RESOURCES 

Full report: Navigating the world of biblical scholarship: A visual guide to choosing the right commentary

1. Genesis 1–15 by G.J. Wenham (1987)

2. The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1-17 (New International Commentary on the Old Testament) by Victor Hamilton (2010)

3. Genesis 1-11 (The New American Commentary) by Kenneth Mathews (1996)

4. Genesis: A Commentary by Bruce K. Waltke (2016)

5. Genesis (JPS Torah Commentary) by Nahum Sarna (2001)

6. Genesis by Claus Westermann (2004)

• Genesis by Walter Brueggemann (1982) 

• The Book of J by Harold Bloom

• The Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye

• The Lost Art of Scripture and A History of God by Karen Armstrong

• Adam, Eve & The Serpent by Elaine Pagels

• The Sabbath: Its Meaning For Modern Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel

• "Logos" entry from the Dictionary of Untranslatables 

• Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels

• The Parallel Study Bible (NKJV)

• Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons and Their Meaning

• Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus by Mark A. Chancey

• Introduction to Second Temple Judaism

• The New Oxford Annotated Bible (NRSV) 5th Edit. (2018)

• Lectio Divina: Contemplative Awakening and Awareness by Christine Valters-Paintner

• Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy by John Shelby Spong

• The Gnostic Bible

• The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church's Conservative Icon by Marcus Borg & John Dominic Crossan

• Paul and Palestinian Judaism by E.P. Sanders

• Paul: A Biography by N.T. Wright

• Jacob and the Night of Faith: Analogia Spiritus by Greg Gorsuch