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Studying the characters of the Bible is a great way to learn about God's character and His ways of dealing with us. The following are lists of selected biographical resources covering Old and New Testament Bible personalities. Only collections are listed, not individual character studies. To explore an individual person enter a subject search in the library catalog under the character's biblical name. For example, "Esther." This material is divided by location and topic area then alphabetically, by author or title. For more listings consult the library catalog under the subjects: "Bible--Biography." "Bible.O.T.--Biography," "Apostles," and "Women in the Bible." GENERAL REFERENCE ALL THE MEN OF THE BIBLE; A PORTRAIT GALLERY AND REFERENCE LIBRARY OF MORE THAN 3,000 BIBLICAL CHARACTERS by Herbert Lockyer. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1958. 381p. Ref BS 570 .L6 CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE by John McClintock and James Strong, eds. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1981, c1867-1887. 12 vols. Ref BR 95 .M35 A DICTIONARY OF CHRIST AND THE GOSPELS by James Hastings, ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. 2 Vols. Ref BS 440 .H3 A DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE by James Hastings, ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. 4 Vols. plus extra vol. with indexes. Ref BS 440 .H5 1923 ENCYCLOPAEDIA JUDAICA. Jerusalem: Encyclopaedia Judaica (Keter Publishing House), 1972. 16 vols. plus yearbooks. Ref DS 102 .8 .E496 1972 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION by Mircea Eliade, ed. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1987. 15 vols. Ref BL 31 .E46 1987 EVERYONE IN THE BIBLE by William Pierson Barker. Westwood, NJ: F.H. Revell Co.,
1966. 370 p. Ref
BS 570 .B3 plus Gen. Coll.Copy CT: Seabury Press, 1962. 299 p. Ref BS 570 .A55 THE ILLUSTRATED BIBLE DICTIONARY by J.D. Douglas. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1980. 3 vols. Ref BS 440 .1441980x THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, ed. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1979. 4 Vols. Ref BS 440 .I6 1979 NEW CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1967. 17 vols. Ref BX 841 .W44 1967 THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE by Samuel Macauley Jackson, ed. New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1908. 13 Vols. Ref BR 95 .S43 REVELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIBLE PEOPLE by John Stafford Wright. Old Tappan, NJ:
F.H. Revell Co., 1978. 239p.
Ref BS 570 .W74 1978b
1981. 232 p. Ref BS
570 .W45 1981 HEBREW BIBLE, THE APOCRYPHAL/DEUTERONCANONICAL BOOKS, AND THE NEW
TESTAMENT. Boston:
Houghton-Mifflin, 2000. Ref BS 575 .W593 2000
Rea, eds. Chicago: Moody Press, 1975. 2 vols. Ref BS 440 .W92 ZONDERVAN PICTORIAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BIBLE by Merrill C. Tenney, ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1976. 5 vols. Ref BS 440 .Z63 ENTIRE BIBLE Barker, William Pierson. SAINTS AND SWINGERS; THE UNDER-THIRTIES IN THE BIBLE. Old Tappan, NJ: F.H. Revell Co., 1971. 160 p. BS 571 .B34 Black, James. AN APOLOGY FOR ROGUES. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1929. 295 p. BS 571 .B55 Buechner, Frederick. PECULIAR TREASURES: A BIBLICAL WHO'S WHO. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979. 181 p. BS 571 .B84 1979 Clarke, George Arthur. DECISION AND DESTINY. