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Bibliography

Former Prophets (Deuteronomistic History)

Brueggemann, W. (1968). "The Kerygma of the Deuteronomistic Historian: Gospel for Exiles." Interpretation 22: 387-402.
Examines the term good in the DH to focus on how something good can come out of the exile.

Fretheim, T. E. (1983). Deuteronomic History. Interpreting Biblical Texts Series. Nashville, TN: Abingdon.
Examines the DH by providing commentaries to specific texts.

Friedman, R. E. (1981). The Exile and Biblical Narrative: The Formation of the Deuteronomistic and Priestly Works. Harvard Semitic Monograph Series 22. Chico, CA: Scholars.
The first chapter discusses Cross's two editions of the Deuteronomistic history, with special attention given to the editorial work of the exilic period.

Noth, M. (1981). The Deuteronomistic History. Sheffield: University of Sheffield.
This volume is a translation of Martin Noth's Ðberlieferungsgeschichtliche Studien, pp. 1-110 in the 2nd ed.

Polzin, R. (1980). Moses and the Deuteronomist. A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History--Part One: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges. New York: Seabury.
In this and the following two books Polzin writes a commentary on the DH, viewing it as a unified historiography artfully composed by literary minds.

Polzin, R. (1989). Samuel and the Deuteronomist. A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History--Part Two: 1 Samuel. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Polzin, R. (1993). David and the Deuteronomist. A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History--Part Three: 2 Samuel. Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University.

Weinfeld, M. (1972). Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School. Oxford: Clarendon.

Wolff, H. W. (1975). "The Kerygma of the Deuteronomic Historical Work." In Brueggemann (1975).

Latter Prophets

Aberbach, D. (1993). Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy, 750-500 BCE. London: Routledge.
Presents the prophets of this period as leaders in a war against cultural imperialism.

Blenkinsopp, J. (1983). A History of Prophecy in Israel. Philadelphia: Westminster.

Bright, J. (1976). Covenant and Promise. The Prophetic Understanding of the Future in Pre-Exilic Israel. Philadelphia: Westminster.

Blenkinsopp, J. (1983). A History of Prophecy in Israel. Philadelphia: Westminster.

Miller, J. W. (1987). Meet the Prophets. A Beginner's Guide to the Books of the Biblical Prophets. New York/Mahwah: Paulist.

RofÈ, A. (1997). Introduction to the Prophetic Literature. Biblical Seminar 21. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic.

Sawyer, J. F. A. (1993). Prophecy and the Biblical Prophets. Rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University.

Ward, J. M. (1991). Thus Says the Lord. The Message of the Prophets. Nashville: Abingdon.

Winward, Stephen (1969). A Guide to the Prophets. Atlanta: John Knox.

Wood, L. J. (1979). The Prophets of Israel. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.

History of Israel

Ahlstrom, G. (1993). The History of Ancient Palestine. Minneapolis: Augsburg/Fortress.

Bright, J. (1981). A History of Israel. 3d ed. Philadelphia: Westminster.
Stands in the American tradition of biblical scholarship associated with W. F. Albright and G. E. Wright; takes an optimistic view of the Hebrew Bible's historical accuracy and scholars' ability to reconstruct history.

Coote, R. B. (1990). Early Israel: A New Horizon. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress.

Hayes, J. H. and J. M. Miller (1986). A History of Ancient Israel and Judah. Philadelphia: Westminster.

Hayes, J. H. and J. M. Miller, eds. (1990). Israelite and Judean History. London : SCM Press; Philadelphia: Trinity Press International.

Herrmann, S. (1975). A History of Israel in Old Testament Times. Philadelphia: Fortress.

Shanks, H., ed. (1988). Ancient Israel: A Short History from Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple. Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society.

Biblical Historiography

Brettler, Marc Zvi (1995). The Creation of History in Ancient Israel. London, New York: Routledge.
Examines how the biblical historian used his sources and texts, often editing them and adapting them for rhetorical and ideological reasons.

Giovanni Garbini (1988). History and Ideology in Ancient Israel. London.

Halpern, Baruch (1988). The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Jamieson-Drake, David (1991). Scribes and Schools in Monarchic Judah. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic.

Krentz, Edgar (1975). The Historical-Critical Method. Philadelphia: Fortress.

Miller, J. Maxwell (1976). The Old Testament and the Historian. Philadelphia: Fortress.

Van Seters, J. (1983). In Search of History: Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History. New Haven: Yale University.

Israelite Religion

Albertz, Rainer (1994). A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster/John Knox.
Translation of : Religionsgeschichte Israels in alttestamentlicher Zeit. v. 1. From the beginnings to the end of the monarchy -- v. 2. From the exile to the Maccabees.

Cross, Frank Moore (1973). Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard. (1990). The Savage in Judaism: An Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.

Hiebert, Theodore. (1996). The Yahwist's Landscape: Nature and Religion in Early Israel. Oxford: Oxford University.

Keel, O. and C. Uehlinger (1997). Gods, Goddesses, and Images of God in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis: Fortress.

Miller, P. D., Jr., ed. (1987). Ancient Israelite Religion: Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross. Philadelphia: Augsburg.

Niditch, S. (1997). Ancient Israelite Religion. Oxford: Oxford University.

Tigay, J. H. (1986). You Shall Have No Other Gods. Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Inscriptions. Harvard Semitic Monographs 31. Atlanta: Scholars.

Van der Toorn, K. (1994). From Her Cradle to Her Grave : The Role of Religion in the Life of the Israelite and the Babylonian Woman. The Biblical Seminar 23. Sheffield: JSOT.

Ethics and Religion

Crenshaw, James L. and Willis, John T., eds. (1974). Essays in Old Testament Ethics. J. P. Hyatt, In Memoriam. New York: KTAV.

Knight, D. A., ed. (1995). Ethics and Politics in the Hebrew Bible. Semeia 66. Atlanta: Scholars.
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