2. BIBLES - Hebrew, Greek, and/or Latin text

Whole Bible (** higly recommended)

• ABS Reference Bible on CD-ROM (American Bible Society, 1995) - An entire collection of Bible study resources on one CDROM. Contains complete editions of six major English translations, Spanish and German Bibles, ancient Hebrew, Greek, and Latin texts, plus more than a dozen reference works. (The American Bible Society no longer carries this resource.)
• ** BibleWorks6 (a.k.a., Hermeneutika) (Norfolk, VA: BibleWorks, 2003) - An excellent collection of Bible study resources on one CDROM. Great for researching, comparing, and analyzing the biblical texts in many versions of the ancient languages, of English, and of other languages. (Available at 1- 800-742-4257 or at http://www.bibleworks.com.) It is written for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP, but it works with some Mac and Linux computers.
  • UBS 4, Revised / Nestle-Aland 27th Edition Greek New Testament with morphology
  • Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Fourth Edition, with Westminster morphology
  • Rahlf's Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) with corrected morphology
  • Textus Receptus (Stephen's 1550 Greek New Testament)
  • Textus Receptus (Scrivener's 1881 reconstruction of the KJV translator's Greek New Testament)
  • others
• Logos-4 Bible Software 2.1 CD - (see Logos Bible Software at http://www.bibletexts.com/bibliogr/01bib-e.htm for more details)
• Nestle-Aland 26th Edition Greek New Testament
• Rahlfs' Septuagint with Corrected Morphology - Old Testament
• Byzantine/Majority Textform Greek New Testament
• Textus Receptus (Stephen's 1550) Greek New Testament
• Textus Receptus (Scrivener's 1881) Greek New Testament

• The Latin Vulgate - Whole Bible

Old Testament - Hebrew (** higly recommended)

• ** Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Deutsche Bibelstiftung Stuttgart, 1977 - United Bible Societies) - The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia is very widely regarded as the definitive Hebrew text of the Old Testament -- as the most reliable and most thoroughly documented Hebrew Old Testament currently available. Requires familiarity with Hebrew.
• The Interlinear Hebrew Greek English Bible, Volume One through Volume Three, by Jay Green (Lafayette, IN: AP&A, 1979) - I have only 3 of the 4 volumes. The 4th volume is the New Testament, which has the same Greek text as Berry's The Interlinear Literal Translation of the Greek New Testament, which is described below.

• ** The Interlinear NIV Hebrew-English Old Testament, by John R. Kohlenberger III (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1987)

Old Testament - Greek (Septuagint) (** higly recommended)

• ** Septuaginta, Volumes I and II (Wurttembergische Bibelanstalt Stuttgart, 1935) - the Greek Old Testament, with critical apparatus. Requires familiarity with Greek.

• The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament, with Apocrypha: Greek and English (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1970)

New Testament (** higly recommended)

• ** The Greek New Testament, Fourth Revised Edition (United Bible Societies, 1993) - This is very widely regarded as the definitive Greek text of the New Testament, as the most reliable and most thoroughly documented Greek New Testament currently available.
• The Interlinear Literal Translation of the Greek New Testament, by George Ricker Berry (Zondervan, 1976) - This includes the King James Version in a parallel column with the Stephanus 1550 Greek text (also commonly known as the Textus Receptus), which has immediately below the Greek text an English language representation of each Greek word. This is essentially represents the Greek text (including its errors) from which the King James Version was translated.
• The Interlinear Hebrew Greek English Bible, Four Volume Edition, by Jay Green (Wilmington, DE: Associated Publishers and Authors, 1976) - Though the Hebrew and Greek texts are not representative of the modern standards, the Biblia Hebraica Stuttsgartensia and the Greek New Testament, Fourth Revised Edition, this is a handy resource, especially for anyone working with the Hebrew text.
• Nestle-Aland Greek-English New Testament, Eighth Revised Edition (German Bible Society, 1994) - The Greek text is identical with the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament, Fourth Revised Edition, which is identical with the Nestle-Aland 27th Edition of the Greek New Testament. The English text is from the Revised Standard Version. The footnotes give significant variants in the King James Version (1611), Revised Version (1881, New Testament), and Revised Standard Version (1946, New Testament).
• New Testament Greek Manuscripts: 1 Corinthians: Variant Readings Arranged in Horizontal Lines Against Codex Vaticanus, edited by Reuben Swanson (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2003)
• ** Synopsis of the Four Gospels, Third Edition - edited by Kurt Aland (New York: United Bible Societies, 1979) - This outstanding resource shows verse-by-verse the correspondence between accounts and teachings in the four gospels -- in Greek and in English. [book review]
• ** The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, Corrected & Enlarged Edition, edited by Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2001) - an outstanding resource for those doing Greek textual criticism. Requires familiarity with Greek.
• ** A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Second Edition - by Bruce Metzger (New York: United Bible Societies, 1993) [book review]
• ** Word Study Greek-English New Testament with Complete Concordance - edited by Paul R. McReynolds (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1998) [book review]
• The Zondervan Parallel New Testament in Greek and English (Zondervan, 1975) - This includes the King James Version and New International Version English texts in parallel columns plus the Nestle Greek Text, with the Reverent Alfred Marshall's Literal English Translation immediately below the Greek text.