The bibliography is divided into two sections as follows:
À Diest, H., Theologia biblica (Daventriae: apud Ioannem Janssonium, 1644).
Christmann, W. J., Teutsche biblische Theologie (Kempten 1629) [nothing else is known of this work, no copy of which apparently has survived].
Cocceius, J. (Johannes Koch), Summa doctrina de foedere et testamento Dei (Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Elseviriorum, 1648) [and several later editions].
Ernesti, J. A., Institutio interpretis Novi Testamenti (Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Weidmanniana, 1761). English translation from the fifth edition of 1809: Elements of Interpretation. Trans. by M. Stuart (Andover, Mass.: Flagg and Gould, 1822).
Melanchthon, Ph., Loci communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae (Wittenberg: Lotther, 1521) [with many subsequent editions]. The final definitive redaction was entitled: Loci praecipui theologici nunc denuo cura et diligentia summa recogniti multisque in locis copiose illustrati (1559).
Critical edition: Melanchthon, Ph., Werke in Auswahl. Hrsg. v. R. Stupperich. 7 tomi in 9 vol. (Gütersloh: Bertelsmann / Gerd Mohn, 1951-1975): the 1521 and 1559 editions of the Loci are in Vols. II/1 (1952) and II/2 (1953), edited by H. Engelland.
Semler, J. S., Abhandlung von freier Untersuchung des Canon. 4 vol. (Halle: Hemmerde, 1771-1775).
Spener, Ph. J., Pia Desideria (Frankfurt am Main: Zunner, 1676); = [English trans.], Pia Desideria. Trans., edited and introduced by T. G. Tappert (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1964); = Pia desideria: il «manifesto» del pietismo tedesco (1675). A cura di R. Osculati. Postfazione di P. Ricca (Riforma protestante nei secoli; Torino: Claudiana, 1986).
Spinoza, B., Tractatus theologico-politicus (Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertsz, 1670) [in the first edition the name of the author was omitted, and false publication data (Hamburgi, Apud Henricum Künraht [sic: for Künrath]) appear on the title-page.]. The standard critical edition is: Spinoza, B., Opera, herausgegeben von C. Gebhardt. 4 vol. (Heidelberg: Winters, 1925) III 1-267.
English translation: Spinoza, B. de, Tractatus theologico-politicus (Gebhardt Edition, 1925). Translated by S. Shirley, with an introduction by B. S. Gregory (Leiden: Brill, 1989). Versione italiana (con testo latino a fronte): Spinoza, B., Trattato teologico-politico. A cura di A. Dini (Testi a Fronte, 80; Milano: Rusconi, 1999); ristampa (Bompiani Testi a Fronte, 33; Milano: Bompiani, 2001).
Wigandus [Wigand], J. – M. Iudex [Richter], Syntagma, seu Corpus doctrinae Christi, ex novo Testamento tantum, methodica ratione, singulari fide & diligentia congestum (Basileae: ex officina Oporiniana, 1575) [later edition in 1585].
Zachariae [Zachariä], G. T., Biblische Theologie, oder Untersuchung des biblischen Grundes der vornehmsten theologischen Lehren. 5 vol. (Tübingen: Frank und Schramm, 1771 / 1772 / 1774/ 1775; Göttingen: Brose, 1786) [The 5th vol. of 1786 was edited posthumously by J. C. Vollborth after Zachariae's death in 1777].
Asselt, W. J. van, The Federal Theology of Johannes Cocceius (1603–1669). Trans. by R. A. Blacketer (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 100; Leiden: Brill, 2001).
Bray, G., "The Church Fathers and Biblical Theology", in C. Bartholomew – M. Healy – K. Möller – R. Parry (eds.), Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Scripture and Hermeneutics Series, 5; Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004) 23-40.
Congar, M.-J., "Théologie", in E. Amman (ed.), DTC 15/I (1946) 341-502 [the article was published in fascicles in 1938-39]; = Y. M.-J. Congar, A History of Theology. Translated and edited by Hunter Guthrie, S.J. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968).
Ebeling, G., "Was heißt 'Biblische Theologie'?", in G. Ebeling, Wort und Glaube (Tübingen: Mohr [Siebeck], 1960) 69-89; = "The Meaning of 'Biblical Theology'", in G. Ebeling, Word and Faith (London: SCM; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1963) 79-97.
