Course Bibliography: Critical Studies, More
Studies, Histories of Interpretation,
Commentaries,
Critical Studies (possible book reports):
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Blum, E. Studien zur Komposition des Pentateuch. BZAW 189. Berlin:
de Gruyter, 1990.
- Carr, D. M. The Formation of the Hebrew Bible A New Reconstruction. New York: Oxford, 2011.
- Carmichael, C. M. The Laws of Deuteronomy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1974.
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Childs, B. S. Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture. Philadelphia:
Fortress, 1979.
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Clines, D. J. A. The Theme of the Pentateuch. JSOTSup 10; Sheffield:
JSOT, 1978.
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Crüsemann, Frank. The Torah: Theology and Social History of Old
Testament Law. Tr. W. Mahnke. Edinburgh/Minneapolis: Clark/Fortress,
1996.
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Friedman, R. E. The Exile and Biblical Narrative: The Formation of the
Deuteronomistic and Priestly Works. HSM 22. Chico, CA: Scholars Press,
1981.
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Knohl, I. The Sanctuary of Silence: the Priestly Torah and the Holiness
School. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
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Levinson, Bernard M. Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation.
New
York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Levinson, B. M. (ed.). Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law:
Revision, Interpolation and Development. JSOTSup 181. Sheffield: Sheffield
Academic Press, 1994.
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Mann, T. W. The Book of the Torah: the Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch.
Atlanta: John Knox, 1988.
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McCarthy, D. J. Treaty and Covenant: A Study in Form in the Ancient
Oriental Documents and in the Old Testament. 2nd rev. ed. Rome: Biblical
Institute, 1981.
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Miles, J. God: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995.
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Mullen, E. T., Jr. Ethnic Myths and Pentateuchal Foundations: A New
Approach to the Formation of the Pentateuch. SBLSS. Atlanta: Scholars
Press, 1997.
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Nohrnberg, J. Like Unto Moses: the Constituting of an Interruption.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
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Noth, M. A History of Pentateuchal Traditions (originally published
1948). Trans. B. W. Anderson. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1981.
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Olson, D. T. Deuteronomy and the Death of Moses: A Theological Reading.
OBT. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.
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Patrick, D. The Rhetoric of Revelation. OBT. Minneapolis: Fortress,
1999.
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Paul, S. M. Studies in the Book of the Covenant in the Light of Cuneiform
and Biblical Law. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970.
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Perlitt, L. Bundestheologie im Alten Testament. WMANT 36. Neukirchen-Vluyn:
Neukirchener Verlag, 1969.
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Polzin, R. Moses and the Deuteronomist: A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic
History. New York: Seabury, 1980.
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Rad, G. von. ‘The Form-Critical Problem of the Hexateuch.’ The Problem
of the Hexateuch and Other Essays. Trans. E. W. Trueman Dicken. Edinburgh:
Oliver & Boyd, 1966. Pp. 1-78.
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Rendtorff, R. The Problem of the Process of Transmission in the Pentateuch.
Trans. J. J. Scullion. JSOTSup 89. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990.
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Sailhamer, J. H. The Pentateuch as Narrative: a Biblical-Theological
Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1992.
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Schmid, H. H. Der sogennante Jahwist. Zürich: Theologisher
Verlag, 1976.
- Sharpe, John, and Kimberly Van Kampen, eds. The Bible as Book: The Manuscript Tradition. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: The British Library, 1998.
- Smend, R. Die Erzählung des Hexateuch auf ihre Quellen untersucht. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1912.
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Smith, Mark S. The Pilgrimage Pattern in Exodus. JSOTSup 239. Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.
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Sternberg, M. The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature
and the Drama of Reading. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press,
1985.
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Thompson, T. L. The Origin Tradition of Ancient Israel: I. The Literary
Formation of Genesis and Exodus 1-23. JSOTSup 55. Sheffield: JSOT,
1987.
