Baker, D. W. "Diversity and Unity in the Literary Structure of Genesis." In Essays on the Patriarchal Narratives, edited by A. R. Millard and D. J. Wiseman, pp. 197-215. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1980.

Studies the internal divisions of the Hebrew text of Genesis and comments on their implications.

Bissell, Edwin Cone. The Pentateuch: Its Origin and Structure. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910, 484 P.

Discusses the history of critical approaches to the authorship of the Pentateuch.

Blenkinsopp, Joseph. The Pentateuch: An Introduction to the First Five Books of the "Bible." New York: Doubleday, 1992, 273p.

Explores the story and structure of the Pentateuchal narrative.

Brenner, Athalya, ed. A Feminist Companion to "Exodus" and to Deuteronomy. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994, 269p.

Collection of feminist criticism on the characterization of women and female sexuality in the Torah.

Campbell, Antony F., and Mark A. O'Brien. Sources of the Pentateuch: Texts, Introductions, Annotations. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993, 266p.

Presents a "source-critical model" of the Pentateuch, dissecting its different parts-the Priestly document, the Yahwist narrative, the Elohist texts, and nonsource texts-and the composite version.

Clines, David J. A. The Theme of the Pentateuch. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1978, 152p.

Claims that, despite the disunity of the Pentateuch's origin, the work has a unified theme revolving around God's promise to humankind.

Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. "The Torah." In The Hebrew "Bible," pp. 11-44. London: Cassell, 1996.

Outlines and describes the plots of the five books of the Torah, with specific citations for each event.

De Pinto, Basil. "The Torah and the Psalms." Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. LXXXVI, Part II (June, 1967): 154-74.

Compares the relationship between God and man that is portrayed in the Torah with its lyrical expression in the Psalms.

Driver, S. R. "The Hexateuch." In his An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament, pp. 1-159. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900.

Outlines each of the books of the Hexateuch, examining stylistic differences in order to determine the authorship of its parts.

Eiselen, Frederick Carl. The Books of the Pentateuch: Their Origin, Contents, and Significance. New York: Methodist Book Concern, 1916, 351p.

Introduction to the historical study of the Pentateuch, with extended discussions of the authorship and chronological order of the documents.

Hammer, Reuven. The Classic Midrash: Tannaitic Commentaries on the "Bible." New York: Paulist Press, 1995, 528p.

Detailed commentary on Exodus through Deuteronomy, along with new translations of the passages analyzed. The book is divided into two sections: scriptural interpretation and interpretation of legal portions.

Hertz, J. H., ed. The Pentateuch and Haftorahs: Hebrew Text, English Translation and Commentary. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1929.

Presents an English translation of the Torah on pages facing the Hebrew, along with extensive commentary and illustrative maps.

Konvitz, Milton R. "The Confluence of Torah and Constitution." In his "Torah" and Constitution: Essays in American Jewish Thought, pp. 3-16. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998.

Compares the moral principles underlying the United States Constitution with those in the oral and written Torah.

Mackintosh, C. H. Genesis to Deuteronomy: Notes on the Pentateuch. Neptune, N.J.: Loizeaux Brothers, 1972, 928 P.

Chronicles the events of the Pentateuch and analyzes their religious and moral import.

Mann, Thomas W. The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1988, 180p.

Surveys the narrative structure of the Pentateuch in an effort to delineate its literary cohesiveness.

Noth, Martin. "The Laws in the' Pentateuch: Their Assumptions and Meaning." In The Laws in the Pentateuch and Other Studies, pp. 1-107. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1966.

Discusses the religious, historical, and political importance of law in the Torah.

——. A History of Pentateuchal Traditions, translated by Bernhard W. Anderson. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972, 296p.

Historical investigation in which Noth traces "the history of Pentateuchal traditions from their earliest formulations in the preliterary period down to the time of their composition in successive literary stages which finally resulted in the whole Pentateuch as we have received it."

——. "The 'Priestly Writing' and the Redaction of the Pentateuch." In The Chronicler's History, translated by H. G. M. Williamson, pp. 107-47. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1987.

Attempts to delineate the priestly writing that was inserted into the Pentateuch.

Plaut, W. Gunther, and Bernard J.Bamberger. The Torah: A Modern Commentary. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1981, 1787p.

Contains the Hebrew text of the Torah alongside an English translation, with running commentary by Plaut and Bamberger. The book also contains a bibliography that includes recommended Bible translations, commentaries, and secondary works in English, among other materials. Bamberger's introductory article "The Torah and the Jewish People" appears in the above entry.

Preminger, Alex, and Edward L. Greenstein, eds. The Hebrew Bible in Literary Criticism. New York: Ungar, 1986, 619p.

Excerpts short passages of literary criticism on the Hebrew Bible by various writers.

Rabin, Chaim. "Discourse Analysis and the Dating of Deuteronomy." In Interpreting the Hebrew ""Bible": Essays in Honour of E. 1. J. Rosenthal, edited by J. A. Emerton and Stefan C. Reif, pp. 171-77. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Examines the language and rhetorical style of Deuteronomy in an attempt to establish a likely date of its composition.

Sailhamer, John H. The Pentateuch as Narrative. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1992, 522p.

Traces the narrative strategy of the Pentateuch-considered as a unified, written document- in an effort to show the interrelation of seemingly disparate episodes.

——. "Genesis." In A Complete Literary Guide to the "Bible," edited by Leland Ryken and Tremper Longman III, pp. 108-20. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1993.

Articulates the literary themes of Genesis in terms of their realistic treatment of the world and humanity.

Sarna, Nahum M. "The Anticipatory Use of Information as a Literary Feature of the Genesis Narratives." In The Creation of Sacred Literature: Composition and Redaction of the Biblical Text, edited by Richard Elliott Friedman, pp. 76-82. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

Contends that one of the literary methods used to unify Genesis is "the sudden introduction into a text of certain information which is extraneous to the immediate context but which is later seen to be crucial to the understanding of a subsequent episode or theme."

——. "Genesis": The Traditional Hebrew Text with New JPS Translation. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1989, 414p.

Contains the Hebrew text of Genesis alongside an English translation, with extensive running commentary by Sarna.

Simpson, D. C. Pentateuchal Criticism. London: Oxford University Press, 1924, 211 p.

Surveys the evidence regarding the separate sources that served as the basis of the Torah. Simpson considers the importance of the Torah's composition to Hebrew history and comes to the conclusion that the gradual historical genesis of the Torah corresponds with the development of Israel in preparation for the coming of the Messiah.

Whybray, R. N. The Making of the Pentateuch: A Methodological Study. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1987, 263 p.

Interprets the narrative structure of the Torah in terms of its literary form and, alternatively, as a document grounded in a preliterary, oral tradition.

Zerin, Edward. The Birth of the "Torah." New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962, 274p.

Draws on archeological findings to elucidate the historical conditions in which the Torah was written.