For convenience, many of the works are classified according to their millennial position. Disp. = dispensational premillennialist; Classic premil = "classic" or "historical" premillennialist; Amil = amillennialist; Postmil = postmillennialist.
Original dates of publication are given in brackets.
Allis, Oswald T. 1945. Prophecy and the Church. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed. Amil. A classic against dispensationalism.
Barker, Kenneth L. 1982. "False Dichotomies between the Testaments," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 25:3-16. A "moderate dispensationalist" (close to classic premil) calls for rapprochement.
Barr, James. 1961. The Semantics of Biblical Language. London: Oxford University.
Bass, Clarence B. 1960. Backgrounds to Dispensationalism: Its Historical Genesis and Ecclesiastical Implications. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Beecher, Willis Judson. 1905. The Prophets and the Promise. New York: Crowell.
Berger, Peter L. and Thomas Luckmann. 1967. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. London: Penguin.
Berkhof, Louis. 1942. The Second Coming of Christ. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Amil.
Black, Max. 1962. Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University.
Boettner, Loraine. 1958. The Millennium. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed. Postmil. A survey of the major options, antagonistic to dispensationalism.
Chafer, Lewis Sperry. 1936. "Dispensationalism," Bibliotheca Sacra 93:390-449. Disp.
________. 1951. Dispensationalism. Dallas: Dallas Seminary. Disp.
Cox, William E. 1971. An Examination of Dispensationalism. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed. Amil. Brief, combative.
Darby, John Nelson. [n.d.] 1962. The Collected Writings. Ed. William Kelly. Oak Park, Ill.: Bible Truth Publishers. Disp. Foundational writings of dispensationalism.
________. [n.d.] 1971. Letters of J. N. D. 3 vols. Sunbury, Pa.: Believers Bookshelf. Disp.
Dodd, Charles Harold. 1953. According to the Scriptures: The Substructure of New Testament Theology. London: Nisbet. Dodd is in the end a modernist. But he is good at laying bare the idea of fulfillment presupposed in New Testament use of the Old.
Dollar, George W. 1973. A History of Fundamentalism in America. Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University. The historical of American dispensationalism described from a dispensationalist perspective.
Ehlert, Arnold D. 1965. A Bibliographic History of Dispensationalism. Grand Rapids: Baker. Disp. Marred by a focus on "dispensations" as redemptive epochs rather than on the distinctives of modern dispensationalism.
Fairbairn, Patrick. 1964. The Interpretation of Prophecy. London: Banner of Truth. Amil. An excellent older work, now in reprint.
Feinberg, Charles L. 1980. Millennialism: The Two Major Views. The Premillennial and Amillennial Systems of Biblical Interpretation Analyzed & Compared. Third and Enlarged Edition. Chicago: Moody. 1st and 2d eds. under the title Premillennialism or Amillennialism? Disp. A standard dispensational text.
Fish, Stanley E. 1978. "Normal Circumstances, Literal Language, Direct Speech Acts, the Ordinary, the Everyday, the Obvious, What Goes without Saying, and Other Special Cases," Critical Inquiry 4:625-44. Reprinted in Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1980. Pp. 268-292. The role of worldview and interpretive standards in the determination of meaning.
Fuller, Daniel P. 1957. The Hermeneutics of Dispensationalism. A dissertation to Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. Chicago. Classic premil.
________. 1980. Gospel and Law: Contrast or Continuum? The Hermeneutics of Dispensationalism and Covenant Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Gaebelein, A. C. 1911. The Prophet Daniel: A Key to the Visions and Prophecies of the Book of Daniel. New York: Publication Office "Our Hope." Disp.
Gaffin, Richard B. 1976. "Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology," in The New Testament Student and Theology. Vol. III. Ed. John H. Skilton. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed. Pp. 32-50.
________. 1978. The Centrality of the Resurrection: A Study in Paul's Soteriology. Grand Rapids: Baker. Amil.
________. 1979. Perspectives on Pentecost: Studies in New Testament Teaching on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: Baker.
Grant, James. 1875. The Plymouth Brethren: Their History and Heresies. London: W.H. Guest.
Hendriksen, William. 1974. Israel in Prophecy. Grand Rapids: Baker. Amil.
Hoekema, Anthony A. 1979. The Bible and the Future. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Amil.
Hughes, Philip E. 1976. Interpreting Prophecy. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. A semipopular exposition of covenantal amillennialism.
Jensen, Irving L. 1981. Jensen Bible Study Charts. Chicago: Moody. Disp.
Kent, Homer A., Jr. 1972. The Epistle to the Hebrews: A Commentary. Grand Rapids: Baker. Disp.
Kline, Meredith G. 1963. Treaty of the Great King: The Covenant Structure of Deuteronomy. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Amil.
________. 1972. The Structure of Biblical Authority. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
________. 1974. "The Covenant of the Seventieth Week," in The Law and the Prophets, ed. John H. Skilton. Nutley, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed. Pp. 452-469. Amil. A discussion of the key text in Daniel 9.
________. 1980. Images of the Spirit. Grand Rapids: Baker. OT biblical theology, including symbolic overtones of OT institutions.
