& Secondary Non-Scriptural Resources

                   
 

     Hebrew-English Tanakh

If you really study Bible you do or will come to realize this, and will never be satisfied with just the vernacular. The English (our vernacular language) is just an attempt to convey the meaning of the Hebrew. So it makes sense to have both, side by side.    

       Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English...   by Francis Brown

A trio of eminent Old Testament scholars-Francis Brown, R. Driver, and Charles Briggs-spent over twenty years researching, writing, and preparing The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon. Since it first appeared in the early part of the twentieth century, BDB has been considered the finest... 

        The Englishman's Hebrew Concordance of...  by George Wigram    

This new edition of the standard work The Englishman's Hebrew Concordance of the Old Testament is an improved and corrected edition that features a new, larger format. Now coded to Strong's, it is invaluable in Bible study for those who do not know Hebrew. A new index of out-of-sequence Strong's... 

    The Original KJV African Heritage Study Bible :
              Dr. Cain Hope Felder

Holy Bible: King James Version: African American Jubilee Edition
American Bible Society

              Original African Heritage Study Bible: Genuine Leather
            World Bible Publishing

         Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar   by Page H. Kelley

Comprehensive in scope, this carefully-crafted introductory grammar of biblical Hebrew offers easy-to-understand explanations, numerous biblical illustrations, and a wide range of imaginative, biblically-based exercises.   

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       Introducing Biblical Hebrew    by Allen P. Ross (Hardcover - December 2001)
This first-year grammar has grown out of the author's experience in teaching Hebrew to seminary students for over thirty years. Through those many years of classroom use, Dr. Ross has developed and refined his explanations, exercises, and examples to provide students with an effective introduction.  

        Ben-Yehuda's Pocket English-Hebrew...           

Ben-Yehuda's Pocket Dictionary-  Hebrew-English, English-Hebrew.  Recommended for Hebrew Language students.

       501 Hebrew Verbs        

501 Hebrew Verbs fully conjugated in all tenses in a new easy-to-follow format alphabetically arranged by root.

Reader's Hebrew-English Lexicon of the...  by Terry A. Armstrong (Hardcover) 

This book enables the pastor and the student to read the Hebrew Old Testament with relative ease. Appendixes list all Hebrew words occurring more than fifty times in the Old Testament and all Aramaic words occurring more than ten times.  

         The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance...  by James Strong (Editor), Thomas Nelson (Hardcover - February 1997)

The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible is nothing short of exhaustive. Weighing in at nearly six pounds, this research tool is the revised edition of the legendary classic that generations have come to depend on for biblical research. Nothing has been omitted from the original text. 

        Old Testament Parsing Guide: Revised and...   by Todd S. Beall   

There are many Old Testament Hebrew translation guides available today, yet none offer the same accuracy, user-friendliness, or affordable price as the single volume Old Testament Parsing Guide. This new edition of Old Testament Parsing Guide seeks to offer help to Hebrew students...

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       Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew...  by Larry A. Mitchel

This guide provides a vocabulary list of Hebrew and Aramaic words for students of the Old Testament language. Lists are based on frequency. Includes pronunciation guide. 

Basics of Biblical Hebrew Workbook  by Gary D. Pratico

 This workbook is designed to accompany the Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar, creating a complete course for learning biblical Hebrew. 

        A Short Grammar of Biblical Aramaic...  by Alger F. Johns   

This standard grammar book of biblical Aramaic, used by students at many seminaries and universities, is the only one to include graded exercises at the close of each of its twenty lessons.  

       The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary

In addition to idioms and phrases, slang and colloquialisms, this dictionary offers comprehensive coverage of technical, scientific, legal, medical, and academic terminology.

              The New Oxford Annotated NRSV Bible with the Apocrypha, Third Edition
                        Michael D. Coogan

             The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible: With Main Concordance,  Appendix to the Main Concordance, Topical Index to the Bible, Dictionar
James Strong

Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth
Burton L. MacK; Paperback; Buy New: $12.57

In this groundbreaking and controversial book, Burton Mack brilliantly exposes how the Gospels are fictional mythologies created by different communities for various purposes and are only distantly related to the actual historical Jesus. Mack's innovative scholarship'which boldly challenges traditional Christian understanding'will change the way you approach the New Testament and think about how Christianity arose.

The Jewish Book of Why?
Alfred J. Kolatch; Paperback; Buy New: $10.40

Kolatch writes lucidly and knowingly, explaining the biblical, traditional and superstitious sources of thousands of questions pertaining to Judaism; the comprehensive index is expertly organized.

The Second Jewish Book of Why
Alfred J. Kolatch; Hardcover; Buy New: $21.95

You Take Jesus, I'll Take God: How to Refute Christian Missionaries
Samuel Levine; Paperback; Buy New: $6.95The tone of the book is set early on, Levine isn't too concerned about whether he offends the proponents of Christianity. He is quite blunt with regards to some of the points that he makes, however he assures the reader that he is not out to attack Christianity but instead is out to combat the menace of Missionary Christianity

The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read
Tim C. Leedom; Paperback; Buy New: $20.00

The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Acharya S; Paperback; Buy New: $11.87

Controversial and explosive, The Christ Conspiracy marshals an enormous amount of startling evidence that the religion of Christianity and Jesus Christ were created by members of various secret societies, mystery schools and religions in order to unify the Roman Empire under one state religion!

The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?
Timothy Freke; Paperback; Buy New: $11.20

The authors postulate that Christianity as we know it, regardless of the teachings of its founder, ultimately distilled and usurped the greatest wisdom inherent in pagan traditions. Specifically, they charge that Christianity looted the traditions of the Osiris/Dionysus cultsAborrowing, synthesizing and domesticating what was most sacred to Greco-Roman civilization.

Gospel Fictions
Randel Helms; Paperback; Buy New: $15.40

This book will disturb those (like myself) who assumed that the Gospels were substantially historical, with minor differences of fact and emphasis. Helms paints a compelling picture of the exact opposite: almost none of the parables happened in fact, many stories were borrowed from the Old Testament, and the authors had little interest in leaving any record of facts.

History of the First Council of Nice: A World's Christian Convention A.D. 325 With a Life of Constantine
Dean Dudley; Paperback; Buy New: $9.95

Great dissensions had arisen in the church of Egypt about the nature of Christ, and the time to celebrate Easter, by which Constantine was much troubled. He therefore ordered a convention to be held at Nicea in Bithynia, to which bishops were invited from all parts of the world.

When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome
Richard E. Rubenstein; Paperback; Buy New: $11.20

The Gospel narratives may suggest that Jesus was divine, but they do not insist upon it. Hundreds of years after Jesus' death, the Church councils made Jesus' divinity a central tenet of belief among many of his followers. When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome by Richard Rubenstein is a narrative history of Christians' early efforts to define Christianity by convening councils and writing creeds.

Jesus-God or the Son of God? A Comparison of the Arguments
Brian Holt; Paperback; Buy New: $19.99

Jesus-God or the Son of God? is an analysis of the most common arguments used to both prove and disprove the notion that Jesus is God. Beginning with the book of Matthew and continuing through Revelation, it tallies and discusses every scripture that implies Jesus is God and every scripture that implies he is not. Not to be left out of the discussion is a comparison of the arguments from the Hebrew scriptures.