from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
On the Bible: General
Criticism: General
Doctrinal writings
Criticism: General
Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Narrative. New York: Basic Books, 1981.
______. The Art of Biblical Poetry. New York: Basic Books, 1985.
______. The Art of Biblical Poetry. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1990. 2000.*
Analyse structurale et Exégèse Biblique. Neuchâtel: Delachaux and Niestlé, 1971.
Andersson, Greger. "Narrating Selves and the Literary in the Bible." Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 17.1 (2019): 87-105.*
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Armstrong, Karen. The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West. London: Elm Tree Books, 1986.
Arnold, Matthew. Literature and Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible. London: Smith, Elder, 1873. 1883.
______. Literature and Dogma. Boston, 1873.
______. God and the Bible. A Review of Objections to Literature and Dogma. London: Smith ,Elder, 1875.
Asciutto, L. Eva y sus Hermanas: La Biblia en femenino. Trans. F. Pérez Miguel. Madrid: Sociedad de Educación Atenas, 1992. 1993.
Bal, Mieke. Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987.*
Barr, James. Old and New in Interpretation. New York: Harper, 1966.
Barthel, Pierre. Interprétation du langage mythique et théologie biblique: Etude de quelques étapes de l'évolution du problème de l'interprétation des représentations d'origine et de structure mythique de la foi chrétienne. Leiden: Brill, 1963.
Barthes, Roland, et al. Exégèse et hermeneutique. Paris: Seuil, 1971.
Barton, John, and John Muddiman, eds. The Oxford Bible Commentary. New York: Oxford UP, 2001.
Behm, Johannes. "Ermeneuo, ermeneia. . . " 1935. Trans. Geoffrey W. Bromley. In Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Ed. D. Kittel. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964.
Bevan, David, ed. Literature and the Bible. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993.
Blackman, E. C. Biblical Interpretation. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1957.
Borges, Jorge Luis. "El espejo de los enigmas." (Bloy, Bible, allegory). In Borges, Nueva antología personal. Barcelona: Bruguera, 1982. 252-7.*
Boyle, Robert. Some Consideration Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures. 1663.
Bruce, F. F. History of the Bible in English. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 1961. 1986.
Bultmann, Rudolf. "Das Problem der Hermeneutik." In Bultmann, Glauben und Verstehen 2.211-35.
______. "Ist voraussetzungslose Exegese möglich?" In Bultmann, Glauben und Verstehen 3:142-50.
______. Glauben und Verstehen: Gessamelte Aufsätze. Tübingen: Mohr, 1952.
Metzger, B. M., and M. D. Coogan, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Bible. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
Denifle, H. "Das Exemplar parisiense." Archiv für Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters 4 (1888): 277-92.
Detweiler, Robert, ed. Derrida and Biblical Studies. Chico (CA): Scholar's Press, 1982.
Evans, Gillian R. Old Arts and New Theology: The Beginnings of Theology as an Academic Discipline. Oxford, 1980.
______. The Language and Logic of the Bible: The Earlier Middle Ages. Cambridge, 1984.
______. Language and Logic of the Bible: The Road to Reformation. Cambridge, 1985.
Fabiny, Tibor. The Lion and the Lamb: Figuralism and Fulfillment in the Bible, Art and Literature. London: Macmillan, 1992.
Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil Asher Silberman. The Bible Unearthed. 2001.
Focant, C., and A. Wénin, eds. Analyse narrative et Bible: Deuxième colloque international du RRENAB, Louvain-La-Neuve, avril 2004. (BETL, 191). Leuven: Leuven UP / Peeters, 2005.
Frei, Hans. The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative. New Haven: Yale UP, 1974.
Frye, Northrop. The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. New York: Harcourt, 1982.
_____. The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. Harvest Books, 2002.
_____. Le Grand Code. (Poétique). Paris: Seuil.
______. "Crime and Sin in the Bible." In Frye, Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays 1974-1988. Ed. Robert D. Denham. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1990. 1991. 255-69.*
______. "The Double Mirror." (Bible). In Frye, Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays 1974-1988. Ed. Robert D. Denham. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1990. 1991. 229-37.*
______. Words with Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature. Markham (ON): Penguin Books Canada; New York: Harcourt, 1990.
______. La Parole souveraine. (Poétique). Paris: Seuil.
Gabel, John B., Charles B. Wheeler , and Anthony D. Yourke, eds. The Bible as Literature: An Introduction. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.
