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Individual Books

Psalms Job Proverbs Ruth Song of Songs Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes)

Lamentations Esther Daniel Ezra-Nehemiah Chronicles

Poetry

• Geminate Ballast: An Unrecognized Literary Feature in Ancient Semitic Poetry - by Scott Noegel, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5.8 (2004)
• Poetic Discourse - by Alan P. Ross, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University
• The Hermeneutics of Biblical Lyric Poetry - by Daniel J. Estes, Bilbliotheca Sacra 152 (1995) 413-430
• "This Song": Conspicuous Poetry in Hebrew Prose - by James W. Watts, in Verse in Ancient Near Eastern Prose (ed. Johannes C. de Moor and Wilfred G. E. Watson; AOAT 42; Buzton & Berker and Neukirchener Verlag, 1993) 345-58

Wisdom Literature

• Die Gerechtigkeit der Sophia: Biblische Weisheitstraditionen und feministische Diskurse - by Silvia Schroer, lectio difficilior 1 (2000)
• Is Wisdom Literature Eschatological? - by Danny Olinger, Kerux 11.1 (1996); full text
• The Sweet Hereafter: Law, Wisdom and Family Revisited - by Mary Ann Beavis, Journal of Religion and Film 5.1 (2001)
• The Testament: Continuities and Discontinuities - by Roland E. Murphy, Biblical Theology Bulletin (Fall 1999)
• Weisheit, Teil II: Altes Testament und Frühjudentum - by Siegfried Kreuzer, Theologisches Begriffslexicon zum Neuen Testament (Auflage, 2000) 1878-1881
• Wisdom - by Gerald H. Wilson, Azusa Pacific University
• Wisdom as the Way to Knowing God - by August H. Konkel, Didaskalia 4.1 (1992) 15-25; abstract
• Wisdom Writings - chapter 28 of Old Testament Life and Literature, by Gerald A. Larue (1968)

Book Reviews

• Arnold, Bill T. and H. G. M. Williamson, eds., Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (InterVarsity, 2005) - reviewed by Bruce Power, Review of Biblical Literature (2006)
• Barton, Stephen C., eds., Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Wisdom in the Bible, the Church, and the Contemporary World (Clark, 1999) - reviewed by Daniel J. Treier, Trinity Journal (Fall 2000)
• Charlesworth, James H. and Michael A. Daise, eds., Light in a Spotless Mirror: Reflections on Wisdom Traditions in Judaism and Early Christianity (Trinity, 2003)
  • Reviewed by Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
  • Reviewed by Tobias Nicklas, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
• Clifford, Richard J., The Wisdom Literature - reviewed by Harold C. Washington, Review of Biblical Literature
• Herinisson, Hans-Jürgen, Studien zu Prophetie und Weisheit: Gesammelte Aufsätze - reviewed by William P. Brown and Gary N. Knoppers
• Webb, Barry G., Five Festal Garments: Christian Reflections on the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther - reviewed by Michael S. Moore, Review of Biblical Literature

Course Syllabi

• OT525: Biblical Wisdom Literature - taught by Deborah Hannay Sunoo, Fuller Theological Seminary Northwest
• OT572: Spirituality of the Psalms - taught by Anthony J. Petrotta, Fuller Theological Seminary Menlo Park
• Rels 477 Further Studies in the Hebrew Bible - taught by Lyle Eslinger, University of Calgary
• RP 217: Wisdom Literature and Poetry of the Old Testament - taught by Steve MacArthur, Sterling College