Selected Bibliography

Abbott, H. Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 3rd edition, 2021.

Alonso Schökel, Luis. “Poésie hébraïque.” In Dictionnaire de la Bible, Supplément, vol. 8. Edited by Henri Cazelles and André Feuillet, col. 47-90. Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1972.

—– A Manual of Hebrew Poetics. Rome: Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1988.

—– Estudios de poética hebrea. Barcelona: J. Flors, 1963.

Alter, Robert, The Art of Biblical Narrative. New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc., 1981.

—– The Art of Biblical Poetry. New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc. 1985.

—– “The Characteristics of Ancient Hebrew Poetry.” In The Literary Guide to the Bible, edited by R. Alter and F. Kermode, 611-624. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1987.

Bakhtin, Mikhail. “The Problem of Speech Genres.” In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, 60-102. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1987.

Berlin, Adele, “Introduction to Hebrew Poetry.” In The New Interpreter’s Bible, vol. 4, 301-315. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994-2004.

—– “Reading Biblical Poetry.” In The Jewish Study Bible, edited by Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 2014.

—– The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1985, revised and expanded 2008.

Booker, Christopher. The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. London, UK; New York, NY: Continuum, 2004.

Brown, William P. Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002.

Caird, G.B. The Language and Imagery of the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Press, ©1980,1997.

Calvino, Italo. Six Memos for the Next Millennium: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1988.

Crüsemann, Frank. Studien zur Formgeschichte von Hymnus und Danklied in Israel. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1969.

Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition. Translated by Paul Patton. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Duff, David, ed. Modern Genre Theory. Harlow, UK: Longman, 2000.

Elman, Yaakov. “Classical Rabbinic Interpretation.” In The Jewish Study Bible, edited by Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, pp. 1859-1878. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Empson, William. The Seven Types of Ambiguity. London: Chatto and Windus, 1930, 1953.

Fisch, Harold. Poetry with a Purpose: Biblical Poetics and Interpretation. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Fitzgerald, Aloysius. “Hebrew Poetry.” In The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, edited by Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, and Roland E. Murphy, 201-208. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1990.

Fokkelman, J.P. Reading Biblical Poetry: An Introductory Guide. Translated by Ineke Smit. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.

Fontaine, Carole, “Proverb Performance in the Hebrew Bible.” In Wise Words: Essays on the Proverb, edited by Wolfgang Mieder, 393-414. New York, NY: Garland Publishing Co. 2011. Originally in The Poetical Books: A Sheffield Reader, edited by David J. A. Clines. The Biblical Seminar 41. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, ©1927, 1973.

Gillingham, Susan E. “9. The Psalms and Poems of the Hebrew Bible.” In The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Companion, edited by John Barton, 206-236. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.

—– The Poems and Psalms of the Hebrew Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Girard, Marc. Les psaumes redécouverts: De la structure au sens. Three volumes. Quebec: Éditions Bellarmin, 1994-1996.

Grillo, Jennie. “8. The Wisdom Literature.” In The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Companion, edited by  John Barton, 182-205. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Grzybek, Peter. “Foundations of Semiotic Proverb Study.” In Wise Words: Essays on the Proverb, edited by Wolfgang Mieder, 31-72. New York, NY: Garland Publishing Co. 2011.

Hagan, Harry. “Basic Plots in the Bible: A Literary Approach to Genre,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 49:4 (2019) 198-213.

—– Elements of Biblical Narrative: A Brief Introduction with an Analysis of the Red Sea Story. Indianapolis, IN: PALNI Press, 2021. Ebook: open access: https://pressbooks.palni.org/biblicalnarrative/

—– Mighty in Battle: A Literary Study of Battle Narrative in the Ancient Near East and in the Bible. Indianapolis, IN: PALNI Press, 2021. Ebook, open access: https://pressbooks.palni.org/mightyinbattle/

Hunter, Alastair G. An Introduction to the Psalms. New York, NY: T & T Clark, 2008.

Jakobson, Roman, “Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry” (Excerpts), Poetics Today 2:1a (Autumn, 1980) 83-85.

Jannidis, Fotis. “Character.” 2012. In The Living Handbook of Narratology. Hamburg: University of Hamburg. Based on the Handbook of Narratology. Edited by Peter Hühn, John Pier, Wolf Schmid and Jörg Schönert and first published Walter de Gruyter, 2009. Ebook, open access: https://www.lhn.uni-hamburg.de/node/41.html

Kövecses, Zoltán. Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Kugel, James. The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.

Kuntz, J. Kenneth. “Biblical Hebrew Poetry in Recent Research, Part I & II.” Currents in Research, Part I: 6 (1998) 31-64; Part II: 7 (1999) 35-79.

Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Life By. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Lakoff, George and Mark Turner. More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Lowth, Robert. Lectures on Sacred of the Hebrews. Translated by G. Gregory. London: J. Johnson, 1787; Latin: 1753, revised 1763.

Mieder, Wolfgant, “Proverbs.” In American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, edited by Jan H. Brunvand, 597-601.  New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 1996

—– “Proverbs Speak Louder than Words”: Folk Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature, and Mass Media. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2008.

Muilenburg, James. “A Study in Hebrew Rhetoric: Repetition and Style.” Vetus Testamentum, Suppl. 1 (1953) 97-111.

Ricoeur, Paul. Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning. Fort Worth, TX: The Texas Christian University Press, 1976.

—– The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language. Translated by Robert Czerny, with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979.

Scholes, Robert, James Phelan, and Robert Kellogg, The Nature of Narrative. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edition 2006; originally published by Scholes and Kellogg in 1966.

Sharp, Carolyn. Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009.

Shklovsky, Victor. “Art as Technique” In Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays. Translated and introduced by Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis, 3-24. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1965.

Schipper, Bernd U. Proverbs 1-15. Translated by Stephen Germany. Hermeneia. Edited by Thomas Krüger. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2019.

Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

—– Illness as Metaphor. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1978.

 Stern, David. “Midrash and Jewish Interpretation.” In The Jewish Study Bible. Edited by Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, pp. 1879-1891. Oxford GB: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Tucker, W. Dennis, Jr., “Literary Forms in the Wisdom Literature,” In An Introduction to Wisdom Literature and the Psalms: Festschrift for Marvin Tate, edited by H. Wayne Ballard, Jr. and W. Dennis Tucker, Jr., 155-166. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2000.

Watson, W.G.E. Classical Hebrew Poetry: A Guide to its Techniques. JSOTS, 26. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1984.

—– Traditional Techniques in Classical Hebrew Verse. JSOTS, 170. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994.

Westermann, Claus. Basic Forms of Prophetic Speech. Translated by Hugh Clayton White. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991.

—– Praise and Lament in the Psalms. Translated by Keith R. Crim and Richard N. Soulen. Atlanta, GA: John Knox Press, ©1965, 1981.

—– Prophetic Oracles of Salvation in the Old Testament. Translated by Keith Crim. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991.

Wheelwright, Philip. Metaphor and Reality. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1962.

White, Hugh C. “Introduction: Speech Act Theory and Literary Criticism.” In Speech Act Theory and Biblical Criticism. Semeia 41 (1988) 1-24.