Gameson, Richard, ed. The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use. Cambridge, 1994.
Gardner, Helen. "The Historical Sense." 1956. In Gardner, The Business of Criticism. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1959. 127-57.* (Bible criticism).
Girard, René. Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde. With Jean-Michel Oughourlian and Guy Lefort. Paris: Grasset-Fasquelle, 1978. 1991.
Grant, Robert M. A Short History of the Interpretation of the Bible. Rev. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1963.
Greenblatt, Stephen Jay. "The Word of God in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." In Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980. 74-114.
Greer, Rowan A. "The Christian Bible and Its Interpretation." In Early Biblical Interpretation. Ed. James L. Kugel and Rowan A. Greer. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. 107-208.
Harrison, Peter. The Bible: Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Hirsch, David, and Nehama Ashkenazy, eds. Biblical Patterns in Literature. Chico (CA): Scholar's Press, 1985.
Hobbes, Thomas. "Of the Number, Antiquity, Scope, Authority, and Intepreters of the Books of Holy Scripture." In Hobbes, Leviathan. London: Dent; New York: Dutton (Everyman), 1914. 202-10.*
_____. "36. De la palabra de Dios y de los profetas." In Hobbes, Leviatán. Madrid: Gredos, 2012. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2015. 337-51.*
Ingraffia, Brian D. Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Jackson, Bernard S. Wisdom-Laws. (Bible).
Kee, Howard Clark. The Cambridge Companion to the Bible. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Kermode, Frank, and Robert Alter, eds. The Literary Guide to the Bible. 1987.
Kort, Wesley A. Story, Text, and Scripture: Literary Interests in Biblical Narrative. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1988.
Kraus, Hans-Joachim. Geschichte der historisch-kritischen Erforschung des Alten Testaments von der Reformation bis zum Gegenwart. Neukirchen: Verlag der Buchhandlung der Erziehungsvereins, 1956.
Kugel, James L., and Rowan A. Greer, eds. Early Biblical Interpretation. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986.
Kristeva, Julia. "II.7. Les Hébreux: la Bible et la Kabbale." In Kristeva, Le langage, cet inconnu: Une initiation à la linguistique. 1969. Paris: Seuil, 1981. 100-105.*
_____. "Reading the Bible." In Kristeva, The New Maladies of the Soul. New York: Columbia UP, 1996. 115-26.*
Lawton, David. Faith, Text, and History; The Bible in English. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.
______. "Englishing the Bible, 1066-1549." In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Ed. D. Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Lowth, Robert. De Sacra Poesia Hebraeorum Praelectiones. 1753.
______. De Sacra Poesia Hebraeorum. 1753. Notes by J. D. Michaelis. 2 vols. Göttingen: 1758, 1761.
______. Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews. Trans. G. Gregory. 2 vols. London, 1787.
Lukin, Henry. An Introduction to the Holy Scripture. With a preface by John Owen. 1669.
MacQueen, John. "Acrostics, Numbers and the Bible." In MacQueen, Numerology: Theory and Outline History of a Literary Mode. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1985. 1-25.
Martínez, J. M. Hermenéutica bíblica. Tarrasa: Clíe, 1984.
Martínez-Dueñas Espejo, José Luis. "La tradición bíblica y la reforma en Inglaterra." In Estudios literarios ingleses: Renacimiento y barroco. Ed. Susana Onega. Madrid: Cátedra, 1986. 113-28.
McNamara, Martin, ed. Biblical Studies: The Medieval Irish Contribution. Dublin, 1976.
Mies, F., ed. Bible et littérature: Dieu et l'homme mis en intrigue. (Le livre et le rouleau, 6). Brussels: Lessius, 1999.
Murphy, Cullen. "Women and the Bible." Atlantic 272.2 (1993): 39-64.
Murry, John Middleton. "The English Bible; and the Grand Style." The Problem of Style. 1922. London: Oxford UP, 1960. 110-29.
Olivares Rivera, Carmen, Macario Olivera Villacampa and Ignacio Guillén Galve. Desconstrucción de textos bíblicos en inglés: Escuchando las voces que surcan los textos. Zaragoza: Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, Universidad de Zaragoza, 1994.*
Olivera Villacampa, Macario. "Estudio comparado de actualización del lenguaje bíblico en inglés y en español y sus denotaciones semánticas." MA diss., U de Zaragoza, 1979.
