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Course Bibliography:
(see also the topically
categorized bibliography on iconic books)
Collections of essays:
- The Bible and the American Myth:
A Symposium on the Bible and the Construction
of Meaning (Macon: Mercer University Pres,
1999)
- The Biblical Canons
(Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum
Lovaniensium), ed. J-M Auwers and H. J. de Jonge
(Louven: Peeters, 2003)
- The Cambridge History of the
Bible (CHB), 3 vols., eds P. R. Ackroyd, C. F.
Evans, S. L. Greenslade and G. W. H. Lampe
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963,
1969, 1970) (available in Bird Library Reference
section and in the stacks)
- The New Cambridge History
of the Bible (NCHB), 2 vols. to
date (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012,
2013)
- Canonization and Decanonization, with An Annotated Bibliography by
J. A. M. Snoek, eds. A. van der Kooij, K. van
der Toorn (Leiden: Brill, 1998)
- The Death of
Sacred Texts: Ritual Disposal and Renovation
of Texts in World Religions. Ed. Kristina
Myrvold
(London: Ashgate,
2010).
- The Early Christian Book. Ed. William E. Klingshirn and
Linda Safran (Washington: Catholic University of
America Press, 2007).
- Iconic Books and Texts (IB&T),
ed. J. W. Watts (Sheffield and Bristol: Equinox,
2013)
- The Image and the Book: Iconic
Cults, Aniconism and the Rise of Book Religion
in Israel and the Ancient Near East, ed. K. van der Toorn (Louven:
Peeters, 1997)
- The Impact of Scripture on Early
Christianity, ed. J. den Boeft & M.
L. van Poll-van de Lisdonk (Leiden: Brill, 1999)
- Kanon in Konstruktion und
Dekonstruktion, ed. Becker et al. (Berlin:
Walter de Gruyter, 2011).
- Text, Image and Otherness
in Children’s Bibles, ed. C. Vander
Stichelle and H. S. Pyper (Atlanta: Society of
Biblical Literature, 2012)
- The Social Life of Scriptures: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in
Biblicism. Ed. James S. Bielo. (New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009)
- Theorizing Scriptures: New
Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon. Ed. Vincent L. Wimbush. (New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008)
- The Use of Sacred Books in the
Ancient World, ed. L.V. Rutgers et al (Leuven:
Peeters, 1998)
- With Reverence for the Word:
Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam, ed. J. D. McAuliffe, B. D.
Walfish, and J. W. Goering (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2003)
Books and articles:
- Aichele, George. The Control of
Biblical Meaning: Canon as Semiotic Mechanism.
Harrisburg, PA: Trinity, 2001.
- Akenson, Donald Harmon. Surpassing
Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the
Talmuds (Chicago, 1998).
- Al-Azmeh, A. “The Muslim Canon
from Late Antiquity to the Era of Modernism”
in Canonization and Decanonization 191-228.
- Alexander, Philip S. "`Homer the
Prophet of All' and 'Moses our Teacher': Late
Antique Exegesis of the Homeric Epics and of the
Torah of Moses," in Use of Sacred Books
127-142.
- Alter, Robert. Canon and
Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority
of Scripture (New Haven: Yale, 2000).
- Arnold, Phillip. “Paper Rituals and
the Mexican landscape.” In Representing
Aztec Ritual: Performance, Text, and Image in
the Work of Sahagún. Edited by Eloise
Quiñones Keber. Boulder: University Press of
Colorado, 2002. 227-250.
- Arnold, Phillip. “Black Elk and
Book Culture.” Journal of
the American Academy of Religion 67 (1999)
85-111.
- Arnold, Philip P.
“Indigenous 'Texts' of Inhabiting the Land:
George Washington’s Wampum Belt and the
Canandaigua Treaty,” Postscripts 6
(2010), 277-289 = IB&T, 361-372.
- Bainton, Roland H. "The Bible in
the Reformation," CHB 3:1-37.
- Balbir, Nalini. "Is a
Manuscript an Object or a Living Being? Jain Views
on the Life and Use of Sacred Texts." In
Myrvold, Death of Sacred Texts (2010),
107-24.
