General Sources on the

Torah

Updated July 17, 2002

Balentine, Samuel E. The Torah's Vision of Worship. OBT. Fortress Press: Minneapolis, 1999.

Blenkinsopp, Joseph. The Pentateuch. Garden City: Doubleday, 19--.

Blenkinsopp, Joseph. Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament: The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Brenner, Athalya, ed.  Exodus to Deuteronomy. A Feminist Companion to the Bible, Second Series 5. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

Brichto, Herbert Chanan. The Names of God: Poetic Readings in Biblical Beginnings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Clines, David J. A. The Theme of the Pentateuch. Sheffield, 19--.

Doorly, William J. Obsession with Justice: The Story of the Deuteronomists. Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist, 19--.

Dozeman, Thomas B. God at War: Power in the Exodus Tradition. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Fretheim, Terence E. The Pentateuch. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996.

Gertz, Jan Christian. Tradition und Redaktion in der Exoduserzählung. Untersuchungen zur Endredaktion des Pentateuch. Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 186; Göttingen: Vandenhoek und Ruprecht 2000.

Gooder, Paula. The Pentateuch: A Story of Beginnings. Continuum Biblical Studies Series. London: Continuum, 2000.

Hamilton, Victor P. Handbook on the Pentateuch. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1982.

Kugel, James L. The Bible As It Was. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap, 1997.

Laffey, Alice L. The Pentateuch: A Liberation-Critical Reading. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998.

Mann, Thomas W. The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1988.

Matthews, Victor H., Bernard M. Levinson, and Tikva Frymer-Kensky, eds. Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. JSOTSup 262. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press,
1998.

McEvenue, Sean. Interpreting the Pentateuch. Old Testament Studies. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 19--.

Murphy, Roland E. Responses to 101 Questions on the Biblical Torah: Reflections on the Pentateuch. Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist, 19--.

Nicholson, Ernest. The Pentateuch in the Twentieth Century: The Legacy of Julius Wellhausen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Noth, Martin. The Law in the Pentateuch and Other Studies. Philadelphia: Augsburg/Fortress, 19--.

von Rad, Gerhard. The Problem of the Hexateuch and Other Essays. Translated by E. W. Trueman Dicken. London: SCM, 1966.

Sailhamer, John H. The Pentateuch as Narrative. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995.

Schmid, Konrad. Erzväter und Exodus: Untersuchungen zur doppelten Begründung der Ursprünge Israels innerhalb der Geschichtsbücher des Alten Testaments. WMANT 81. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1999.

Schmidt, Ludwig. Gesammelte Aufsätze zum Pentateuch. BZAW 263. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1998.

van Seters, John. The Life of Moses: The Yahwist as Historian in Exodus-Numbers. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1994.

van Seters, John. The Pentateuch: A Social Science Commentary. Trajectories 1. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

van Seters, John. Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 19--.

Ska, Jean-Louis. Introduction à la lecture du Pentateuque: Clés pour l’interprétation des cinq premiers livres de la Bible. Trans. Fréderic Vermorel. Le livre et le rouleau 5. Brussels: Éditions Lessius, 2000.

Sperling, S. David. The Original Torah: The Political Intent of the Bible's Writers. Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History. New York/London: New York University Press, 1998.

Watts, James W. Reading Law: The Rhetorical Shape of the Pentateuch. The Biblical Seminar #59. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Whybray, Jr., R. N. The Making of the Pentateuch. Sheffield, 19--.

Williams, Michael E. Exodus-Joshua. The Storyteller's Companion to the Bible. Nashville: Abingdon, 19--.

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