Bibliography

Biblical Poetry
Wisdom Literature
Apocalyptic Literature
Postbiblical Apocalyptic Literature
Apocalyptic Prophecy Interpretation Today
Writings as a Whole

Biblical Poetry

Alter, R. (1985). The Art of Biblical Poetry. New York: Basic Books.

Berlin, A. (1985). The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism. Bloomington: Indiana University.

Caird, G. B. (1980). The Language and Imagery of the Bible. Philadelphia: Westminster.

Fisch, H. (1988). Poetry with a Purpose. Biblical Poetics and Interpretation. Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University.

Geller, S. A. (1979). Parallelism in Early Biblical Poetry. Harvard Semitic Monographs, 20. Missoula, MT: Scholars.

Gray, G. B. (1915). The Forms of Hebrew Poetry. Reprinted 1972. New York: KTAV.

Kugel, J. L. (1981). The Idea of Biblical Poetry. Parallelism and Its History. New Haven, CT: Yale University.

O'Connor, M. (1980). Hebrew Verse Structure. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Petersen, D. L., and Richards, K. H. (1992). Interpreting Hebrew Poetry. Guides to Biblical Scholarship, Old Testament Series. Minneapolis: Fortress.

Stuart, D. K. (1976). Studies in Early Hebrew Meter. Harvard Semitic Monographs, 13. Missoula, MT: Scholars.

Watson, W. G. E. (1986). Classical Hebrew Poetry. A Guide to its Techniques. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 26. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.

Bergant, D. (1997). Israel's Wisdom Literature: A Liberation-Critical Reading. Minneapolis: Fortress.

Blenkinsopp, J. (1995). Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament: The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaism. Revised Edition. Oxford Bible Series. Oxford: Oxford University.

Brown, W. (1996). Character in Crisis: A Fresh Approach to the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Examines biblical wisdom in its role of forming moral character.

Clements, R. E. (1992). Wisdom in Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Relates biblical wisdom to the world, health, politics, the household, and the divine realm.

Crenshaw, J. L., ed. (1976). Studies in Ancient Israelite Wisdom. New York: KTAV.

A collection of essays by leading scholars of wisdom.

Crenshaw, J. L. (1981). Old Testament Wisdom: An Introduction. Atlanta: John Knox.

A general introduction to the wisdom literature of the Old Testament, intended to function as an introductory textbook.

Crenshaw, J. L. (1998). Education in Ancient Israel: Across the Deadening Silence. New York: Doubleday.

Day, J., Gordon, R. P. , and Williamson, H. G. M. , eds. (1995). Wisdom in Ancient Israel. Cambridge: Cambridge University.

Humphreys, W. L. (1985). The Tragic Vision and the Hebrew Tradition. Overtures to Biblical Theology 18. Philadelphia: Fortress.

Morgan, D. F. (1981). Wisdom in the Old Testament Traditions. Atlanta: John Knox.

Looks for wisdom influence in the Hebrew Bible outside the wisdom literature.

Murphy, R. E. (1981). Wisdom Literature: Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Canticles, Ecclesiastes, Esther. The Forms of the Old Testament Literature 13. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Murphy, R. E. (1983). Wisdom Literature and Psalms. Nashville: Abingdon.

Murphy, R. E. (1990). The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature. The Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday.

A general introduction to the wisdom books, including Ben Sira (Sirach), and the Wisdom of Solomon.

Perdue, L. G. (1977). Wisdom and Cult. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 30. Missoula: Scholars.

Examines the relationship between the wisdom and priestly traditions.

Perdue, L. G., B. B. Scott, and W. J. Wiseman, eds. (1993). In Search of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox.

A collection of essays.

Rylaarsdam, J. C. (1946). Revelation in Jewish Wisdom Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago.

A biblical-theological study of the issues of authority, nature, and grace in the wisdom tradition.

Scott, R.B.Y. (1971). The Way of Wisdom in the Old Testament. New York: Macmillan.

A classic introductory text to the biblical wisdom tradition.

Von Rad, G. (1972). Wisdom in Israel. Nashville: Abingdon.

Weeks, S. (1994). Early Israelite Wisdom. Oxford: Clarendon.

Argues against the thesis that biblical wisdom literature originated as educative material in schools for future bureaucrats, and implied a class of the 'wise.'

Charlesworth, J. H. (1983, 1985). The Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. 2 volumes. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

The definitive collection of texts in English translation.

Cohn, N. (1993). Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come. The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith. New Haven and London: Yale University.

