Bibliography: Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation of Scripture

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Early Jewish Biblical Interpretation

1. Martin Abegg, Peter Flint, and Eugene Ulrich, eds. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1999.

2. Agustín Del Agua Pérez, El método midrásico y la exégesis del Nuevo Testamento. Biblioteca Midrásica, 4. Valencia: Institución S. Jerónimo para la Investigación Bíblica, 1985.

3. J. Bonsirven, Exégèse rabbinique et exégèse paulinienne. Paris: Beauchesne, 1939.

4. Daniel Boyarin, Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

5. David Instone Brewer, Techniques and Assumptions in Jewish Exegesis Before 70 CE. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1992.

6. James H. Charlesworth and Craig A. Evans, eds., The Pseudepigrapha and Early Biblical Interpretation. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993.

7. James H. Charlesworth, “The Pseudepigrapha as Biblical Exegesis” in Early Jewish and Christian Exegesis: Studies in Memory of William Hugh Brownlee. Edited by Craig A. Evans and William F. Stinespring. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987, 139–52.

8. Sidnie White Crawford, Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2008.

9. Michael Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel. Oxford: Clarendon, 1985.

10. Bruce Norman Fisk, Do You Not Remember?: Scripture, Story and Exegesis in the Rewritten Bible of Pseudo-Philo. JSPSup, 37. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

11. Lester L. Grabbe, Etymology in Early Jewish Interpretation: The Hebrew Names in Philo. Brown Judaic Studies, 115. Atlanta: Scholars, 1988.

12. Joseph W. Groves, Actualization and Interpretation in the Old Testament. SBLDS, 86. Atlanta: Scholars, 1987.

13. Alan J. Hauser and Duane F. Watson, A History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 1: The Ancient Period. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

14. David M. Hay, ed., Both Literal and Allegorical: Studies in Philo of Alexandria's Questions and Answers on Genesis and Exodus. Brown Judaic Studies, 232. Atlanta: Scholars, 1991.

15. Maurya P. Horgan, Pesharim: Qumran Interpretations of Biblical Books. Washington: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1979.

16. James L. Kugel, The Bible as It Was. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997.

17. James L. Kugel, In Potiphar's House: The Interpretive Life of Biblical Texts.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.

18. James L. Kugel, Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible as It Was at the Start of the Common Era. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

19. James L. Kugel, ed. Studies in Ancient Midrash. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2001.

20. Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, ed., The Creation of Man and Woman: Interpretations of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000.

21. Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, ed., Paradise Interpreted: Representations of Biblical Paradise in Judaism and Christianity. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999.

22. Gerard P. Luttikhuizen and Florentino García Martínez, eds., Interpretations of the Flood. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998.

23. Martin Jan Mulder, ed., Mikra: Text, Translation, Reading and Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. CRINT, 2.1. Assen & Maastricht: Van Gorcum; Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990.

24. D. Muñoz Leon, Derás. Los caminos y sentidos de la palabra divina en la Escritura I: derás targumico y derás neotestamentario. Madrid, 1987.

25. J. Mann, The Bible as Read and Preached in the Old Synagogue. New York: KTAV, 1971 [1940].

26. Jacob Neusner, Invitation to Midrash. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.

27. Jacob Neusner, Midrash in Context: Exegesis in Formative Judaism. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983.

28. Jacob Neusner, The Torah in the Talmud: A Taxonomy of the Uses of Scripture in the Talmud. 2 vols. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.

29. Jacob Neusner, What is Midrash? Guides to Biblical Scholarship. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987.

30. Jacob Neusner with Scott Green, Writing with Scripture. Atlanta: Scholars, 1993.

31. Daniel Patte, Early Jewish Hermeneutic in Palestine. Missoula, Mont.: Scholars, 1975.

32. Richard L. Schultz, The Search for Quotation: Verbal Parallels in the Prophets. JSOTSupp., 180. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1999.

33. Adin Steinsaltz, The Talmud, The Steinsaltz Edition: A Reference Guide. Translated and edited by Israel V. Berman. New York: Random House, 1989.

34. Günter Stemberger, Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. Translated and edited by Markus Bockmuehl. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1996.

35. Julio C. Trebolle Barrera, The Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible: An Introduction to the History of the Bible. Translated by Wilfred G.E. Watson. Leiden; New York: Brill; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

36. Géza Vermès, Scripture and Tradition in Judaism: Haggadic Studies. Leiden: Brill, 1973.

37. Hanne von Weissenberg, Juha Pakkala, and Marko Marttila, eds., Changes in Scripture: Rewriting and Interpretating Authoritative Traditions in the Second Temple Period. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011.

See also http://www.huc.edu/midrash/genstud.html