General Resources for Nehemiah
(Check the
Scripture Index for links and study resources pertaining to specific pericopes)
- Introductions, Overviews & General Resources:
- Nehemiah at Luther Seminary's Bible Tutor. Study basics about Bible books, people, dates, places, and content, and take web-based self-tests. CD-ROM of Advanced Studies also available at their site.
- Narrative Texts: Chronicles, Ezra & Nehemiah, Ralph W. Klein, Blackwell Companion to the Old Testament.
- Book of Nehemiah, Wikipedia.
- Book of Nehemiah, The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1905.
- The Catholic Encyclopedia: Book of Nehemiah, Ezra.
- Introduction to the Book of Nehemiah, New American Bible.
- Introduction, Outline, and Selected Bibliography for the Books of Ezra/Nehemiah, by David Malick at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
- Bible Basics (Nehemiah) by NetMinistries. (Very basic - includes .wav files with pronunciation of Biblical words)
- Nehemiah in the World Wide Study Bible.
- Walking Through the Bible: Nehemiah.
- Biblenotes summary: Nehemiah.
- Commentary, Exegesis, Studies,etc.:
- Nehemiah, Geneva Study Bible, 1599.
- Nehemiah, Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1706.
- Nehemiah, Wesley's Notes, c 1760.
- Nehemiah, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871.
- Nehemiah, Scofield Reference Notes, 1917.
- Chronicler's History, Barry Bandstra, Reading the Old Testament.
- The Book of Nehemiah, verse by verse commentary, Robert Nguyen Cramer, BibleTexts.com.
- Nehemiah, Expository Notes, Dr. Thomas L. Constable, Dallas Theological Seminary, 2005 edition.
- Free Bible Commentary, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Dr. Bob Utley, Professor of Hermeneutics, East Texas Baptist University.
- Articles and Background:
- "Life and Literature of the Late Period," Gerald A. Larue in Old Testament Life and Literature, 1968.
- "The Political Tensions Reflected in Ezra-Nehemiah," Carl Schultz, PhD, 1980.
- "Was Nehemiah Contemporary with Ezra in 458 BC?" Leslie McFall, Westminster Theological Journal, 1991.
- "Geography and History in Herodotus and in Ezra-Nehemiah," Thomas B. Dozeman, Journal of Biblical Literature, 2003. (Link is to one, long .pdf file. Expect long download times at slow connection speeds!)
- "Lessons in Leadership and Management from Nehemiah," Joseph Maciarello, Theology Today, 2003.
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Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
- Bedford, Peter R.,
"Diaspora: Homeland Relations in Ezra-Nehemiah," Vetus Testamentum,
2002.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Esler, Philip,
"Ezra-Nehemiah as a Narrative of (Reinvented) Israelite Identity,"
Biblical Interpretation, 2003.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Washington, Harold C.,
"Israel's Holy Seed and the Foreign Women of Ezra-Nehemiah: A Kristevan
Reading," Biblical Interpretation, 2003.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Bedford, Peter R.,
"Diaspora: Homeland Relations in Ezra-Nehemiah," Vetus Testamentum,
2002.
- Review:
- Review: Titus Reinmuth, Der Bericht Nehemias: Zur literarischen Eigenart, traditionsgeschichtlichen Pragung und innerbiblischen Rezeption des Ich-Berichts Nehemias. (Universitatsverlag, 2002) Review by Armin Siedlecki in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature.
- Review: Leslie C. Allen and Timothy S. Laniak, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther. Paternoster, 2003. Review by Brian E. Kelly in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2004.
- Review: Kyung-Jin Min, The Levitical Authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah. T&T Clark, 2004. Review by Bob Becking and Lester Grabbe in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature.
- Review: Knute Larson and Kathy Dahlen, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther. Broadman & Holman, 2005. Review by Bob Becking, Review of Biblical Literature, 2005.
- Review: Jacob L. Wright, Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and Its Earliest Readers. deGruyter, 2004. Review by Tamara Eskenazi, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006.