______. "Dimensiones de actualización del lenguaje y lingüística comparada en las biblias inglesa y española." Ph.D. diss. U de Zaragoza, 1981.
______. "The Birth of the Bible in English." In SEDERI I. Ed. Javier Sánchez. Zaragoza: Librería General, 1990. 37-44.
______. "King James Bible: Language and Times." In SEDERI III. Ed. Mª Luisa Dañobeitia. Granada, 1992. 233-42.
Otto, Rudolf. Das Heilige. 1917.
______. Lo santo. Trans. Fernando Vela. Introd. Manuel Fraijó. (Biblioteca Universal; Ensayo Contemporáneo). Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 2000.*
Powys, John Cowper. "The Bible as Literature." In Powys, The Pleasures of Literature. 1938. London: Village Press, 1975. 18-68.*
______. "Saint Paul." In Powys, The Pleasures of Literature. 1938. London: Village Press, 1975. 170-250.*
Prickett, Stephen. Words and the Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation. 1986.
Quiller-Couch, Arthur (Sir). "On Reading the Bible." In Quiller-Couch, On the Art of Reading. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1924. 126-83.*
Reik, Theodor. The Creation of Woman. New York: Braziller, 1960.
______. The Temptation. New York: Braziller, 1961.
Ricœur, Paul. "Temps biblique." Archivio di Filosofia 53 (1985): 29-35.
Ricœur, Paul, and André LaCocque. Penser la Bible. (La Couleur des idées). Paris: Seuil, 1998.
Rouse, R. H., and M. A. Rouse. "The Verbal Concordance to the Scriptures." Archivum fratrum pradicatorum 44 (1974): 5-30.
Schneidau, Herbert N. Sacred Discontent: The Bible and Western Tradition. Baton Rouge: Lousiana UP, 1976.
Schökel, Luis Alonso (S. J.). "Hermeneutics in the Light of Language and Literature." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 25 (1963): 371-86.
______. "Hermenéutica a la luz del lenguaje y la literatura." In Hermenéutica de la palabra. I. Hermenéutica bíblica. Madrid: Ediciones Cristiandad, 1986. 83-101.
______. "Hermenéutica a la luz del lenguaje y la literatura." In Hermenéutica. Ed. José Domínguez Caparrós. Madrid: Arco/Libros, 1997. 183-203.*
Schwartz, Howard. Reimagining the Bible: The Storytelling of the Rabbis. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.
Semler, J. S. Abhandlung von freier Untersuchung des Canon. 4 vols. 1771-75.
Smalley, Beryl. The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Blackwell, 1952. 1962.
Smart, James D. The Interpretation of Scripture. Philadelphia: Westeminster Press, 1961.
Stegmuller, F. Repertorium biblicum medii aevi. Madrid, 1949-61.
Steiner, George. No Passion Spent: Essays, 1978-1996. London: Faber, 1996.
Sternberg, Meir. Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.
______. "Between the Truth and All the Truth: The Rendering of Inner Life in Biblical Narrative." Ha-Sifrut 29 (1979): 110-46.
______. The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985. 1987.
Tolmie, François. Narratology and Biblical Narratives. International Scholars Publications, 1998.
Warner, Martin, ed. The Bible as Rhetoric: Studies in Biblical Persuasion and Credibility. (Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature). London: Routledge, 1990.
Wood, James D. The Interpretation of the Bible: A Historical Introduction. Naperville: Alec R. Allenson, 1958.
Zschirnt, Christiane. "1. Obras que describen el mundo. La Biblia. Homero: La Odisea. Dante Alighieri: Divina Comedia. Miguel de Cervantes: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Fausto. Honoré de Balzac: La comedia humana. Herman Melville: Moby Dick o la ballena blanca. James Joyce: Ulises." In Zschirnt, Libros: Todo lo que hay que leer. Madrid: Santillana-Taurus, 2004. 25-52.*
Doctrinal Writings
Augustine (Saint). De civitate dei. Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum 48.
______. De civitate Dei. Trans. John Healey. 1610. 1620.
______. The City of God. Trans. John Healey (1610). London: Dent, 1945.
______. La Ciudad de Dios. Spanish trans. 1614.
______. La Ciudad de Dios. (1614 trans.). Introd. Francisco Montes de Oca. (Col. "Sepan cuantos..." 59). México: Porrúa, 1966. 11th ed. 1992.*
______. De doctrina Christiana.
______. On Christian Doctrine. Trans. D. W. Robertson, Jr. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1958.
______. On Christian Doctrine. Selection. In Literary Criticism and Theory. Ed. R. C. Davis and L. Finke. London: Longman, 1989.123-38.*
Bede. De Schematibus et Tropis. In Halm, Rhetores Latini Minores.
