Hebrew Bible Online Articles, Chapters, Books, and Study Materials

General

González, Justo L. “How the Bible Has Been Interpreted in Christian Tradition.” In New Interpreter’s Bible, Vol. 1, 83-106. Nashville:  Abingdon, 1994. URL:  http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/gonzalez.htm

Greenberg, Moshe. Biblical Prose Prayer: As a Window to the Popular Religion of Ancient Israel. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1983 at http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8b69p1w7/?&query=Old%20Testament&brand=ucpress

Signer, Michael A. "How the Bible Has Been Interpreted in Jewish Tradition.” In New Interpreter’s Bible, Vol. 1, 65-82. Nashville:  Abingdon, 1994.  http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/signer.htm

"The Social Visions of the Hebrew Bible"  By J. David Pleins  Professor at Santa Clara University 
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/hebrewbible.htm

Weinfeld, Moshe. The Promise of the Land: The Inheritance of the Land of Canaan by the Israelites. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1993 at http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft596nb3tj/?&query=New%20Testament&brand=ucpress

Differing Canons

"Spinning" the Bible  by James A. Sanders http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/spinningbible.htm

Genesis

"Bone of My Bone and Flesh of My Flesh" By Phyllis A. Bird from Theology Today, Vol. 50 URL: http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/boneofmybone.htm

From: Clines, David J. A. "What Does Eve Do to Help?" Chapter One in What Does Eve Do to Help? And Other Readerly Questions to the Old Testament. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990.  URL:  http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/clines.htm

 

Exodus

Leviticus

Douglas, Mary. "The Abominations of Leviticus." In Community, Identity, and Ideology: Social Scientific Approaches to the Hebrew Bible,  edited by Charles E. Carter and Carol L. Meyers, 119-134. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1996. This essay was reprinted with permission from Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966), 41-57.  http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/douglas.htm


Judges

Phyllis Trible, "An Unnamed Woman: The Extravagance of Violence
Judges 19:1-30" from Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984): 65-92.  at http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/trible.htm

Samuel and Kings

David J. A. Clines, "David the Man:  The Construction of Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible" at http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/biblst/DJACcurrres/David.html

Prophets

Habel, Norm. “The Form and Significance of the Call Narratives.” ZAW 77 (1965): 297-323 at http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/habel.htm

David J.A. Clines, "He-Prophets:  Masculinity as a Problem for the Hebrew Prophets and their Interpreters" at http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/biblst/DJACcurrres/HeProphets.html

 

Job

 

Daniel and Apocalyptic

The Book of Daniel – Materials for Study by Prof. Felix Just, S.J. - Loyola Marymount University http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~fjust/Bible/Daniel.htm

Cook, Stephen L. "The Sociology of Apocalyptic Groups." Chapter 2 in Prophecy and Apocalypticism: The Postexilic Social Settting, 19-54. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995. http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/cook.htm

For an extensive list of articles by David J. A. Clines see http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/biblstDJACcurrres/Articles.html