- Barton, John. Holy Writings,
Sacred Text: the Canon in Early Christianity
(Louisville: WJK, 1997)
- Beal, Timothy. “Reception
History and Beyond: Toward the Cultural History of
Scriptures,” Biblical Interpretation 19
(2011) 357-372.
- Beal, Timothy. “The End of the
Word as We Know It: The Cultural Iconicity of the
Bible in the Twilight of Print Culture,” Postscripts 6
(2010), 165-184 = IB&T, 207-224.
- Beal, Timothy. The
Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected
History of an Accidental Book.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2011.
- Bell, Catherine. "Scriptures—Text
and Then Some." In Theorizing
Scriptures, 23-28.
- Brown, Michelle P. The
Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and
the Scribe (London: British Library,
2003).
- Biderman, Shlomo. Scripture and
Knowledge: An Essay on Religious Epistemology
(Leiden: Brill, 1995).
- Borg, M.B. ter. “Canon and Social
Control,” in Canonization and
Decanonization 411-423.
- Broo, Måns. "Rites of Burial
and Immersion: Hindu Ritual Practices on Disposing
of Sacred Texts in Vrindavan." In
Myrvold, Death of Sacred Texts (2010),
91-106.
- Brown, Michelle P. "“Images to be
Read and Words to be Seen: The Iconic Role of the
Early Medieval Book,” Postscripts 6
(2010), 39-66 = IB&T,
93-118.
- Burton-Christie, Douglas. The Word
in the Desert: Scripture and the Quest for
Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Camp, Claudia V. “Possessing
the Iconic Book: Ben Sira as Case Study,” Postscripts 6
(2010), 309-329 = IB&T, 389-406.
- Campenhausen, Hans von. The
Formation of the Christian Bible (tr. J.
A. Baker, Philadelphia: Fortress, 1972)
- Carr, David M. Writing on the
Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and
Literature (New York: Oxford, 2005).
- Casson, Lionel. Libraries
in the Ancient World. New Haven: Yale,
2001.
- Chartier, Roger. Forms and
Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences
from Codex to Computer. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
- Childs, Brevard S. “The Problem of
the Christian Bible,” in Biblical Theology
of the Old and New Testaments: Theological
Reflection on the Christian Bible
(Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992), pp. 55-69
- Clines, David J.A. The Bible
and the Modern World (Sheffield: Sheffield
Academic Press, 1997)
- 3:199-237.
- Chireau, Yvonne P. "Conjuring
Scriptures and Engendering Healing Traditions."
In Theorizing
Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a
Cultural Phenomenon. Ed. V. L. Wimbush.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
2008. 119-27.
- Clarke, Sathianathan. “Viewing the
Bible through the Eyes and Ears of Subalterns in
India.” Biblical
Interpretation 10/3 (2002): 251-257.
- Cohn, Yehudah B. Tangled Up
In Text: Tefillin and the Ancient World.
Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2008.
- Cornelius, Izak. "The Many
Faces of God: Divine Images and Symbols in
Ancient Near Eastern Religions," in The
Image and the Book 21-43.
- Coward, Harold. Sacred Word
and Sacred Text: Scripture in World Religions
(Maryknoll: Orbis, 1988)
- Coward, Harold. Experiencing
Scripture in World Religions (Maryknoll:
Orbis, 2000).
- Crehan, F.J. "The Bible in the
Roman Catholic Church from Trent to the Present
Day," CHB
- Cressey, D. “Books as Totems in
Seventeenth-Century England and New England.” Journal of
Library History 21/1 (1986) 92-106.
- Crom, Dries De. “The Letter of
Aristeas and the Authority of the Septuagint.” Journal for
the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 17.2
(2008): 141-160.
- Dael, P.C.J. van. “Biblical Cycles
on Church Walls: Pro Lectione Pictura,” in J.
den Boeft & M. L. van Poll-van de Lisdonk
(eds.), The Impact of Scripture on
Early Christianity 122-132.
- Davies, Philip R. Scribes and
Schools: The Canonization of the Hebrew
Scriptures (Louisville: Westminster,
1998).
- Denny, Frederick M. "Recitation of
the Quran," Islam and the Muslim Community (San
Francisco : Harper & Row, 1987), pp. 78-88.