______. Figures and Tropes of the Holy Writ. .Trans. G. H. Tanenhaus. Quarterly Journal of Speech 48 (1962).
Cassian, John. Opera. In Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Latina. 221 vols. Ed. J. P. Migne. Paris: Garnier, 1844-64. 49, 50.
Clement of Alexandria. Stromata. In Migne, Patrologiae . . . Graeca 8, 9. Trans. in The Ante-Nicene Christian Library. Ed. A. Roberts and J. Donaldson. London, 1867, 72. Vols. 4, 12.
Dannhauer. Hermeneutica sacra sive methodus exponendarum sacrarum litterarum. 1654.
Erasmus of Rotterdam. Novum instrumentum. 1516.
Franz, W. De interpretatione sacra scripturae. 1619.
Frör, Kurt. Biblische Hermeneutik: Zur Schriftauslegung in Predigt und Unterricht. Munich: Kaiser, 1961. 3rd. ed., rev.: Wege zur Schriftauslegung: Biblische Hermeneutik für Unterricht und Predigt. Düsseldorf: Patmos, 1967.
Glassius, S. Philologica sacra. 1623.
Henri of Ghent. La 'Lectura ordinaria super sacram Scripturam' attribuée à Henri de Gand. Ed. R. Macken. Louvain and Paris, 1972. 41-263.
Hobbes, Thomas. "33. Del número, antigüedad, intención, autoridad e intérpretes de los libros de la Sagrada Escritura." In Hobbes, Leviatán. Madrid: Gredos, 2012. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2015. 306-16.*
Hugh of Saint Victor. De scripturis et scriptoris sacris praenotatiunculae. In Migne, Patrologia latina 175.
Illyricus, Matthias Flacius. Clavis scripturae sacrae. 1567. 2nd. ed. Jena, 1674.
Mariana, Juan de. Scholia in vetus et novum testamentum. Madrid, 1616; Paris, 1620.
Nicholas of Lyre. Biblia sacra cum glossa ordinaria et Postilla Nicolai Lyrani. Lyon, 1589.
______. "Literal Postill on the Bible: Extracts from the General and Special Prologues, and from the Commentary on the Psalter." In A. J. Minnis and A. B. Scott, Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism 266-76.
Poole, Matthew. Synopsis criticorum Sanctae Scripturae. 5 folio vols. 1669-1676.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The Mystical Theology and the Celestial Hierarchies. Trans. by the Editors of the Shrine of Wisdom. Fintry (Surrey), n. d.
______. La Hiérarchie Céleste. Bilingual ed. Greek / French. Ed. R. Roques, G. Heil, and M. de Gandillac. (Sources chrétiennes, 58). 2nd ed. Paris, 1970.
______. The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite. Trans. J. Parker. London, 1897-9.
______. Dionysiaca: Recueil donnant l'ensemble des traductions latines des ouvrages attribués au Denys l'Aréopagite. Ed. P. Chevallier. Paris, 1937.
Rambach, J. J. Institutiones hermeneuticae sacrae. 1724.
Stillingfleet, Edward. Origines Sacrae; or, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Christian Faith: As to the Truth and Divine Authority of the Scriptures. London, 1662. Online at Early English Books Online.
Thierry of Chartres. Prologus in Eptatheucon.
Turrentinus, J. A. De sacra scripturae interpretandae methodo tractatus bipartitus. 1728.
Tyndale, William. Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scripture. Ed. Henry Walter. Cambridge: Parker Society, 1848.
______. "A Pathway into the Holy Scripture." In Tyndale, Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scripture. Ed. Henry Walter. Cambridge: Parker Society, 1848. (Rev. version of the 1525 prologue).
Anthologies
Jobling, David, Tine Pippin and Ronald Schleifer, eds. The Postmodern Bible Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
Kugel, James L., and Rowan A. Greer, eds. Early Biblical Interpretation. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986.
See also Religious Hermeneutics; Christian doctrine; Judaism.
Internet resources
Bible Hub.*
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Journals
Catholic Biblical Quarterly 25 (1963).
Series
(Le livre et le rouleau, 6). Brussels: Lessius, 1999.
