Contributors -- Abbreviations -- TEXT - VERSIONS -- Text of the OT - Masorah ★ Targums -- Greek (OT) -- Greek (NT) -- Coptic - Syriac - Latin - Arabic -- Modern Translations: general ★ English ★ German ★ Afrikaans ★ French - Italian - Chinese -- THEOLOGICAL AND EXEGETICAL APPROACHES -- Theological Foundations -- Inspiration - authority ★ canon: OT - NT -- Hermeneutics - Methods -- Biblical interpretation in general - hermeneutics and methodology in general -- Historical-critical methods ★ orality -- Sociology - anthropology - postcolonial exegesis -- Narratology - narrative criticism -- Rhetoric - intertextuality -- Reader-response theory - feminist/womanist exegesis -- Canonical exegesis -- Literary genres: general - historiography - hymn - juridical dialogue/forensic speech - myth - pseudepigraphy - visionary prophecy - wasf -- Stylistic devices: general - dialogue - ellipsis - enthymeme - parallelism - polemics - progression - topos ★ miscellaneous -- OLD TESTAMENT EXEGESIS -- Bible as a Whole -- Digital Media: internet - software ★ audiobooks -- Old Testament in general -- Pentateuch and historical books -- Pentateuch: general ★ Yahwist - Priestly Code ★ Deuteronomists -- Genesis: general ★ Primeval History (Gen 1-11) ★ patriarchs (Gen 12-50) ★ Tale of Joseph (Gen 37-50) -- Exodus: general ★ individual passages -- Leviticus ★ Numbers -- Deuteronomy: general ★ individual passages -- Joshua -- Judges -- Ruth -- Samuel: general ★ 1 Samuel ★ 2 Samuel -- Kings: general - 1 Kings ★ 2 Kings -- Chronicles: general ★ 1 Chronicles - 2 Chronicles -- Ezra/Nehemiah: Ezra -- Tobit ★ Judith ★ Esther ★ 1/2 Maccabees - 2 Maccabees -- Prophets -- General -- Isaiah: general ★ Isaiah I ★ Isaiah II ★ Isaiah III -- Jeremiah: general ★ individual passages -- Lamentations -- Ezekiel: general ★ individual passages -- Daniel: general ★ individual passages.

Minor Prophets general -- Hosea - Joel -- Amos -- Jonah ★ Micah -- Nahum ★ Habakkuk -- Haggai - Zechariah - Malachi -- Psalms -- General -- Individual Psalms -- Wisdom literature -- General -- Job: general ★ individual passages -- Proverbs -- Koheleth: general ★ individual passages -- Song of Songs: general ★ individual passages -- Wisdom of Solomon ★ Jesus Sirach (Ben Sira) -- NEW TESTAMENT EXEGESIS -- Introduction - General -- Gospels and Acts of the Apostles -- Gospels: general ★ synoptic problem -- Sayings Source ("Q") -- Parallel passages -- Matthew: general ★ individual passages -- Mark: general ★ individual passages -- Luke: general ★ individual passages -- John: general ★ individual passages -- Luke-Acts general ★ Acts: general ★ individual passages -- Letters and Book of Revelation -- Pauline letters in general -- Romans: general ★ individual passages -- 1/2 Corinthians general - 1 Corinthians: general ★ individual passages -- 2 Corinthians -- Galatians: general - individual passages -- Ephesians ★ Colossians ★ Philippians -- 1/2 Thessalonians: general - 1 Thessalonians -- Pastoral Epistles: general ★ 1/2 Timothy - Titus -- Hebrews: general ★ individual passages -- James ★ 1 Peter - 2 Peter ★ 1 John ★ Jude -- Revelation: general ★ individual passages -- EXTRABIBLICAL SOURCES -- Inscriptions -- General -- Hebrew -- Aramaic -- Akkadian - Ugaritic - Phoenician - Philistine - Egyptian - Moabite - Ammonite - Greek -- Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha -- Old Testament: general ★ ApocBar - ApocMoses - 3 Bar - 1 Enoch - 2 Enoch - 4 Ezra - JosAs - Jub - Live of Adam and Eve - OdSol - PsSol - Test Abr - Test XII -- New Testament: general ★ Secret Mark - GHebr - GPetr ★ GThom ★ Gospel of the Savior - Unknown Berlin Gospel - Didache ★ Acts Andrew - Book of the Cock.

