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Appendix B.
Selected Reading List

Allen, Diogenes.
Temptation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Theological Seminary Media Services. Set includes video, book, and study guide.
Alter, Robert.
The Art of Biblical Narrative. New York: Basic Books, 1981.
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The Art of Biblical Poetry. New York: Basic, 1985.
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"The Characteristics of Ancient Hebrew Poetry." The Literary Guide to the Bible. Ed. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Belnap, 1987. 611-24.
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The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
Alter, Robert,
and Frank Kermode, eds. The Literary Guide to the Bible. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 1987.
American Jewish Committee,
Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, National Council of Churches. "A Shared Vision: Religious Liberty in the 21st Century." An excellent succinct statement of First Amendment issues on the separation of church and state by three national representatives of "mainline" religious faiths. Washington, DC, 1994.
Anderson, Bernhard W.,
ed. Creation in the Old Testament: Issues in Religion and Theology. London: SPCK, 1984; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.
Augustine Of Hippo.
City of God, XII, xi. John Healey, trans. Vol. 1. London: J. M. Dent, 1945. 2 vols.
Aune, David E.
The New Testament in Its Literary Environment. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.
Barr, David.
New Testament Story. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1987.
Barr, James.
Holy Scripture: Canon, Authority, Criticism. Oxford and Philadelphia, 1983.
Bartel, Roland.
"Hawthorne's Use of the Bible in The Scarlet Letter." Biblical Images in Literature. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1975.
Barth, Karl.
Church and State. Trans. G. Ronald Howe. Greenville, SC.: Smyth & Helwys, 1991. 4th ed. prev. pub. Zurich: Theologischer, Verlag, 1989. Original German version, Rechtfertigung und Recht, Theologischen Studien, vol 1, 1938.
Barthes, Roland.
The Rustle of Language. Berkeley: U. Of Calif., 1989.
Barton, J.
Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study. London and Philadelphia, 1984.
Beardslee, W. A.
Literary Criticism of the New Testament. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969.
Becker, John E.
"The Law, the Prophets, and Wisdom: On the Functions of Literature." College English 37.3 (1975): 254-64.
Brueggemann, Walter.
Texts Under Negotiation: The Bible and Postmodern Imagination. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1993.
"The Bible as Culture".
Time, vol. 94, 3 Oct. 1969: 80-82. Discussion of the Bible in public schools.
Brown, Schuyler.
"Reader Response: Demythologizing the Text." New Testament Studies 34 (1988): 232-37.
Burnett, Fred W.
"Postmodern Biblical Exegesis: The Eve of Historical Criticism." Semeia 51 (1990): 51-80.
Callow, James T.,
and Robert J. Reilly. Guide to American Literature from Its Beginnings Through Walt Whitman. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1976.
Capps, Alton C.
"A Realistic Approach to Biblical Literature." English Journal 58 (1969): 230-35. Discusses teaching biblical literature in public schools for cultural reasons.
Carroll, Robert P.
Wolf in the Sheep Fold: The Bible as a Problem for Christianity. London: SPCK, 1991.
Carter, Warren.
Matthew: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995. Studies author, text, and audience, with exposition.
Charles W. Hedrick.
Parables as Poetic Fictions: The Creative Voice of Jesus. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994.
Childs, Brevard.
Old Testament Theology in a Canonical Context. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.
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The New Testament as Canon. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.
Coggins, R. J.
and J. L. Haulden, eds. A Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation. Philadelphia: Trinity Press Intl, 1990.
Croatto, Severino.
Biblical Hermaneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading as the Production of Meaning. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1987.
Damrosch, David.
The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature. San Francisco: Harper, 1987.
Danielson, Dennis,
ed. The Cambridge Companion to Milton. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1989.
Dawsey, James M.
The Lucan Voice: Confusion and Irony in the Gospel of Luke. Macon, GA: Mercer UP, 1986.
Dawson, David.
Literary Theory. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1995.
Detweiler, Robert.
