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Works with an index of Biblical references are marked *. For commentaries on individual books, refer to the bibliographies in the Anchor Bible Dictionary, 6 vols. (New York 1992) and the forthcoming International Catholic Bible Commentary, which contains some treatment of Reception History. For ancient and mediaeval commentaries, see also the comprehensive list in Jeffrey, Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, pp. 901-926.


1. General Reference


*John F. A. Sawyer, A Concise Dictionary of the Bible and its Reception (Westminster John Knox,  2009)

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature
, ed.D.L.Jeffrey (Eerdmans, 1992)

*Cambridge History of the Bible, 3 vols (Cambridge 1969-70)

Dictionnaire de la Bible
, 5 vols (Paris 1895-1912; Suppl. 1928-)

International Catholic Bible Commentary
, ed.W. Farmer (Collegeville, Minn.: St. John’s Abbey Press, 1998)

R. Coggins and J.L. Houlden, eds., A Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (London/Philadelphia, 1990)

J.L. Hayes, ed., A Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (Nashville, 1999)

*J.T.Stodart, The New Testament in Life and Literature (1914)

*J.T.Stodart, The Old Testament in Life and Literature (1913)

*Ludwig Diestel, Geschichte des Alten Testamentes in der christlichen Kirche (1869)

*Rinaldi, Giancarlo, Biblia Gentium (Rome, 1989)

The Bible and its Readers
, edd. W.Beuken, S.Freyne and A. Weiler (Concilium 1991/1)

The Bible as Cultural Heritage
, edd.W.Beuken and S.Freyne (Concilium 1995/1)

The Bible. Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha
, edd.R.Carroll and S.Prickett (OUP 1997)

1.1 English Literature

R.Atwan and L.Wieder, edd., Chapters into Verse. Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible 2 vols (1993)

*D.Norton, A History of the Bible as Literature, 2 vols.(Cambridge 1993)

*D.F.Wright, ed., The Bible in Scottish Life and Literature (St Andrew Press, Edinburgh, 1988)

A.S.Cook, Biblical Quotations in Old English Prose Literature (New York 1898)

L.Tannenbaum, Biblical Tradition in Blake’s Early Prophecies (Princeton 1982)


1.2. Art

P. and L. Murray, edd., Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture (1996)

*G. Schiller, Iconography of Christian Art, 2 vols (Eng.transl: Lund Humphries, London 1972)

L.Réau, Iconographie de l’art chrétien, 3 volumes (Paris 1955-1959)

H.Hermann, The Bible in Art: Miniatures, paintings, etc inspired by the Old Testament(London 1956)

*E.Male, Religious Art in France. The Late Middle Ages (Princeton, 1986),

J.H.Marrow, Passion Iconography in Northern European Art of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance. A Study of the Transformation of Sacred Metaphor into Descriptive Narrative (Van Ghemmert, Brussels 1979)

1.3. Liturgy and Hymnology

J.Danielou, The Bible and the Liturgy (Notre Dame 1956)

Hymns Ancient and Modern (‘Historical Edition’, 1909)

*Hymns and Psalms (Methodist Publishing House, 1983)

*Hymns Old and New with Supplement, ed.K.Mayhew (Bath Press, Avon, 1989) (Catholic)

*J.Moffat, Handbook to the Church Hymnary (Oxford 1927) (Presbyterian)

*Lectionary Order of Readings for use at Mass (Geoffrey Chapman, Londopn 1970)

P.Bower, ed., Handbook for the Common Lectionary (Philadelphia 1987)

C.E.Fant, Jr. & W.M.Pinson, edd., 20 Centuries of Great Preaching, 2 vols. (Waco 1971)

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 2. Studies of Individual Texts and Topics

J.Cohen, "Be Fertile and Increase; Fill the Earth and Master It" (Genesis 1:28). The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text (Cornell University Press, 1989)

P.Morris and D.Sawyer, edd., A Walk in the Garden. Biblical Iconographical and Literary Images of Eden (Sheffield Academic Press, 1992)

N.Cohn, Noah’s Flood. The Genesis Story in Western Thought (Yale, 1996)

Clarke, Howard, The Gospel of Matthew and its Readers (Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2003)

B.S.Childs, Exodus. A Commentary (SCM Press, London, 1974)

B.van Iersel & A.Weiler, edd., Exodus - A Lasting Paradigm (Concilium 1987)

*S.Terrien, The Iconography of Job through the Centuries (Pennsylvania State Press, 1996)

W.Holladay, The Psalms through 3000 Years (Fortress Press, Minneapolis 1993)

E.T.de Wald, The Illustrations of the Utrecht Psalter (Princeton 1933)

*J.F.A.Sawyer, The Fifth Gospel. Isaiah in the History of Christianity (CUP 1996)

C.R.Seitz, ed., Reading and Preaching the Book of Isaiah (Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1988)

R.K. Emmerson and B. McGinn, The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Ithaca : Cornell University Press) 1992

