Basic Books for Bible study
A more complete list is at
Theologue.
Basic
- English Standard Version (ESV) for study. [website]
- New International Version (NIV) for reading and comparison with
the ESV. [website]
- Basic Christianity, John R. W. Stott
- The Crossway Comprehensive Concordance to the Holy Bible (ESV)
or The Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (KJV)
More Advanced
- Today's Parallel Bible (KJV, NASB, NLT, NIV)
or The Essential Evangelical Parallel Bible (NKJV, ESV, NLT, The
Message)
or The New Hendrickson Parallel Bible (KJV, NKJV, NIV, NLT)
- New Bible Commentary, IVP
- New Bible Dictionary, IVP
- Vines Expository Dictionary Of OT And NT Words, W. E. Vine
or Mounce's Expository Dictionary of OT and NT Words. Bill Mounce
- Knowing Scripture, R. C. Sproul
- An Introduction to the New Testament, Carson and Moo
- An Introduction to the Old Testament, Longman and Dillard
Software
- e-Sword: A free software program with a basic set of
Bible Study Tools. See www.e-sword.net to download the basic program and
review the free add-ins. [website]
or WORDsearch 9: An even better study tool (commercial).
[website]
Study Bible
Study Bibles are not for general reading (use a reference Bible for that)
because you may get confused between what the Bible says and what the human
author of the study note says. That said, a good study Bible is useful
for Bible study when used as a commentary. Recommended study Bibles are:
