General Studies of the Bible as Literature
N.B.: Works focused on the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament
are included here along with works that concern both. More
focussed studies follow this listing
- Alter, Robert, and Frank Kermode. The Literary Guide to
the Bible. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1987.
- Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Narrative. NY:
Basic Books,1981.
- Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Poetry. NY: Basic
Books, 1985.
- Aune, David E. The New Testament in its Literary
Environment. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.
- Butterworth, Charles C. The Literary Lineage of the King
James Bible: 1340-1611. Octagon 1971.
- Daiches, David. The King James Version of the English
Bible. Archon Books 1968.
- Frye, Northrop. The Great Code: The Bible and
Literature. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.
- Gabel, G.B. and C. B. Wheeler. The Bible as Literature: An
Introduction. 2nd ed. NY: OUP, 1990.
- Jeffrey, David L. "The Bible as Literature in the 1980's: A
Guide for the Perplexed," University of Toronto Quarterly
59 (1990) 569-80.
- Barton, John. Reading the Old Testament: Method in
Biblical Study. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1984.
- Berlin, Adele. Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical
Narrative. Sheffield, 1983.
- Berlin, Adele. The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
- Buckner B. Trawick, The Bible as Literature. The Old
Testament and the Apocrypha. Summary and Interpretation of Each
Book. 2d ed. College Outline Series (NY: Barnes & Noble,
1970).
- Caird, G.B. The Language and Imagery of the Bible.
London: Duckworth, 1980.
- Calloud, Jean. Structural Analysis and Narrative.
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976.
- Chabrol, Claude, and Louis Marin. Semiotique narrative:
Récits bibliques. Paris: Seuil, 1974.
- Clines, David J.A., David M. Gunn, and Alan J. Hauser, eds.
Art and Meaning: Rhetoric in Biblical Literature.
JSOT, Supplement Series 19. Sheffield, 1982.
- Coats, George. "Self abasement and insult formulas."
JBL 89 (1970): 14-26.
- Damrosch, David. The Narrative Covenant: Transformations
of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature. San Francisco:
Harper, 1987.
- Evans, Gillian R. The Language and Logic of the Bible: The
Earlier Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1984.
- Fisch, Harold. Poetry with a Purpose: Biblical Poetics and
Interpretation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
- Fishbane, Michael. Biblical Interpretation in Ancient
Israel. Oxford: OUP, 1989.
- Frei, Hans. The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1974.
- Gellrich, Jesse M. The Idea of the Book in the Middle
Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.
- Good, Edwin M. Irony in the Old Testament. Sheffield:
Almond Press, 1981.
- Gordis, Robert. "Traumatic Surgery in Biblical Scholarship: A
Note on Methodology." Journal of Jewish Studies 32 (1981):
195-99.
- Gottwald, Norman K. The Hebrew Bible: A Socio-Literary
Introduction. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.
- Grant, Robert M. A Short History of the Interpretation of
the Bible. Rev. ed., with David Tracey. Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1984.
- Grollenberg, Lucas. Rediscovering the Bible. London:
SCM Press, 1978.
- Gros Louis, Kenneth R.R. Literary Interpretations of
Biblical Narratives. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1974.
- Guettgemanns, Erhardt. "Narrative analysis of synoptic
texts." Semeia 6 (1976): 127-80.
- Hammond, Gerald. The Making of the English Bible
Manchester: Carcanet, 1982.
- Irvine, Martin. "Interpretation and the Semiotics of Allegory
in Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Augustine."
Semiotica 63 (1987): 33-71.
- Jobling, David. The Sense of Biblical Narrative:
Structural Analyses in the Hebrew Bible. 2 vols. JSOT
Suppl. Series 7. Sheffield, 1986 (1st ed., 1978).
- Koch, Klaus. The Growth of the Biblical Tradition: The
form critical method. Transl. S.M. Cupitt. London: A. & C.
Black, 1969.
- Kugel, James. The Idea of Biblical Poetry. New Haven
and London: Yale UP, 1981.
- Kugel, James. "On the Bible and Literary Criticism."
Prooftexts 1 (1981): 217-36.
- Kugel, James, and Rowan Greer. Early Biblical
Interpretation. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986.