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Co., 1943. 143 p. BS 571 .C49 Note: These are sermons built around eighteen Bible characters. Dean, Edith. ALL THE BIBLE'S MEN OF HOPE. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. 310 p. BS 571 .D4 Falwell, Jerry. CHAMPIONS OF GOD. Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985. 132 p. BS 571 .F35 1985 Gangel, Kenneth O. LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP FROM THE BIBLE. Winona Lake, IN: BMH Books, 1980. 156 p. BV 652.1 .G362x GREAT PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE AND HOW THEY LIVED. Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest, 1979. 432 p. OVERSIZE BS 571 .G73 1979 Harrington, Wilford J. A CLOUD OF WITNESSES: CREATIVE PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE. Wilmington, DE: M. Glazier, 1988. 185 p. BS 571 .H24 1989 Hastings, James, ed. THE GREATER MEN AND WOMEN OF THE BIBLE. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1913-1916. 6 vols. BS 570 .H3 1913 Havner, Vance, MOMENTS OF DECISION: GUIDELINES FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT CHOICES OF YOUR LIFE. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1979. 127 p. BV 4501.2 .H3683 1985 Lockyer, Herburt. ALL THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF THE BIBLE; TRAGEDIES AND TRIUMPHS OF ROYALTY IN PAST AGES. Grand Rapids, MI; Zondervan Pub. House, 1961. 253 p. BS 579 .K5 L6 Moody, Dwight Lyman. MOODY'S BIBLE CHARACTERS COME ALIVE: WITH MANY DRAMATIC EPISODES. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1997. 282 p. BS 571 .M66 1997 Mosley, Ernest E. LEADERSHIP PROFILES FROM BIBLE PERSONALITIES. Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1979. 130 p. BV 652.1 .L4 Sanders, J. Oswald. JUST LIKE US: 21 CHARACTER STUDIES FROM THE BIBLE. Chicago: Moody Press, 1978. 204 p. BS 571 .S233 1985 Sanders, J. Oswald. ROBUST IN FAITH: MEN FROM GOD'S SCHOOL. Chicago: Moody Press, 1965. 219 p. BS 571 .S23 Stevenson, Herbert F. A GALAXY OF SAINTS: LESSER KNOWN BIBLE MEN AND WOMEN. Westwood, NJ: Revell, 1958. 158 p. BS 571 .S83 OLD TESTAMENT Bellis, Alice Ogden. HELPMATES, HARLOTS, AND HEROES: WOMEN'S STORIES IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994. 281p. BS 575 .B45 1994 Blaikie, William Garden. HEROES OF ISRAEL. Minneapolis, MN: KLock & Klock Christian Publishers, 1981. 480 p. BS 580 .A3 B6 1981x Cumming, John. THE LIVES AND LESSONS OF THE PATRIARCHS, UNFOLDED AND ILLUSTRATED. London: Shaw, 1865. 616 p. BS 573 .C85x Fuchs, Lucy. WOMEN OF DESTINY: WOMEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. New York: Alba House, 2000. BS 575 .F83 2000 Ide, Arthur Frederick. BATTERED & BRUISED: ALL THE WOMEN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. Las Colinas, [TX]: Monument Press, 1993. 460 p. BS 575 .I34 1993 Jeansonne, Sharon Pace. THE WOMEN OF GENESIS: FROM SARAH TO POTIPHAR'S WIFE. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1990. 152 p. BS 1235.6 .W7 J43 1990 Nowell, Irene. WOMEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1997. 208 p. BS 575 .N64 1997 Polich, Laurie. CREATIVE LESSONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT: 12 CHARACTER STUDIES ON SURPRISINGLY MODERN MEN & WOMEN. Grand Rapids: Youth Specialties/Zondervan, 1998. BS 571 .P65 1998 Robinson, George L. LEADERS OF ISRAEL; A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE HEBREWS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DOWNFALL OF JERUSALEM, A.D. 70. New York: Association Press, 1911. 