Catholic Bible Interpretation Methods

Composition history questions

• The Genre, Composition and Hermeneutics of the Epistle of James | Luke Leuk Cheung
• The Stories about Naboth the Jezreelite: A Source, Composition and Redaction Investigation of 1 Kings 21 and Passages in 2 Kings 9 | Patrick T. Cronauer, O.S.B.
• From Chaos to Restoration: An Integrative Reading of Isaiah 24–27 | Dan G. Johnson
• The Composition of the Book of Isaiah in the Light of History and Archaeology | Robert H. Kennett
• The Composition of the Narrative Books of the Old Testament | Reinhard G. Krantz and John Boden
• The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs | Robert A. Kugler
• Reading Psalm 145 with the Sages: A Compositional Analysis | A. K. Lama (Discourse analysis)
• The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition, and Interpretation | John H. Sailhamer
• The Composition and Date of Acts | Charles Cutler Torrey
• The Composition of the Book of Proverbs | R. N. Whybray

Traditional literary criticism

• Literary Criticism of the Old Testament | Norman C. Habel
• Words of Delight: A Literary Introduction to the Bible | Lelaand Ryken
• Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design | R. Alan Culpepper
• The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel: An Introduction to John | Paul N. Anderson
• The Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel | Gregory Mobley
• Between Sheol and Temple: Motif Structure and Function in the I-Psalms | Martin Ravndal Hauge

Comparison of translations

• Which Bible Translation Should I Use? A Comparison of 4 Major Recent Versions | Andreas J. Köstenberger, David A. Croteau, and Joe Stowell.
• “From Maidens and Chamberlains to Harems and Hot Tubs: Five Hundred Years of Esther in English.” | Leonard J. Greenspoon in The Book of Esther in Modern Research.

Textual criticism

• A Guide to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament | Edward Miller
• Manuscripts and the Text of the New Testament: An Introduction for English Readers | Keith Elliott and Ian Moir
• A New Approach to Textual Criticism: An Introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method | Tommy Wasserman and Peter J. Gurry
• Text-Critical Methodology and the Pre-Caesarean Text: Codex W in the Gospel of Mark | Larry W. Hurtado
• The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | Frederik Wisse

Source criticism

• The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis | Joel S. Baden
• The Making of the Pentateuch: A Methodological Study | R. N. Whybray
• The Stories about Naboth the Jezreelite: A Source, Composition and Redaction Investigation of 1 Kings 21 and Passages in 2 Kings 9 | Patrick T. Cronauer, O.S.B.
• The Critical Edition of Q: Synopsis including the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Mark and Thomas with English, German, and French Translations of Q and Thomas | James McConkey Robinson, Paul Hoffmann, and John S. Kloppenborg

Form criticism

• The Genre, Composition and Hermeneutics of the Epistle of James | Luke Leuk Cheung

Redaction criticism

• The Stories about Naboth the Jezreelite: A Source, Composition and Redaction Investigation of 1 Kings 21 and Passages in 2 Kings 9 | Patrick T. Cronauer, O.S.B.
• The Composition of the Book of Proverbs | R. N. Whybray

Socio-historical criticism

Rhetorical analysis

Narrative analysis

Semiotic analysis

Canonical approach

Using Jewish interpretative traditions

History of interpretation

Sociological approach

Cultural anthropology approach

Psychological/psychoanalytical approaches

Liberationist approach

Feminist approach

Structural approach

Reader-response approach