Additional Resources

Book of Faith initiative

• Jacobson, Diane, Mark Allan Powell, and Stanley N. Olson. Opening the book of faith: Lutheran insights for Bible study. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2008. (Some readings from this book listed as optional in schedule.)
• There are many courses and study helps available for this initiative, and more are announced for the future. For details, see The Book of Faith initiative, ELCA

Other Old Testament Introductions

• Anderson, Bernhard W., Steven Bishop, and Judith H. Newman. Understanding the Old Testament. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. (The latest edition of a standard introduction listed in the textbook bibliography.)
• Walter Brueggemann, An introduction to the Old Testament: the canon and imagination. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003.
• Steven L. Bridge, Getting the Old Testament: What It Meant to Them, What It Means for Us. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2009.
• Bruce C. Birch, Walter Brueggemann, Terence E. Fretheim, and David L. Petersen. A Theological introduction to the Old Testament. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999.
• John J. Collins, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD-ROM, Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004. (Also avaialable in abridged version.)
• Michael B. Dick, Reading the Old Testament: An Inductive Introduction, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2008
• John Drane, Introducing the Old Testament, 3d ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011.
• Norman K. Gottwald, The Hebrew Bible: A Socio-Literary Introduction. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1985.
• Harris, Stephen L., and Robert Leonard Platzner. The Old Testament: an introduction to the Hebrew Bible. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
• Alice L. Laffey, An Introduction to the Old Testament: A Feminist Perspective. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1988.
• Amy-Jill Levine, The Old Testament. [DVD or audio CD course] Great Courses series, The Teaching Company.
• Mosaic "Introduction to the Old Testament", Winter 2005 (Your church may have a video of this)

Commentary Series

1. Berit Olam, Collegeville: Liturgical Press. (Literary and rhetorical; only selected passages treated)
2. Interpretation, Louisville: John Knox. (Emphasizes modern applications)
3. The New Interpreter's Bible, Nashville: Abingdon. (Deals with both original meanings and modern applications)
4. Old Testament Readings, New York: Routledge. (Organized by topics, rather than textual order)
5. Word Biblical Commentary, Waco: Word Books. (Thorough, conservative)
6. New International Biblical Commentary, Peabody: Hendrickson.

Reference Works, etc.

• The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
• Sakenfeld, Katherine Doob (ed), New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible Nashville: Abingdon, 2009.
• Ancient Texts Library (Public domain texts - Mesopotamian and Egyptian especially relevant)
• Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn, and Andrea L. Weiss, eds., The Torah: A Women’s Commentary New York: URJ; Women of Reformed Judaism, 2008.
• Hallo, William W., and K. Lawson Younger Jr., eds. The Context of scripture. 3 vols. Leiden ; New York: Brill, 1997-2002. (collection of texts replacing Ancient Near Eastern Texts)
• Hayes, J. H. ed., Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation 2 vols.; Nashville: Abingdon, 1999.
• Patte, Daniel, ed., Global Bible Commentary, Nashville: Abingdon, 2004.
• Porter, Stanley E., ed. Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation New York: Routledge, 2007.

Other Works

• Ames, Frank Ritchel and Brad E. Kelle, eds., Writing and Reading War: Rhetoric, Gender, and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008
• Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1997.
  • [Brueggeman also wrote the introduction to the recent re-issue (in this case, by Westminster/John Knox) of the Old Testament Theology by Gerhard Von Rad, mentioned in Boadt's bibliography.]
• John Kaltner, Ishmael Instructs Isaac: an Introduction to the Qu'ran for Bible Readers. Collegeville:Liturgical Press, 1999. [compares Quranic and Biblical versions of stories]
• Grabbe, Lester L. Judaism from Cyrus to Hadrian. 2 vols. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992. (detailed resource for post-exilic and intertestamental periods)
• Levenson, Jon Douglas The death and resurrection of the beloved son : the transformation of child sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
• Michael Lodahl Claiming Abraham : reading the Bible and the Qur'an side by side . Brazos, 2010.
• Sasson, Vanessa R., The Birth of Moses and the Buddha: A Paradigm for the Comparative Study of Religions. Hebrew Bible Monographs 9, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2007.
• Helmut Thielicke, How the World Began: Man in the First Chapters of the Bible. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg, 1961. (sermons on Gen 1-11)