________. 1981. Kingdom Prologue I. South Hamilton, MA: Meredith G. Kline.
Kraus, Clyde Norman. 1958. Dispensationalism in America: Its Rise and Development. Richmond: Knox.
Ladd, George E. 1952. Crucial Questions about the Kingdom of God. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Classic premil.
Lindsey, Hal. 1970. The Late Great Planet Earth. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. Disp. Popular dispensationalist rapture theory.
Longenecker, Richard N. 1975. Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
McClain, Alva J. 1959. The Greatness of the Kingdom: An Inductive Study of the Kingdom of God. Chicago: Moody. Disp.
Marsden, George M. 1980. Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism: 1870-1925. New York/Oxford: Oxford University.
Mauro, Philip. 1928. The Gospel of the Kingdom: With an Examination of Modern Dispensationalism. Boston: Hamilton Brothers. Classic premil.
________. 1929. The Hope of Israel. Swengel, PA: Reiner.
________. 1944. The Seventy Weeks and the Great Tribulation: A Study of the Last Two Visions of Daniel, and of the Olivet Discourse of the Lord Jesus Christ. Rev. ed. Swengel, Pa.: Bible Truth Depot.
Newell, William R. 1947. Hebrews Verse by Verse. Chicago: Moody.
Patte, Daniel. 1975. Early Jewish Hermeneutic in Palestine. Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press.
Pentecost, J. Dwight. 1958. Things to Come: A Study in Biblical Eschatology. Findlay, Ohio: Dynham. Disp. A full working out of details of eschatology.
Pieters. Albertus. 1937. The Seed of Abraham. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
Radmacher, Earl D. 1979. "The Current Status of Dispensationalism and Its Eschatology," in Perspectives on Evangelical Theology, ed. Kenneth S. Kantzer and Stanley N. Gundry. Grand Rapids: Baker. Pp. 163-76.
Reese, Alexander. n.d. The Approaching Advent of Christ: An Examination of the Teaching of J. N. Darby and his Followers. London: Marshall Morgan and Scott. Classic premil.
Ridderbos, Herman N. 1958. Paul and Jesus: Origin asnd General Character of Paul's Preaching of Christ. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed. Amil.
________. 1962. The Coming of the Kingdom. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed.
________. 1975. Paul: An Outline of His Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Robertson, O. Palmer. 1980. The Christ of the Covenants. Grand Rapids: Baker. Amil.
Ryrie, Charles C. 1953. The Basis of the Premillennial Faith. New York: Loizeaux Brothers. Disp.
________. 1963. "The Necessity of Dispensationalism," in Truth for Today, ed. John F. Walvoord. Chicago: Moody. Disp.
________. 1965. Dispensationalism Today. Chicago: Moody. Disp. An introduction to dispensationalism.
Sandeen, Ernest R. 1970. The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism 1800-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago.
Sauer, Erich. 1953a. The Dawn of World Redemption: A Survey of Historical Revelation in the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Disp. A moderate form of dispensationalism allowing multiple fulfillments.
________. 1953b. The Triumph of the Crucified: A Survey of Historical Revelation in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Disp.
________. 1954. From Eternity to Eternity: An Outline of the Divine Purposes. Grand Rapids: eerdmans. Disp.
Scofield, Cyrus I. 1907. The Scofield Bible Correspondence School, Course of Study. 7th ed. 3 vols. [No place and no publisher are given]. Disp. (The title page shows that this edition, unlike some later editions, was actually authored by C. I. Scofield. Moreover, the copy in the library of Westminster Theological Seminary, inherited from the library of C. G. Trumbull, has a handwritten appreciation in the front, "To Charles Gallandet Trumbull ... with the love of The Author." Clearly Scofield claims to be "the author," not merely a final editor.)
________, ed. [1909] 1917. The Scofield Reference Bible. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. Authorized King James Version.... Ed. C. I. Scofield. New York: Oxford. Disp. The most wide-spread source for popular American dispensationalism.
________, ed. 1967. The New Scofield Reference Bible. Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version.... New York: Oxford. Disp.
Silva, Moises. 1983. Biblical Words and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Lexical Semantics. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
Tan, Paul Lee. 1974. The Interpretation of Prophecy. Winona Lake, Indiana: BMH Books. Disp.
Van Gemeren, Willem A. 1983. "Israel as the Hermeneutical Crux in the Interpretation of Prophecy," WTJ 45:132-144.
________. 1984. "Israel as the Hermeneutical Crux in the Interpretation of Prophecy (II)," WTJ 46:254-297.
Vos, Geerhardus. [1903] 1972. The Teaching of Jesus concerning the Kingdom of God and the Church. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed.
________. [1926] 1954. The Self-Disclosure of Jesus: The Modern Debate about the Messianic Consciousness. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
________. [1930] 1961. The Pauline Eschatology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Amil.
________. [1948] 1966. Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Walvoord, John F. 1959. The Millennial Kingdom. Finlay, Ohio: Dynham. Disp.
Walvoord, John F., and Zuch, Roy B. 1983. The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty. Wheaton, IL: Victor.
Wyngaarden, Martin J. 1934. The Future of the Kingdom in Prophecy and Fulfillment: A Study of the Scope of "Spiritualization" in Scripture. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.