"Reader Response Approaches to Biblical and Secular Texts." Semeia 31 (1985)
Dodd, C. H.
The Authority of the Bible. New York: Harper, 1960.
Fischer, Michael.
Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory. New York: Norton, 1989.
Drury, John.
The Parables in the Gospels. London, 1985.
Eagleton, Terry.
Literary Theory. Minneapolis: U. Of Minnesota, 1983.
Eliot, T. S.
"Religion and Literature." Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot. Ed. Frank Kermode. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. 97-106.
Ferré, Nels F. S.
Know Your Faith. London: Epworth, 1959.
Fewell, Danna Nolan,
ed. Reading Between Texts: Intertextuality in the Hebrew Bible. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1992.
Fewell, Danna Nolan,
and David M. Gunn. Gender, Power, and Promise: Ideology and Story in Genesis-Kings. Nashville: Abingdon, 1993.
Fisch, Harold.
Poetry with a Purpose: Biblical Poetics and Interpretation. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1988.
Fish, Stanley E.
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretative Communities. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP, 1980.
Fishbane, Michael.
Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel. Oxford, 1985.
Forbes, Cheryl.
"The Bible as Literature." Christianity Today 19 (1975): 652-53.
Fowler, Robert M.
Let the Reader Understand: Reader-Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.
Frei, Hans.
The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative. New Haven: Yale UP, 1974.
Frye, H. Northrop.
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1971.
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The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jov., 1982.
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"History and Myth in the Bible." The Literature of Fact: Selected Papers from the English Institute. Ed. Angus Fletcher. New York: Columbia, 1976. 1-19.
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Words with Power: A Second Study of the Bible and Literature. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jov., 1990.
Funk, Robert W.
Parables and Presence. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982.
Gamble, Harry Y.
The New Testament Canon. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.
Gardner, Helen.
The Business of Criticism. Oxford: Clarendon, 1959. See "The Limits of Literary Criticism," 79-157.
Gaustad, Edwin S.
"Bible in America." Mercer Dictionary of the Bible. Ed. Watson E. Mills. Macon, GA.: Mercer UP, 1990.
Gould, Stephen Jay.
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Norton, 1977.
Grant, R. M.
"Literary Criticism and the New Testament Canon." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 16 (1982): 24-44.
Green, Garrett.
"Myth, History, and Imagination: The Creation Narratives in Bible and Theology." Horizons in Biblical Theology 12 (December 1990): 19-63.
Green, Joel B.
Hearing the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994.
Gros Louis, Kenneth.
"Critical Pre-Suppositions in Approaching the Bible as Literature." Christianity and Literature 24.2 (1975): 42-44.
Gros Louis,
Kenneth, and James S. Ackerman, eds. Literary Interpretations of Biblical Narratives. Nashville: Abingdon, 1974. Incl. Ryken, Leland, "Literary Criticism of the Bible: Some Fallacies," 24-40.
Gunn, David M.,
and Danna Nolan Fewell. Narrative in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993.
Gunton, Colin E.
The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1993.
Hamilton, A. C.
Northrop Frye: Anatomy of His Criticism. Toronto: Univ. Of Toronto Press, 1990.
Hamilton, William.
The Quest for the Post-Historical Jesus. New York: Continuum, 1994.
Hammond, Gerald.
"English Translations of the Bible." The Literary Guide to the Bible. Ed. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard Belnap, 1987. 647-66.
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The Making of the English Bible. Manchester: Carcanet, 1982.
Hauerwas, Stanley.
Unleashing the Scripture: Freeing the Bible from Captivity to America. Nashville: Abingdon, 1993.
Hedrick, Charles W.
Parables as Poetic Fiction: The Creative Voice of Jesus. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994. The author argues that the parables of Jesus are more poetic than metaphoric.
Hefner, Philip J.
The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, and Religion. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1993.
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"Stories Science Tells: Defining the Human Quest." The Christian Century 10 May. 1995: 508-13.
Henn, T. R.
The Bible as Literature. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970.
