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Use LibrarySearch to explore critical schools of Bible scholarship. Use a keyword approach as much as possible.
Overview:
Guides to Biblical Scholarship series
Examples of critical schools:
Common topics for critical schools:
Use keywords in LibrarySearch and look at your results. There are thousands of subjects but here are some common ones and how they are "formed." Note the N T and O T and quotation marks.
Patterns to follow:
To find books about specific parts of the Bible, use the following format for a subject search
For Old Testament books:
Bible O.T. [Name of Book] -- Commentaries
Bible O.T. [Name of Book] -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
For New Testament books:
Bible N. T. [Name of Book] -- Commentaries
Bible N. T. [Name of Book] -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Here are the three main patterns for searching the catalog by subject:
[name of book] AND commentaries
[name of book] AND criticism
[name of book] AND theology
Genesis AND theology
Pentateuch AND commentaries
Gospels AND commentaries
John AND commentaries
John AND criticism
John AND theology
Use LibrarySearch to locate books on texts, passages and sections of the Bible. Be sure to use commentaries to review critical approaches to texts.
Critical treatments of Bible texts:
Note also that you can combine subjects with criticism interpretation” in keyword searches.