The Bible

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."

Psalm 119:105

The Bible, still the world's most purchased book annually, is the center of great debate. Just as the person of Christ the living Word stirs emotional and scholarly dispute, the written Word provokes volume after volume describing varying views of its nature.

Textual Criticism

Click here for a link to Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts, a site discussing this process.

The Devotional Use of the Bible:

Click here to find a site that can be helpful in finding some answers to what the Bible says about life's various questions, as provided by Logos Research Systems. Type your topic you want to search in the window on that page, and find some study resources.

The Bible's words on understanding its writings:

Our sidebar features a link to an online multilingual Bible. You may use it to display Scripture passages, and search to find where specific words are found in the Bible itself.

A link to a website that gives summaries of each of the Bible's 66 books, as well as features an overview of the Old Testament and New Testament, may be found at Biblenotes by clicking on their link below:

A selected bibliography of resources to study on the topic of the Bible:

Bible Study Principles

Protestant Biblical Interpretation (B. Ramm)
Independent Bible Study (I. Jensen)
How to Study the Bible for All It's Worth (G. Fee and D. Stuart)
Jensen's Bible Study Charts (I. Jensen)
The Interpretation of Prophecy (P. Tan)
Figures of Speech Used in the Bible (E. W. Bullinger)
Biblical Fallacies (D. A. Carson)

On the Entire Bible

Talk Through the Bible (Wilkinson and Boa)
Unger's Bible Dictionary
The Expositors Bible Commentary, Volume I (F. Gaebelein, Editor)

Old Testament

A Survey of Isreal's History (L. Wood)
A Survey of Old Testament Introduction (G. Archer)
The Prophets of Israel (L. Wood)

New Testament

The New Testament (J.G. Machen)
Jensen's Survey of the New Testament (I. Jensen)
The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (C. Keener)
New Testament Survey (R. Gromacki)
A Guide to the Gospels (W. G. Scroggie)

"Higher" Criticism

The Text of the Old Testament (P. Wurthwein)
The Quest for the Original Text of the New Testament (P. Comfort)
The Text of the New Testament (B. Metzger)
Encountering New Testament Manuscripts (J. Finnegan)
The Books and the Parchments (F. F. Bruce)
The King James Only Controversy (J. White)

Compiled by Douglas Johnston, 2001