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Tigay, J. H. "The Evolution of the Pentateuchal Narratives in the Light
of the Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic," Empirical Models for Biblical
Criticism. Ed. J. H. Tigay; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1985. Pp. 21-52.
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Van Seters, J. Abraham in History and Tradition. New Haven: Yale
U.P., 1975.
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Van Seters, J. In Search of History. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1983.
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Van Seters, J. The Life of Moses: The Yahwist as Historian in Exodus-Numbers.
Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1994.
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Watts, J. W. (ed.). Persia and Torah: the Theory of Imperial Authorization
of the Pentateuch. Symposium Series. Atlanta: SBL, 2001.
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Weinfeld, M. Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1972.
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Wellhausen, J. Prolegomena to the History of Israel. Gloucester,
MA: Peter Smith, 1973, orig. 1878.
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Whybray, R. N. The Making of the Pentateuch: A Methodological Study.
JSOTSup 53. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1987.
Other critical studies (not an option
for book reports):
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Alt, A. ‘The Origins of Israelite Law.’ Essays on Old Testament History
and Religion. Trans. R. A. Wilson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966. Pp. 81-31.
[First published, 1934.]
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Brian Britt, “Moses, Monotheism, and Memory.” Religious Studies Review
26/4 (2000) 313-17.
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Brooks, R. Spirit of the Ten Commandments. New York: Harper &
Row, 1990.
- Carr, David M. Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature. New York: Oxford, 2005.
- Cohn, Yehudah B. Tangled Up In Text: Tefillin and the Ancient World. Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2008.
- Damrosch, D. ‘Leviticus.’ In R. Alter and F. Kermode (eds.). The Literary
Guide to the Bible. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard, 1987. Pp. 66-77.
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Damrosch, D. The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the
Growth of Biblical Literature. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.
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Fretheim, T. E. The Pentateuch. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996.
- Goldstein, G. M. “Torah Ornaments.” In The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion. Ed. Werblowsky and Wigoden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 698.
- Green, William Scott. “Scripture in Classical Judaism.” In The Encyclopedia of Judaism. Ed. J. Neusner, S. Peck and W. S. Green. New York: Continuum/Leiden: Brill, 1999. 1302-1309.
- Hamel, Christopher de. The Book: A History of the Bible. New York: Phaidon, 2001.
- Koch, Klaus. ‘P - Kein Redaktor’. Vetus Testamentum 37 (1987), pp.
446-67.
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Kraus, F. R. ‘Ein zentrales Problem des altmesopotamischen Rechts: Was
ist der Codex Hammu-Rabi?’ Genava 8 (1960) 283-96.
- Marty, Martin. “America's Iconic Book,” in Humanizing America's Iconic Book. Ed. Gene M. Tucker and Douglas A. Knight. Chico: Scholars Press, 1982. 1-23.
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McEvenue, S. E. The Narrative Style of the Priestly Writer. AnBib
50. Rome: Biblical Institute, 1971.
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Mendenhall, G. E. ‘Ancient Oriental and Biblical Law.’ In E. F. Campbell,
Jr. and D. N. Freedman (eds.), Biblical Archeologist Review 3. Garden
City, NY: Doubleday, 1970. Pp. 1-24.
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Mendenhall, G. E. ‘Covenant Forms in Israelite Tradition.’ In E. F. Campbell,
Jr. and D. N. Freedman (eds.), Biblical Archeologist Review 3. Garden
City, NY: Doubleday, 1970. Pp. 25-53.
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Nasuti, H. P. ‘Identity, Identification, and Imitation: the Narrative Hermeneutics
of Biblical Law.’ Journal of Law and Religion 4/1 (1986), pp. 9-23.
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Noth, M. A ‘The Laws of the Pentateuch.’ The Laws of the Pentateuch
and Other Studies. Trans. D. R. Ap-Thomas. Philadelphia: Fortress,
1967.
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Olson, D. T. The Death of the Old and the Birth of the New: The Framework
of the Book of Numbers and the Pentateuch. BJS 71. Chico: Scholars
Press, 1985.
