Resources for Biblical Preaching
Provided by Roy E. Ciampa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of New
Testament
Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary
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Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s Center for Preaching.
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Annotated
Old Testament Bibliography. Prepared
by M. Daniel Carroll R. and Richard S. Hess.
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Bibliography
for New Testament Exegesis. Prepared
by Drs.
Craig L. Blomberg and William W. Klein.
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Biblical Studies
Resources at Amazon.com. Some of the
hundreds of books that can now be searched on-line at Amazon, making that site
a significant research tool. Amazon now
provides us with the equivalent to a full concordance to hundreds of
books. There are limits to how much
Amazon will let you search and read. Be
prepared to come to a limit unexpectedly.
This link brings you to a list of works that are of particular
usefulness for biblical study and research.
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How read and
search books at Amazon.com.
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Semantic and Structural Analysis Publications at Amazon or the SIL
Bookstore (These commentaries on various books of the New Testament diagram
the logical structure of each book and of each passage within the book and also
propose a “theme” statement (a.k.a. an “exegetical idea”) for each passage
within the book. Preachers looking for
starter suggestions for exegetical ideas will benefit greatly from these works.)
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Links for Biblical
Research
Resources for New
Testament Exegesis
Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology (Articles on the theology of each book of the Bible and on various
themes and issues in biblical theology.)
Biblical Theology
Briefings: Biblical Theology Articles (Helpful articles on various issues in biblical
theology.)
Denver Journal (A website with book reviews from
an evangelical perspective.)
The Review of Biblical
Literature (Reviews of hundreds of books on biblical subjects
[written by people from all over the religious and theological spectrum]).
The Paul Page (Dedicated to the
New Perspective on Paul)
The Perseus Project Word Study Tool (For parsing and doing searches for any Greek word.)
Liddell
& Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon
The Online Greek Bible (26th
edition of the Nestle-Aland text)
The Unbound Bible (Search the Greek New Testament, Hebrew Bible, Septuagint or a
modern translation.)
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Links to Illustrative Materials (News, cultural analysis,
illustrations)
Search the World Wide Web with Google (use quotation marks to find an exact
phrase)
Use the Google Advanced Search
feature
Search News at Google News
Search CNN.com
Search FoxNews.com
Search ChristianityToday.com
Visit Books & Culture:
A Christian Review
Visit Christianity Today
Movies
Search Pluggedin.com: media reviews from
Focus on the Family
Search periodicals through Infotrac and the Gale Group Databases (logon through
your local public library)
Search books at Amazon.com
Read First Things, the Journal of
Religion and Public Life
Subscribe to Preaching Today.com
Subscribe to HomileticsOnline.com
Search for sermon illustrations at
Christian Globe
Search for sermon illustrations at
Biblical Studies Foundation
Search funny stories from the
Canadian Reader’s Digest
Subscribe to the American Reader’s
Digest
Search for images with Google Advanced Image
Search
Search for images with AltaVista Image Search
Search for music at iTunes
Browse or search for comics at Comics.com
Pastoral Counseling Resources
Visit
the Journal of Pastoral
Counseling
The American Journal of
Pastoral Counseling
The
Websites for Mental Health
Professionals
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Remember what plagiarism
is and how to avoid it
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Software/Web
Tutorials (this
link will bring you to a briefcase site where you can access the following
tutorials):
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Basic Searches with BibleWorks
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Basic Searches with Perseus
Project
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Searching Brill’s
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Searching Brill’s Dead Sea Scrolls in Hebrew
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How to Read Virtually Any Greek Text (hyperbolically
named)
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Bibliographic Research Software/Web Resources
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EBSCO Tutorial.
(Prepared by James Darlack. Access it
here rather than through the link above)
09-2004