Qumran/Dead Sea Scrolls: general ★ individual subjects ★ texts from cave 1 ★ cave 4 ★ cave 6 - cave 7 - CD ★ Qumran and the New Testament -- Jewish authors -- Philo - Ps Philo - Aristeas -- Josephus -- Rabbinical literature -- PHILOLOGY -- General ★ Hebrew: general ★ lexicography ★ names -- Hebrew: noun - syntax ★ verb - tenses -- Ugaritic - Aramaic ★ Greek -- CIVILIZATIONS OF THE BIBLICAL WORLD -- General ★ Mesopotamia: general ★ history - religion ★ texts -- Egypt: general - history - religion ★ texts -- Persians ★ Amorites - Urartu - Hittites ★ Ugarit - Syria - Canaanites - Philistines -- Greco-Roman civilization: general - individual aspects ★ religion ★ texts -- ARCHAEOLOGY AND TOPOGRAPHY -- Biblical Archaeology: general ★ historical periods -- Sites in Palestine (alphabetically) -- Jerusalem - temple -- Sites outside of Palestine - holy places -- REALIA -- Iconography -- Architecture -- Seals - amulets ★ figurines ★ coins -- Objects: ceramic - clay ★ wood - bones -- Animals - plants - food -- Social institutions -- General ★ family - marriage - women - men - children -- Sexuality - rape ★ illness - funeral - mourning -- Kingship - administration - warfare -- Household - slavery ★ economy - consumption -- Legal institutions ★ education -- Science: zoology - astronomy - calendar - chronology -- Religious institutions -- Temple - priesthood - purity -- Cult - ritual acts: sacrifice - oracle - prayer - lament - fasting - circumcision -- Festivals - Day of Atonement - magic - dreams -- Religion - celibacy - idolatry - holy war -- Early Christianity: baptism - eucharist - community - preaching - sabbath/sunday - mission - ordination - office -- BIBLICAL PERSONS -- Persons: general ★ alphabetically -- Jesus: comprehensive studies ★ particular aspects -- Paul -- HISTORY OF ISRAEL -- General - Problems of historiography -- Premonarchical period.

Period of the monarchy -- Babylonian exile ★ Persian period ★ Hellenistic and Roman periods until Bar Kokhba -- JUDAISM - EARLY CHRISTIANITY - GNOSTICISM - ISLAM -- Judaism -- General -- Pharisees - Samaritans -- Jewish-Christian controversies -- Early Christianity -- General - history - texts - theology ★ life -- Gnosticism - Islam -- Gnosticism ★ Islam -- BIBLICAL THEOLOGY -- Both Testaments -- General -- God ★ creation - spirit -- Anthropology - ethics -- Eschatology - apocalypticism - life after death - resurrection - hell -- Relationship between OT and NT -- Miscellaneous -- Old Testament -- General -- God/goddess - monotheism - angels ★ prohibition of images -- Ethics - war - tolerance -- Miscellaneous -- New Testament -- General -- God - Christology - resurrection -- Eschatology - soteriology ★ ethics - ecclesiology - pneumatology -- Miscellaneous -- Pauline theology -- General -- Law - justification - righteousness -- Christology - soteriology - eschatology - ethics -- Miscellaneous -- Johannine theology -- CONCEPTS AND SYMBOLS -- English terms: brother - circumcision of the heart - evil - fear not - grace - history of salvation - kingdom of God - law - lie - likeness - little ones - messiah - names - others - paradise - punishment - sleep - solidarity - Son of Man - sow/plow/reap - space - stranger - wisdom - wrath of God - violence - zeal -- Hebrew and Aramaic words: abba - âdâm - ahârît - dumâ - häsäd - yom YHWH - lwytn/nhštn - sâlah - sârîs - 'äbäd - qôl - qäšät - še'ôl - šo'â - šem -- Greek words: aparchē - apokaradokia - theios anēr - therapeuō - mathētēs - mystērion - onoma - pistis Christou -- Symbols: the Crucified - high mountain - Jerusalem - virginal conception -- Metaphors: general - daughter of Zion - parental love -- BIBLE IN THEOLOGY AND LIFE OF CHURCH -- Systematic theology -- Life of the church -- HISTORY OF EXEGESIS.

General ★ patristic literature: general ★ authors (alphabetically) -- Jewish Exegesis -- Middle Ages -- Modern Times: 16th century ★ 17th-20th centuries -- Contemporary scholars - bibliographies (alphabetically) -- Meetings - research projects -- BIBLE IN ART, LITERATURE, FILM AND MUSIC -- Literature -- Theater - film - music -- Art: medieval ★ modern -- HISTORY OF RELIGIONS -- General ★ cultural history ★ nonchristian religions -- Christianity -- General ★ Antiquity -- Middle Ages -- Modern Times: 16th-19th centuries -- Twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Index of Authors -- Index of Reviews.