> THEO 3210 Four Gospels and One Jesus

The tools listed below are listed also under "Works of reference on quotation, allusion, intertextuality, and so forth" on p. _ of the handout Basic English-Bible Reference.  All of the exemplary screenshots are taken at the Gospel of John, chap. 1.

• The less specialized tools rightly prioritized by Dr. Nienhuis:

• • Study Bibles.  Key study Bibles are to be found at (REF) BS191.5 (or thereabouts).

• • Old Testament quotations in the New Testament, Online and at REF BS287 .B54 1987.

• • Commentary on the New Testament use of the Old Testament, Online and at REF BS511.3 .C653 2007.

• The more specialized tools added by Mr. Perisho (entirely optional, though those who don't read the languages can usually still make out (and therefore make use of) the cross-references):

• • Septuagintazitate im NT (down temporarily?).

• • NA²⁸ (2012) and its Appendix III (“Loci citati vel allegati"), pp. 836 ff., REF BS1965 2012.  “lists quotations from and allusions to the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, and non-Christian Greek writers”  by OT, Apocryphal, and non-Christian Greek book. . . . Direct quotations are represented by italics, and allusions by normal type” (87*).

• • Hübner, Vetus Testamentum in Novo,
    • Bd. 1/2, Evangelium secundum Iohannem, REF BS2387 .V48 1997 v.1 pt.2.  The edition of Vetus Testamentum in Novo edited by Hübner is in the process of superceding Dittmar (below), but remains at present incomplete.

• • Dittmar, Vetus Testamentum in Novo:  die Alttestamenlichen Parallelen des Neuen Testaments im Wortlaut der Urtexte und der Septuaginta (1899-1903),
    • 1. Hälfte, Evangelien und Apostelgeschichte.  Under replacement by Hübner (above).

Though Dr. Nienhuis doesn't stress this aspect of the assignment, I insert a placeholder for it here.  For the time being, though, I do no more than simply flag once again, in addition to the scholarship (commentaries, monographs, and articles),

• the Bible dictionaries and encyclopedias, including dictionaries and encyclopedias of
• New and Old Testament background,
• Second-Temple Judaism, and
• Greco-Roman history and culture (Ancient Near Eastern, too),
• Bible background commentaries like those listed on p. _ of the handout Basic English-Bible Reference,
• histories of the New (and Old) Testament, and so forth.  For more, see under II.5 Answer Questions (Concepts).

I hope to add additional such tools as they come to mind, for example (as above),

• NA²⁸ (2012) and its Appendix III (“Loci citati vel allegati"), pp. 836 ff., REF BS1965 2012.  “lists quotations from and allusions to the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, and non-Christian Greek writers”  by OT, Apocryphal, and non-Christian Greek book. . . . Direct quotations are represented by italics, and allusions by normal type” (87*).

(Collections of) ancient texts relevant to the study of the New Testament are too numerous to list.  Here I give just a few.  Of these, the first is an extremely useful handbook: