Bibliography

Torah as a Whole
Introduction to Source Theories
Critical Perspectives on the Pentateuch
Critique of Source Analysis
Yahwist Narrative
Elohist Source
Priestly Document
Deuteronomy
Tetrateuch-Pentateuch-Hexateuch

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Torah as a Whole

Alexander, T. D. (1995). From Paradise to the Promised Land: An Introduction to the Main Themes of the Pentateuch. Paternoster.

Blenkinsopp, J. (1992). The Pentateuch. An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible. Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday.

Accepts the basic source theory but incorporates newer literary observations into his analysis.

Clines, D. J. A. (1978). The Theme of the Pentateuch. 2d edition 1997. JSOT Supplement Series, 10. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.

Identifies literary and theological themes that bind together the diversity of the Pentateuch.

Crüsemann, F. (1996). The Torah. Theology and Social History of Old Testament Law. Minneapolis: Augsburg.

Fox, E. (1995). The Five Books of Moses. Volume I of the Schocken Bible. New York: Schocken.

Hallo, W. W. (1991). The Book of the People. Brown Judaic Studies 225. Atlanta: Scholars.

Places the books of the Torah in the larger context of the ancient Middle East.

Hamilton, V. P. (1982). Handbook on the Pentateuch. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.

A content summary and analysis of each of the main sections of the Pentateuch with extensive bibliographies.

Mann, T. W. (1988). The Book of the Torah. The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch. Atlanta: John Knox.

A literary and thematic treatment of the Pentateuch that does not deal with sources.

Plaut, W. Gunther (1981). The Torah: A Modern Commentary. Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

Sailhamer, J. H. (1992). The Pentateuch as Narrative. A Biblical-Theological Commentary. Library of Biblical Intepretation. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

Focuses on the narrative and literary continuity of the Pentateuch as a whole.

Introduction to Source Theories

Friedman, R. E. (1987). Who Wrote the Bible? Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Perhaps the most interesting and accessible approach to learning about the source theory of the Pentateuch. Summary explanations of source theories can be found in most modern introductions to the Old Testament, including the following.

Fohrer, G. (1968). Introduction to the Old Testament. Nashville, TN: Abingdon.

Hayes, J. (1979). An Introduction to Old Testament Study. Nashville, TN: Abingdon.

Schmidt, Werner H. (1984). Old Testament Introduction. New York: Crossroad.

Critical Perspectives on the Pentateuch

Campbell, A. F., and M. A. O'Brien (1993). Sources of the Pentateuch. Texts, Introductions, Annotations. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress.

Collects the texts of the Priestly, Yahwist, and Elohist sources in separate chapters, with notes and explanation; a convenient way to view the source texts as continuous narratives.

De Vries, S. J. (1987). "A Review of Recent Research in the Tradition History of the Pentateuch." In Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers, ed. K. H. Richards. Atlanta: Scholars.

An extensive review of recent pentateuchal research.

Nicholson, E. W. (1998). The Pentateuch in the Twentieth Century: The Legacy of Julius Wellhausen. Oxford: Clarendon.

Noth, M. (1972). A History of Pentateuchal Traditions. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. German original, 1948.

Rendtorff, R. (1990). The Problem of the Process of Transmission in the Pentateuch. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement 89. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. German original, 1977.

Thompson, T. L. (1987). The Origin Tradition of Ancient Israel. Vol. 1, the Literary Formation of Genesis and Exodus 1-23. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement 55. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.

Whybray, R. N. (1987). The Making of the Pentateuch. A Methodological Study. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement 53. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.

Critique of Source Analysis

Archer, G. L. (1974). A Survey of Old Testament Introduction. Chicago: Moody.

A Christian conservative introduction to the Old Testament that critiques the source analysis approach.

Cassuto, U. (1961). The Documentary Hypothesis and the Composition of the Pentateuch. Jerusalem: Magnes. Hebrew original, 1941.

Argues against a source theory of the Pentateuch.

Harrison, R. K. (1969). Introduction to the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

A Christian conservative introduction to the Old Testament that critiques the source analysis approach.

Kikawada, I. M., and A. Quinn (1985). Before Abraham Was. The Unity of Genesis 1-11. Nashville: Abingdon.

Argues that Genesis 1-11 has an essential literary unity which refutes the theory of underlying literary sources.

Segal, M. H. (1967). The Pentateuch. Its Composition and its Authorship. Jerusalem: Magnes.

Argues against a source theory from a conservative Jewish position.

Tigay, J. (1985). "The Evolution of the Pentateuchal Narratives in the Light of the Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic." In Tigay (1985).

In the title essay of this collection, based on extrabiblical texts, Tigay presents an alternate model for the growth of the Pentateuch as opposed to the theory of sources.

Yahwist Narrative

Bloom, H. (1990). The Book of J. Translated from the Hebrew by David Rosenberg, interpreted by Harold Bloom. New York: Grove Weidenfeld.

A modern deconstructionist's reading of the Yahwist document, which argues that J was a female.

Brueggemann, W. (1968). "David and His Theologian." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 30: 156-181.

A summary of Yahwist theology.

Coote, R. B., and Ord, D. R. (1989). The Bible's First History. From Eden to the Court of David with the Yahwist. Philadelphia: Fortress.

Ellis, P. (1968). The Yahwist: The Bible's First Theologian. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame.

Hiebert, T. (1996). The Yahwist's Landscape: Nature and Religion in Early Israel. Oxford: Oxford University.

An account of the ecological, economic, and religious ideology of the Yahwist.

Ollenburger, B. (1987). Zion, The City of the Great King: A Theological Symbol of the Jerusalem Cult. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.

A comprehensive treatment of Zion theology, which is another way of construing the Yahwist tradition.

Rendtorff, Rolf (1977). "The 'Yahwist' as Theologian? The Dilemma of Pentateuchal Criticism." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 3: 2-10.

In critique of the theory of literary sources.

Van Seters, J. (1992). Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox.

Argues that the Yahwist was a historian in the period of the Babylonian exile.

Wolff, H. W. (1964; 1975). "The Kerygma of the Yahwist." In Brueggemann and Wolff (1975): 41-66.

Elohist Source

Coote, Robert B. (1991). In Defense of Revolution. The Elohist History. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress.

Craghan, J. F. (1977). "The Elohist in Recent Literature." Biblical Theology Bulletin 7: 23-35.

Jenks, A. W. (1977). The Elohist and North Israelite Traditions. Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series, 22. Missoula, Mont.: Scholars.

Wolff, H. W. (1969; 1975). "The Elohistic Fragments in the Pentateuch." In Brueggemann and Wolff (1975).

Priestly Document

Cross, F. M. (1973). "The Priestly Work." In Cross (1975).

McEvenue, S. E. (1971). The Narrative Style of the Priestly Writer. Analecta Biblica 50. Rome: Biblical Institute.

Patrick, D. (1985). Old Testament Law. An Introduction. Atlanta: John Knox.

Tetrateuch-Pentateuch-Hexateuch

Auld, Graeme A. (1980). Joshua, Moses and the Land: Tetrateuch-Pentateuch-Hexateuch in a Generation since 1938. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark.

Von Rad, Gerhard (1938; 1966). "The Form-Critical Problem of the Hexateuch." In Von Rad (1966).