The Anchor Bible products are on my short list for general background. I have not personally invested in such but when I visit the library that is often one of the early places I go. Part of that is to glean the ideas and phrasing that the others will use, so I sometimes build search keyword...
The International Greek New Testament Project has a bibliography page with names (leads) to follow through on. (see "igntp.org")
I don't know where you are in the spectrum, but the preview portions of Peter Kyle McCarter's Textual Criticism: Recovering the Text of the Hebrew Bible may be...
In the genealogy of Jesus found in Luke (3:23-38) the line works backwards to "Adam, son of God." (Matthew starts with Abraham and works forward to Joseph who provided adoptive 'covering' for Jesus and Mary). Adam and Eve were not 'born' as the rest of us and their author and Creator was God...