Hornig, G., Die Anfänge der historisch-kritischen Theologie. Johann Salomo Semlers Schriftverständnis und seine Stellung zu Luther (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1961).
Kaiser, O., "Johann Salomo Semler als Bahnbrecher der modernen Bibelwissenschaften", in A. H. J. Gunneweg – O. Kaiser (eds.), Textgemäss. Aufsätze und Beiträge zur Hermeneutik des Alten Testaments. Festschrift für Ernst Würthwein zum 70. Geburtstag (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1979) 59-79; = O. Kaiser, Von der Gegenwartsbedeutung des Alten Testaments. Gesammelte Studien. Herausgegeben von V. Fritz et al. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984) 79-94.
Kolb, R., "The First Protestant 'Biblical Theology'. The Syntagma of Johannes Wigand and Matthaeus Judex", in T. Johansson – R. Kolb – J. A. Steiger (eds.), Hermeneutica Sacra. Studien zur Auslegung der Heiligen Schrift im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert – Studies of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Historia Hermeneutica. Series Studia, 9; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010) 189-206.
Lüder, A., Historie und Dogmatik. Ein Beitrag zur Genese und Denkentfaltung von Johann Salomo Semlers Verständnis des Alten Testaments (BZAW 233; Berlin: De Gruyter, 1995).
Reventlow, H. Graf, Bibelautorität und Geist der Moderne. Die Bedeutung des Bibelverständnisses für die geistesgeschichtliche und politische Entwicklung in England von der Reformation bis zur Aufklärung (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1980); = The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World (London: SCM, 1984). [The English version has many additions, especially in the notes, and is practically a second edition.]
Sandys-Wunsch, J., "G. T. Zachariae's Contribution to Biblical Theology", ZAW 92 (1980) 1-23.
Sandys-Wunsch, J., "Spinoza, the First Biblical Theologian", ZAW 93 (1981) 327-341.
Sandys-Wunsch, J., "Theology, Biblical (to 1800)", in J. H. Hayes (ed.), Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1999) II (K-Z) 553-556.
Spicq, C., "Thomas d'Aquin (Saint), VI: Saint Thomas d'Aquin exégète", in E. Amman (ed.), DTC 15/I (1946) 694-738.
Telfer, C. K., "Campegius Vitringa Sr. (1659-1722): A Biblical Theologian at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century", in C. Walsh – M. W. Elliott (eds.), Biblical Theology: Past, Present, and Future (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2016) 18-32.
Gabler, J. Ph., De iusto discrimine theologiae biblicae et dogmaticae regundisque recte utriusque finibus (Altdorf: Monath, 1787); reprinted in Io. Phil. Gabler, Opuscula academica: Kleinere theologische Schriften. II. Band (Die opuscula academica enthaltend). Ediderunt Theo. Aug. Gabler et Io. Godofr. Gabler (Ulm: Stettin, 1831) 179-198. The 1831 version was then reprinted in K.-W. Niebuhr – C. Böttrich (eds.), Johann Philipp Gabler (1753-1826) zum 250. Geburstag (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlangsanstalt, 2003) 15-41 (together with the German translation by Merk [see below]).
German translation
Merk, O., Biblische Theologie des Neuen Testaments in ihrer Anfangszeit. Ihre methodischen Probleme bei Johann Philipp Gabler und Georg Lorenz Bauer und deren Nachwirkungen (Marburger Theologische Studien, 9; Marburg: Elwert, 1972) 273-284; partial reprint (omitting sections not directly relevant for the question of biblical theology) in G. Strecker (ed.), Das Problem der Theologie des Neuen Testaments (Wege der Forschung 367; Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1975) 32-44. Full reprint in K.-W. Niebuhr – C. Böttrich (eds.), Johann Philipp Gabler (1753-1826) zum 250. Geburstag (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlangsanstalt, 2003) 15-41 (together with the original Latin text).
Sandys-Wunsch, J. – L. Eldredge, "J. P. Gabler and the Distinction between Biblical and Dogmatic Theology", SJT 33 (1980) 133-158 [translation and commentary]. The translation only (not the commentary) was reprinted in B. C. Ollenburger – E. A. Martens – G. F. Hasel (eds.), The Flowering of Old Testament Theology. A Reader in Twentieth-Century Old Testament Theology, 1930-1990 (Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, 1; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1992) 493-502; reprinted again in B. C. Ollenburger (ed.), Old Testament Theology: Flowering and Future, 2nd revised edition (Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, 1; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2004) 497-506.