Hrushovski, Benjamin.
"Prosody, Hebrew." Encyclopedia Judaica. Vol. 13. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
Hughes, Merritt Y.,
ed. John Milton Complete Poems and Major Prose. Indianapolis, IN: Odyssey, 1957. Notes and Introductions by the editor.
Iser, Wolfgang.
The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1978.
Jastrow, Robert.
God and the Astronomers. New York: Warner, 1980.
Johnson, Phillip E.
Darwin on Trial. Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 1991.
Josipovici, Gabriel.
The Book of God: A Response to the Bible. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1987.
Juel, Donald,
James S. Ackerman, and Thayer S. Warshaw. An Introduction to New Testament Literature. Nashville: Abingdon, 1978.
Kee, Howard C.
Knowing the Truth: A Sociological Approach to New Testament Interpretation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989.
Kennedy, George.
New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism. Chapel Hill, NC: U. Of NC, 1984.
Kermode, Frank.
"The Canon." The Literary Guide to the Bible. Ed. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Belnap, 1987. 600-10.
Knight, D. A.,
and G. M. Tucker, eds. The Hebrew Bible and Its Modern Interpreters. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.
Knight, G. W.
"Coleridge's Divine Comedy." English Romantic Poets. Ed. M. H. Abrams. London: Oxford UP, 1975. 203-13. Rpt. in The Starlit Dome. London: Methuen, 1941. 83-97.
Kort, Wesley C.
"Religion and Literature in Postmodern Contexts." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 53 (1990): 575-88.
Kugel, James L.
The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1981.
Kummel, Werner Georg.
Introduction to the New Testament. Trans. Howard Clark Kee. Revised edition. Nashville: Abingdon, 1975.
Lentricchia, Frank,
and Thomas McLaughlin, eds. Critical Terms for Literary Study. Chicago: U. Of Chicago, 1990.
Lewalski, Barbara.
Milton's Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning, and Art of Paradise Regained. Providence, RI: Brown UP, 1966.
Lewis, C. S.
The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version. London: Athlone, 1950. Also published in the Facet Book Series (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1967). Reprinted in They Asked for a Paper (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1962), 26-50. Selected Literary Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1969), 126-145.
Lints, Richard.
The Fabric of Theology: A Prolegomenon to Evangelical Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993.
Longman III, Tremper.
Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation. Grand Rapids, MI: Academic Books (Zondervan), 1987.
Malbon, Elizabeth Struthers.
Narrative Space and Mythic Meaning in Mark. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986.
Mann, Thomas W.
The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch. Atlanta: John Knox, 1988.
Marsden, George M.
The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief. New York: Oxford UP, 1994.
Mays, James Luther,
David L. Petersen, and Kent H. Richards, eds. Old Testament Interpretation Past, Present, and Future: Essays in Honor of Gene M. Tucker. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995. Note especially chapter 1, pp. 13-29, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, "Torah as Narrative and Narrative as Torah."
McCall, Duke K.,
ed. Review and Expositor: The Problem of Authority in Church and Society. Vol. 75, No. 2 (Spring, 1978). Louisville, KY: Review and Expositor, 1978.
McConnell, Frank,
ed. The Bible and the Narrative Tradition. New York: Oxford UP, 1986.
McKenzie, Steven L.,
and Stephen R. Haynes, eds. To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to Biblical Criticisms and Their Application. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1993.
McKnight, Edgar V.
The Bible and the Reader: An Introduction to Literary Criticism. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.
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Postmodern Use of the Bible: The Emergence of Reader-Oriented Criticism. Nashville: Abingdon, 1988.
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"Reader Perspectives on the New Testament." Semeia 48 (1989).
Meyer, Ben F.
"The Challenges of Text and Reader to the Historical-Critical Method." The Bible and Its Readers. Ed. Wim Beuken, Sean Freyne and Anton Weiler. Philadelphia: Trinity, 1991.
