[Note: German Missionary Ziegenbalg was such an illustrious, enterprising, resourceful and an all-round performer that hardly any book on Church History can be published without a mention about him. In this list, entries of only certain rare books and journals are given with brief data about the rarest of them. The best ones are bold-printed]

(The entries are made with first the author's name, title of the book/journal in italics, place and year of publication)

1. Ziegenbalg, B. and J.E. Gruendler: A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Geo Lewis, Chaplain to the Honourable the East India - Company at Fort St. George: Giving an Account of the Method of Instruction used in the Charity Schools of the Church call'd Jerusalem, in Tranquebar by the Protestant Missionaries there, London, 1715, 32p. (Published in English language during Ziegenbalg's lifetime)
2. Ziegenbalg B., Grammatica Damulica, Halle, 1716 (Published in Tamil-Latin during Ziegenbalg's lifetime)
3. Germann, W. Ziegenbalgs Bibliotheca Malabarica, in: Missionsnachrichten der Ostindischen Missionsansalt zu Halle, vol.32, Halle, 1880 (this article gives us the complete list of the 119 rare Tamil literature collection, which Ziegenbalg sent to Germany)
4. Lehmann Arno, German Tamil Studies, in: Wissenbschaftliche Zeitschrift derMartin Luther Universitaet, Vol.17, Halle, 1968.
5. Germann, W. (Ed.), Genealogy of the South Indian Gods, New Delhi, 1984.
6. Baierlein, E.R., Rev.: The land of the Tamulians and Its missions, translated from the German by J.D.B.Gribble, Madras, 1875, 242 p.
7. Beyreuther, Erich: (Tr.from German by S.G. Lang & H.W. Gensichen), Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, A Biography of the First Protestant Missionary in India 1682-1719, Madras, 1955, 80 p.
8. Buchanan, C., Rev.: Christian Researches in Asia, London, 1812, 312 p.
9. Hooper, J.S.M.: Bible Translation, Oxford, 1963.
10. Lehmann, Arno: (Tr. into English by M. J. Lutz) It began at Tranquebar, Madras, 1956, 185p.
11. Leifer, Walter: India and the Germans, 500 Years of Indo-German Contacts, Bombay, 1977.
12. Pamperrien, K. (Translator): History of the Tranquebar Mission - worked out from the original papers by J. Ferd, Fenger, Translated into English from the German of Emil Francke, Tranquebar, 1863, 324p.
13. Penny, Frank, Rev.: The Church in Madras, Vol. I, London, 1904, xii
14. Samuel G, Rev.: History of the Tranquebar Mission in Tamil, A.D. 1706 -1955, Madras, 1955, 288 p.
15. Sherring, M.A.: The History of Protestant Missions in India from their Commencement in 1706 to 1871, London, 1875, 484 p.
16. Stephen Neil: A History of Christianity in India, Cambridge, 1985.
17. Mohanavelu, C.S.: Standard of education of native Tamil people 300 years ago, as observed and reported by the Germans, in: Wissenschaftliche Zietschrift der Martin Luther Universitat, Halle-Wittenberg, Jg. XXXXI, Nr.3, Halle, 1992, pp.129-134
18. Mohanavelu, C.S.: German Tamilology, Madras, 1993
19. 275 years of the arrival of Ziegenbalg, Jubilee Malar, 1706-1981
20. Bergendorff, Conrad, Ziegenbalg - The Church of Lutheran Reformation, St.Luis, 1967
21. Sandgren, From Tranquebar to Serampore, Carey Lectures, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1955, 22 p.
22. Ziegenbalg, Dr. Daniel Jeyaraj, 2004.