Forms of the Old Testament Literature is a series of biblical commentaries published by

Eerdmans William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company is a religious publishing house based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1911 by Dutch American William B. Eerdmans and still independently owned with William's daughter-in-law Anita Eerdmans as presid ...

. The first volume was ''Wisdom Literature:Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Canticles, Ecclesiastes, and Esther'' by Roland E. Murphy (1981). They were initially edited by Rolf Knierim and Gene M. Tucker;

Marvin A. Sweeney Marvin Alan Sweeney (born 1953; raised in Decatur, Illinois) is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology (1994–present). Dr. Sweeney was trained under the tutelage of Rolf P. Knierim at Claremont Graduate University. He was a Ya ...

took over from Tucker in 1997. The series focuses on a form-critical approach to the text. Each volume examines the

genre Genre () is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other fo ...

, structure,

setting Setting or Settings may refer to: * A location (geography) where something is set * Set construction in theatrical scenery * Setting (narrative), the place and time in a work of narrative, especially fiction * Setting up to fail a manipulative tec ...

, and intention associated with biblical texts. Henry T. C. Sun calls it "the only serious and sustained discussion of Old Testament form criticism available in English."

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{{reflist Biblical commentaries Book series introduced in 1981