» Download: Biblical Resources for Congregational Life (download pdf file)
As part of the ELCA’s Book of Faith Initiative (external link), we offer this collection of resources highlighting a variety of tools for studying the Bible. For the next five years, congregations and individuals are encouraged to engage in a deeper understanding of scripture through intentional study. As a church grounded in the means of grace–word and sacrament–we come together each Sunday for the proclamation of the Word and the celebration of the sacraments.
Featured Resources:
- How Do Lutherans Interpret the Bible? Mark Allan Powell (VT2487-2488)
- “Where Did the Bible Come From?” from Mark Allan Powell in the series Wouldn’t You Like to Know? (VT2422)
- The Bible Tutor by Craig Koester (CDR7)
- The Bible Guide (Augsburg Fortress) (B2652)
- Crossway’s The Bible’s Big Story: Our Story by Harry Wendt (PR662)
- Who’s Who in the Bible: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary (B2117)
- For maps, an index of Bible places, and texts about Biblical sites, The Student Bible Atlas and The Student Bible Guide both by Tim Dowley are helpful. (PR403, PR405)
- Robert Backhouse’s The Student Guide to Bible People. (PR404)
- The Bible: What’s It All About (VT967)
- Understanding the Bible (VT1017)
- The Bible on Cassette: Faith Comes by Hearing (C128)
- Great Figures of the Bible Elie Wiesel (VT1248-1253)
- History’s Golden Thread: the History of Salvation by Sofia Cavalletti (B2470)
- Remembering the Women: Women’s Stories from Scripture (B2386)
- Opening the Bible: What It Is, Where It Came From, What It Means for You by Robert Kysar (B2351)
- Craig Koester’s A Beginner’s Guide to Reading the Bible (B862)
- Walter Brueggemann, Imagination: New Approaches to the Bible Brueggemann (VT1027)
- Interpreting the Old Testament Fretheim – Terence Fretheim (VT1509-1511)
- Manna and Mercy – Dan Erlander (PR170)
- What’s God Up To? Amy Jill Levine (VT2393-2394)
- N.T. Wright’s New Testament video series (VT2290, VT2115, VT2305, VT2288)
- Biblical Intertextuality: The Bible is Full of Itself James Sanders (VT2130)
- The Bible: Fact or Fiction? Amy Jill Levine and Walter Brueggemann (VT1897)
- John Shelby Spong’s Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (B1101)
- …For Everyone by N.T. Wright (B2980=)
- Bruce Feiler’s Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses (B2789)
- In the Beginning: Critical Concepts for the Study of the Bible by James W. Aageson (B2419)
- Barbara Bruce’s 7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Adults (B2753)
- Discovering the Bible (VT1532)
- The Play and Learn Bible (CDR1)
- Bible Stories for the 40 Days by Melissa Nussbaum. (PR479)
- The Amazing Bible Expedition (CDR10)
- Family Bible Cards (K132)
- A selection of Bible games includes Bible Pictionary (G10), Bible Trivia (G11), In Other Words: Bible Edition (G24), and The Family Bible Game for Lutherans (G27).
- Teaching Children Bible Basics by Barbara Bruce (PR680)
- “Davey and Goliath’s Devotions”
- The Lutheran Handbooks I and II (PR914, PR982)
- The Student Bible Dictionary (B3440)
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