- Denny, Frederick and Rodney Taylor,
eds. The Holy Book in Comparative
Perspective (Columbia: University of
South Carolina, 1985).
- Depew, Mary. Matrices of
Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society
(Cambridge: Harvard, 2000).
- Dijk, S.J.P. "The Bible in
Liturgical Use," CHB 2:220-251.
- Drogin, Marc. Biblioclasm:
The Mythical Origins, Magic Powers, and
Perishability of the Written Word. Savage,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1989.
- Elitzur, Zeev. “Between the
Textual and the Visual: Borderlines of Late
Antique Book Iconicity,”Postscripts 6
(2010), 83-99 = IB&T,
135-150.
- Folkert, K. W. “The ‘Canons’ of
‘Scripture’,” in M. Levering, ed., Rethinking
Scripture: Essay from a Comparative
Perspective (Albany: SUNY Press, 1989),
170-79.
- Foster, Benjamin. Before the
Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature (Bethesda:
CDL, 1993).
- Frei, Hans. The Eclipse of
Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics (New
Haven: Yale, 1974).
- Frei, Peter. "Persian Imperial
Authorization: A Summary," trans. by J.W. Watts,
in Persia and Torah: The Theory of Imperial
Authorization of the Pentateuch (Atlanta:
Society of Biblical Literature, 2001), pp. 5-40.
- Goering, Joseph W. “An Introduction
to Medieval Christian Biblical Interpretation,”
in With Reverence for the Word, 197-203.
- Gold, Penny Shine. Making the
Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish
Education in Twentieth-Century America. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2004.
- Goody, Jack. The Logic of
Writing and the Organization of Society (Cambridge,
1986).
- Goody, Jack. The Power of the
Written Tradition (Washington, DC:
Smithsonian, 2000).
- Graham, M. Patrick. “The
Tell-Tale Iconic Book,” Postscripts 6
(2010), 117-141 = IB&T,
165-186.
- Graham, William A. Beyond the
Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the
History of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1987).
- Graham, William A. “Scripture.” Encyclopedia
of Religion (2nd ed.), 12:8194-8205.
- Graham, William A. "Winged
Words: Scriptures and Classics as Iconic Texts." Postscripts 6
(2010), 7-22 = IB&T,
33-46.
- 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.
- Greenberg, Moshe. "On the Political
Use of the Bible in Modern Israel: An Engaged
Critique," in D. P. Wright et al (eds.), Pomegranates
and Golden Bells: Studies ... in Honor of
Jacob Milgrom (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns,
1995), pp. 461-471.
- Greenspahn, Frederick E. "Biblical
Scholars, Medieval and Modern," in J. Neusner et
al (eds.), Judaic Perspectives on Ancient
Israel (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987), pp.
245-258.
- Griffiths, Paul J. Religious
Reading: the place of reading in the practice
of religion (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1999)
- Gutjahr, Paul. An American
Bible: A History of the Good Book in the
United States, 1777-1880 (New Haven:
Yale, 1999)
- Halbertal, Moshe. People of the
Book: Canon, Meaning, and Authority
(Harvard, 1997)
- Hallo, W.W. The Context
of Scripture. Vol. 1: Canonical Compositions
from the Biblical World (Leiden: Brill,
1997)
- Hamel, Christopher de. The Book: A
History of the Bible. New York: Phaidon, 2001.
- Harrisville, Roy A. & Walter
Sundberg. The Bible in Modern Culture:
Baruch Spinoza to Brevard Childs (2nd
ed.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001).
- Hatch, Nathan O. and Mark A. Noll,
eds. The
Bible in America: Essays in Cultural History.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
- Hays, Richard, and Ellen Davis,
eds. The Art of Reading Scripture (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003).
- Hettema, Th. L. “The Canon:
Authority and Fascination” in Canonization
and Decanonization 391-398.
- Heyman, George. "Canon Law and the
Canon of Scripture." Postscripts 2
(2006), 209-25.
- Hill, Doug. "Charles Augustus
Briggs, Modernism, and the Rise of Biblical
Scholarship in Nineteenth-Century America," in
V.L. Wimbush (ed.), The Bible and the
American Myth: A Symposium on the Bible and
the Construction of Meaning (Macon: Mercer
University Pres, 1999), pp. 71-104.