Collins, J. J., editor (1979). Apocalyptic: The Morphology of a Genre. Semeia 14.

Collins, J. J., et al. editor (1998). The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism.

Cook, S. L. (1996). Prophecy and Apocalypticism. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress.

Suggests that apocalyptic writings came from priestly groups that held power, not disenfranchised groups.

Hanson, P. D. (1975). The Dawn of Apocalyptic.The Historical and Sociological Roots of Jewish Apocalyptic Eschatology. Philadelphia: Fortress.

Argues that the roots of apocalypticism are to be found in a disenfranchised group excluded from power in the restored Jerusalem temple.

Hanson, P. D. (1987). Old Testament Apocalyptic. Interpreting Biblical Texts Series. Nashville: Abingdon.

Koch, K. (1972). The Rediscovery of Apocalyptic. London: SCM.

Niditch, S. (1983). The Symbolic Vision in Biblical Tradition. Harvard Semitic Monographs 30. Chico, CA: Scholars.

Reddish, M. G., ed.. (1990). Apocalyptic Literature. A Reader. Nashville: Abingdon.

An anthology of important Jewish and early Christian apocalyptic texts with brief commentary.

Rowley, H. H. (1944). The Relevance of Apocalyptic. London: Lutterworth.

Russell, D. S. (1964). The Method and Message of Jewish Apocalyptic: 200 B.C.-A.D. 100. Philadelphia: Westminster.

Russell, D. S. (1978). Apocalyptic: Ancient and Modern. Philadelphia: Fortress.

A distillation and popularization of the previous book, with special attention to the enduring significance of apocalyptic literature.

Schmitals, W. (1975). The Apocalyptic Movement. Nashville: Abingdon.

Wilson, R. R. (1981). "From Prophecy to Apocalyptic: Reflections on the Shape of Israelite Religion." Semeia 21: 79-95.

Collins, J. J. (1984). The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to the Jewish Matrix of Christianity. New York: Crossroad.

Kvanvig, H. S. (1988). Roots of Apocalyptic: The Mesopotamian Background of the Enoch Figure and of the Son of Man. Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag.

Rowland, C. (1982). The Open Heaven: A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Early Christianity. New York: Crossroad.

Stone, M. (1980). Scriptures, Sects and Visions: A Profile of Judaism from Ezra to the Jewish Revolts. Philadelphia: Fortress.

Hoekema, A. A. (1979). The Bible and the Future. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

Treats the full range of eschatological topics in a survey of the relevant Old and New Testament materials.

Boyer, P. (1992). When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University.

Examines the history and cultural context of modern apocalypticism.

Friedrich, O. (1982). The End of the World: A History. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.

Looks at times in history when the world literally came to an end for large numbers of people.

Kvanvig, H. S. (1989). "The Relevance of the Biblical Visions of the End-Time: Hermeneutical Guidelines to the Apocalyptical Literature." Horizons in Biblical Theology 11: 35-58.

Shaw, E. (1995). Eve of Destruction: Prophecies, Theories, and Preparations for the End of the World. Los Angeles: Lowell House.

Thrupp, S. L., ed. (1970). Millennial Dreams in Action. New York: Schocken.

Wagar, W. W. (1982). Terminal Visions: The Literature of Last Things. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.

Zamora, L. P., ed. (1982). The Apocalyptic Vision in America: Interdisciplinary Essays on Myth and Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular.

Zamora, L. P. (1989). Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction. New York: Cambridge University.

Childs, B. S. (1992). Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on the Christian Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress.

Treats the two testaments in mutual relationship and exposes their theological continuities and discontinuities.

Goldingay, J. (1987). Theological Diversity and the Authority of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans.

Deals with the diversity of theological voices within the Old Testament in light of the need to have the Bible speak with a single authoritative voice.

Levenson, J. D. (1993). The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism: Jews and Christians in Biblical Studies. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox.

A collection of Levenson's essays written from a Jewish perspective that examine the relationship between Jewish and Christian interpretive communities, the role of modern biblical criticism, and the canon.

Morgan, D. F. (1990). Between Text and Community: The "Writings" in Canonical Interpretation. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress .

A study of how the books of the Writings represent a re-appropriation and application of the Torah and the Prophets.

Sanders J. A. (1987). From Sacred Story to Sacred Text: Canon as Paradigm. Philadelphia: Fortress.

A collection of Sanders' essays on the development of the canon of the Hebrew Bible.