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.