Key Books: Topical Guide to Primary Sources and Major Reference Works

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Use the topical guide to quickly identify the most important primary sources, scholarly study tools, handbooks and reference works in Bible (including languages, culture, history, archaeology), theology, church history, pastoral ministries, christian education, and world missions. This is a highly selective topical guide to some very important theological literature. Of course it doesn't cover everything.

• General theology. Encyclopedias, handbooks, general works that do not fit below.
• Bibles, tools. Bible texts, manuscripts, concordances, lexicons, grammars.
• Archaeology, historical geography, maps of the biblical world.
• Ancient Near East. Primary sources and reference works.
• Ancient Judaism. Primary sources and reference works.
• Ancient Greece/Rome. Primary sources and reference works.
• Commentaries. English language Bible commentaries. Broad theological spectrum.
• Systematic theology. Dogmatics. Major systems of theology and reference works.
• Church history. Surveys of church history and historical theology. Primary sources and reference works.
• Pastoral ministries. Preaching, church administration, counseling. Handbooks and reference works.
• Christian education. Religious education, youth ministries, christian schools.
• World religions. Modern non-Christian religions. Primary sources and reference works.
• Christian Missions, evangelism. Also statistical and reference works.