246 p. BS 571 .R45 1911 Rogerson, J. W. CHRONICLE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT KINGS. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1999. BS 579 .K5 R654 199x Swindoll, Charles R. OLD TESTAMENT CHARACTERS: BIBLE STUDY GUIDE. Fullerton, CA: INSIGHT FOR LIVING, 1986. 80 p. BS 571.5 .S94 1986x THE O.T. PROPHETS Blunt, A.W.F. THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1929. 126 p. BS 1505 .B64 Caiger, Stephen Langrish. LIVES OF THE PROPHETS; THE LATER HISTORY OF ISRAEL TOLD IN A SERIES OF BIOGRAPHIES OF THE WRITING PROPHETS. New York: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1936. 307 p. BS 1505 .C35 Church, Brooke Peters. THE PRIVATE LIVES OF THE PROPHETS AND THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY LIVED. New York: Rinehart, 1953. 246 p. BS 1505 .C56 Cook, Henry. THE PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE; THE CANONICAL PROPHETS, WHO THEY WERE AND WHAT THEY SAID. London: Student Christian Movement Press, 1935. 214 p. BS 1505 .L58 Duncan, George B. A PREACHER AMONG THE PROPHETS. Spartanburg, SC: Norm Burleson Books, 1984. 176 p. BS 1505.4 D85 1984 Grabbe, Lester L. PRIESTS, PROPHETS, DIVINERS, SAGES: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL STUDY OF RELIGIOUS SPECIALISTS IN ANCIENT ISRAEL. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press, 1995. 261 p. BS 1199 .K5 G73 1995 Hamilton, Edith. SPOKESMEN FOR GOD: THE GREAT TEACHERS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT New York: W.W. Norton, 1962. 259 p. BS 1505 .H242 Heaton, E.W. THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS. London: Darton, Longman and Todd,
1977. 178 p.
BS 1198 .H4 1977b BS 1505 .H42x Heschel, Abraham Joshua. THE PROPHETS. New York: Harper & Row, 1969-1975. 2 vols. BS 1505.2 .H4 Kock, Klaus. THE PROPHETS. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983. (no page numbering) BS 1198 .K6313 1983 Kraeling, Emil. THE PROPHETS. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1969. 304 p. BS 1198 .K7 Petersen, David L. THE ROLES OF ISRAEL'S PROPHETS. Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1981. 131 p. BS 1505 .2 .P48x Robinson, George L. THE TWELVE MINOR PROPHETS. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1952. 203 p. BS 1560 .R6 Smith, W. Robertson. THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL AND THEIR PLACE IN HISTORY TO THE CLOSE OF THE EIGHTH CENTURY. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1882. 444 p. BS 1505 .S6 1882 Vawter, Bruce. THE CONSCIENCE OF ISRAEL; PRE-EXILIC PROPHETS AND PROPHECY. London: Sheed and Ward, 1973. 308 p. BS 1505.2 .V35 1973 Ward, James Merrill. THE PROPHETS. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1982. 159 p. BS 1505.2 .W37 1982 Williams, Walter G. THE PROPHETS: PIONEERS TO CHRISTIANITY. New York: Abingdon, 1956. 223 p. BS 1505 .W57 Wood, Leon James. THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1979. 405 p. BS 198 .W66 Young, Edward J. MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 1952. 231 p. BS 1198 .Y6 NEW TESTAMENT Brown, Jeannine K. THE DISCIPLES IN NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE: THE PORTRAYAL AND FUNCTION OF THE MATTHEAN DISCIPLES. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002. BS 2440 .B672 2002 Conway, Colleen M. MEN AND WOMEN IN THE FOURTH GOSPEL: GENDER AND JOHANNINE CHARACTERIZATION. