A non-technical commentary on the Gospel of Luke, the book emphasises typological interpretations of the Bible.
Reviewing the book in 1961, Joseph M. Gettys argued "that neither Jesus nor Luke was as conscious of the proposed schematic typological pattern as is Canon Browning", but concluded the book would "serve a useful purpose ... for it has the virtues of honest scholarship and readability.
"[3] A Dictionary of the Bible, by Browning with Graham Stanton and Richard Coggins as consultant editors, was published by Oxford University Press in 1996.
The dictionary comprises short entries on people, places, events and institutions in the Bible, as well as modern scholars and early translators of the Bible, other figures from the Biblical world, the Church Fathers, and methods of exegesis.
A 1996 review in the Expository Times described the entries as "occasionally misleading" and recommended the book to "students at the beginning of biblical work.