Lexham Bible Dictionary is your starting point for biblical studies, from roughly 3,000 bc to

ad 200. It also selectively covers topics from after ad 200 when these documents, people,
or events relate to research on the biblical text. This includes a body of articles that
address ancient texts themselves—not only those that were deemed authoritative for the
Church through the process of canonization, but also many nonbiblical texts (up to the
fourth century ad). These documents, such as the writings known as the Old Testament
Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament Apocrypha, often surface in discussions about
biblical figures and ancient teachings. LBD also includes selected coverage of the church
fathers insofar as they relate to pioneering biblical interpretation or the shape of the canon.
Barry, J. D., Bomar, D., Brown, D. R., Klippenstein, R., Mangum, D., Sinclair Wolcott, C., …
Widder, W. (Eds.). (2016). In The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

Our editorial team sorted the entries into individual people, places, documents, events,
and types of literature. In the process, we generated over 4,500 short articles. For these
entries our major contributors and editors gathered common knowledge into a concise
reference format, often reworking data either from the Bible Knowledge Database that
drives features of Logos Bible Software and/or from the public domain. For the
approximately 2,000
John D. Barry et al., eds., The Lexham Bible Dictionary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).

Lexham Bible Dictionary clearly identifies and labels ancient documents related to the
Bible, along with ancient literature
John D. Barry et al., eds., The Lexham Bible Dictionary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).