbrell, William J.
Covenant and creation: a theology of Old Testament covenants.
Nashville: Thomas Nelson, c1984. BS1171.2 .D8x

Gallares, Judette A.
Images of faith: spirituality of women in the Old Testament.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, [1994]. BS575 .G35 1994

McCarthy, Carmel.
The Old Testament short story: explorations into narrative spirituality.
Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1986. BS1171 .M3x

West, James King.
Introduction to the Old Testament.
New York: Macmillan, [1971]. BS1140.2 .W478

Wilson, Robert R.
Sociological approaches to the Old Testament.
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, c1984. BS1199.S6 W54 1984

 

Selected Websites

 

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