REQUIRED RESOURCES FOR PERSONAL USE:
Access to a copy of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS)
and
to a dictionary of biblical Hebrew, like Brown, Francis, Driver, S. R. and Briggs, Charles A. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (BDB) TF qE 40 Bro, Koehler, Ludwig, Baumgartner, Walter, and Stamm, Johann J. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Translated and edited under the supervision of M. E. J. Richardson. 4 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1994–1999 (HALOT) TF qE 40 K?h, or Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, ed. David Clines (DCH) TF qE 40 Dic
REQUIRED READINGS:
*Amit, Yairah. Reading Biblical Narratives: Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.
Barton, John. Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study. Westminster John Knox Press, 1996, pp. 8–43.
Bellinger, Jr., W.H. “The Psalms, Covenant, and the Persian Period.” Pp. 309–322 in Covenant in the Persian Period: From Genesis to Chronicles, ed. Richard J. Bautch and Gary N. Knoppers. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015.
Ben Zvi, Ehud. “A Balancing Act: Settling and Unsettling Issues Concerning Past Divine Promises in Historiographical Texts Shaping Social Memory in the Late Persian Period.” Pp. 109–129 in Covenant in the Persian Period: From Genesis to Chronicles, ed. Richard J. Bautch and Gary N. Knoppers. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015.
_____. “Reading Chronicles and Reshaping the Memory of Manasseh.” Pp. 121–140 in Chronicling the Chronicler. The Book of Chronicles and Early Second Temple Historiography, eds. Paul S. Evans and Tyler F. Williams. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013.
_____. “The Memory of Abraham in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah.” Pp. 13–60 in The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham, eds. Pernille Carstens and Niels-Peter Lemche. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2011.
*Carroll, Robert G. “Ideology.” Pp. 309–11 in Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. J. H. Hayes. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999.
Davies, Philip R. “Abraham/Yahweh: A Case of Male Bonding.” Bible Review 11 (1995): 24–33, 44–45.
_____. The Origins of Biblical Israel. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 485. London: T&T Clark, 2007, pp. 39–115.
Edelman, Diana V.. “David in Biblical Memory.” Pp. 141?–157 in Remembering Biblical Figures in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods: Social Memory and Imagination, eds. Diana Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
_____. “God Rhetoric: Reconceptualizing Yahweh Sebaot as Yahweh Elohim in the Hebrew Bible.” Pp. 191–219 in A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics and Language Relating to Persian Israel, eds. Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman, and Frank Polak. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2009.
_____. “Jonah among the Twelve: The Triumph of Torah over Prophecy.” Pp. 150–167 in The Production of Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud, eds. E. Ben Zvi and D. Edelman. BibleWorld. London: Equinox; Sherwood, Yvonne. A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 9–42 AND 97–137.
_____. “ She’ol and Afterlife.”
_____. “The ‘Seeing God’ Motif and Yahweh as a God of Justice.” Pp. 159–187 in Loi et Justice dans l’Orient ancien: Questions socio-historiques, idéologiques et éthiques, ed. O. Artus. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 20. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013.
Edelman, Diana et al. Opening the Books of Moses. London: Equinox, 2012, pp. 147–154.
Edenburg, Cynthia. “From Covenant to Connubium: Persian Period Developments in the Perception of Covenant in the Deuteronomistic History.” Pp. 131–152 in Covenant in the Persian Period: From Genesis to Chronicles, ed. Richard J. Bautch and Gary N. Knoppers. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015.
Lowell K. “The Appearance of Pantheon in Judah.” Pp. 27–43 in The Triumph of Elohim: From Yahwisms to Judaisms, ed. Diana V. Edelman. Biblical Exegesis & Theology 13. Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1995.
*McCarter, P. Kyle. Textual Criticism: Recovering the Text of the Hebrew Bible.
Fortress, 1986. 11.97
Mettinger, Tryggve. The Dethronement of Sebaot: Studies in the Shem and Kabod Theologies. Coniectanea Biblica Old Testament Series 18. Lund: Gleerup, 1982, pp. 38–115 (chs. 2 and 3).
Pippin, Tina. “Ideology, Ideological Criticism, and the Bible.” Currents in Research: Biblical Studies 4 (1996): 51–78.
*Rabinowitz, Paul. “Truth in Fiction: A Reexamination of Audiences.” Critical Enquiry 4 (1977): 121–42.
*Scott, W. R. A Simplified Guide to BHS: Critical Apparatus, Masora, Accents, Unusual Letters & Other Markings. 3rd ed. Bibal Press, 2007.
Zevit, Ziony. The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches. London: Continuum, 2001, pp. 350–438 (ch. 5).
RESERVE READING NOT TO BE CHECKED OUT OF THE LIBRARY:
Eissfeldt, O. The Old Testament: An introduction including the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and also the works of similar type from Qumran; The history of the formation of the Old Testament. Oxford: Blackwell, 1965, pp. 9–153.
Fokkelman, Jan P. Reading Biblical Narrative: A Practical Guide. Tools for Biblical Study. Leiden: Deo, 1999.
Gunn, M. David and Fewell, Danna Nolan. Narrative in the Hebrew Bible. The Oxford Bible Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Ska, Jean Louis. “Our Fathers Have Told Us”: Introduction to the Analysis of Hebrew Narratives. Subsidia biblica 13. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1990.
Steck, Odil Hannes. Old Testament Exegesis: A Guide to the Methodology. Translated by J.D. Nogalski. Resources for Biblical Study Vol. 39. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1998.
Tov, Emanuel. Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. Philadelphia: Fortress, 2012.
Wonneberger, Reinhard. Understanding BHS: A Manual for the Users of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Subsidia biblica 8. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute., 1984 and 1999.