Barton, John, What is the Bible? SPCK, London, 1991.
Baxter, Margaret, The Formation of the Christian Scriptures, NT Intro 2. TEF Study Guide 26. SPCK.
Brueggemann, Walter, The Creative Word, Canon as a Model for Biblical Education, Fortress Press Philadelphia, 1982.
Campenhausen, Hans von, The Formation of the Christian Bible, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1972.
Driver, G R, Semitic Writing. From Pictograph to Alphabet, 2nd rev ed 1954, London.
Ehrman, Bart D, Whose Word Is It? The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why, Continuum, London, 2008.
Flack, E E, Metzger, B M and others, The Text, Canon and Principal Versions of the Bible, 1956.
Elliott, J K, 'Biblical Manuscripts in Manchester', in Expository Times, vol 110, no 2 (November 1998), pp 50f.
Kenyon, F G, Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts, 1958 edition, Eyre and Spottiswoode, London.
Kenyon, F G, The Text of the Greek Bible, 1949 edition, Duckworth, London.
McDonald, Lee, The Formation of the Christian Biblical Canon, Peabody, Ma, 1995.
Miller, John W, The Origins of the Bible. Re-thinking Canon History, 1994, Paulist Press, New York.
Pritchard, James B (ed), The Ancient Near East. An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, 1958, Oxford University Press, London.
Roberts, C H & Skeat, T C, The Birth of the Codex, The British Academy, London, 1983.
Rogerson, J W, An Introduction to the Bible, Equinox, London, rev edn 2005.
Sanders, James A, Canon and Community, a Guide to Canonical Criticism, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1984.
Soulen, Handbook of Biblical Criticism, 1977, Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 1976 (?).
Thomas, D Winton (ed), Documents From Old Testament Times, 1958, Nelson, London.
VanderKam, James C, The Dead Sea Scrolls Today, 1994, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids.
Vermes, Geza, The Dead Sea Scrolls. Qumran in Perspective, 1994, (revised edition), SCM Press, London.
Old Testament
Ap-Thomas, D R, A Primer of Old Testament Text Criticism, 1947, Epworth Press, London.
Beckwith, Roger, The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church and its Background in Early Judaism, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1985.
Childs, B S, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture, 1979, Fortress Press, Philadelphia.
Tov, Emanuel, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, 1992, Fortress Press, Minneapolis.
Wuerthwein, E, The Text of the Old Testament, 1979.
New Testament
Childs, Brevard S, The New Testament as Canon: An Introduction, SCM Press, London, 1984.
Comfort, Philip Wesley, Early Manuscripts and Modern Translations of the New Testament, 1990, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids.
Grant, Robert M, The Formation of the New Testament, 1965, Hutchinson University Library, London.
Lienhard, Joseph T, The Bible, the Church and Authority: the Canon of the Christian Bible in History and Theology, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN, 1995.
Metzger, B M, The Canon of the New Testament, Its Origin, Development and Significance, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987.
Metzger, B M, The Early Versions of the New Testament, 1977, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Metzger, B M, The Text of the New Testament, 1968, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Parker, D, The Living Text of the Gospels, CUP, 1997.
Pattie, T S, Manuscripts of the Bible. Greek Bibles in the British Library, Revised Edition, 1995, The British Library, London.
Patzia, Arthur G, The Making of the New Testament. Origin, Collection, Text and Canon, 1995, InterVarsity Press, Illinois.
Non-Canonical
Cameron, Ron (ed), The Other Gospels. Non-canonical Biblical Texts, 1983, Lutterworth Press, Guildford.
Dunkerley, Roderic, Beyond the Gospels, 1957, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex..
Grant, Robert M & Freedman, David Noel, The Secret Sayings of Jesus, 1960, Collins, London.
Hennecke, E, New Testament Apocrypha, 2 vols, 1963-65, Lutterworth Press, London.
James, M R (ed), The Apocryphal New Testament, 1924, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Jeremias, Joachim, Unknown Sayings of Jesus, 1957, SCM Press, London.
Koester, Helmut, Ancient Christian Gospels. Their History and Development, 1990, SCM Press, London.
English Bible
Bailey, L R, The Word of God: A Guide to English Versions of the Bible, Atlanta, 1982.
Barrera, Julio Trebelle, The Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible. An Introduction to the History of the Bible, 1998, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids.
