Option 1Old Testament Class: RPH110 September 7th , 2006, 8 a.m.
Option 1Analyze an Old Testament book or passage not covered in class. Nothing before 1960, preferably after 1980. Use at least three of the following books for your print resources.
Anchor Bible Dictionary: Reference BS 440.A54
1992 Volumes 1-6
Harper's Bible Commentary: Reference BS 491.2
.H37 1988.
Harper's Dictionary of the Bible: Reference,
BS440.H237 1985
Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary: REF BS 491.2
.I57
Jerome and/or New Jerome Bible Commentaries:
Reference, BS 491.2.N485 1990
Westminster Old Testament Commentary: Stacks,
There are 35 of these books. Do a “word or phrase” search for:
“Westminster and Commentary” in The Mabee-Simpson Library Catalog.
Word Biblical Commentary:
Stacks. Do a “series”
search in The Mabee Simpson library Catalog for “Word Biblical
Commentary. There are 4 of these.
Anchor Bible
Series: Reference and
stacks. Do a series search in The Mabee-Simpson Library Catalog for
Anchor Bible. There are 58 of these titles. The entire set is in the Reference
section. There is also a set scattered in the stacks that you can check out.
Hermeneia Bible Commentary
Series:
stacks, There are 20 of these and
they can be found by using the “Series” search in The Mabee-Simpson Library
Catalog and typing in “Hermeneia.”
Option 2Analyze one of these 4 books which are on reserve at the front desk. They have a 3 day checkout.
Jezebel: Portraits of a
Queen by Patricia Dutcher-Walls
King Saul’s Asking by
Barbara Green, O.P.
Nameless, Blameless,
and Without Shame by Gina Hens-Piazza
Tell It on the Mountain
by Barbara Miller (This has been ordered and should be in soon.)
If you can’t get these books, you can order them from our interlibrary loan department. Go to: library.lyon.edu/books, videos, and DVD’s/ Worldcat.
When you type in the title in WorldCat, you’ll see a link that says: See more details for locating this item, or Borrow This Item From Another Library. Click on this link and follow it to a form. Complete the info and submit it. Ill’s take from 3 to 7 days to arrive and we will email or call you when they come in. Then you can come and pick them up at the front desk for a small charge of .50 cents. They usually loan for a month.
The Mabee-Simpson
Library Catalog at: http://library.lyon.edu/Books,Video’s, DVD’s/
Netlibrary books at:
http://library.lyon.edu/Books, Video’s, DVD’s/
Oxford Reference
Collection at: http://library.lyon.edu, look in right column, click on
reference.
For those of you off-campus, always login through Citrix to get to theses databases. Otherwise they’ll ask you for a password and there aren’t any. The databases work with IP recognition and they are looking for the college server’s IP, not your personal computer.
The ones you’ll use the most are located at: library.lyon.edu/journal articles/ They are:
Also look here: library.lyon.edu/topic searches/religion/philosophy/
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials: ATLAS
(1949 or back into the nineteenth century, citations and full-text)
Religion
More info
Biblical Archeological Review (BAS Online Archive) (Mar 1975-Dec 2003, full
text)
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
More info
PDF
full text
HTML full text
Full Text Electronic or Paper?
Find out if we have the journal title in either format at: library.lyon.edu/journal articles/ Full-text electronic or paper journals/
Click on the link, fill in the box with a title and see what we have in either form. Follow the links to the databases that have your title. And be sure to check out the paper copy and see what dates we have.
Still confused? Call me at: (870)698-4267 Camille Beary
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