Ezra-Nehemiah
Verse-by-Verse Commentaries:
Mervin Breneman, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther (New American
Commentary), Broadman and Holman, 1993.
Derek Kidner, Ezra and Nehemiah (Tyndale), Inter
Varsity, 1979.
Mark A. Throntveit, Ezra-Nehemiah (Interpretation),
Westminster John Knox Press, 1992.
H. G. M. Williamson, Ezra-Nehemiah (Word),
Word Books, 1984.
Edwin Yamauchi, "Ezra Nehemiah" in Expositor's
Bible Commentary, 4, Zondervan, 1988.
Monographs, Compilations, and Studies:
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, In an Age of Prose: A Literary Approach to Ezra-Nehemiah (SBL Monograph Series, 36), Scholars Press, 1988.
Articles and Essays:
David J. A. Clines, "The Force of the Text: A Response to
Tamara C Eskenazi's "Ezra-Nehemiah: From Text to Actuality"
in Signs and Wonders:
____ Biblical Texts in
Literary Focus (SBL Semeia Studies) ed. J. C. Exum, Society
of Biblical Literature, 1989: 199-215.
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, "Ezra-Nehemiah:
From Text to Actuality" in Signs and Wonders: Biblical
Texts in Literary Focus (SBL Semeia Studies)
____ ed. J. C. Exum, Society of
Biblical Literature, 1989: 165-197.
________ "The Structure of Ezra-Nehemiah and the Integrity
of the Book," JBL 107 (1988): 641-656.
Cornelis Houtman, "Ezra and the Law: Observations on the
Supposed Relation between Ezra and the Peneteuch," Old
Testament Studies 21
____ (1981): 91-115.
Shemaryahu Talmon, "Ezra and Nehemiah" in The
Literary Guide to the Bible (ed. R. Alter and F. Kermode),
Belknap Press, 1987: 357-364.
More Commentaries of Interest:
Joseph Blenkinsopp, Ezra-Nehemiah,
Westminster John Knox, 1988.
moderate mainline
perspective; exegetical, textual, historical value; lengthy
introduction, innovative, yet conservative.
David J. A. Clines, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther (New
Century Bible), Eerdmans, 1984.
Charles Fenham, The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah (NICOT),
Eerdmans, 1994.
Ralph W. Klein, "Ezra, Nehemiah" in The
New Interpreter's Bible, vol. III,
Abingdon, 1999.
J. D. Levenson, Esther (OTL), Westminster John Knox,
1997.
J. Gordon McConville, Ezra,
Nehemiah, Esther (Daily Study Bible),
Westminster John Knox, 1985.
More Articles:
Harm W. M. van Grol, "Exegesis of the Exile - Exegesis of
Scripture?: Ezra 9:6-9" in Intertextuality in Ugarit and
Israel (ed. J. C. de Moor), 1998: 31-61.
Jan-Wim Wesselius, "Discontinuity, Congruence and the Making
of the Hebrew Bible," Scandinavian Journal of the Old
Testament 13.1
____ (1999): 24-77.