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Patrick, D. Old Testament Law. Atlanta: John Knox, 1985.
- Parmenter, Dorina Miller. “The Iconic Book: The Image of the Bible in Early Christian Rituals.” Postscripts 2 (2006), 160-189.
- Parmenter, Dorina Miller. “The Bible as Icon: Myths of the Divine Origins of Scripture,” in Jewish and Christian Scripture as Artifact and Canon (ed. Craig A. Evans and H. Daniel Zacharias; London: T. & T. Clark, 2009), 298-310.
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Roth, M. T. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. WAW
6. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.
- Sabar, Shalom. “Torah and Magic: The Torah Scroll and its Appurtenances as Magical Objects in Traditional Jewish Culture.” European Journal of Jewish Studies 3 (2009), 135-70.
- Schleicher, Marianne. "Accounts of a Dying Scroll: On Jewish Handling of Sacred Texts in Need of Restoration or Disposal." In Myrvold, Death of Sacred Texts (2010), 11-30.
- Smith, Jonathan Z. “Religion and the Bible.” Journal of Biblical Literature 128/1 (2009), 5-27.
- Stolow, Jeremy. Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics, and teh ArtScroll Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
- Watts, James W. Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Wellhausen, J. Die Composition des Hexateuchs und der historischen Bücher
des Alten Testaments. 4th ed. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1963, orig. 1876-77.
Histories of Interpretation
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Harrison, Peter. The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science.
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001.
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Knight, Douglas A. and Gene M. Tucker, eds. The Hebrew Bible and Its
Modern Interpreters. Philadelphia: Fortress/Chico: Scholars Press,
1985.
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Nicholson, Ernest W. The Pentateuch in the Twentieth Century: The Legacy
of Julius Wellhausen. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.
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Noll, Mark A. Between Faith and Criticism: Evangelicals, Scholarship,
and the Bible in America. Harper & Row, 1986.
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Reventlow, Henning Graf. The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of
the Modern World. Tr. J. Bowden. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.
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Sperling, S. David. Students of the Covenant: A History of Jewish Biblical
Scholarship in North America. Atlanta Scholars Press, 1992.
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Sugirtharajah, R.S. The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial,
and Postcolonial Encounters. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2001.
Commentaries:
- Westermann, Claus. Genesis 1-11, 12-36, 37-50. 3 vols.
Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1984-86.
- Gunkel, Hermann. Genesis. 5th ed. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck
& Ruprecht, 1922. Reprinted and Trans. by M. Biddle. Macon: Mercer
University Press, 1997.
- Rad, Gerhard von. Genesis. OTL. Philadelphia: Westminster,
- Wenham, Gordan. Genesis 1-15, 16-50. WBC 1-2. Dallas: Nelson/Word,
1987.
- Childs, B. S. The Book of Exodus: A Critical, Theological Commentary.
OTL. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1974.
- Houtman, Cornelis. Exodus. 3 vols. HCOT. Kampen: Kok Pharos,
1999.
- Propp, William E. Exodus 1-18. AB 2. New York: Doubleday,
1999.
- Dozeman, Thomas Exodus. The Eerdmans Critical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.
- Milgrom, J. Leviticus 1-16, Leviticus 17-22, Leviticus 23-27.
AB 3. New York: Doubleday, 1991, 2000, 2001.
- Levine, Baruch. Leviticus/Va-yikra. Philadelphia : Jewish
Publication Society, 1989.
- Hartley, John E. Leviticus. WBC 3. Dallas: Word, 1992.
- Watts, James W. Leviticus 1-10. HCOT. Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming.
- Milgrom, Jacob. Numbers/Ba-midbar. Philadelphia : Jewish
Publication Society, 1990.
- Levine, Baruch. Numbers 1-20, Numbers 21-36. AB 4. New
York : Doubleday, 1993, 2000.
- Tigay, Jeffrey. Deuteronomy. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society, 1996.
- Weinfeld, Moshe. Deuteronomy 1-11. AB . New York: Doubleday,
1991
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