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Course Bibliography:
- *The Bible and the American Myth: A Symposium on the Bible and
the Construction of Meaning (Macon: Mercer University Pres, 1999)
- The Cambridge History of the Bible (CHB), 3 vols., eds P. R.
Ackroyd, C. F. Evans, S. L. Greenslade and G. W. H. Lampe (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1963, 1969, 1970) (available in Bird Library
Reference section and in the stacks)
- *Canonization and Decanonization, with An Annotated
Bibliography by J. A. M. Snoek, eds. A. van der Kooij, K. van der Toorn
(Leiden: Brill, 1998)
- The Image and the Book: Iconic Cults, Aniconism and the Rise of
Book Religion in Israel and the Ancient Near East, ed. K. van der
Toorn (Louven: Peeters, 1997)
- The Impact of Scripture on Early Christianity, ed. J.
den Boeft & M. L. van Poll-van de Lisdonk (Leiden: Brill, 1999)
- The Use of Sacred Books in the Ancient World, ed. L.V.
Rutgers et al (Leuven: Peeters, 1998)
- *With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, ed. J. D. McAuliffe, B. D.
Walfish, and J. W. Goering (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
- Akenson, Donald Harmon. Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the
Bible and the Talmuds (Chicago, 1998).
- *Al-Azmeh, A. “The Muslim Canon from Late Antiquity to the Era of
Modernism” in Canonization and Decanonization 191-228.
- *Alexander, Philip S. "`Homer the Prophet of All' and 'Moses our
Teacher': Late Antique Exegesis of the Homeric Epics and of the Torah of
Moses," in Use of Sacred Books 127-142.
- Alter, Robert. Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the
Authority of Scripture (New Haven: Yale, 2000).
- Bainton, Roland H. "The Bible in the Reformation," CHB
3:1-37.
- *Barton, John. Holy Writings, Sacred Text: the Canon in Early
Christianity (Louisville: WJK, 1997)
- Biderman, Shlomo. Scripture and Knowledge: An Essay on Religious
Epistemology (Leiden: Brill, 1995)
- *Borg, M.B. ter. “Canon and Social Control”, in
Canonization and Decanonization 411-423.
- Campenhausen, Hans von. The Formation of the Christian Bible
(tr. J. A. Baker, Philadelphia: Fortress, 1972)
- Childs, Brevard S. “The Problem of the Christian Bible” in
Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological
Reflection on the Christian Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992), pp.
55-69
- Clines, David J.A. The Bible and the Modern World (Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press, 1997)
- Cornelius, Izak. "The Many Faces of God: Divine Images and
Symbols in Ancient Near Eastern Religions," in The Image and the
Book 21-43.
- *Coward, Harold. Sacred Word and Sacred Text: Scripture in World
Religions (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1988)
- Coward, Harold. Experiencing Scripture in World Religions
(Maryknoll: Orbis, 2000).
- Crehan, F.J. "The Bible in the Roman Catholic Church from Trent to
the Present Day," CHB 3:199-237.
- Dael, P.C.J. van. “Biblical Cycles on Church Walls: Pro Lectione
Pictura,” in J. den Boeft & M. L. van Poll-van de Lisdonk
(eds.), The Impact of Scripture on Early Christianity
122-132.
- Davies, Philip R. Scribes and Schools: The Canonization of the
Hebrew Scriptures (Louisville: Westminster, 1998).
- Denny, Frederick M. "Recitation of the Quran," Islam and the
Muslim Community (San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1987), pp.
78-88.
- Denny, Frederick and Rodney Taylor, eds. The Holy Book in
Comparative Perspective (Columbia: University of South Carolina,
1985).
- Depew, Mary. Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and
Society (Cambridge: Harvard, 2000).
- Dijk, S.J.P. "The Bible in Liturgical Use," CHB 2:220-251.
- Foster, Benjamin. Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian
Literature (Bethesda: CDL, 1993).
- *Frei, Hans. The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics (New Haven: Yale,
1974).
- Frei, Peter. "Persian Imperial Authorization: A Summary," trans. by
J.W. Watts, in Persia and Torah: The Theory of Imperial Authorization
of the Pentateuch (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001),
pp. 5-40.
- *Goering, Joseph W. “An Introduction to Medieval Christian Biblical
Interpretation,” in With Reverence for the Word, 197-203.
- Gold, Penny Shine. Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles
and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2004.
- *Graham, William A. Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of
Scripture in the History of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1987).
- Greenberg, Moshe. "On the Political Use of the Bible in Modern
Israel: An Engaged Critique," in D. P. Wright et al (eds.),
Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies ... in Honor of Jacob
Milgrom (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1995), pp. 461-471.
- Greenspahn, Frederick E. "Biblical Scholars, Medieval and Modern,"
in J. Neusner et al (eds.), Judaic Perspectives on Ancient Israel
(Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987), pp. 245-258.
