SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECENT WORKS
ON THE HEBREW BIBLE

General Studies

• Adamiak, Richard. Justice and History in the Old Testament. Cleveland: Zubal. 1982.
• Addinall, Peter. "What is Meant by a Theology of the Old Testament?" The Expository Times 97 (1986) 332-336.
• Aharoni, Yohanan. The Archaeology of the Land of Israel. Philadelphia: Westminster. 1982.
• Alt, Albrecht. Essays on Old Testament History and Religion. The Biblical Seminar. Tr. by R.A. Wilson. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. 1989.
• Baker, David Weston. "The Old Testament and Criticism." JTSA 48 (1984) 13-20.
• Barth, Christoph. God with Us: A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament. Geoffrey W. Bromiley, ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. 1991.
• Barton, John. "Classifying Biblical Criterion." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 29 (1984) 19-35.
• Barton, John. Reading the Old Testament. Method in Biblical Study. Philadelphia: Westminster. 1984.
• Bennett, Boyce M. Bennett's Guide to the Bible. New York: Seabury. 1982.
• Berlin, Adele and James Kugel. "On the Bible as Literature." Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 2 (1982) 323-332.
• Botterweck, G. Johannes and Helmer Ringgren, eds. Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. c1986.
• Brettler, Marc. "The Torah, The Prophets and the Writings -- A New Jewish Translation." Biblical Archaeology Review 8 (6, 1982) 63-67.
• Brown, S.S., Raymond E., Joseph A. Fitzmeyer, S.J., and Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., eds. The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. 1990.
• Brueggemann, Walter. The Creative Word. Canon as a Model for Biblical Education. Philadelphia: Fortress. 1982.
• Cherian, C. M. "The People of God in the Old Testament." Biblebhashyam 10 (1984) 217-236.
• Chiesa, Bruno. "Il testo dell'Antico Testamento. Rassegna di studi/3." Henoch 4 (Torino, Italy; 1982) 225-40.
• Coggins, R.J. and J.L. Houlden, eds. A Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation. London: SCM; Philadelphia: Trinity. 1992.
• Coggins, Richard. Introducing the Old Testament. The Oxford Bible Series. Oxford/New York/Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1990.
• Craigie, Peter C. The Old Testament. Its Background, Growth and Content. Nashville: Abingdon. 1986.
• Crenshaw, James L. Story and Faith. A Guide to the Old Testament. New York: Macmillan. 1986.
• Day, A. Colin. Roget's Thesaurus of the Bible. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. 1992.
• Ferguson, Sinclair B., David F. Wright, and J. I. Packer, eds. New Dictionary of Theology. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. 1988.
• Fretheim, Terence E. "Old Testament Commentaries: Their Selection and Use." Interpretation 36 (1982) 356-371.
• Gnuse, Robert. The Authority of the Bible: Inspiration, Revelation, and the Canon of Scripture. Ramsey, NJ: Paulist. 1985.
• Goldingay, John. Approaches to Old Testament Interpretation. Issues in Contemporary Theology 5. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity. 1981.
• Hahn, Robert R. The Bible: An Owner's Manual. New York: Paulist. 1983.
• Hasel, Gerhard F. "Major Recent Issues in Old Testament Theology 1978-1983." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 31 (1985) 31-53.
• Hauer, Christian E. and William A. Young. An Introduction to the Bible. A Journey into Three Worlds. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 1986.
