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Finding Biblical Commentaries

This guide identifies commentaries that cover the entire Bible (several of which include coverage of deutero-canonical/apocryphal books) and shows you how to locate commentaries on individual books of the Bible in the library catalog..

One Volume Commentaries

New Collegeville Bible Commentary by Daniel Durken
Call Number: Pius Reference BS491.3 .N493 2017 LIB use only
ISBN: 9780814646595
Publication Date: 2017
Women's Bible Commentary by Women's Bible commentary [electronic resource] / Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley, editors.
Call Number: Pius Reference BS491.3 .W66 2012 LIB use only
ISBN: 9780664237073
Publication Date: 2012
The Paulist Biblical Commentary by José Enrique Aguilar Chiu (Editor); Richard J. Clifford (Editor); Carol J. Dempsey (Editor); Eileen M. Schuller (Editor); Thomas D. Stegman (Editor); Ronald D. Witherup (Editor)
Call Number: Pius Reference BS491.3 .P38 2018 LIB use only
ISBN: 9780809106134
Publication Date: 2018
HarperCollins Bible Commentary - Revised Edition by James L. Mays
Call Number: Pius Reference BS491.2 .H37 2000 LIB use only
ISBN: 9780060655488
Publication Date: 2000
Jerome Biblical Commentary by edited by Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer Roland E. Murphy
Call Number: Pius Reference BS491.2 and Pius BS491.2
Publication Date: 1968
The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century by Pope Francis (Foreword by); John J. Collins (Editor); Gina Hens-Piazza (Editor); Barbara Reid (Editor); Donald Senior (Editor)
Call Number: Forthcoming
ISBN: 9781474248853
Publication Date: 2022
New Bible Commentary by J. Alec Motyer (Editor); Gordon J. Wenham; Donald A. Carson (Editor); R. T. France (Editor)
Call Number: Pius Reference BS491.2 .N45 1994
ISBN: 9780830814428
Publication Date: 1994
The New Jerome Biblical Commentary by Raymond E. Brown
Call Number: Pius Reserve BS491.2 .N485 1990
ISBN: 9780136149347
Publication Date: 1990
The Oxford Bible Commentary by John Barton (Editor); John Muddiman (Editor)
Call Number: Pius Reference BS491.3 .O94 2001 LIB use only
ISBN: 9780198755005
Publication Date: 2001
The IVP Women's Bible Commentary by Catherine Clark Kroeger (Editor); Mary J. Evans (Editor)
Call Number: Pius Reference BS521.4 .I97 2002
ISBN: 9780830814374
Publication Date: 2002