- Griffiths, Paul J. Religious Reading: the place of reading in the
practice of religion (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1999)
- Gutjahr, Paul. An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in
the United States, 1777-1880 (New Haven: Yale, 1999)
- * Halbertal, Moshe. People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, and
Authority (Harvard, 1997)
- Hallo, W.W. The Context of Scripture. Vol. 1: Canonical
Compositions from the Biblical World (Leiden: Brill, 1997)
- Harrisville, Roy A. & Walter Sundberg. The Bible in Modern
Culture: Baruch Spinoza to Brevard Childs (2nd ed.; Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 2001).
- Hays, Richard, and Ellen Davis, eds. The Art of Reading
Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003).
- *Hettema, Th. L. “The Canon: Authority and Fascination” in
Canonization and Decanonization 391-398.
- *Hill, Doug. "Charles Augustus Briggs, Modernism, and the Rise of
Biblical Scholarship in Nineteenth-Century America," in V.L. Wimbush
(ed.), The Bible and the American Myth: A Symposium on the Bible and
the Construction of Meaning (Macon: Mercer University Pres, 1999),
pp. 71-104.
- * Horst, Pieter W. van der. "Sortes: Sacred Books as Instant
Oracles in Late Antiquity" in Use of Sacred Books 143-173.
- Jaffee, Martin S. Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition
in Palestinian Judaism 200 BCE-400 CE (New York: Oxford, 2000).
- Kling, David W. The Bible in History: How the Texts have Shaped
the Times. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
- *Kooij, A. van der. "The Canonization of Ancient Books Kept in the
Temple of Jerusalem," in Canonization and Decanonization 17-40.
- Kugel, James L. The Bible As It Was. Cambridge, MA:
Belknap, 1997.
- Kugel, James L. "The Bible in the University," in W. H. Propp et al
(eds.), The Hebrew Bible and Its Interpreters (Winona Lake:
Eisenbrauns, 1990), pp. 143-165.
- Lamb, J.A. "The Place of the Bible in the Liturgy," CHB
1:563-586.
- Lambert, W. G. "Ancestors, Authors, and Canonicity," Journal of
Cuneiform Studies 11 (1951), pp. 1-14.
- *Lang, B. "The 'Writings': A Hellenistic Literary Canon in the
Hebrew Bible," in Canonization and Decanonization 41-65.
- Legendre, P. “La totémisation de la société: Remarques sur les
montages canoniques et la question du sujet,” in Canonization and
Decanonization 425-433.
- Leipoldt, Johannes and Siegfried Morens. Heilige Schriften:
Betrachtungen zur Religionsgeschichte der antiken Mittelmeerwelt.
Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1953.
- Levenson, Jon D. "Theological Consensus or Historicist Evasion? Jews
and Christians in Biblical Studies," in R. Brooks & J. J. Collins
(eds.), Hebrew Bible or Old Testament: Studying the Bible in Judaism
and Christianity (U. of Notre Dame, 1990), pp. 109-145.
- Levinson, Bernard. Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal
Innovation (Oxford, 1997)
- Lieberman, Stephen J. "Canonical and Official Cuneiform Texts:
Towards an Understanding of Assurbanipal's Personal Tablet Collection,"
in Tsvi Abusch et al (eds.), Lingering over Words: Studies in Ancient
Near Eastern Literature in Honor of William J. Moran (HSM 37;
Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990), pp. 305-336.
- *Lust, J.L. “Quotation Formulae and Canon in Qumran” in
Canonization and Decanonization (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 67-77.
- Malley, Brian. How the Bible Works: An Anthropological Study of
Evangelical Biblicism (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2004).
- Malley, Brian. “What is ‘the Bible’? Analysis of a Text Concept.” In
Timothy Light and Brian Wilson (eds.), Religion as a Human
Capacity. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
- *McAuliffe, Jane Dammen. “An Introduction to Medieval Interpretation
of the Qur’an,” in With Reverence for the Word, 311-19.
- Miller, Patricia Cox. "In Praise of Nonsense." In A. H. Armstrong,
ed. Classical Mediterranean Spirituality (New York: Crossroad,
1986), 481-505; repr. in Miller, The Poetry of Thought in Late
Antiquity (Burlington: Ashgate, 2001), 221-245.
- Miller, Patricia Cox. "Words with an Alien Voice: Gnostics,
Scripture, and Canon." Journal of the American Academy of Religion
57 (1989) 459-483; repr. in Miller, The Poetry of Thought in
Late Antiquity (Burlington: Ashgate, 2001), 247-270.
- Morey, James. Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical
Literature (Urbana: U. of Illinois, 2000).
- Neil, W. "Criticism and Theological Use of the Bible, 1700-1950,"
CHB 3:238-293.
- Nöldecke, Theodor. Geschichte des Qorans, Leipzig, 1909-1938.
- Neusner, Jacob & William Scott Green, Writing with Scripture:
the Authority and Uses of the Hebrew Bible in the Torah of Formative
Judaism, Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989.
- Oxtoby, Willard G. "`Telling in Their Own Tongues': Old and Modern
Bible Translations as Expressions of Ethnic Cultural Identity," in W.
