Theology, Christian Ministries, and Philosophy: Exegesis

Browse our Reference section or the corresponding call numbers on the Lower Level of Ryan Library:

• 220 Bible
  • Bible Concordances 220.2
  • Bible Dictionaries 220.3
  • Bibles 220.52
  • Bible Interpretation and Criticism; Exegesis 220.6
  • Bible Commentaries 220.7
• 221 Old Testament
• 225 New Testament

See a longer list of Dewey Call numbers in the 200 range on the Books tab of this guide. Notices books on the historical setting of the New Testament will be in several places. For example, Bible dictionaries are on the New Testament are kept both in the 220.3 area with Bible dictionaries and the 225 area for books on the New Testament.

The Bible commentary series listed below are available in ebook format through Ryan Library. Not all volumes in each series is available as an ebook.

• Academia Biblica (Society of Biblical Literature)
• Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries Series
• Anchor Yale Bible Commentary Series (Yale University Press)
• Genesis to Revelation Series (Abingdon Press)
• New Testament Readings (Routledge)
• Black's New Testament Commentaries (Adam & Charles Black)
• Swindoll's living insights New Testament Commentary Series (Tyndale House Publishers)
• Septuagint commentary series (Brill)
• Blackwell Bible Commentaries (Wiley-Blackwell)
• New Testament Library (Westminster John Knox Press): 140 volumes are available in the ebook format in this series
• Reformation Commentary on Scripture ( InterVarsity Press)

Commentaries are published in series with each volume written by a different author over a number of years. Each commentary series approaches the biblical text from a unique standpoint. You can browse both the Library's Reference Area and the Lower Level for books in the 220.7 call number range, which is where our commentaries are kept. Some of our commentaries are shelved in the Old Testament section, which is 221, or the New Testament section, which is 225. The bibliographies in commentaries are worth using to find more sources on your topic. 

The list below highlights a few commentary series with different perspectives:

InterVarsity Press Commentaries: Evangelical (available online at https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/ivp-nt/toc/)

Anchor Bible Commentary: Ecumenical (includes Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish scholars from many countries) (220.7 B582a)

Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament: Evangelical (220.7 B167e)

New Beacon Bible Commentary: Nazarene/Wesleyan and Methodist (220.7 B366)

Hermeneia: Critical and historical commentary on the Bible ( 220.7 H553)

New International Greek Testament Commentary: Evangelical (225.48 N532i)

New Interpreter's Bible (NIB): Ecumenical, published by Abingdon a United Methodist group (220.7 I613n; available both on Lower Level and in the Reference area)

Pillar New Testament Commentary: Evangelical (220.7 P641)

Word Bible Commentary: Evangelical (220.7 W924b)