F. van der Meer, Apocalypse : Visions from the Book of Revelation in Western Art (London: Thames and Hudson) 1978

J.Pelikan, Jesus through the Centuries. His place in the History of Culture (1985)

J.Pelikan, Mary through the Centuries (1996)

Y.Sherwood, A Biblical Text and its Afterlives. The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Margarita Stocker, Judith, Sexual Warrior. Women and Power in Western Culture (Yale University Press, 1998)

M.Warner, Alone of all her Sex. The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (London 1985)

C.M.Williamson & R.J.Allen, Interpreting Difficult Texts. Anti-Judaism and Christian Preaching (London/Philadelphia 1989)

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3. Jewish Interpretation

The Jewish Study Bible, eds., Adele Berlin and M.Z. Brettler (Oxford 2004)

*H.Danby, The Mishnah (Oxford 1933)

*Midrash Rabbah, 10 vols. (2nd ed., Soncino 1951)

J.W.Etheridge, The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan on the Pentateuch (English transl.), 2 vols (1862-65)

*A Rabbinic Anthology, edd.C.G.Montefiore & H.Loewe (Philadelphia 1960)

Soncino Books of the Bible, ed. A.Cohen (London 1945-)

Legends of the Jews, 7 vols, ed. L.Ginzberg (10th ed., New York: Jewish Publication Society 1954)

H.Schwartz, Reimagining the Bible. The Story-Telling of the Rabbis (OUP 1998)

E.Fackenheim, The Jewish Bible after the Holocaust (1990)

S.A.Handelman, Slayers of Moses. The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory (New York 1982)

D.Boyarin, Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash (Indiana 1994)

E.R.Bevan and C. Singer, edd., The Legacy of Israel (Oxford 1927)

S.Singer, ed., Authorised Daily Prayer Book (new edition, London 1962).

Z.Vilnay, The Guide to Israel (3rd ed. Jerusalem 1960; 19th ed. Jerusalem 1977)

Encyclopedia Judaica, 16 volumes (Jerusalem, 1971-2)

Jewish Encyclopedia, 10 volumes, Funk and Wagnall, New York 1904

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4. Antiquity

New Testament Apocrypha, edd. E.Hennecke, W.Schneemelcher, and R.McL.Wilson, 2 vols. (London 1963-5)

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 vols, ed. J.H.Charlesworth (London, 1985)

The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English, ed.F.Garcia Martinez (tr. W.G.E.Watson, Leiden 1994)

Biblia Sacra iuxta Vulgatam versionem, 2nd ed. by R.Weber (Stuttgart 1975), 2 Vols

Septuaginta (Gottingen 1931-)

M.Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Oxford University Press, 1985)

R.N.Longenecker, Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period (Eerdmans 1975)

*The Anti-Nicene Fathers, 10 vols (Peabody, Mass. 1994)

*The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1. Augustine and Chrysostom, 14 vols (1886-89); Series 2. Cappadocians and others, 14 vols (1890-1900) (Peabody, Mass. 1994)

*Fathers of the Church (Washington, 1947- )

*Biblia Patristica, ed. J.Allenbach et al., 2 vols

*The Bible in Greek Christian Antiquity, ed P. M.Blowers (=The Bible Through the Ages, vol. 1 (Notre Dame, 1997)

Le monde latin antique et la Bible, edd. J. Fontaine and C. Pietre (=La Bible de tous les Temps, vol. 2, Paris, 1985).

D. L. Balas and D. J.Bingham, "Patristic Exegesis of the Books of the Bible," in International Catholic Bible Commentary, ed. William Farmer, pp. 64-115.

H. J. Sieben. Kirchenvaterhomilien zum Neuen Testament: ein Repertorium der Textausgaben und Ubersetzungen. Mit einem Anhang derKirchenvaterkommentare (Instrumenta Patristica 22. Steenburgis: Abbatia S. Petri, 1991)

J.W.Wiles, A Scripture Index to the Works of St Augustine in English (Maryland, 1995)

P.Gorday, Principles of Patristic Exegesis: Romans 9-11 in Origen, John Chrysostom and Augustine (New York 1988)

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5. Middle Ages

B.Smalley, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, 3rd edition, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1983

R.E.Kaske et al., Mediaeval Christian Literary Imagery: A Guide to Interpretation (1988)

K.Walsh & D.Wood, edd., The Bible in the Mediaeval World (Oxford 1985)

D.Wilson, The People and the Book. The Revolutionary Impact of the English Bible 1380-1611 (Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1976)

S.Berger, La Bible Francaise au Moyen Age (Paris 1884)

H.de Lubac, Exegese medievale. Les quatre sens de l’Ecriture, 4 vols. (Paris 1959-64)

H.Rost, Die Bibel im Mittelalter (Augsburg 1939)

M.T.Gibson, The Bible in the Latin West (Notre Dame, 1993)

