A Selected Bibliography For The Book Of Hebrews

New Testament Backgrounds, Histories, and Introductions

Aharoni Yohanan, and Michael Avi-Yonah. The Macmillan Bible Atlas. Revised Edition. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1968.

Aune, David E. The New Testament in Its Literary Environment. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1987.

The Babylonian Talmud. Translated into English with Notes, Glossary, and Indices under the editorship of I. Epstein. 18 vols. London: Soncino Press, 1959.

Bruce, F. F. New Testament History. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980.

________. Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1977.

Childs, Brevard S. The New Testament as Canon: An Introduction. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.

Deissman, Adlof. Light from the Ancient East. New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.

Geisler, Norman L. and Nix, William E. A General Introduction to the Bible: Revised and Expanded. Chicago: Moody Press, 1968,1986.

Guthrie, Donald. New Testament Introduction. Third edition. Revised in on volume. Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 1970.

Hammond’s Atlas of the Bible Lands. Edited by Harry Thomas Frank. Maplewood, New Jersey: Hammond Incorporated, 1977, 1984.

Hemer, Colin J. The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 49. Edited by Conrad H. Gempf. Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1989.

House, Wayne H. Chronological and Background Charts of the New Testament, Grand Rapids: Academie Books, 1981.

Johnson, Elliott E. Expository Hermeneutics: An Introduction. Grand Rapids: Academie Books, 1990.

Josephus. 9 vols. With an English Translation by H. St. Thackerary, Ralph Marcus, and Louis H. Feldman. Loeb Classical Library. London, 1926-65.

Lolatch, Alfred J. Who’s Who in the Talmud. Middle Village NY: Jonathan David Publishers Inc., 1984.

The Literary Guide to the Bible. Edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987.

Metzger, Bruce M. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968.

________. A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament: A Companion Volume to the United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament. Third edition. United Bible Societies, 1975.

Mishnayoth: Edited by Philip Blackman. Second edition. New York: The Judaica Press, 1963.

Neusner, Jacob. The Mishnah: A New Translation. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988.

New Testament Interpretation: Essays on Principles and Methods. Edited by I. Howard Marshall. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1977.

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. 2 vols. Edited by James H. Charlesworth. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983.

The Oxford Annotated Apocrypha of the Old Testament. Expanded edition containing the Third and Fourth Books of the Maccabees and Psalm 151. Revised Standard Version. Edited by Bruce M. Metzger. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Ramsay, W. M. St Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen. 3rd ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1897. Repr. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1949.

Ryken, Leland. Words of Life: A Literary Introduction to the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1987.

________. The Literature of the Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1974.

________. How to Read The Bible as Literature. Grand Rapids: Academie Books, 1984.

Schürer, Emil. The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ. III.2 vols. Revised and Edited by Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar, and Matthew Black. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark Ltd., 1973.

Strack, Hermann und Paul Billerbeck. Kommentar zun Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch. 6 vols. München: C. H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1922-1928.

Unger, Merrill F. Archaeology and the New Testament: A Companion Volume to Archaeology and the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1962.

Books on Hebrews

Bruce, F. F. The Epistle to the Hebrews. NICNT. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1964.

Calvin John. Commentaries on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews. Translated from the original Latin and edited by John Owen. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1948.

Hughes, Philip Edgcumbe. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1977.

Lane, William L. Call to Commitment: Responding to the Message of Hebrews. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1985.

________. Hebrews 1--8. Word Biblical Commentary 47A. Dallas: Word Books Publisher, 1991.

________. Hebrews 9-13. Word Biblical Commentary 47B. Dallas: Word Books Publisher, 1991.

Moffatt, James A. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. The International Critical Commentary. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1924.

Montefiore, Hugh. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. Black’s New Testament Commentaries. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1964.

Morris, Leon. “Hebrews” in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary vol. 12, pp. 3-158. Edited by Frank E. Gaebelein. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1981

Pfeiffer, Charles F. The Epistle to the Hebrews. EveryMan’s Bible Commentary. Chicago: Moody Press, 1962.

Vanhoye, A. La structure littéraire de l’Epître aux Hébreux. 2nd ed. StudNeot 1. Paris/Bruges: Desclée de Brouwer, 1976.

Westcott, Brooke Foss. The Epistle to the Hebrews. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1892; reprint, Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1980.

Unpublished Materials on Hebrews

Baylis, Charles Passant. “The Author of Hebrews’ Use of Melchizedek from the Context of Genesis.” ThD dissertation. Dallas TX: Dallas Theological Seminary, 1989.

Sartarelli, Paul R. “Theology and Purpose of Warning Passages in Hebrews.” Paper submitted for course 439 Theology of Hebrews. Dallas Theological Seminary, Spring 1984.

Witmer, John A. Class notes of student in 444 History of Philosophy. Dallas Theological Seminary, Spring 1983.