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1999. BS 2615.6 .M39 C66 1999 Malbon, Elizabeth Struthers. IN THE COMPANY OF JESUS: CHARACTERS IN MARK'S GOSPEL. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000. BS 2585.6 W65 M35 2000 THE APOSTLES Barclay, William. THE MASTER'S MEN. Naperville, IL: SCM Book Club, 1959. 125 p. BS 2440 .B33 Guthrie, Donald. THE APOSTLES. London: Pickering & Inglis, 1975. 422 p. BS 2618 G87 1975 Hollett, Harry. THE CHOSEN TWELVE PLUS ONE. Portland, OR: Multnomah Press, 1980. 111 p. OVERSIZE TR 680 .H64 Jackson, Myrtle Strode. LIVES AND LEGENDS OF APOSTLES AND EVANGELISTS. London: Religious Tract Society, 1928. 203 p. BS 2440 .J3 Jones, J.D. THE APOSTLES OF CHRIST. Minneapolis, MN: Klock & Klock, 1982. 260 p. BS 2431 .J66 1982x
Lockyer, Herbert. ALL THE APOSTLES OF THE BIBLE; STUDIES IN THE CHARACTERS OF THE APOSTLES, THE MEN JESUS CHOSE, AND THE MESSAGE THEY ROCLAIMED. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1972. 278 p. BS 2440 .L6 Melbourne, Bertram L. SLOW TO UNDERSTAND: THE DISCIPLES IN SYNOPTIC PERSPECTIVE. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988. 206 p. BS 2440 .M45 1988 Milman, Henry Hart. THE CHARACTER AND CONDUCT OF THE APOSTLES CONSIDERED AS AN EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY. Oxford: The University Press for the author, 1827. 363 p. BR 45 .B3 1827 Oursler, Fulton. THE GREATEST FAITH EVER KNOWN; THE STORY OF THE MEN WHO FIRST SPREAD THE RELIGION OF JESUS AND OF THE MOMENTOUS TIMES IN WHICH THEY LIVED. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1953. 383 p. BS 2618 .08 Thomas, W.H. Griffeth. THE APOSTLE JOHN, HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publishing, 1984. 376 p. BS 2455 .T5 1984 Thomas, W.H. Griffeth. THE APOSTLE PETER; HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1984. 304 p. BS 2515 .T47 1984 Thiede, Carsten P. SIMON PETER: FROM GALILEE TO ROME. Grand Rapids, MI: Academic Books, 1988. 272 p. BS 2515 .T42 1988 Underwood, Walter L. THE CONTEMPORARY TWELVE: THE POWER OF CHARACTER IN TODAY'S WORLD. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1984. 126 p. BS 2440 .U53 1984 Vigeveno, H.S. 13 MEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD. Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1986. 154 p. BS 2440 .V46 1986 WOMEN OF THE BIBLE Ashcroft, Mary Ellen. SPIRITED WOMEN: ENCOUNTERING THE FIRST WOMEN BELIEVERS. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 2000. BR 195 .W6 A74 2000 Ashton, S.G. THE MOTHERS OF THE BIBLE, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY REV. A.L. STONE. New York: W.H. Appleton, 1866. 335 p. BS 575 .A8 Bauckham, Richard. GOSPEL WOMEN: STUDIES OF THE NAMED WOMEN IN THE GOSPELS. Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans, 2002. BS 2445 .B38 2002 Bellis, Alice Ogden. HELPMATES, HARLOTS, AND HEROES: WOMEN'S STORIES IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994. 281 p. BS 575 .B45 1994 Berquist, Jon L. RECLAIMING HER STORY: THE WITNESS OF WOMEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 1992. 186 p. BS 575 .B47 1992 Brenner, Athalya. THE ISRAELITE WOMEN: SOCIAL ROLE AND LITERARY TYPE IN BIBLICAL NARRATIVE. Sheffield, Eng.: JSOT. 1985 144 p. BS 680 .W7B73 1985x Carlisle, Thomas John. EVE AND AFTER: OLD TESTAMENT WOMEN IN PORTRAIT. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1984. 139 p. PS 3553 .A73 E8 1984 Caspi, Mishael. STILL WATERS RUN DEEP: FIVE WOMEN OF THE BIBLE SPEAK. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999. BS 575 .C37 1999 Darr, Katheryn Pfisterer. FAR MORE PRECIOUS THAN JEWELS: PERSPECTIVES ON BILBICAL WOMEN. