Use the Woodruff catalog 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 the Woodruff catalog and examine results. There are thousands of subjects but here is a list of common ones and how they are "formed." Note the N T and O T and quotation marks.
Patterns to follow:
If you find a book in the Woodruff Catalog that you'd like to borrow, make a note of the call number and the floor where the book is located, and browse around the area for other resources on the same subject
WorldCat is a database of all the materials owned by libraries all over the country. If the Woodruff Library does not carry the book or article you need, you can use WorldCat to see if another library in the area has it.
If using WorldCat off campus, use this link: WorldCat Through this interface, youwill be able to link directly to Woodruff's interlibrary loan service and it will populate the book/article informatin for you.
Note: You can request an Interlibrary Loan directly from worldcat. Just click on Send Request to ILLIAD and log into your Interlibrary Loan account to request it.
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 the Woodruff catalog 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.