Italian translation (extracts only) [click here, however, for a full downloadable (unpublished) Italian version]
Kümmel, W. G., Il Nuovo Testamento. Storia dell'indagine scientifica sul problema neotestamentario (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1976) 138-141 (only short extracts) [from the original German edition of Kümmel's work: 21970]
Boers, H., What is New Testament Theology? The Rise of Criticism and the Problem of a Theology of the New Testament (Guides to Biblical Scholarship, NT; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979) 23-38.
Boers, H., "Gabler, Johann Philipp", in J. H. Hayes (ed.), Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1999) I (A-J) 425-426.
Elliott, M. W., "The Pure and the True Gabler: Questioning a Received Image in the History of Biblical Theology", in C. Walsh – M. W. Elliott (eds.), Biblical Theology: Past, Present, and Future (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2016) 3-17.
Knierim, R., "On Gabler", in R. Knierim, The Task of Old Testament Theology. Substance, Method, and Cases (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995) 495-556.
Kratz, R. G., "Auslegen und Erklären. Über die theologische Bedeutung der Bibelkritik nach Johann Philipp Gabler", in K.-W. Niebuhr – C. Böttrich (eds.), Johann Philipp Gabler (1753-1826) zum 250. Geburstag (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlangsanstalt, 2003) 53-74. Reprinted [same title] in R. G. Kratz, Mythos und Geschichte: Kleine Schriften III (FAT 102; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015) 18-38.
Merk, O., Biblische Theologie des Neuen Testaments in ihrer Anfangszeit. Ihre methodischen Probleme bei Johann Philipp Gabler und Georg Lorenz Bauer und deren Nachwirkungen (Marburger Theologische Studien, 9; Marburg: Elwert, 1972).
Merk, O., "Anmerkungen zur Gablers Altdorfer Antrittsrede", in K.-W. Niebuhr – C. Böttrich (eds.), Johann Philipp Gabler (1753-1826) zum 250. Geburstag (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlangsanstalt, 2003) 42-52.
Morgan, R., "Gabler's Bicentenary", ExpTim 98 (1986-87) 164-168.
Niebuhr, K.-W. – C. Böttrich (eds.), Johann Philipp Gabler (1753-1826) zum 250. Geburstag (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlangsanstalt, 2003).
Ollenburger, B. C., "Biblical Theology: Situating the Discipline", in J. T. Butler – E. W. Conrad – B. C. Ollenburger (eds.), Understanding the Word. Essays in Honor of B. W. Anderson (JSOTSup 37; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985) 37-62.
Saebø, M., "Johann Philipp Gablers Bedeutung für die Biblische Theologie. Zum 200-jährigen Jubiläum seiner Antrittsrede vom 30. März 1787", ZAW 99 (1987) 1-16; = "Johann Philipp Gabler at the End of the Eighteenth Century: History and Theology", in M. Saebø, On the Way to Canon. Creative Tradition History in the Old Testament (JSOTSup 191; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press 1998) 310-326.
Schaper, J., "The Question of a 'Biblical Theology' and the Growing Tension between 'Biblical Theology' and a 'History of the Religion of Israel': from Johann Philipp Gabler to Rudolf Smend, Sn.", in M. Sæbø (ed.), Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. III: From Modernism to Post-Modernism (The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries). Part I: The Nineteenth Century – a Century of Modernism and Historicism. In co-operation with Peter Machinist and Jean Louis Ska SJ (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013) 625-650.
Smend, R., "Johann Philipp Gablers Begründung der biblischen Theologie", EvT 22 (1962) 345-357; = R. Smend, Epochen der Bibelkritik. Gesammelte Studien, Band 3 (BEvT 109; München: Kaiser, 1991) 104-116.
Stuckenbruck, L. T., "Johann Philipp Gabler and the Delineation of Biblical Theology", SJT 52 (1999) 139-157.
Wittenberg, G. H., "Johann Philipp Gabler and the Consequences: In Search of a New Paradigm for Old Testament Theology", OTE 8 (1995) 103-128.