• Hayes, John H. and Frederick Prussner. Old Testament Theology:  Its History and Development. Atlanta: John Knox. 1985.
• Jensen, Joseph. God's Word to Israel. Completely Revised Edition. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier. 1982.
• LaSor, William Sanford, David Allan Hubbard, and Frederic William Bush. Old Testament Survey. The Message, Form and Background of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 1982.
• Legrand, L. "New Horizons in Biblical Exegesis." Indian Theological Studies 21 (1984) 205-222.
• Lohfink, Norbert, S.J. Great Themes from the Old Testament. Chicago: Franciscan Herald/Edinburgh: T & T Clark. 1982.
• Mays, James L., gen. ed. Harper's Bible Commentary. San Francisco: Harper & Row. 1988.
• Metzger, Bruce M. and Roland E. Murphy, eds. The New Oxford Annotated Bible/New Revised Standard Version, with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books. Oxford/New York/Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1991.
• Mills, Watson E, ed. Dictionary of the Bible. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. 1990.
• Myers, Allen C., ed. The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 1987.
• Ohler, Annemarie. Studying the Old Testament. From Tradition to Canon. Tr. by D. Cairns. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark. 1985.
• Rendtorff, Rolf. The Old Testament. An Introduction. Philadelphia: Fortress. 1986.
• Reventlow, Henning Graf. Problems of Old Testament Theology in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: Fortress. 1985.
• Riley, William. The Tale of Two Testaments. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications. 1985.
• Rogerson, John, Christopher Rowland, and Barnabas Lindars. The Study and Use of the Bible. The History of Christian Theology 2. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans; Basingstoke,UK: Marshall Pickering. 1988.
• Rogerson, John, ed. Beginning Old Testament Study. Philadelphia: Westminster. 1982.
• Schmidt, Werner H. Old Testament Introduction. Tr. by Matthew J. O'Connell. New York: Crossroad. 1990.
• Schneiders, Sandra M. "From Exegesis to Hermeneutics: The Problem of the Contemporary Meaning of Scripture." Horizons 8 (1981) 23-39.
• Stuart, Douglas. Old Testament Exegesis. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Philadelphia: Westminster. 1984.
• Stuhlmueller, Carroll. New Paths Through the Old Testament. New York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist. 1989.
• Thompson, John A. The Bible and Archaeology. Third Edition, Fully Revised. Foreward by F. F. Bruce. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 1982.
• Turner, Nicholas. Handbook for Biblical Studies. Philadelphia: Westminster. 1982.
• Ulrich, Eugene. "Horizons of Old Testament Textual Research at the Thirtieth Anniversary of Qumran Cave 4." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 46 (1984) 613-636.
• Vogel, Eleanor K. and Brooks Holtzclaw. "Bibliography of Holy Land Sites, Part II." Hebrew Union College Annual 52 (1982) 1-92.
• Whitaker, Richard E. and James E. Goehring, compilers. The Eerdmans Analytical Concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate School. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. 1988.
• Wilson, Robert R. Sociological Approaches to the Old Testament. Guides to Biblical Scholarship. Philadelphia: Fortress. 1984.