Barton, John, Making the Christian Bible, 1997, Darton, Longman and Todd, London.
Barton, John, People of the Book (revised), 1993, SPCK, London.
Bruce, F F, The English Bible. A History of Translations from the Earliest English Versions to the New English Bible, Lutterworth Press, London, 1961, and Third edition, Oxford University Press, New York, 1978.
Cambridge Bible Handbook, 1997, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Cambridge History of the Bible, Vol 1. From the Beginnings to Jerome, edited by P R Ackroyd and C F Evans, 1970. Vol 2. The West from the Fathers to the Reformation, edited by G W H Lampe 1969. Vol 3. The West from the Reformation to the Present Day, edited by S L Greenslade, 1963. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Coleman, R, New Light and Truth. The Making of the Revised English Bible, OUP & CUP, 1989.
Daniell, David, The Bible in English: its History and Influence, Yale University Press, London, 2003
Duthie, Alan S, How to Choose your Bible Wisely, Revised edition, 1995, Bible Society, Swindon.
Ferrell, Lori Anne, The Bible and the People, Yale University Press, Yale and London, 2008.
Hammond, G, The Making of the English Bible, Carcanet, Manchester, 1982.
Hunt, G, About the New English Bible, OUP & CUP, 1970.
Kenyon, F G, The Story of the Bible, John Murray, London, 2nd ed, 1964.
Kubo, Sakae & Specht, Walter, So Many Versions, Zondervan, Grand Rapids,1983.
Levi, P. The English Bible 1534-1859, Constable/Eerdmans, 1974.
Lewis, Jack P. The English Bible, From KJV to NIV: a History and Evaluation, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, 1981.
May, H G, Our English Bible in the Making, Revised edition, 1965, Westminster Press, Philadelphia.
Metzger, Dentan, Harrelson, The Making of the New RSV. Eerdmans, 1991. (SOTS, 1993, p 19).
Moulton, W F, The History of the English Bible, 5th ed, London, 1911. Mozley, J F, Coverdale and his Bibles, 1953, Lutterworth Press, London.
Mozley, J F, William Tyndale, London, 1937.
Nineham, Denis (ed), The New English Bible Reviewed, 1965, Epworth Press, London.
Pope, Hugh, English Versions of the Bible, revised and amplified by Sebastian Bullough, London, 1952.
Price, I M, The Ancestry of Our English Bible, Second revised edition by W A Irwin and Allen P Wikgren, 1949, Harper and Brothers, New York 1956.
Robertson, E H, Makers of the English Bible, 1990. Lutterworth Press, Cambridge.
Robertson, E H, The New Translations of the Bible, 1959, SCM Press, London.
Robinson, H W (ed), The Bible in its Ancient and English Versions, rev ed, Oxford, 1954.
Sheehan, B, Which Version Now? Carey, Haywards Heath, 1980.
Sheeley, Stephen M & Nash, Robert N, The Bible in English Translation. An Essential Guide, 1997, Abingdon Press, Nashville.
Vance, L M, A Brief History of English Bible Translations, Pensacola, Fl, 1993.
Walden, W, Guide to Bible Translations, Livingworks, Boston, Ma, rev 1991.
Weigle, L A, The English New Testament from Tyndale to Revised Standard Version, Nelson, Edinburgh, 1950.
Wonderly, W, Bible Translations for Popular Use, United Bible Societies, 1968
Translation Issues
Hargreaves, Cecil, A Translator¹s Freedom. Modern English Bibles and their Language, JSOT, Sheffield, 1993.
Hargreaves, Cecil, Translator¹s Freedom ã Modern English Bibles and their Language, JSOT, Sheffield, 1993.
Nida, Eugene A & Taber, C R, The Theory and Practice of Translation, Brill, Leiden, 1969
Wright, Christopher (ed), English Hexapla, White Tree Publishing, Bristol, 2010,.
Hermeneutics
O'Keefe, John J & Reno, R R, Sanctified Vision: An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2005.
Kling, David W, The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times, OUP, New York, 2004.
Matthews, Victor H, Old Testament Turning Points: the Narratives that Shaped a Nation, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI, 2005.
Sandys-Wunsch, John, What Have They Done to the Bible? A History of Modern Biblical Interpretation, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN, 2005