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)
- Books as Bodies and as
Sacred Beings (BBSB), ed. J. W. Watts
(Sheffield: Equinox, 2020)
- 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), 4 vols.
(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: 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).
- Miniature Books: The Format
and Function of Tiny Religious Texts, ed.
Kristina Myrvold and Dorina Miller Parmenter
(Sheffield: Equinox, 2019).
- Sensing Sacred Texts (SST),
ed. J. W. Watts (Sheffield: Equinox, 2018)
- The Social Life of Scriptures: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in
Biblicism. Ed. James S. Bielo.
(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
2009)
- Text, Image and Otherness
in Children’s Bibles, ed. C. Vander Stichelle and H. S. Pyper
(Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012)
- 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)
- Cultural
Memory Studies: An International and
Interdisciplinary Handbook, ed. Sara
B. Young, Ansgar Nünning,
and Astrid Erll
(Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008).
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).
- Anderson, Brad. "Scriptures,
Materiality and the Digital Turn." Postscripts
10 (2019), 38-52.
- Armstrong, Karen. The Lost Art of
Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts (Random
House, 2019)
- 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.
- Assmann, Aleida. "Canon
and Archive." In Cultural
Memory Studies 97-107.
- Assmann, Jan.
"Communicative and Cultural Memory." In Cultural
Memory Studies 109-118.
- Assmann, Jan. Das Kulturelle Gedächtnis: Schrift, Erinnerung und Politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen. Munich:
Verlag C.H. Beck, 1992.
- 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.
- Biderman, Shlomo. Scripture and
Knowledge: An Essay on Religious Epistemology
(Leiden: Brill, 1995).
- Boer,
Pim den. "Loci memoriae — Lieux de mémoire." In Cultural
Memory Studies 19-25.
- 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.
- Borg, M.B. ter. “Canon and Social
Control,” in Canonization and Decanonization
411-423.
- Brown, Michelle P. The
Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the
Scribe (London: British Library, 2003).
- 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.
- Burrus, Virginia. "Saints Lives
As Performance Art." BBSB
- 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)
- Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1992, French original
1925).
- 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).
- Jennings, Willie James. “Renouncing
Completeness” : The Rich Ruler and the
Possibilities of Biblical Scholarship without
White Masculine Self-Sufficiency.” Journal of
Biblical Literature 140 (2021), 837-842.
- Johannot, Yvonne. Tourner la page:
livre, rites et symboles.
Millon, 1988.
- Kaplan, Alice Yaeger. "Working in the
Archives," Yale French Studies 77 (1990),
103-116.
- 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 = IB&T,
239-58.
- 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
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- Leipoldt, Johannes and Siegfried Morens. Heilige Schriften: Betrachtungen zur Religionsgeschichte der
antiken Mittelmeerwelt. Leipzig:
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Christianity (U. of Notre Dame, 1990), pp.
109-145.
- Levinson, Bernard. Deuteronomy
and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation
(Oxford, 1997)
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"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
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- 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.
- McLaren, Scott. “The End of Religion
and the Death of the Book.” Mémoires
du livre/Studies in Book Culture 6/2
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- 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:
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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
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in Miller, The Poetry of Thought in Late
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Japan." In Myrvold, Death
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- Moerman, D. Max. “The
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and Buried Treasure.” Dharma World 37
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18 (2010) 1-27, 87-113, 191-225.
- Morgan, David. Visual Piety: A
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Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1998.
- Morgan, David, ed. Icons of
American Protestantism: the
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- Morgan, David. The Sacred Gaze:
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
48-74.
- Morey, James. Book and Verse: A
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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
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- Neil, W. "Criticism and Theological
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- 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.
- Newton, Richard. "The African
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of Biblical Literature 136/1 (2017),
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- Nöldecke, Theodor. Geschichte
des Qorans,
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Representations 26 (1989), 7-24.
- 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
Fitting Ceremony: Christian Concerns for Bible
Disposal." In Myrvold, Death
of Sacred Texts (2010),
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.
- Rochberg-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
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