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 Early Christian Book. Ed. William E. Klingshirn and Linda
Safran (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2007).
- 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)
- Brown, Michelle P. The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality
and the Scribe (London: British Library, 2003).
- 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)
- Carr, David M. Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of
Scripture and Literature(New York: Oxford, 2005).
- 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.
- K. W. Folkert, “The ‘Canons’ of ‘Scripture’,”
in M. Levering, ed., Rethinking Scripture: Essay from a Comparative
Perspective (Albany: SUNY Press, 1989), 170-79.
- 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.
- Goody, Jack. The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society
(Cambridge, 1986).
- Goody, Jack. The Power of the Written Tradition (Washington,
DC: Smithsonian, 2000).
- Graham, William A. Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture
in the History of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1987).
- Green, William Scott. “Scripture in Classical Judaism.”
In The Encyclopedia of Judaism. Ed. J. Neusner, S. Peck and
W. S. Green. New York: Continuum/Leiden: Brill, 1999. 1302-1309.
- 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.
- Heyman, George. "Canon Law and the Canon of Scripture."
Postscripts 2 (2007) forthcoming.
- *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.
- Humfress, Caroline. “Judging by the Book: Christian Codices
and Late Antique Legal Culture.” In Early Christian Book,
141-158.
- Jaffee, Martin S. Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition
in Palestinian Judaism 200 BCE-400 CE (New York: Oxford, 2000).
- Kessler, Herbert L. "The Book as Icon." In In the Beginning:
Bibles Before the Year 1000. Ed. Michelle P. Brown. Washington,
DC: Smithsonian, 2006. 77-103, 222-244.
- Kinnard, Jacob N. “On Buddhist ‘Bibliolaters’: Representing
and Worshiping the Book in Medieval Indian Buddhism.” The
Eastern Buddhist 34/2 (2002) 94-116, and plates 1 and 2.
- 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.
- Krause-Loner, Shawn. “Be-Witching Scripture: The Book of Shadows
as Scripture within Wicca/Neo-Pagan Witchcraft.” Postscripts
2 (2007) forthcoming.
- 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.
- Lowden, John. “The Word Made Visible: The Exterior of the Early
Christian Book as Visual Argument.” In Early Christian Book,
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- *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.
- Malley, Brian. “The Bible in British folklore.” Postscripts
2 (2007) forthcoming.
- Marty, Martin. “America's Iconic Book,” in Humanizing
America's Iconic Book (ed. Gene M. Tucker and Douglas A. Knight;
Chico: Scholars Press, 1982), 1-23.
- Marty, Martin. “Scripturality: The Bible as Icon in the Republic,”
chapter 7 in Religion and Republic: The American Circumstance
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1987), 140-65.
- *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.
- Morgan, David. Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious
Images. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1998.
- Morgan, David, ed. Icons of American Protestantism: the Art of
Warner Sallman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 43-120.
- Morgan, David. The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory
and Practice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 48-74.
- 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.
- Parmenter, Dorina Miller. “The Iconic Book: The Image of the
Bible in Early Christian Rituals.” Postscripts 2 (2007)
forthcoming.
- Pasulka, Diana Walsh. The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: The Return
of the Real in Postmodern Christian Discourse. Ph.D. Dissertation,
Syracuse University, 2003.
- Pasulka, Diana Walsh. "Premodern Scriptures in Postmodern
Times." Postscripts 2 (2007).
- Phy, Allene Stuart. "The Bible and American Popular Culture: an Overview
and Introduction," in The Bible and Popular Culture in America
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- Pulcini, Theodore. Exegesis as Polemical Discourse: Ibn Hazm on
Jewish and Christian Scriptures (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998.
- Rapp, Claudia. “Holy Texts, Holy Men and Holy Scribes: Aspects
of Scriptural Holiness in Late Antiquity.” In Early Christian
Book, 194-222.
- 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.
- Sarefield, Daniel. "The Symbolics of Book Burning: The Establishment
of a Christian Ritual of Persecution." In Early Christian
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- *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.
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and decanonization (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 295-311.
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- Trobisch, David. The First Edition of the New Testament
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- Walfish, Barry D. “An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Biblical
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- Wiseman, D.J. "Books in the Ancient Near East and in the Old Testament,"
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