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General
 
Aageson, James W.  In the Beginning: Critical Concepts for the Study of the Bible.  Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 2000.
 
Aharoni, Yohanan.  The Archaeology of the Land of Israel, trans. Anson F. Rainey.  Philadelphia: Westminster, 1982; Hebrew original, Jerusalem: Shikmona, 1978.
 
--------.  The Land of the Bible: A Historical Geography, rev. ed., trans. and ed. Anson F. Rainey.  Philadelphia: Westminster, 1979.
 
Boadt, Lawrence.  Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction.  New York: Paulist, 1984.
 
Killen, Patricia O'Connell and John de Beer.  The Art of Theological Reflection.  New York: Crossroad, 1998.
 
Lance, H. Darrell.  The Old Testament and the Archaeologist, Guides to Biblical Scholarship, Old Testament Series.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981.
 
Pleins, J. David.  The Social Visions of the Hebrew Bible: A Theological Introduction.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000.
 
Pritchard, James B., ed.  The Ancient Near East, vol. 1, An Anthology of Texts and Pictures.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1958.
 
--------, ed.  The Ancient Near East, vol. 2, A New Anthology of Texts and Pictures.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1975.
 
Ralph, Margaret Nutting.  "And God Said What?" An Introduction to Biblical Literary Forms for Bible Lovers.  New York: Paulist, 1986.
 
Rohlheiser, Ronald.  The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality.  New York: Doubleday, 1999.
 
Whelan, Michael.  Living Strings: An Introduction to Biblical Spirituality.  Newtown, Australia: E. J. Dwyer, 1994.
Torah/Pentateuch
 
Alter, Robert.  The Art of Biblical Narrative.  New York: Basic Books, 1981.
 
Blenkinsopp, Joseph.  The Pentateuch: An Introduction ot the First Five Books of the Bible, Anchor Bible Reference Library.  New York: Doubleday, 1992.
 
Brueggemann, Walter and and Patrick D. Miller, eds.  The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.
 
--------.  The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith.   Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977.
 
Friedman, Richard Elliott.  The Exile and Biblical Narrative: The Formation of the Deuteronomistic and Priestly Works.  Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1981.
 
--------.  Who Wrote the Bible?  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997.
 
Habel, Norman C.  The Land is Mine: Six Biblical Land Ideologies, Overtures to Biblical Theology.   Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
 
Levenson, Jon D.  Sinai and Zion : An Entry into the Jewish Bible.  San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985.
Historical Books
 
Alter, Robert.  The Art of Biblical Narrative.  New York: Basic Books, 1981.
 
Brueggemann, Walter.  The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith.   Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977.
 
--------.  Testimony to Otherwise: The Witness of Elijah and Elisha.  Chalice, 2001.
 
de Pury, Albert, Thomas Römer and Jean-Daniel Macchi, eds.  Israel Constructs its History: Deuteronomistic Historiography in Recent Research, JSOTSup 306.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
 
Friedman, Richard Elliott.  The Exile and Biblical Narrative: The Formation of the Deuteronomistic and Priestly Works.  Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1981.
 
Habel, Norman C.  The Land is Mine: Six Biblical Land Ideologies, Overtures to Biblical Theology.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
 
Knoppers, Gary N. and J. Gordon McConville, eds.  Reconsidering Israel and Judah: Recent Studies on the Deuteronomistic History.  Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2000.
 
Mullen, E. Theodore, Jr.  Narrative History and Ethnic Boundaries: The Deuteronomistic Historian and the Creation of Israelite National Identity, Semeia Studies.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.
 
Noth, Martin.  The Deuteronomistic History, JSOTSup 15.  Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1991.
Prophetic Books
 
Blenkinsopp, Joseph.  A History of Prophecy in Israel.  Philadelphia: Westminster, 1983.
 
Brueggemann, Walter.  A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1998.
 
--------.  Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.
 
--------.  The Prophetic Imagination, rev. ed.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001; original 1978.
 
--------.  Texts that Linger, Words that Explode: Listening to Prophetic Voices.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.
 
Heschel, Abraham J.  The Prophets: An Introduction, 2 vols.  New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1962.
 
Petersen, David L., ed.  Prophecy in Israel, Issues in Religion and Theology 10.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987.
 