- Horst, Pieter W. van der. "Sortes:
Sacred Books as Instant Oracles in Late
Antiquity" in Use of Sacred Books 143-173.
- Humfress, Caroline. “Judging by the
Book: Christian Codices and Late Antique Legal
Culture.” In Early Christian Book,
141-158.
- Jaffee, Martin S. Torah in the
Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in
Palestinian Judaism 200 BCE-400 CE (New
York: Oxford, 2000).
- Johannot, Yvonne. Tourner la
page: livre, rites et symboles. Millon,
1988.
- Kassam, Tazim R. "Signifying
Revelation in Islam." In Theorizing
Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a
Cultural Phenomenon. Ed. V. L. Wimbush.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
2008. 29-40.
- Kessler, Herbert L. "The Book as
Icon." In In the
Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000.
Ed. Michelle P. Brown. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian, 2006. 77-103, 222-244.
- Kinnard, Jacob N. “On Buddhist
‘Bibliolaters’: Representing and Worshiping the
Book in Medieval Indian Buddhism.” The
Eastern Buddhist 34/2 (2002) 94-116, and
plates 1 and 2.
- Kinnard, Jacob N. “It Is
What It Is (Or Is It?): Further Reflections on
the Buddhist Representation of Manuscripts,” Postscripts 6
(2019), 101-116 = IB&T,
151-164.
- Kling, David W. The Bible in
History: How the Texts have Shaped the Times.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
- Kooij, A. van der. "The
Canonization of Ancient Books Kept in the Temple
of Jerusalem," in Canonization and
Decanonization 17-40.
- Krause-Loner, Shawn. “Be-Witching
Scripture: The Book of Shadows as Scripture
within Wicca/Neo-Pagan Witchcraft.” Postscripts
2 (2006), 273-92.
- Kugel, James L. The Bible As
It Was. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1997.
- Kugel, James L. "The Bible in the
University," in W. H. Propp et al (eds.), The
Hebrew Bible and Its Interpreters (Winona
Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1990), pp. 143-165.
- Lamb, J.A. "The Place of the Bible
in the Liturgy," CHB 1:563-586.
- Lambert, W. G. "Ancestors, Authors,
and Canonicity," Journal of Cuneiform
Studies 11 (1951), pp. 1-14.
- Lang, B. "The 'Writings': A
Hellenistic Literary Canon in the Hebrew Bible,"
in Canonization and Decanonization 41-65.
- Larson, Jason T. “The
Gospels as Imperialized Sites of Memory in Late
Ancient Christianity,”Postscripts 6
(2010), 291-307 = IB&T, 373-88.
- Legaspi, Michael C. The
Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical
Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2010.
- Legendre, P. “La totémisation de la
société: Remarques sur les montages canoniques
et la question du sujet,” in Canonization
and Decanonization 425-433.
- Leipoldt, Johannes and Siegfried
Morens. Heilige Schriften: Betrachtungen
zur Religionsgeschichte der antiken
Mittelmeerwelt. Leipzig: Harrassowitz,
1953.
- Levenson, Jon D. "Theological
Consensus or Historicist Evasion? Jews and
Christians in Biblical Studies," in R. Brooks
& J. J. Collins (eds.), Hebrew Bible or
Old Testament: Studying the Bible in Judaism
and Christianity (U. of Notre Dame, 1990),
pp. 109-145.
- Levinson, Bernard. Deuteronomy
and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation
(Oxford, 1997)
- Lieberman, Stephen J.
"Canonical and Official Cuneiform Texts: Towards
an Understanding of Assurbanipal's Personal
Tablet Collection," in Tsvi Abusch et al (eds.),
Lingering over Words: Studies in Ancient Near
Eastern Literature in Honor of William J.
Moran (HSM 37; Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1990), pp. 305-336.
- Loner, Shawn. “Be-Witching
Scripture: The Book of Shadows as Scripture
within Wicca/Neo-Pagan Witchcraft.” Postscripts 2
(2006), 273-92 = IB&T,
239-58.
- Lowden, John. “The Word Made
Visible: The Exterior of the Early Christian
Book as Visual Argument.” In Early
Christian Book, 13-47.