Miller, J. M.,
and J. H. Hayes. A History of Ancient Israel and Judah. London / Philadelphia: SCM / Westminster, 1986.
Milton, John.
"The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty." Rpt. in Ed. Merritt Hughes. John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose. New York: Odyssey, 1957. 667-71. Milton justifies seeing parts of the Bible as literature. Also incl. in Reid, Mary E., The Bible Read as Literature, 125-127. The excellent anthology and study guide ed. by Merritt Hughes also contains annotated Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
Mitchell, Nathan.
"The Problem of Authority in Roman Catholicism." Review and Expositor 75.2 (Spring 1978): 195-209.
Moltmann, Jürgen.
God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1985.
Moore, Stephen D.
Literary Criticism and the Gospels: The Theoretical Challenge. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1989.
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Poststructuralism and the New Testament: Derrida and Foucault at the Foot of the Cross. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.
Morgan, Donn F.
Between Text and Community: The "Writings" in Canonical Interpretation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990.
Morgan, Robert,
and John Barton. Biblical Interpretation. Oxford Bible Series. Oxford UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988.
Moulton, Richard G.
The Literary Study of the Bible. Revised Edition. New York: AMS Press, 1970.
Nelkin, Dorothy.
The Creation Controversy: Science Or Scripture in the Schools. New York: Norton, 1982.
Newport, John P.,
and William Cannon. Why Christians Fight over the Bible. Nashville, TN: Nelson, 1974.
Noll, Mark.
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994.
Norton, David.
A History of the Bible as Literature: Volume 1, from Antiquity to 1700. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1993.
Ohlsen, Woodrow.
Perspectives on Old Testament Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
Patte, Daniel.
The Gospel According to Matthew: A Structural Commentary on Matthew's Faith. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987.
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Paul's Faith and the Power of the Gospel: A Structural Introduction to Paul's Letters. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
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Structural Exegesis for New Testament Critics. Guides to Biblical Scholarship. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990.
Peacocke, A. R.
Creation and the World of Science: The Bampton Lectures, 1978. Oxford, UK: Clarendon, 1979; New York: Oxford UP, 1979.
Perrin, Norman R.
Jesus and the Language of the Kingdom: Symbol and Metaphor in New Testament Interpretation. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976.
Perrin, Norman R.,
and Dennis Duling. The New Testament: An Introduction. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
Peter, John.
"Murder in the Cathedral." Sewanee Review 61.3 (1953): 362-83. Reprinted in Hugh Heffner, ed., T. S. Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1962.
Petersen, Norman R.
Literary Criticism for New Testament Critics. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978.
Phillips, Gary A.
ed. Poststructuralist Criticism and the Bible: Text/History/Discourse. Semeia 51 (1990).
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"Exegesis as Critical Praxis: Reclaiming History and Text from a Postmodern Perspective." Semeia 51 (1990): 7-49.
Pinnock, Clark H.
"Climbing Out of a Swamp: The Evangelical Struggle to Understand the Creation Texts." Interpretation 43 (1989): 143-55.
Pinnock, Clark,
Richard Rice, and John Sanders. The Openness of God. Downers Grove, Ill.: Inter Varsity Press. A 1995 Christianity Today Book Award Winner.
Placher, William C.
Narratives of a Vulnerable God: Christ, Theology, and Scripture. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1994.
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Unapologetic Theology: A Christian Voice in a Pluralistic Conversation. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1989.
Polzin, Robert.
Moses and the Deuteronomist: A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History, Part One: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges. New York: Seabury Press, 1980.
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Samuel and the Deuteronomist: A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History, Part Two: 1 Samuel. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.
Pope, Elizabeth Marie.
Paradise Regained: The Tradition and the Poem. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1962.
Pope, John C.,
ed. Seven Old English Poems. New York: Norton, 1966.
Powell, Mark Allan.
What Is Narrative Criticism? Guides to Biblical Scholarship. Dan O. Via, Jr., editor. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990.
Prickett, Stephen.
Words and the Word: Language, Poetics, and Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1986.
