Bibliography

Song of Songs

Ruth

Lamentations

Ecclesiastes

Esther

Bickerman, Elias (1967). Four Strange Books of the Bible: Jonah, Daniel, Koheleth, Esther. New York: Schocken.
Kreeft, Peter (1989). Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs. San Francisco: Ignatius.

Song of Songs
Block, A. and Block, C. (1995). The Song of Songs: A New Translation with an Introduction and Commentary. New York: Random House
Brenner, A. (1989). Song of Songs. Old Testament Guides. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic.
Falk, Marcia (1990). The Song of Songs: A New Translation and Interpretation. San Francisco: Harper & Row. Reads the song as thirty-one thematically and literarily related love poems in three voices.
Goulder, M. D. (1986). The Song of Fourteen Songs. Sheffield: JSOT.
Landy, Francis (1983). Paradoxes of Paradise: Identity and Difference in the Song of Songs. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.
Matter, E. Ann (1990). The Voice of My Beloved: the Song of songs in western medieval Christianity. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania.
Murphy, Roland E. (1990). The Song of Songs: A Commentary on the Book of Canticles or the Song of Songs.. Hermeneia Series. Minneapolis: Fortress.
Pope, Marvin H. (1977). The Song of Songs. Anchor Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
Seerveld, Calvin (1967). The Greatest Song. In Critique of Solomon. Palos Heights, IL: Trinity Pennyasheet.: The Song of Songs translated and arranged for oratio performance, renders it in dramatic fashion with Solomon viewed as a villain trying to come between the two lovers.
Tournay, Raymond Jacques (1988). Word of God, Song of Love: A Commentary on the Song of Songs. New York, N.Y. and Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist.: Views the song both as an allegory of divine love and as a human love song.

Atkinson, David (1983). The Message of Ruth: The Wings of Refuge. The Bible Speaks Today. Leicester, Eng. and Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity.
Bertram, Stephen (1965). "Symmetrical Design in the Book of Ruth." Journal of Biblical Literature 84: 165-168.
Campbell, Edward F. (1975). Ruth. Anchor Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
Caspi, Mishael Maswari (1994). The Book of Ruth. An Annotated Bibliography. Hamden, CT: Garland.
Caspi, Mishael Maswari and Rachel S. Havrelock (1996). Women on the Biblical Road. Ruth, Naomi, and the Female Journey. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.: Examines the book of Ruth as a tale of the female adventure, a cycle of return and redemption.
Darr, Katheryn Pfisterer (1991). Far More Precious than Jewels: Perspectives on Biblical Women. Gender and the Biblical Tradition Series. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox.: An introduction to traditional Jewish views of Ruth, Sarah, Hagar and Esther.
Fewell, Danna Nolan, and David Miller Gunn (1990). Compromising Redemption: Relating Characters in the Book of Ruth. Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox.
Fisch, Harold (1982). "Ruth and the Structure of Covenant History." Vetus Testamentum 32: 425-437.
Hals, Ronald (1969). The Theology of the Book of Ruth. Facet Books, 23. Philadelphia: Fortress.
Hubbard, Robert L., Jr. (1988). The Book of Ruth. New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Larkin, Katrina J. A. (1996). Ruth and Esther. Old Testament Guides. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic.
Sasson, Jack M. (1989). Ruth: A New Translation with a Philological Commentary and a Formalist-Folklorist Interpretation. 2d ed. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.
Trible, Phyllis (1978). "A Human Comedy." Trible (1978): 166-199. Lamentations
Gottwald, Norman K. (1962). Studies in the Book of Lamentations. Studies in Biblical Theology, 1st Series, 14. London: SCM.
Hillers, Delbert R. (1972). Lamentations. Anchor Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
Provan, Iain W. (1991). Lamentations. New Century Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Westermann, C. (1993). Lamentations: Issues and Interpretation. Minneapolis: Fortress.

Ecclesiastes
Crenshaw, James L. (1987). Ecclesiastes. Old Testament Library. Philadelphia: Westminster.
Ellul, Jacques (1991). Reason for Being. A Meditation on Ecclesiastes. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Gordis, Robert (1951). Koheleth: The Man and His World. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America.: A collection of essays on the literature and theology of Ecclesiastes.
Loader, John A. (1979). Polar Structures in the Book of Qoheleth. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift f¸r die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 152. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Ogden, Graham (1987). Qohelet. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.
Shepherd, Gerald T. (1977). "The Epilogue to Qoheleth as Theological Commentary." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 39: 182-189.
Sperka, Joshua S. (1972). Ecclesiastes: Stories to Live By. New York: Bloch.: A translation with stories from midrashic and talmudic literature illustrating each verse.
Wright, Addison G. (1976). "The Riddle of the Sphinx: The Structure of the Book of Qoheleth." In Crenshaw 1976: 245-266.
Wright, Addison G. (1980). "The Riddle of the Sphinx Revisited: Numerical Patterns in the Book of Qoheleth." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 42: 38-51.

Esther
Berg, Sandra Beth (1979). The Book of Esther. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series, 44. Missoula, Mont.: Scholars.
Clines, David J.A. (1984). The Esther Scroll: The Story of the Story. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 30. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.
Craig, K. (1995). Reading Esther: A Case for the Literary Carnivalesque. Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.: Argues that the Esther narrative responds to official lnaguage and culture with carnivalized language, images and themes, and that this response is reflected in the ritual laughter of Purim.
Fox, Michael (1991). Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther. Columbia: University of South Carolina.
Larkin, Katrina J. A. (1996). Ruth and Esther. Old Testament Guides. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic.
Talmon, Shemaryahu (1963). "Wisdom in the Book of Esther." Vetus Testamentum 13: 419-55.

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