- Lust, J.L. “Quotation Formulae and
Canon in Qumran,” in Canonization and
Decanonization (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp.
67-77.
- Malley, Brian. How the Bible
Works: An Anthropological Study of Evangelical
Biblicism (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira,
2004).
- Malley, Brian. “What is ‘the
Bible’? Analysis of a Text Concept.” In Timothy
Light and Brian Wilson (eds.), Religion as
a Human Capacity. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
- Malley, Brian. “The Bible in
British folklore.” Postscripts 2
(2006), 241-72 = IB&T, 315-44.
- Mann, Gurinder Singh. "Scriptures
and the Nature of Authority: The Case of the
Guru Granth in Sikh Tradition." In Theorizing
Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a
Cultural Phenomenon. Ed. V. L. Wimbush.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
2008. 41-54.
- 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.
- Marty, Martin. “Scripturality: The
Bible as Icon in the Republic,” chapter 7 in Religion
and Republic: The American Circumstance
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1987), 140-65.
- *McAuliffe, Jane Dammen. “An
Introduction to Medieval Interpretation of the
Qur’an,” in With Reverence for the Word,
311-19.
- Melanchon, Monica Jyotsna. “Dalits,
Bible, and Method.” SBLForum,
December, 2005.
- Meyer, Elizabeth A. Legitimacy
and Law in the Roman World: Tabulae in Roman
Belief and Practice. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2004.
- Miller, Patricia Cox. "In Praise of
Nonsense." In A. H. Armstrong, ed. Classical
Mediterranean Spirituality (New York:
Crossroad, 1986), 481-505; repr. in Miller, The
Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity (Burlington:
Ashgate, 2001), 221-245.
- Miller, Patricia Cox. "Words with
an Alien Voice: Gnostics, Scripture, and Canon."
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
57 (1989) 459-483; repr. in Miller, The
Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity (Burlington:
Ashgate, 2001), 247-270.
- Moerman, D. Max. "The Death of
the Dharma: Buddhist Sutra Burials in Early
Medieval Japan." In
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71.
- Moerman, D. Max. “The
Materiality of the Lotus Sutra: Scripture, Relic,
and Buried Treasure.” Dharma World 37
(July-September 2010), 15-22.
- Moore,
Stephen D. and Yvonne Sherwood,
"Biblical Studies 'after' Theory," Biblical
Interpretation 18 (2010) 1-27, 87-113,
191-225.
- Morgan, David. Visual Piety: A
History and Theory of Popular Religious Images.
Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1998.
- Morgan, David, ed. Icons of
American Protestantism: the Art of Warner
Sallman. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1996. 43-120.
- Morgan, David. The Sacred
Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and
Practice. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2005. 48-74.
- Morey, James. Book and Verse: A
Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature (Urbana:
U. of Illinois, 2000).
- Myrvold, Kristina. Inside the
Guru's Gate: Ritual Uses of Texts Among the
Sikhs of Varanasi. Lund: Lund Universtiy,
2007.
- Myrvold, Kristina. "Making the
Scripture a Person: Reinventing Death Rituals of
Guru Granth Sahib in Sikhism." In Myrvold, Death of Sacred Texts
(2010), 125-46.
- Myrvold, Kristina. “Engaging
with the Guru: Sikh Beliefs and Practices of
Guru Granth Sahib,”Postscripts 6
(2010), 201-224 = IB&T, 261-82.
- Neil, W. "Criticism and Theological
Use of the Bible, 1700-1950," CHB 3:238-293.
- Nöldecke, Theodor. Geschichte
des Qorans, Leipzig, 1909-1938.
- Neusner, Jacob & William Scott
Green, Writing with Scripture: the Authority
and Uses of the Hebrew Bible in the Torah of
Formative Judaism, Minneapolis: Fortress,
1989.
- O’Sullivan, Orlaith, ed. The Bible
as Book: The Reformation. New Castle, DE.:
Oak Knoll Press; London: The British Library,
2000.
- Oxtoby, Willard G. "`Telling in
Their Own Tongues': Old and Modern Bible
Translations as Expressions of Ethnic Cultural
Identity," in W. Beuken & S. Freyne, The
Bible As Cultural Heritage (London: SCM,
1995), pp. 24-35.