Pritchard, John Paul.
A Literary Approach to the New Testament. Norman, OK: Univ. of OK, 1972.
Quiller-Couch, Arthur.
"On Reading the Bible." On the Art of Reading. New York: Putnam, 1920. 141-206.
Rachels, James.
Created from Animals. Oxford, UK: Oxford, 1990.
Radzinowicz, Mary Ann.
"How Milton Read the Bible: The Case of Paradise Regained." The Cambridge Companion to Milton. Ed. Dennis Danielson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1989. 207-23.
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"Milton, the Bible, and Paradise Regained." The Cambridge Companion to Milton. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1989.
Raffel, Burton,
trans. Poems from the Old English. Lincoln, Neb: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1960.
Reid, Mary Esson,
ed. The Bible Read as Literature: An Anthology. Cleveland: Howard Allen, 1959.
Reventlow, Henning Graff.
The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985.
Rhein, Francis Bayard.
Understanding the New Testament. Revised edition. Barron's Educational Series. Woodbury, NY: Barron, 1974. Formerly pub. as An Analytical Approach to the New Testament (1966).
Rhoades, David,
and Donald Michie. Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982.
Ricoeur, Paul.
Essays on Biblical Interpretation. Ed. with intro. by Luis S. Mudge. Philadelphia, Fortress, 1980.
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Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, and Imagination. Edited by Mark I. Wallace. Trans. by David Pellauer. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1995.
Robertson, D. W.
A Preface to Chaucer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1962.
Robertson, David.
The Old Testament and the Literary Critics. Guides to Biblical Scholarship, Old Testament Series. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977.
Robertson, M. G. Pat.
Answers to 200 of Life's Most Probing Questions. Nashville, TN: Nelson, 1985.
Rogers, Jack B.
and Donald K. McKim. The Auathority and Interpretation of the Bible: An Historical Approach. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1979.
Rosenberg, David,
trans. The Book of J. Interpreted by Harold Bloom. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. A discussion of the "Documentary Hypothesis" of ancient authorship of the Pentateuch.
Rudolph, Erwin P.
"Beauty in the Bible." Christianity Today 20 (1975): 251-52.
Ryken, Leland.
"A Christian Approach to Literature." Christianity Today 14 (1969): 218-20.
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"Good Reading in the Good Book." Christianity Today 1975 ser. 19 (1975): 368-71.
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How to Read the Bible as Literature. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Books, 1984.
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The Literature of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Mich: Zondervan, 1974.
Salyer, Gregory,
and Robert Detweiler, eds. Literature and Theology at Century's End. Includes papers presented at 1992 Conference on Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow. Alpharetta, GA: Scholars Press, 1992.
Sampson, George.
The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1941.
Sams, Horace.
Temptation in Imaginative Literature of Milton and Bunyan: Two Faces of the Puritan Persona. Diss. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 1985. University Microfilms International, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 1985. Copyright 1985 by Horace Sams, Jr. All rights reserved.
Sandeen, Ernest R.
"The Problem of Authority in American Fundamentalism." Review and Expositor 75.2 (Spring 1978): 211-17.
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The Roots of Fundamentalism. Chicago: U. Of Chicago Press, 1970.
Sanders, James.
Canon and Community: A Guide to Canonical Criticism. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.
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From Sacred Story to Sacred Text. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987.
Savan, Gabriel.
The Bible and Civilization. New York: Quadrangle/NY Times Book Co., 1973. Copyright 1973 by Keter Publishing House Ltd., P. O. Box 7145, Jerusalem, Israel.
Savran, George W.
Telling and Retelling: Quotation in Biblical Narrative. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 1988.
Schneidau, Herbert N.
Sacred Discontent: The Bible and Western Tradition. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1976.
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"Biblical Narrative and Modern Consciousness." In Frank McConnell, ed. The Bible and the Narrative Tradition. New York: Oxford Press, 1986. 132-49.
Schneiders, Sandra M.
The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture. San Francisco: Harper, 1991.
