BAZYLINSKI Stanislaw
A Guide to Biblical Research
Second Edition, 2009, pp. XXII+281

     The present volume presents important and useful information to students doing exegetical research in Sacred Scripture.
     A Guide is arranged in six chapters, which endeavor to respond to students’ questions regarding: the primary sources of the biblical text (chapter one); a survey of available biblical bibliographical research tools (chapter two); a panorama of reference works, such as concordances, synopses, lexicons, grammars, etc. (chapter three).
     Particular attention is given to the literary types occurring in the Bible (chapter four), followed by some suggestions for organizing the writing of an exegetical study (chapter five). Finally, some practical rules are provided on how to make accurate bibliographic citations in footnotes and the bibliography (chapter six).
     This second edition of A Guide has been updated and improved. Above all, three new sections have been introduced in the third chapter: Introductions to the Bible; Biblical Theology; Apocrypha, whereas the section on Exegetical Methods has been amplified considerably. Similarly, the fourth chapter has been enriched with 14 new literary “types” .

     Stanislaw BAZYLINSKI, O.F.M.Conv., born in Poland, 1962, received his S.S.D. from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He is an associate professor at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure (O.F.M.Conv.) in Rome, and a guest professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. He is tha author of: I salmi 20–21 nel contesto delle preghiere regali (Roma 1999), Guida alla ricerca biblica. (Subsidia Biblica 24; Roma 2004, ²2005), translated into Spanish.