J.Harper, The Forms and Orders of Western Liturgy from the Tenth to the Eighteenth Century. A Historical Introduction and Guide for Students and Musicians (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1991

J.A.Jungmann, The Mass of the Roman Rite. Its Origins and Development, 2 vols (New York, 1951, 1954

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6. Reformation and Enlightenment

*Luther’s Works, ed J.Pelikan and others, 55 volumes (St Louis and Philadelphia 1955-)

*John Calvin, New Testament Commentaries, 12 vols. (Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich 1994)

Ph.Schmidt, Die Illustration der Lutherbibel 1522-1700 (Basel 1962)

H.Bornkamm, Luther and the Bible (Eng.tr. 1969)

D.C.Steinmetz, ed., The Bible in the Sixteenth Century (1990)

R.J.Blackwell, Galileo, Bellarmine and the Bible (Notre Dame 1991)

A.Henkel and A.Schone, edd., Emblemata. Handbuch zur Sinnbildkunst des 16. und 17.Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart 1976)

C.Hill, The English Bible and the Seventeenth Century Revolution (Penguin 1993)

J.Wesley, Works, 6 vols. (edd.A.C.Outler, Abingdon, Nashville 1986-)

M.Poole,A Commentary on the Holy Bible, 3 vols. (1700; reprinted by the Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh 1979)

I.N.Rashkow, Upon the Dark Places. Anti-Semitism and Sexism in English Renaissance Biblical Translation (Bible and Literature Series 28), Sheffield Academic Press 1990

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7. Nineteenth Century

H.Denzinger, Enchiridion Symbolorum (1856; repr.1965)

J.Kitto, The Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature (1848)

Encyclopedia Biblica, ed.T.K.Cheyne et al., 10 vols (1899-1903)

H.Frei, The Eclipse of Bible Narrative. A Study of 18th and 19th Century Hermeneutics (Yale 1974)

M.Roston, Prophet and Poet. The Bible and the Growth of Romanticism (Faber & Faber London, 1965)

C.Spurgeon, Sermons (Sheldon, Blakeman and Co., New York 1857)

J. Cone, The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation (Seabury, 1972)

B.R. Johnson, We’ll Understand it Better By and By. Pioneering African-American Gospel Composers (Washington, DC, Smithsonian, 1993)

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8. Twentieth Century

E.Kraeling, The Old Testament since the Reformation (London 1955)

S.Neill & N.T.Wright, The Interpretation of the New Testament 1861-1986 (Oxford 1987)

J.L.Houlden, ed., The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church (SCM Press London 1995): this includes an English translation of L’interpretation de la Bible dans l’Eglise (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1993)

R.Alter and F.Kermode, edd., The Literary Guide to the Bible (London 1987)

Scofield Reference Bible (revd ed. 1917)

B.Babington, Biblical Epics. Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema (Manchester 1993)

D.Cohn Sherbok, ed., Using the Bible Today (Canterbury Papers III: Bellew, London 1991)


8.1. Millennarianism

A.Wainwright, Mysterious Apocalypse. Interpreting the Book of Revelation (Nashville 1993)

G.Halsall, Prophecy and Politics (Lawrence Hill, New York, 1986)

P.Boyer, When Time Shall be No more. Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Harvard, 1992)


8.2. Liberation Theology

*C.Rowland & M.Corner, Liberating Exegesis. The Challenge of Liberation Theology to Biblical Studies (SPCK 1990)

*J.P. Miranda, Marx and the Bible (SCM Press 1977)

R.A.Brown, Unexpected News. Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes (Philadelphia 1984)

Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World, ed.R. Sugirtharajah (1991)


8.3 Feminism

P.Trible, God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality (Fortress Press, Philadelphia 1978)

R.R.Ruether, Sexism and God-talk. Towards a Feminist Theology (SCM Press London 1983)

E.Schussler Fiorenza, ed., Searching the Scriptures. A Feminist Introduction (SCM 1993)

A Feminist Companion to the Bible (first series), 10 vols., edd. A.Brenner and C.Fontaine (Sheffield 1993-98)

 

8.4. Theory and Method

J.Barr, The Bible in the Modern World (SCM 1973)

*R.Bauckham, The Bible in Politics (SPCK 1989)

H.Kung and J.Moltmann, Conflicting Ways of Interpreting the Bible (Concilium, Edinburgh and New York 1980)

F.Watson, ed., The Open Text. New Directions for Biblical Studies? (SCM Press 1993)

W.Iser, The Implied Reader (Baltimore 1974)

J.P.Tompkins, ed., Reader Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism (Baltimore 1980)

S.Fish, Is there a Text in the Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities (1980)

E.D.Hirsch, The Aims of Interpretation (Chicago 1976)

The Postmodern Bible (The Bible and Culture Collective), edd. E.Castelli, S.D.Moore, G.A.Phillips and R.M.Schwartz , Newhaven 1995

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