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Required Readings
R. H. Pfeiffer: "Canon of the OT" (The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible I, 1962): 498 - 511.Harry Y. Gamble: "Factors in the Formation of the Canon" (Fortress Press: The New Testament Canon, 1985): 57 - 72.
Bruce M. Metzger: "Important Witnesses to the Text of the New Testament: Codex Sinaiticus" (Oxford Univ. Press: The Text of the New Testament, 1992): 42 - 46.
Werner H. Kelber: "The Bible in the Book Tradition" (DeGruyter: Medienwissenschaft, 1999): 592 - 600.
Denise A. Troll: "The Demands of Manuscript Technology" (Newburg Park: Oral and Written Communication, 1990): 99 - 120.
Mary J. Carruthers: "Elementary Memory Designs" (Cambridge Univ. Press: The Book of Memory, 1990): 80 - 107.
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein: "Defining the Initial Shift" (Cambridge Univ. Press: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, I, 1979): 43 - 71.
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein: "Western Christendom Disrupted" (Cambridge Univ. Press: The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, 1983): 158 - 170).
Mark U. Edwards, Jr.: "Scripture as Printed Text," (Univ. of California Press: Printing, Propaganda, and Martin Luther, 1994): 109 - 130).
David R. Olson: "Fixing a Text" (Cambridge Univ. Press: The World on Paper, 1994): 144 - 159.
Sigmund Freud: "If Moses was an Egyptian" (Vintage Books: Moses and Monotheism, 1957 (orig, pub. 1939)): 16 - 35.
Jan Assmann: "Sigmund Freud: The Return of the Repressed" (Harvard Univ. Press: Moses the Egyptian, 1997): 147 - 167.
Walter Brueggemann: "Reflections at the Boundary" (Fortress Press: The Land, 1977): 45 - 70.
Mary Douglas: "The Abominations of Leviticus" (Routledge and Kegan Paul: Purity and Danger, 1966): 41 - 57.
J. Phillip Arnold: "The Davidian Dilemma: To Obey God or Man?" (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.: From the Ashes: Making Sense of Waco, 1994): 23 - 31.
Richard B. Sewall: "The Book of Job" (Yale Univ. Press: The Vision of Tragedy, 1980): 9 - 24.
Erich Auerbach: "Odysseus' Scar" (Princeton Univ. Press: Mimesis, 1968): 3 - 23.
Werner H. Kelber: "The Gospel as Written Parable" (Indiana Univ. Press: The Oral and the Written Gospel, 1997): 58 - 61, 124 - 129.
Martin Luther: "Commentary on Galatians" (Doubleday & Co: Martin Luther: Selections from His Writings, ed. John Dillenberger, 1961): 109 - 115.
James G. Williams: "The Aphoristic Wisdom of Order" and "The Aphoristic Wisdom of Counter-Order" (The Almond Press: Those Who Ponder Proverbs, 1981): 35 - 42, 47 - 52.
Robert Alter: "Psalms" (Harvard Univ. Press: The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. R. Alter & F. Kermode, 1987): 244 - 261.
Mary Ann Tolbert: "Protestant Feminism and the Bible: On the Horns of a Dilemma" (Union Seminary Quarterly Review 43, 1989): 1 - 17.
Leticia A. Guardiola-Saenz: "Borderless Women and Borderless Texts: A Cultural Reading of Matthew 15: 21 - 28" (Semeia 78, 1997): 69 - 81.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I See the Promised Land" (Harper & Row: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr, 1986): 279 - 286.
Richard A. Horsley: "Paul and Slavery: A Critical Alternative to Recent Readings" (Semeia 83/84, 1998): 153 - 200.
Thornton Stringfellow: "A Scriptural View of Slavery" (Prentice Hall: Slavery Defended: the View of the Old South, 1963, ed. Eric L. Mc. Kitrick, 1963): 86 - 98.
Herbert N. Schneidau: "In Praise of Alienation: The Bible and Western Culture" (Louisiana State Univ. Press: Sacred Discontent: The Bible and Western Tradition, 1976): 1 - 15.
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