Feminist Hermeneutics

• Achtemeier, Elizabeth. "The Impossible Possibility: Evaluating the Feminist Approach to Bible and Theology." Interpretation 42 (1988) 45-57.
• Bal, Mieke, ed. Anti-Covenant: Counter-Reading Women's Lives in the Hebrew Bible. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 81. Bible and Literature 22. Sheffield: Almond. 1989.
• Bal, Mieke. Lethal Love: A Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories. Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature. Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 1987.
• Bird, Phyllis A. "Translating Sexist Language as a Theological and Cultural Problem." Union Seminary Quarterly Review 42 (1-2, 1988) 89-95.
• Brenner, Athalya. The Israelite Woman: Socail Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative. The Biblical Seminar. Sheffield: JSOT Press. 1985.
• Brenner, Athalya. "Female Social Behavior: Two Descriptive Patterns Within the `Birth of the Hero' Paradigm." Vetus Testamentum 36 (1986) 257-273.
• Crawley, JoAnn. "Faith of Our Mothers: The Dark Night of Sara, Rebeka and Rachel." Review for Religions 45 (1986) 531-537.
• Cross, Nancy. "Those Poor Misquoted Scriptures." Homiletic and Pastoral Review 84 (10, 1986) 57-60.
• Darr, Katheryn Pfisterer. Far More Precious than Jewels: Perspectives on Biblical Women. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox. 1991.
• David, Stephanie. "God the Father: A Symbol for Feminist Theology?" Theology Digest 35 (1988) 35-38.
• Day, Peggy L., ed. Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis: Fortress. 1989.
• Domeris, W. R. "Biblical Perspectives on the Role of Women." Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 55 (June 1986) 58-61.
• Eskenazi, Tamara C. "Out From the Shadows: Biblical Women in the Post-Exilic Era." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 54 (1992) 25-43.
• Fewell, Danna Nolan. "Feminist Reading of the Hebrew Bible: Affirmation, Resistance and Transformation." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 39 (1987) 77-87.
• Frankiel, Tamar. The Voice of Sarah: Feminine Spirituality and Traditional Judaism. San Francisco: Harper. 1990.
• Greenspahn, Fredrick E. "A Typology of Biblical Women." Judaism 32 (1983) 43-50.
• Heine, Susan. Matriarchs, Goddesses, and Images of God: A Critique of a Feminist Theology. Tr. by J. Bowden. Minneapolis: Augsburg. 1989.
• Hoppe, Leslie J. "The Bible on Women: Patterns of Interpretation." The Bible Today 28 (1990) 330-35.
• Jobling, David. "Feminism and `Mode of Production' in Ancient Israel: Search for a Method." Gottwald Festschrift. 239-51.
• Kaiser, Barbara Bakke. "Poet as `Female Impersonator:' The Image of Daughter Zion as Speaker in Biblical Poems of Suffering." Journal of Religion 67 (1987) 164-82.
• Laffey, Alice L. An Introduction to the Old Testament. A Feminist Perspective. Philadelphia: Fortress. 1988.
• Levin, Amy-Jill, ed. "Women Like This: New Perspectives on Jewish Women in the Greco-Roman World." SBL Early Judaism and its Literature 1. Atlanta: Scholars Press. 1991.
• McHatten, Mary T. "Biblical Roots of Women." Emmanuel 89 (1983) 392-395.
• Meyers, Carol. Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1988.
• Miller, John W. "Depatriarchalilizing God in Biblical Interpretation." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 48 (1986) 609-616.
• Muller, Iris and Ida Raming. "Women and Judaism." Theology Digest 34 (1987) 216-18.
• Newsom, Carol A. and Sharon H. Ringe, eds. The Women's Bible Commentary. London: SPCK; Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox. 1992.
• Nowell, Irene. "Roles of Women in the Old Testament." The Bible Today 28 (1990) 364-68.
• O'Day, Gail. "Singing a Woman's Song: A Hermeneutic of Liberation." Currents in Theology and Mission 12 (1985) 203-210.
• Osiek, Carolyn. "Biblical Images of the Feminine: Some Alternative Considerations." The Bible Today 28 (1990) 342-46.
• Osiek, Carolyn. "Jacob's Well: Feminist Hermeneutics." The Bible Today 24 (1986) 18-19.
• Perkins, Pheme. "Women in the Bible and its World." Interpretation 42 (1988) 33-44.
• Porter, Jean. "The Feminization of God: Second Thoughts on the Ethical Implications of Process Theology." Saint Luke's Journal of Theology 29 (1986) 251-260.
• Raja, R. J. "God as Mother in the Old Testament." Jeeradhara 21 (1991) 107-17.
• Russell, Letty M., ed. Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. Philadelphia: Westminister. 1985.
• Sakenfeld, Katherine Doob. "Feminist Biblical Interpretation." Theology Today 46 (1989) 154-68.
• Sakenfeld, Katherine Doob. "Feminist Perspectives on Bible and Theology: An Introduction to Selected Issues and Literature." Interpretation 42 (1988) 5-18.
• Teubal, Sarina J. Hagar the Egyptian: The Lost Tradition of the Matriarchs. San Francisco/New York/Grand Rapids: Harper & Row. 1990.
• Tolbert, Mary Ann. "Protestant Feminists and the Bible: On the Horns of a Dilemma." Union Seminary Quarterly Review 43 (1989) 1-17.
• Trible, Phyllis. Texts of Terror. Overtures to Biblical Theology. Philadelphia: Fortress. 1984.
• Trible, Phyllis. "Five Loaves and Two Fishes: Feminist Hermeneutics and Biblical Theology." Theological Studies 50 (1989) 279-95.
• Turner, Mary Donovan. "Rebekah: Ancestor of Faith." Lexington Theological Quarterly 20 (1985) 42-49.
• Zappone, Katharine E. "A Feminist Hermeneutics for Scripture: The Standpoint of the Interpreter." Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association 8 (1984) 25-38.

