Bibliography

Proverbs
Job

Proverbs

Camp, C. (1985). Wisdom and the Feminine in the Book of Proverbs. Sheffield: Almond.

McKane, W. (1970). Proverbs: A New Approach. Old Testament Library. Philadelphia: Westminster.

Skehan, P. W. (1971). Studies in Israelite Poetry and Wisdom. Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series 1. Washington, DC: Catholic Biblical Association of America.

Pages 9-45 is a structure interpretation of the book of Proverbs that sees it as a three-part house with seven pillars.

Washington, H. C. (1994). Wealth and Poverty in the Instruction of Amenemope and the Hebrew Proverbs. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 142. Atlanta: Scholars.

Dates Proverbs to the Persian period, incorporating older material; claims Proverbs is the product of a less elite group of sages.

Westermann, C. (1995). Roots of Wisdom: The Oldest Proverbs of Israel and Other Peoples. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

Focuses on Proverbs 10-31 and argues that Israel's early wisdom literature grew out of an oral tradition that reflects an agricultural setting.

Whybray, R. N. (1965). Wisdom in Proverbs: The Concept of Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9. Studies in Biblical Theology 45. London: SCM.

Contains a detailed examination of the form of proverbs and their purpose in educating the youth of Israel.

Whybray, R. N. (1972). The Book of Proverbs. The Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University.

Whybray, R. N. (1997). The Book of Proverbs: A Survey of Modern Study. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Job

Course, J. E. (1994). Speech and Response: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Introductions to the Speeches of the Book of Job, Chaps. 4-24. Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series 25. Washington, D. C.: Catholic Biblical Association of America.

Day, P. (1988). An Adversary in Heaven, satan in the Hebrew Bible. Harvard Semitic Monographs 43. Atlanta: Scholars.

Forsyth, N. (1987). The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth. Princeton: Princeton University.

Good, E. M. (1990). In Turns of Tempest: A Rereading of Job, with a Translation. Stanford: Stanford University.

Gordis, R. (1965). The Book of God and Man: A Study of Job. Chicago: University of Chicago.

GutiÈrrez, G. (1987). On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.

Habel, N. (1985). Job. Old Testament Library. Philadelphia: Westminster.

Mitchell, S. (1987). The Book of Job. New York: HarperPerennial.

A translation of the book of Job.

Penchansky, D. (1992). The Betrayal of God: Ideological Conflict in Job. Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox.

Perdue, L. G. (1991). Wisdom in Revolt. Metaphorical Theology in the Book of Job. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 112; Bible and Literature Series 29. Sheffield: Almond.

Perdue, L. G. and W.C. Gilpin, eds. (1992). The Voice from the Whirlwind: Interpreting the Book of Job. Nashville: Abingdon.

A collection of essays.

Terrien, S. (1996). The Iconography of Job Through the Centuries. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press

Examines how artists from the third century C.E. up to modern times have depicted and responded to the book of Job.

Whedbee, J. W. (1977). "The Comedy of Job." Semeia 7: 1-39.

Wolfers, D. (1995). Deep Things out of Darkness. The Book of Job: Essays and a New English Translation. Kampen: Pharos; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans

A translation with extensive notes that argues that Job is an allegory of the people of Judah at the time of the Assyrian conquests and the exile of the ten lost tribes.

Zuckerman, B. (1991). Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint. New York and Oxford: Oxford University.