Scott, James M., ed.  Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions, JSJSup 56.  Leiden: Brill, 1997.
 
Smith-Christopher, Daniel.  A Biblical Theology of Exile, Overtures to Biblical Theology.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.
 
Wisdom Literature/Writings
 
Alter, Robert.  The Art of Biblical Poetry.  New York: Basic Books, 1985.
 
Bergant, Dianne, C.S.A.  What Are They Saying about Wisdom Literature?  New York: Paulist, 1984.
 
Blenkinsopp, Joseph.  Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament: The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaism, The Oxford Bible Series.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
 
Brown, William P.  Character in Crisis: A Fresh Approach to the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1996.
 
Brueggemann, Walter.  The Psalms and the Life of Faith.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
 
--------.  Spirituality of the Psalms, Facets.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.
 
Collins, John J.  Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age, The Old Testament Library.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997.
 
Perdue, Leo G., Bernard Brandon Scott and William Johnston Wiseman, eds.  In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie.  Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1993.
 
Pleins, J. David.  The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1993.
Second Temple Literature
 
Ancient Texts
Abegg, Martin, Jr., Peter Flint and Eugene Ulrich, trans.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.
 
Charlesworth, James H., ed.  The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 vols.  New York: Doubleday, 1985.
 
García Martínez, Florentino.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English, 2d ed.  Grand Rapids, Michigan/Leiden: Wm. B. Eerdmans/Brill, 1996; Spanish original, Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 1992.
 
Reddish, Mitchell G., ed.  Apocalyptic Literature: A Reader.  Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1995; original, 1990.
 
Modern Commentary
Collins, John J.  The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature, 2d ed., The Biblical Resource Series.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998; original, 1984.
 
--------.  The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature, Anchor Bible Reference Library.  New York: Doubleday, 1995.
 
Tripolitis, Antonía.  Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002.
 
Ulrich, Eugene.  The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible, Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999.
 
VanderKam, James C.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Today.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1994.
Church Teaching
 
Vatican II
Dei Verbum: Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, 18 November 1965.
 
 
 
Papal Encyclicals (in chronological order)
 
Pope Leo XIII.  "Providentissimus Deus."  Acta Apostolicae Sedis 26 (1893-1894) 269-92; promulgated 18 November 1893.  The document was republished in Rome and the Study of Scripture: A Collection of Papal Enactments on the Study of Holy Scripture together with the Decisions of the Biblical Commission (7th ed.; St. Meinrad, Indiana: Abbey Press, 1964) §81-134.

  • Full text in English, hosted by the Holy See.

  • Cotter, A. C.  "The Antecedents of the Encyclical Providentissiumus Deus."  Catholic Biblical Quarterly 5 (1943) 117-24.

  • Murphy, R. T.  "The Teachings of the Encyclical Providentissiumus Deus."  Catholic Biblical Quarterly 5 (1943) 125-40.

  • Hartdegen, S.  "The Influence of the Encyclical Providentissiumus Deus on Subsequent Scripture Study."  Catholic Biblical Quarterly 5 (1943) 141-59.
 
Pope Pius XII.  "Divino afflante Spiritu."  Acta Apostolicae Sedis 35 (1943) 297-325; promulgated 30 September 1943.  The document was republished in Rome and the Study of Scripture: A Collection of Papal Enactments on the Study of Holy Scripture together with the Decisions of the Biblical Commission (7th ed.; St. Meinrad, Indiana: Abbey Press, 1964) §538-69.

  • Full text in English, hosted by the Holy See.

  • Ahern, B.  "Textual Directives of the Encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu."  Catholic Biblical Quarterly 7 (1945) 340-47.

  • Hamilton, G. J.  "Divino afflante Spiritu: Catholic Interpretation of Scripture."  Canadian Catholic Review 6 (1988) 171-6.
 
 
 
Pontifical Biblical Commission
"The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church."  Washington, D. C.: USCC, 1996; original 15 April 1993.
  • Fitzmyer, Joseph A., S.J.  The Biblical Commission's Document "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church": Text and Commentary, Subsidia Biblica 18.  Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1995.

  • Full text in English, hosted by the Eternal Word Television Network, Global Catholic Network.
 
"The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible."  Washington, D. C.: USCC, 1996; original 24 May 2001.
 
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