Research Guides: Ancient Israel: Books

Historical Surveys in the Reference Room, in the Bobst E-Book Collections, and Bobst Stacks

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies by Rogerson, J. W., et al.
Publication Date: 2008
Very comprehensive treatment of biblical scholarship.
Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation by John Barton
Publication Date: 2006
Available online, click on title link
The Oxford History of the Biblical World by Michael Coogan
Call Number: NYU Bobst 9th Floor Reference BS635.2 .O94 1998
The Memoirs of God by Mark S. Smith
Call Number: BS1192.6 .S553 2004
Publication Date: 2004-10-12
Palestine in the Middle Bronze Age by Kathleen Kenyon
Available online, click on title link
How the Bible became a Book: the Textualization of ancient Israel by William Schniedewind
Call Number: NYU Bobst Main Collection BS445 .S315 2004
The Hebrew Bible: a Socio-Literary Introduction by Norman Gottwald
Call Number: NYU Bobst 9th Floor Reference BS1140.2 .G59 1985
Ancient Israel: from Abraham to the Roman destruction of the Temple by Hershel Shanks
Call Number: NYU Bobst Main Collection DS121 .A53 1999
Ancient Israel: its Life and Institutions by Roland de Vaux
Call Number: NYU Bobst Main Collection DS112 .V313
The Ancient Near East: a History by William Hallo
Call Number: NYU Bobst 9th Floor Reference DS62.2 .H3 1998

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Book checked out or not in Bobst Library collection?

Hebrew Union College (1 West 4th Street, right across from the DOJO restaurant) has a good collection for Bible and Ancient Israel Studies. NYU students have borrowing privileges. Make sure the book is available on the HUC New York campus, since HUC has other campuses.

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