Dr. Creasy's Suggested Reading for The Kings of Israel and Judah
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“Joseph, Judah and Jacob”, in Literary Interpretations of Biblical Narratives
J. S. Ackerman
Under Every Green Tree: Popular Religion in Sixth-Century Judah
Susan Ackerman
“The Deception of Isaac, Jacob’s Dream at Bethel, and Incubation on an Animal Skin”, in Priesthood and Cult in Ancient Israel
Susan Ackerman
From Paradise to the Promised Land: An Introduction to the Themes of the Pentateuch
T. Desmond Alexander
The Art of Biblical Narrative
Robert Alter
The Art of Biblical Poetry
Robert Alter
The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary
Robert Alter
The Literary Guide to the Bible
Robert Alter and Frank Kermode
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Erich Auerbach
Life in Kings: Reshaping the Royal Story in the Hebrew Bible
A. Graeme Auld
Narrative Art in the Bible (Understanding the Bible and Its World)
Shimon Bar-Efrat
Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study
John Barton
Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative
Adele Berlin
A History of Israel
John Bright
Isaiah and the Assyrian Crisis
Brevard S. Childs
Reading the Fractures in Genesis: Historical and Literary Approaches
David M. Carr
II Kings: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Mordechai Cogan and Hayim Tadmor
Asking for Rhetoric: the Hebrew Bible’s Protean Interrogative
Kenneth M. Craig, Jr.
The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature
David Damrosch
The Literary Structure of the Old Testament: a Commentary on Genesis-Malachi
David A. Dorsey
Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition
Mary Douglass
The Bible and the Psyche: Individuation Symbolism in the Old Testament
Edward F. Edinger
The Forgotten Kingdom: The Archaeology and History of Northern Israel
Israel Finkelstein
Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel
Michael Fishbane
Reading Biblical Narrative
J. P. Fokkelman
Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes
Alastair Fowler
Juxtaposition and the Elisha Cycle
Rachelle Gilmore
“The Composition of Kings” in The Books of Kings: Sources, Composition, Historiography and Reception
Baruch Halpern and Andre Lemaire
I and II Chronicles: A Commentary
Sara Japhet
Manasseh through the Eyes of the Deuteronomists
Percy S.F. van Keulen
I Chronicles
Ralph W. Klein
II Chronicles
Ralph W. Klein
Israel in the Book of Kings: The Past as a Project of Social Identity
James R. Linville
“The Chronicler as Redactor” in The Chronicler as Author: Studies in Text and Texture
Steven L. McKenzie
The Chronicler’s Use of the Deuteronomistic History
Steven L. McKenzie
Josiah’s Reform and the Dynamics of Defilement: Israelite Rites of Violence and the Making of a Biblical Text
Lauren A. S. Monroe
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Books of Kings
James A. Montgomery
The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles: Scribal Works in an Oral World
Raymond F. Person, Jr.
The Kings-Isaiah and Kings-Jeremiah Recensions
Raymond F. Person, Jr.