Beuken & S. Freyne, The Bible As Cultural Heritage (London:
SCM, 1995), pp. 24-35.
- Pasulka, Diana Walsh. The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: The Return of
the Real in Postmodern Christian Discourse. Ph.D. Dissertation,
Syracuse University, 2003.
- Phy, Allene Stuart. "The Bible and American Popular Culture: an
Overview and Introduction," in The Bible and Popular Culture in
America (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985), pp. 1-23.
- Pulcini, Theodore. Exegesis as Polemical Discourse: Ibn Hazm on
Jewish and Christian Scriptures (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998.
- Reventlow, Henning Graf. The Authority of the Bible and the Rise
of the Modern World (tr. J. Bowden, Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984)
- Roberts, C.H. "Books in the Greaco-Roman World and in the New
Testament," CHB 1:48-66.
- Rosenthal, Erwin I.J. "The Study of the Bible in Medieval Judaism,"
CHB 2:252-279.
- Rothberg-Halton, Francesca "Canonicity in Cuneiform Texts,"
Journal of Cuneiform Studies 36 (1984) 127-144.
- *Rutgers, Leonard V. "The Importance of Scripture in the Conflict
between Jews and Christians: The Example of Antioch," in Use of
Sacred Books 287-303.
- *Sawyer, John F.A. Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts (London:
Routledge, 1999)
- Sheppard, Gerald T. “Canon”, in M. Eliade, ed. The Encyclopedia
of Religion. New York: Macmillan, 1987. 3:62-69.
- Smalley, B. "The Bible in the Medieval Schools," CHB
2:197-219.
- Smith, D. Moody "When did the Gospels become Scripture?" Journal
of Biblical Literature 119 (2000) 3-20.
- *Smith, Jonathan Z “Canons, catalogues and classics,” in
Canonization and decanonization (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp.
295-311.
- Smith, Jonathan Z. "Sacred Persistence: Toward a Redescription of
Canon," in Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown
(Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1982), pp. 36-52.
- Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. What is Scripture? (London, 1993).
- *Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. "Scripture as Form and Concept: Their
Emergence for the Western World," in Rethinking Scripture: Essays
from a Comparative Perspective (ed. M. Levering; Albany: SUNY Press,
1989), pp. 29-57.
- *Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. "The Study of Religion and the Study of
the Bible," in Rethinking Scripture: Essays from a Comparative
Perspective (ed. M. Levering; Albany: SUNY Press, 1989), pp. 18-28.
- Snyder, H. Gregory. Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World:
Philosophers, Jews and Christians (London: Routledge, 2000).
- Spatharakis, I. “Early Christian Illustrated Gospel Books from the
East,” The Impact of Scripture on Early Christianity (Leiden:
Brill, 1999), pp. 102-121.
- *Sweetman, Robert. “Beryl Smalley, Thomas of Cantimpré, and the
Performative Reading of Scripture.” In With Reverence for the
Word, pp. 256-275.
- *Toorn, Karel van der. “The Iconic Book: Analogies Between the
Babylonian Cult of Images and the Veneration of the Torah,” in The
Image and the Book 229-248
- Trobisch, David. The First Edition of the New Testament
(New York: Oxford, 2000)
- Ulrich, E. "The Bible in the Making: the Scriptures at Qumran," in
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1999), pp. 17-33.
- Ulrich, E. "The Canonical Process, Textual Criticism, and Latter
Stages in the Composition of the Bible," "Sha`Arei Talmon": Studies
in the Bible, Qumran and the Ancient Near East Presented to Shemaryahu
Talmon (eds M. Fishbane and E. Tov; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns,
1992), pp. 267-91.
- Vermes, G. "Bible and Midrash: Early Old Testament Exegesis," CHB
1:199-231.
- Walfish, Barry D. “An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Biblical
Interpretation,” in With Reverence for the Word, 3-12.
- Watts, James W. Reading Law: The Rhetorical Shaping of the
Pentateuch (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999).
- Watts, James W. “Ten Commandments Monuments and the Rivalry of
Iconic Texts,” Journal of
Religion & Society 6 (2004), online.
- Watts, James W. "Ritual Legitimacy and Scriptural Authority,"
JBL, forthcoming.
- Wheeler, Brannon. Applying the Canon in Islam: the Authorization
and Maintenance of Interpretive Reasoning in Hanafi Scholarship (New
York: SUNY Press, 1996)
- Wimbush, Vincent L. "Scriptures: Fathoming a Complex Social-Cultural
Phenomenon." Unpublished conference paper.
- *Wimbush, Vincent L. (ed.), The Bible and the American Myth: A
Symposium on the Bible and the Construction of Meaning (Macon:
Mercer University Pres, 1999)
- Wiseman, D.J. "Books in the Ancient Near East and in the Old
Testament," CHB 1:30-48
- Zevit, Ziony. “The Second-Third Century Canonization of the Hebrew
Bible and Its Influence on Christian Canonizing” in Canonization and
Decanonization (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 133-160.
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