- Landy, Francis. "The Case of Kugel: Do We Find Ourselves when
we lose ourselves in the text?" Comparative Criticism 5.
Ed. E.S. Shaffer. Cambridge: CUP, 1983.
- Lawton, David. Faith, Text and History: The Bible in
English. NY: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.
- Leach, Edmund, and D. Alan Aycock. Structuralist
Interpretations of Biblical Myth. Cambridge: CUP, 1983.
- Long, Burke. Images of Man and God: Old Testament Short
Stories in Literary Focus. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1981.
- Longenecker, Richard. Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic
Period. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975.
- McConnell, Frank, ed. The Bible and the Narrative
Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
- Morgan, Robert and John Barton. Biblical
Interpretation. Oxford: OUP, 1988.
- Murphy, Roland E. "Patristic and Medieval Exegesis--Help or
Hindrance?" CBQ 43 (1981): 505-16.
- Partridge, A.C. English Biblical Translation. Andre
Deutsch 1973.
- Patte, Daniel. What is Structural Exegesis?
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976.
- Polzin, Robert. Biblical Structuralism: Method and
Subjectivity in the Study of Ancient Texts. Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1977.
- Preus, James S. From Shadow to Promise: Old Testament
Interpretation from Augustine to the Young Luther. Cambridge:
Harvard UP, 1969.
- Prickett, Stephen. Words and The Word: Language, Poetics
and Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.
- Pritchard, James Bennett. Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Relating to the Old Testament. Princeton: PUP, 1989.
- Pritchard, James Bennett. The Ancient Near East in
Pictures Relating to the Old Testament. Princeton: PUP, 1989.
- Pritchard, James Bennett. The Ancient Near East. (A
combination and condensation of the above two books.) 2 vols.
Princeton: PUP, 1973, 1976.
- Ricouer, Paul. Essays on Biblical Interpretation.
Transl. David Pellauer. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980.
- Ricouer, Paul. Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the
Surplus of Meaning. Fort Worth, Tex.: Christian UP, 1976.
- Ricouer, Paul. The Rule of Metaphor. Toronto: Toronto
UP, 1977.
- Ricouer, Paul. "Biblical Hermeneutics." Semeia 4
(1975): 29-48.
- Ricouer, Paul. "The Task of Hermeneutics." Philosophy
Today 17 (1973): 112-24.
- Ricouer, Paul. "Temps Biblique." Archivio di Filosofia
53 (1985): 19-35.
- Ricouer, Paul. Time and Narrative. Vol. 3. Chicago:
Chicago UP, 1988.
- Robert ap Roberts. "Old Testament Poetry: The Translatable
Structure." PMLA 92 (1971): 978-1004.
- Robertson, David. The Old Testament and the Literary
Critic. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977.
- Robertson, David. Old Testament Literary Criticism.
Philadelphia: Fortress, 19??.
- Rosenberg, Joel. King and Kin: Political Allegory in the
Hebrew Bible. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
- Russel, Letty M., ed. Feminist Interpretation of the
Bible. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985.
- Schwartz, Regina M. The Book and the Text: The Bible and
Literary Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.
- Schwartz, Werner. The Principles and Problems of Biblical
Translation. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1955.
- Sternberg, Meir. The Poetics of Biblical Narrative.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
- Sternberg, Meir. Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering
in Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1978.
- Talmon. "The Comparative Method in Biblical Interpretation:
Principles and Problems." Supplements to Vetus Testamentum
29 (Leiden, 1978).
- Tigay, Jeffrey. Empirical Models for Biblical
Criticism. Philadelphia: UPenn Press, 1985. Discussed in
Polzin, Samuel, pp. 228-9 and in Berlin, Poetics,
pp. 129-34.
- Via, Dan O., Jr. Kerygma and Comedy in the New Testament:
A Structuralist Approach to Hermeneutic. Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1975.
- Wadsworth, Michael, ed. Ways of Reading the Bible.
Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1981.
- Watson, W.G.E. Classical Hebrew Poetry: A Guide to its
Techniques. JSOT Suppl. series 26.
- Wojcik, Jan, and James Ackerman. Literary Interpretations
of Biblical Narratives. Vol. 2. Abingdon, 1982.