Schwartz, Regina,
ed. The Book and the Text: The Bible and LiteraryTheory Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1990.
Schweizer, Eduard.
O. C. Dean, Jr., trans. A Theological Introduction to the New Testament. Nashville: Abingdon, 1991. Orig. pub. as Theologische Einleitung in Das Neue Testament. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989.
Sine, Tom.
Cease Fire: Searching for Sanity in America's Culture Wars. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995.
Smith, Sheldon,
Robert T. Handy, and Lefferts A. Loetscher. American Christianity. Contains Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, "An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838." New York: Scribner, 1963.
Spencer, R. A.,
ed. Orientation by Disorientation: Studies in Literary Criticism and Biblical Literary Criticism. Pittsburgh: Pickwick, 1980.
Spitzer, Gary.
"Teaching the Bible as Literature: Problems and Possibilities." Journal of General Education 21 (1969): 183-91.
Steiner, George.
"The Good Books." New Yorker (January 11, 1988): 94-98.
Sternberg, Meir.
The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985.
Stott, John.
Men with a Message. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994.
Stroup, George W.
The Promise of Narrative Theology: Recovering the Gospel in the Church. Atlanta: John Knox, 1981.
Suleiman, Susan,
and Inge Crosman, eds. The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1980.
Tannehill, R. C.
The Narrative Unity of Luke--Acts: A Literary Interpretation. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986, 1990.
Thielicke, Helmut.
Between God and Satan. Trans. by Rev. C. C. Barber. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1958. First published under the title of Zwischen Gott Und Satan. Hamburg, Germany: Furche-Verlag, 1946.
Thompson, E. Bruce.
Church and State. Waco, TX: Baylor UP, 1958.
Thompson, Elbert N. S.
Essays on Milton. New York: Russell, 1968.
Thompson, Leonard L.
Introducing Biblical Literature: A More Fantastic Country. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1978.
Tillyard, E. M. W.
Studies in Milton. London: Chatto & Windus, 1951.
Trawick, Buckner B.
The Bible as Literature: The Old Testament and the Apocrypha. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1970.
Tyson, Joseph,
ed. Luke-Acts and the Jewish People. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1988.
Van Iersel, Bastian.
Reading Mark. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1989.
Vickers, Brian.
In Defense of Rhetoric. Oxford, UK: Clarendon, 1988.
Wadsworth, Michael.
"Making and Interpreting Scripture." Ed. Michael Wadsworth. Ways of Reading the Bible. Brighton, Sussex, UK: Harvester, 1981.
Ward, Graham.
Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Ward, Keith.
The Concept of God. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1974.
Warshaw, Thayer S.
Handbook for Teaching the Bible in Literature Courses. Nashville: Abingdon, 1978.
Watson, Francis.
Text, Church, and World: Biblical Interpretation in Theological Perspective. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994.
Welker, Michael.
"Creation: Big Bang Or the Work of Seven Days?" Theology Today (July 1975): 173-87.
Westermann, Claus.
Creation. London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK), 1974.
Wilder, Amos N.
Theology and Modern Literature. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard UP, 1958. See chapter 3, "Theology and Aesthetic Judgment," 63-79.
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Jesus' Parables and the War of Myths: Essays on Imagination in the Scriptures. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982.
Williams, Jay G.
Understanding the Old Testament. New York: Barron, 1972. A book in Barron's Educational Series.
Williams, Roger.
The Writings of Roger Williams. Providence, RI: Narragansett Club, 1866-1874.
Wood, James E., Jr.,
E. Bruce Thompson, Robert T. Miller. Church and State in Scripture, History, and Constitutional Law. Waco, TX: Baylor UP, 1958.
Wuthnow, Robert.
Christianity in the Twenty-First Century: Reflections on the Challenges Ahead. New York: Oxford, 1993.
Young, Davis A.
The Biblical Flood. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994.
Zesmer, David M.
Guide to English Literature from Beowulf Through Chaucer and Medieval Drama. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1961.