Literary Criticism

• Aichele, George, Jr. The Limits of Story. Semeia Studies. Chico, CA: Scholars Press; Philadelphia: Fortress. 1985.
• Alter, Robert and Frank Kermode, eds. The Literary Guide to the Bible. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1987.
• Berlin, Adele and James Kugel. "On the Bible as Literature." Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 2 (1982) 323-332.
• Crenshaw, James L. Old Testament Story and Faith: A Literary and Theological Introduction. Peabody. MA: Hendrickson. 1992.
• Frye, Roland Mushat. "Language for God and Feminist Language: A Literary and Rhetorical Analysis." Interpretation 43 (1989) 45-57.
• Fuerst, Wesley J. "Literary, Rhetorical Criticism. "The Bible Today 26 (1988) 20-24.
• Gabel, John B. and Charles B. Wheeler. The Bible as Literature: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press. 1986.
• Geller, Stephen A., Edward L. Greenstein and Adele Berlin. A Sense of Text: The Art of Languages in the Study of Biblical Literature. A Supplement to The Jewish Quarterly Review. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. 1983.
• Gunn, David M. "New Directions in the Study of Biblical Hebrew Narrative." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 39 (1987) 65-75.
• House, Paul R., ed. Beyond Form Criticism: Essays in Old Testament Literary Criticism. Sources for Biblical and Theological Studies 2. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. 1992.
• Jobling, David. "Sociological and Literary Approaches to the Bible: How Shall the Twain Meet?" Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 38 (1987) 85-93.
• Kugel, James L. Poetry and Prophecy: The Beginning of a Literary Tradition. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1990.
• Kugel, James. "On the Bible and Literary Criticism." Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 1 (1981) 217-236.
• Longman, Tremper III. "The Literary Approach to the Study of the Old Testament: Promise and Pitfalls. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 28 (1985) 385-98.
• Louis, Kenneth, R. R. Gros and James S. Ackerman, eds. Literary Interpretations of the Bible Narratives. Volume II. Nashville: Abingdon. 1984.
• Preminger, Alex and Edward L. Greenstein, eds. The Hebrew Bible in Literary Criticism. Library of Literary Criticism. New York: Ungar. 1986.
• Schwartz, Regina (ed.). The Book and the Text: The Bible and Literary Theory. Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. 1990.
• Sprinkle, Joe M. "Literary Approaches to the Old Testament: A Survey of Recent Scholarship." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 32 (1989) 299-310.
• White, Hugh E. "Introduction: Speech Act Theory and Literary Criticism." Semeia 41 (1988) 1-24.
• White, Leland J. "Historical and Literary Criticism: A Theological Response." Biblical Theology Bulletin 13 (1983) 32-34.

Liberation Hermeneutics

• Bonino, José Miguez. "The Biblical Roots of Justice." Word & World 7 (1987) 12-21.
• Croatto, Severino. "Biblical Hermeneutics in the Theology of the Oppressed." Vidyajyoti 46 (Delhi, India; 1982) 54-69.
• Epeztein, Leon. Social Justice in the Ancient Near East and the People of the Bible. London: SCM Press. 1986.
• Habel, Norman C. "Liberation Theology and the Old Testament in South India." Lutheran Theological Journal 20 (1986) 55-63.
• Kalluveettil, Paul. "The Marginalizing Dialects of the Bible." Biblebhashyam 11 (1985) 201-14.
• Kaniarakath, P. George, C.M.I. "Liberation in the Old Testament." Biblebhashyam. (Kerala, India) 9 (1983) 5-16.
• Koonthaniam, George. "Israel as a People's Movement for Liberation." Jeevadhara 15 (1985) 288-306.
• Malchow, Bruce V. "Social Justice in Wisdom Literature." Biblical Theology Bulletin 12 (1982) 120-124.
• Mays, James Luther. "Justice: Perspectives from the Prophetic Tradition." Interpretation 37 (1983) 5-17.
• Schreiber, P.L. "Liberation Theology and the Old Testament: An Exegetical Critique." Concordia Journal 13 (1987) 27-46.
• Stuhlmacher, Carroll. "Justice Toward the Poor." The Bible Today 24 (1986) 385-390.

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