- Parmenter, Dorina Miller. “The
Iconic Book: The Image of the Bible in Early
Christian Rituals.” Postscripts 2
(2006), 160-89 = IB&T,
63-92.
- 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.
- Parmenter, Dorina Miller. "A
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Disposal." In
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55-70.
- Parmenter, Dorina Miller. “Iconic
Books from Below: The Christian Bible and the
Discourse of Duct Tape,” Postscripts 6
(2010), 185-200 = IB&T,
225-38.
- Pasulka, Diana Walsh. The
Aesthetics of Nostalgia: The Return of the
Real in Postmodern Christian Discourse. Ph.D.
Dissertation, Syracuse University, 2003.
- Pasulka, Diana Walsh. "Premodern
Scriptures in Postmodern Times." Postscripts
2 (2006), 293-315.
- Peters, F. E. The Voice,
the Word, the Books: The Sacred Scripture of
the Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
- Phy, Allene Stuart. "The Bible and
American Popular Culture: an Overview and
Introduction," in The Bible and Popular
Culture in America (Philadelphia:
Fortress, 1985), pp. 1-23.
- Plate, S. Brent. “Looking at
Words: The Iconicity of the Page,” Postscripts 6
(2010), 67-82 =IB&T, 119-34.
- Pulcini, Theodore. Exegesis as
Polemical Discourse: Ibn Hazm on Jewish and
Christian Scriptures (Atlanta: Scholars
Press, 1998.
- Pulis, John W. “ ‘In the
Beginning’: A Chapter from the Living Testament
of Rastafari.” In Bielo, Social Life
of Scriptures, 30-43.
- Rapp, Claudia. “Holy Texts, Holy
Men and Holy Scribes: Aspects of Scriptural
Holiness in Late Antiquity.” In Early
Christian Book, 194-222.
- Reventlow, Henning Graf. The
Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the
Modern World (tr. J. Bowden, Philadelphia:
Fortress, 1984)
- Roberts, C.H. "Books in the
Greco-Roman World and in the New Testament," CHB
1:48-66.
- Rochberg, Francesca. Heavenly
Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy
in Mesopotamian culture. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Rosenthal, Erwin I.J. "The Study of
the Bible in Medieval Judaism," CHB
2:252-279.
- Rothberg-Halton, Francesca,
"Canonicity in Cuneiform Texts," Journal of
Cuneiform Studies 36 (1984) 127-144.
- *Rutgers, Leonard V. "The
Importance of Scripture in the Conflict between
Jews and Christians: The Example of Antioch," in
Use of Sacred Books 287-303.
- Sarefield, Daniel. "The Symbolics
of Book Burning: The Establishment of a
Christian Ritual of Persecution." In Early
Christian Book, 159-73.
- Samson, C. Mathews. “The Word of
God and ‘Our Words’: The Bible and Translation
in a Mam Maya Context.” In Bielo, Social Life
of Scriptures, 64-79.
- Sawyer, John F.A. Sacred
Languages and Sacred Texts (London:
Routledge, 1999)
- 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.
- 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.
- Sheppard, Gerald T. “Canon”, in M.
Eliade, ed. The Encyclopedia of Religion.
New York: Macmillan, 1987. 3:62-69.
- Smalley, B. "The Bible in the
Medieval Schools," CHB 2:197-219.
- Smith, D. Moody "When did the
Gospels become Scripture?" Journal of
Biblical Literature 119 (2000) 3-20.
- Smith, Jonathan Z. “Canons,
catalogues and classics,” in Canonization
and Decanonization (Leiden: Brill, 1998),
pp. 295-311.
- Smith, Jonathan Z. "Sacred
Persistence: Toward a Redescription of Canon,"
in Imagining Religion: From Babylon to
Jonestown (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press,
1982), pp. 36-52.
- Smith, Jonathan Z. “Religion and
the Bible.” Journal of
Biblical Literature 128/1 (2009), 5-27.
- Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. What
is Scripture? (London, 1993).
- Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. "Scripture
as Form and Concept: Their Emergence for the
Western World," in Rethinking Scripture:
Essays from a Comparative Perspective (ed.
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