References

Our website draws on a wealth of materials online and offline. The list below is not exhaustive, but should help point you to further research on how to learn English through the Bible.

Book

• Battenhouse, Roy, ed. Shakespeare’s Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994.
• Daniell, David. The Bible in English: Its History and Influence. Yale University Press, 2003
• Frye, Roland Mushat. Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1963.
• Jasper, David and Steven Prickett, eds. The Bible and Literature as A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999
• Jeffrey, David L, ed, A Dictionary of biblical tradition in English literature. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 1992
• Marx, Steven. Shakespeare and the Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Norton, David. A History of the Bible as Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Malless, Stanley and Jeffrey McQuain. Coined by God : words and phrases that first appear in the English translations of the Bible. New York : W.W. Norton, 2003.
• McGrath, Alister E. ed. Christian literature : an anthology. Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001
• Warshaw, Thayer S. Handbook for teaching the Bible in literature classes. Nashville : Abingdon, 1978
• The Bible and its Influence. BLP Publishing, 2006
• The Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1989

Website

Idioms

http://www.gracecathedral.org/enrichment/brush_excerpts/
http://www.phrases.org.uk/
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/
http://www.dictionary.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Biblical_phrases
http://www.ibsstl.org/niv/index.php (NIV Bible official website)
http://www.ewordtoday.com/comments/mh/ (Bible commentary)

Christian names

http://www.biblegateway.com/
http://www.behindthename.com/ 
http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/ 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Bilingual versions of the Bible

http://www.o-bible.com/

Course outline for teaching Bible and literature at universities

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/courses/354/index.htm
(lecture notes for teaching the Bible chapter by chapter and its corresponding literary works and films)

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/courses/354/index.htm
(teaching Christian works such as Paradise Lost)

Course outline for teaching Bible and literature at middle schools

http://www.bibleliteracy.org/site/ 
(resources for teaching Bible in public schools in the U.S.)

http://www.bibleinschools.net/
(National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools – lesson plans for teaching Bible in public schools in the U.S)