Postgraduate Reading List

MA Biblical Studies

a) If you have a primary degree unrelated to Biblical Studies, you will find the following reading list helpful: 

Old Testament:

Coggins, R. Introducing the Old Testament (Oxford, OUP, 1990)

Davies, Ph. In Search of Ancient Israel (JSOT Sup 148); Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1992)

Davies, Ph. Whose Bible Is It Anyway? (JSOT Sup 204); Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995)

Collins, J. A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Fortress Press, 2007)

New Testament:

Raymond E. Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament, Anchor Bible Reference Library (New York: Doubleday, 1997)
 
Horrell, David G An Introduction to the Study of Paul (Edinburgh: T&T Clark 2nd re ed 2006)

Meeks, Wayne A., The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul (New Haven, Yale, 1983)

Rowland, Christopher Christian Origins (London: SPCK new ed 2002)

E. P. Sanders, Paul: A Very Short Introduction, (Oxford, OUP, 2001)
 
Stanton, Graham, The Gospels and Jesus [2nd Ed.], (Oxford, OUP, 2002)

b) If you already have a degree related to Biblical Studies you might want to read the following: 

Old Testament

Barton, John (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
(Cambridge, CUP, 1998);

Barton, J. Reading the Old Testament. Method in Biblical Studies (Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1984)  

Gillingham, Susan E., One Bible, Many Voices. Different Approaches to Biblical Studies (London, SPCK, 1998);

Gunn, David M. & Fewell, Danna Nolan, Narrative in the Hebrew Bible, (Oxford, OUP, 1993);

New Testament

Stephen C. Barton (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels, (Cambridge, CUP, 2006)

Capel Anderson, Janice & Moore, Stephen D. (eds.), Mark and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies, (Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1992)

Dawes, Gregory W (Ed) The Historical Jesus Quest: Landmarks in the search for the Jesus of history (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000)

Dunn, James D. G. (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to St Paul, (Cambridge, CUP, 2003)

Gamble, Harry Y., Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts (New Haven, Yale, 1995)

Young, Frances, M., Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture, (Cambridge, CUP, 1997)