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991. 223 p. BS 575 .D33 1991 Dean,Edith. ALL THE WOMEN OF THE BIBLE. New York: Harper, 1955. 321 p. BS 575 .D4 Field, Faye. WOMEN WHO ENCOUNTERED JESUS. Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1982. 128 p. BS 2445 .F53 1982 Frymer-Kensky, Tikva Simone. READING THE WOMEN OF THE BIBLE. New York: Schocken Books, 2002. BS 575 .F78 2002 Fuchs, Lucy. WOMEN OF DESTINY: WOMEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. New York: Alba House, 2000. BS 575 .F83 2000 Gartner, Rosanne. MEET BATHSHEBA: DRAMATIC PORTRAITS OF BIBLICAL WOMEN. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2000. BS 575 .G37 2000 Getty-Sullivan, Mary Ann. WOMEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2001. BS 2445 .G48 2001 Gill, LaVerne McCain. DAUGHTERS OF DIGNITY: AFRICAN WOMEN IN THE BIBLE AND THE VIRTUES OF BLACK WOMANHOOD. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2000. BS 680 .V56 2000 Huwiler, Elizabeth. BIBLICAL WOMEN: MIRRORS, MODELS, AND METAPHORS. Cleveland, OH: United Church Press, 1993. 158 p. BS 575 .H89 1993 Ide, Arthur Frederick. BATTERED & BRUISED: ALL THE WOMEN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. Las Colinas, [TX]: Monument Press, 1993. 460 p. BS 575 .I34 1993 Jacobs, Joy. THEY WERE WOMEN LIKE ME: WOMEN OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN DEVOTIONS FOR TODAY. Camp Hill, PA: Christian Publications, 1985. 214 p. BV 4811 .J27 1985 Jeansonne, Sharon Pace. THE WOMEN OF GENESIS: FROM SARAH TO POTIPHAR'S WIFE. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990. 152 p. BS 1235.6 .W7 J43 Kuyper, Abraham. WOMEN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1961. 176 p. BS 575 .K855 1961x
WOMEN OF THE BIBLE. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1967. 321 p. Ref BS 575 .L56 1967b Lord, F. Townley. GREAT WOMEN OF THE BIBLE. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939? 207 p. BS 575 .L6 1939x Mackay, W. Mackintosh. BIBLE TYPES OF MODERN WOMEN. New York: Doran, 1920? 328 p. BS 575 .M3 1920x Moltmann-Wendel, Elisabeth. THE WOMEN AROUND JESUS. New York: Crossroad, 1982. 148 p. BS 2445 .M5813x Nowell, Irene. WOMEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1997. 208 p. BS 575 .N64 1997 Pearson, Helen Bruch. DO WHAT YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DO: STUDIES OF SIX NEW TESTAMENT WOMEN. Nashville, TN: Upper Room Books, 1992. 168 p. BS 575 .P37 1992 Reid, Barbara E. CHOOSING THE BETTER PART?: WOMEN IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1996. 245 p. BS 2595.6 .W65 R45 1996 Roddy, Lee. INTIMATE PORTRAITS OF WOMEN IN THE BIBLE. Chappaqua, NY: Christian Herald Books, 1980. 268 p. BS 575 .R63 1980 Spencer, Aida B. BEYOND THE CURSE: WOMEN CALLED TO MINISTRY. Nashville: T. Nelson, 1985. 223 p. BS 680 .W7 S64 1985 Thurston, Bonnie Bowman. WOMEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT: QUESTIONS AND COMMENTARY. New York: Crossroad Publishers, 1998. BS 2545 .W65 T48 1998 TRANSFORMATIVE ENCOUNTERS: JESUS AND WOMEN RE-VIEWED. Leiden: Brill, 2000. BT 590 .W6 T73 2000 Witherington, Ben. WOMEN IN THE EARLIEST CHURCHES. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. 300 p. BR 195 .W6 W58 1988 Wold, Marge. WOMEN OF FAITH AND SPIRIT: PROFILES OF FIFTEEN BIBLICAL WITNESSES. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1987. 143 p. BS 575 .W59 1987
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