This is a list of source material I use and/or recommend for studying the Old Testament.
Not every reference I’ve cited in lesson footnotes is listed here; only major or important works are represented.
Works that are available online are linked for your reference. (If a link is broken or dead, please let me know.)
Alter, Robert. The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary. 3 vols. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Barlow, Philip L. Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Barton, John and John Muddiman, eds. The Oxford Bible Commentary. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Berlin, Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds. The Jewish Study Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Bradford, M. Gerald. Ancient Scrolls from the Dead Sea: Photographs and Commentary on a Unique Collection of Scrolls. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 1997.
Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. In God’s Image and Likeness, Volume 1: Creation, Fall, and the Story of Adam and Eve. Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2014.
⸻ and David J. Larsen. In God’s Image and Likeness, Volume 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel. Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2014.
Brown, S. Kent and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel. Between the Testaments: From Malachi to Matthew. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002.
Coogan, Michael D., ed. The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Edition. 5th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Draper, Richard D., S. Kent Brown, and Michael D. Rhodes. The Pearl of Great Price: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005.
Dummelow, J.R. A Commentary on the Holy Bible. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1909.
Dunn, James D. G. and John W. Rogerson, eds. Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003.
Freedman, David Noel, ed. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992. [A–C / D–G / H–J / K–N / O–Sh / Si–Z]
⸻, ed. Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000.
Friedman, Richard Elliott. The Bible with Sources Revealed: A New View into the Five Books of Moses. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
Gee, John. A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
⸻. An Introduction to the Book of Abraham. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017.
⸻ and Brian M. Hauglid, eds. Studies in the Book of Abraham, Volume 3: Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2005.
Harris, W. Hall Ⅲ, ed. The NET Bible: New English Translation. 1st ed. Richardson, TX: Biblical Studies Press, 2005.
Hamblin, William W. and David Rolph Seely. Solomon’s Temple: Myth and History. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007.
Hauglid, Brian M. Studies in the Book of Abraham, Volume 5: A Textual History of the Book of Abraham: Manuscripts and Editions. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2010.
Holladay, William Lee. A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. 4th ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1972.
Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, Dana M. Pike, and David Rolph Seely. Jehovah and the World of the Old Testament. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2009.
Jackson, Kent P. The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts. Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2005.
⸻, ed. A Bible Reader's History of the Ancient World. Provo, UT: Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies at Brigham Young University, 2016.
Jensen, Jamie L., Steven L. Peck, Ugo A. Perego, and T. Benjamin Spackman, eds. The Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and Evolution. Provo, UT: College of Life Sciences at Brigham Young University, 2025.
Ludlow, Victor L. Isaiah: Prophet, Seer, and Poet. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1982.
Martínez, Florentino García. The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill and Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1996.
McGrath, Alister. In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.
Nibley, Hugh W. The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 1: Old Testament and Related Studies. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book / Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1986.
⸻. The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 2: Enoch the Prophet. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book / Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1986.
⸻. The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 12: Temple and Cosmos, Beyond This Ignorant Present. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book / Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1992.
⸻. The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 14: Abraham in Egypt. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book / Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
⸻. The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 16: The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri, An Egyptian Endowment. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book / Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2005.
⸻. The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 19: An Approach to the Book of Abraham. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book / Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2010.
⸻, Michael D. Rhodes. The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Volume 19: One Eternal Round. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book / Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2010.
Parry, Donald W. Temples of the Ancient World: Ritual and Symbolism. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book / Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1994.
⸻. Harmonizing Isaiah: Combining Ancient Sources. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2001.
⸻. Visualizing Isaiah. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2001.
⸻. The Book of Isaiah: A New Translation (Preliminary Edition). Springville, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2022.
⸻, Jay A. Parry, and Tina M. Peterson. Understanding Isaiah. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1998.
⸻ and Dana M. Pike, eds. LDS Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1997.
Peterson, H. Donl. The Story of the Book of Abraham: Mummies, Manuscripts, and Mormonism. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1995.
⸻. The Pearl of Great Price: A History and Commentary. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1987.
Pfeiffer, Charles F. Baker’s Bible Atlas. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2003.
Rhodes, Michael. Studies in the Book of Abraham, Volume 2: The Hor Book of Breathings: A Translation and Commentary. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
⸻. Studies in the Book of Abraham, Volume 4: Books of the Dead Belonging to Tshemmin and Neferirnub. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2010.
Smoot, Stephen O. The Pearl of Great Price: A Study Edition for Latter-day Saints. American Fork, UT: Book of Mormon Central, 2021.
⸻, John Gee, Kerry Muhlestein, and John S. Thompson. “A Guide to the Book of Abraham.” BYU Studies Quarterly 61, no. 4 (2022).
Tvedtnes, John A., Brian M. Hauglid, and John Gee, eds. Studies in the Book of Abraham, Volume 1: Traditions About the Early Life of Abraham. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2001.
Van Dam, Cornelis. The Urim and Thummim: A Means of Revelation in Ancient Israel. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1997.
Walton, John H. The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2009.
⸻. The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2–3 and the Human Origins Debate. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2015.
⸻ and J. Harvey Walton. The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2017.
⸻ and Tremper Longman III. The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2018.
⸻ and J. Harvey Walton. The Lost World of the Torah: Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2019.
⸻, Victor H. Matthews, and Mark W. Chavalas. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2014.
Welch, John W. and Donald W. Parry, eds. The Tree of Life: From Eden to Eternity. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2011.
Translations of the Bible:
KJV: Authorized King James Version (with topical guide, Bible dictionary, and footnotes published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)