I was recently asked if I had a list of books to help those to learn Hebrew, Greek, and perhaps start to delve into the Bible and the patristics. I had some free time this afternoon, so here is a listing. It is not comprehensive, but I do believe if one were to pursue some, if not all of these volumes, it will greatly aid one's study of the Bible and other texts.
Introduction to Hebrew:
Thomas O. Lambdin, Introduction
to Biblical Hebrew
J. Weingreen, A
Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew, 2nd Edition
Bruce K. Walte and M. O'Connor, An
Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
Introduction to Greek:
Jeremy Duff, The
Elements of New Testament Greek 3rd Edition
Intermediary level:
Hebrew:
Paul Joūon and T. Muraoka, A
Grammar of Biblical Hebrew
Greek:
Daniel B. Wallace, Greek
Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament
Lexicons (note: many of these can
be purchased on Logos and other software programs cheaper than the ‘print’
editions):
Hebrew:
Hebrew-Aramaic Lexicon of the Old
Testament (HALOT) (for an abbreviated 1-vol ed., see A
Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament: Based upon the Lexical
Work of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner)
Theological Dictionary of the Old
Testament (16 vols.)
Harris, Archer, and Waltke, ed.
Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, 2 vols.
Ernest Jenni and Claus
Westermann, Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament, 3 vols.
Greek:
Lous and Nida, Greek-English
Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains, second edition
A Greek-English Lexicon of the
New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. ("BDAG")
Kittel, Theological Dictionary of
the New Testament, 10 vols. (“TDNT”)
Ceslas Spicq, Theological Lexicon
of the New Testament, 3 vols.
Introductions to Scripture
Old Testament:
Michael D. Coogan, A Brief
Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in Its Context
Lawrence Boadt, Reading the Old
Testament: An Introduction, 2nd ed.
Kent P. Jackson, ed. A Bible
Reader's History of the Ancient world
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Dana
M. Pike, and David Rolph Seely, Jehovah and the World of the Old Testament
New Testament:
Bart D. Ehrman, A Brief
Introduction to the New Testament
Raymond E. Brown, An Introduction
to the New Testament
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Eric
D. Huntsman, and Thomas A. Wayment, Jesus Christ and the World of the New
Testament: A Latter-Day Saint Perspective
Apocrypha and other intertestamental
literature/non-canonical literature:
Charlesworth, ed. The Old
Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 vols.
Bart D. Ehrman and Zlatko Pleše,
The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations
Bruce Metzger, An Introduction to
the Apocrypha
C. Wilfred Griggs, ed. Apocryphal
Writings and the Latter-day Saints
Jared W. Ludlow, Exploring the
Apocrypha from a Latter-day Saint Perspective
Introduction to Patristics
Andrew Louth and Maxwell
Staniforth, Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers
J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian
Doctrines: Revised Edition
David W. Bercot. ed. A Dictionary
of Early Christian Beliefs: A Reference Guide to More Than 700 Topics Discussed
by the Early Church Fathers