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Out of the Depths: The Psalms Speak for Us Today. 3rd ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster / John Knox Press, 2000. Baird, J. Arthur. "Genre Analysis as a Method of Historical Criticism." In Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Literature, ed. Lane C. McGaughy, 1972. Brueggemann, Walter. "Review of Old Testament Form Criticism Ed. By J. Hayes." RSR 1 (1975): 8-13. Childs, B. S. Myth and Reality in the Old Testament Studies in Biblical Theology, No. 27. London: SCM, 1960. ________. "The Etiological Tale Re-Examined." VT 24 (1974): 387-97. Coats, George W. "Tale." In Saga, Legend, Tale, Novella, Fable: Narrative Forms in Old Testament Literature, ed. George W. Coats, 63-70. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985. Collins, John J., ed. Semeia 14: Apocalypse: The Morphology of a Genre. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979. ________. Daniel with an Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature. Vol. XX The Forms of the Old Testament Literature, ed. Rolf Knierim and Gene M. Tucker. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1984. Crenshaw, James L. "Prohibitions in Proverbs and Qoheleth." In Priests, Prophets and Scribes: Essays on the Formation and Heritage of Second Temple Judaism in Honour of Joseph Blenkinsopp, ed. John W. Wright Euge Ulrich, Robert P. Carroll and Philip R. Davies, 115-24. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992. Doty, William G. "The Concept of Genre in Literary Analysis." In Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Literature, ed. Lane G. McGaughy, 1972. Dyk, P. J. van. "The Function of So-Called Etiological Elements in Narratives." ZAW 102 (1990): 19-33. Ferris, Paul Wayne, Jr. The Genre of Communal Lament in the Bible and the Ancient near East Sbl Dissertation Series, No. 127. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1992. Gerstenberger, Erhard S. Psalms: Part 1 with an Introduction to Cultic Poetry. Vol. XIV The Forms of the Old Testament Literature, ed. Rolf Knierim and Gene M. Tucker. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1991. Greenwood, David. "Rhetorical Criticism and Formgeschichte: Some Methodological Considerations." JBL 89, no. 4 (1970): 418-426. Gunn, D. M. "The 'Battle Report': Oral or Scribal Convention?" JBL 93 (1974): 513-18. Habel, N. "The Form and Significance of the Call Narrative." ZAW 77 (1965): 297-323. Hals, R. M. "Legend: A Case Study in Old Testament Form-Critical Terminology." CBQ 34 (1972): 166-76. Hayes, John, ed. Old Testament Form Criticism, Trinity University Monograph Series, No. 2. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1974. Humphreys, W. Lee. "Novella." In Saga, Legend, Tale, Novella, Fable: Narrative Form in Old Testament Literature, ed. George W. Coats, 82-96. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985. Knierim, Rolf. "Old Testament Form Criticism Reconsidered." Interpretation 27 (1973): 435-68. ________. "Criticism of Literary Features, Form, Tradition, and Redaction." In The Hebrew Bible and Its Modern Interpreters, ed. D. Knight and G. Tucker, 136-46. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985. Knight, Douglas. "The Understanding of 'Sitz Im Leben' in Form Criticism." In Society of Biblical

Literature Seminar Papers, 1, 105-25, 1974. Koch, Klaus. The Growth of the Biblical Tradition: The Form Critical Method Scribner Studies in Biblical Interpretation. New York: Scribner's & Sons, 1969. Long, B. O. The Problem of Etiological Narrative in the Old Testament Bzaw, No. 108. Berlin: Tpelmann, 1968. ________. "Prophetic Call Traditions and Reports of Visions." ZAW 84 (1972): 494-500. ________. "Recent Field Studies in Oral Literature and Their Bearing on Ot Criticism." VT 26 (1976): 187-98. ________. "Reports of Visions among the Prophets." JBL 95 (1976): 353-65. ________. "Prophetic Authority as Social Reality." In Canon and Authority: Exxays in Old Testament Religion and Theology, ed. B. O. Long & G. W. Coats, 3-20. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977. Mowinckel, Sigmund. The Psalms in Israel's Worship. 2 vols. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1962. Muilenburg, James. "The Form and Structure of the Covenantal Formulations." VT 9, no. 1 (1959): 347-365. ________. "Modern Issues in Biblical Studies: The Gains of Form Criticism in Old Testament Studies." Expository Times 71 (1959-60): 229-33. ________. "Form Criticism and Beyond." JBL 88 (1969): 1-18. Murphy, Roland E. "A New Classification of Literary Forms in the Psalms." CBQ 21, no. 1 (1959): 83-89. ________. "Form Criticism and Wisdom Literature." CBQ 31, no. 4 (1969): 475-483. ________. Wisdom Literature: Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Canticles, Ecclesiastes, and Esther. Vol. XIII The Forms of the Old Testament Literature, ed. Rolf Knierim and Gene M. Tucker. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1981. Neff, Robert W. "Saga." In Saga, Legend, Tale, Novella, Fable: Narrative Forms in Old Testament Literature, ed. George W. Coats, 17-32. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985. Nel, Philip Johannes. The Structure and Ethos of the Wisdom Admonitions in Proverbs. Vol. 158 Bzaw, ed. Georg Fohrer. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1982. Nidtsch, Susan. Underdogs and Tricksters: A Prelude to Biblical Folklore New Voices in Biblical Studies, ed. John J. Collins. San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987. Petersen, David L. "Hebrew Bible Form Criticism." RSR 18, no. 1 (1992): 29-33. Rof, Alexander. "The Classification of the Prophetic Stories." JBL 89, no. 4 (1970): 427-440. ________. The Prophetical Stories. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1988. Solomon, Ann M. Vater. "Fable." In Saga, Legend, Tale, Novella, Fable: Narrative Forms in Old Testament Literature, ed. George W. Coats, 114-125. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985. Tucker, Gene M. Form Criticism of the Old Testament Guides to Biblical Scholarship, Old Testament Series. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971. ________. "Form Criticism, Ot." In The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible: Supplementary Volume, 342-45. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1976. Westermann, Claus. The Psalms: Structure, Content & Message. Minneapolism MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1980. ________. Basic Forms of Prophetic Speech. Cambridge, UK / Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991. Wevers, John Wm. "A Study in the Form Criticism of Individual Complaint Psalms." VT 6, no. 1 (1956): 80-96. Wolf, Herbert M. "Implications of Form Criticism for Old Testament Studies." Bibliotheca Sacra

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