To read more about the history and development of the Bible, the Bible as literature, and Bible reading . . .

The Art of Reading Scripture, ed. Ellen Davis & Richard Hays, Eerdmans, 2003

The Beauty Behind the Mask: Rediscovering the Books of the Bible,
Christopher R. Smith, Clements Publishing, 2007

The Bible: A History, Stephen Miller & Robert Huber, Good Books, 2004

The Bible as Literature, 5th Ed, eds. J. Gabel, C. Wheeler, A. D.York, D. Citino, Oxford, 2006

The Bible in Greek Christian Antiquity, ed & trans by Paul Blowers, Univ of Notre Dame Press, 1997

The Birth of the New Testament, 3rd ed., C.F.D. Moule, Harper & Row, 1982

The Book: A History of the Bible, Christopher de Hamel, Phaidon, 2001

Books and Readers in the Early Church, Harry Gamble, Yale, 1995

The Cambridge History of the Bible, 3 vols, eds P.R. Ackroyd & C.F. Evans, 1970

The Canon of Scripture, F.F. Bruce, InterVarsity, 1988

The Canon of the New Testament, Bruce Metzger, Oxford, 1987

Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading, Eugene Peterson, Eerdmans, 2006

Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, ed. Everett Ferguson, Garland, 1990

Early Versions of the New Testament, Bruce Metzger, Oxford, 1977

The Formation of the Christian Biblical Canon, Lee McDonald, Hendrickson, 1995

A History of the Bible as Literature, 2 vols, David Norton, Cambridge, 1993

How the Bible Became a Book, Terry Hall, Victor Books, 1990

How the Bible Came to Be, John Barton, Westminster John Knox, 1997

How the Bible Was Built, Charles Merrill Smith & James Bennett, Eerdmans, 2005

How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler & Charles Van Doren, Touchstone, 1972

How to Read the Bible Book by Book, Gordon Fee & Douglas Stuart, Zondervan, 2002

How We Got the Bible, 3rd ed., Neil Lightfoot, Baker, 2003

Jesus and Gospel, Graham Stanton, Cambridge, 2004

The Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible, Julio Trebolle Barrera, Brill/Eerdmans, 1998

The Journey from Texts to Translations: The Origin and Development of the Bible, Paul Wegner, Baker, 1999

The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. Robert Alter & Frank Kermode, Belknap/Harvard, 1987

The Literature and Meaning of Scripture, eds. Morris Inch & C. Hassell Bullock, Baker, 1981

The Making of the New Testament, Arthur Patzia, InterVarsity, 1995

The Making of the New Testament Documents, E. Earle Ellis, Brill, 2002

Making Sense of the Bible, Marshall Johnson, Eerdmans, 2002

The New Testament Canon, Harry Gamble, Wipf and Stock, 2002 (previously by Fortress, 1985)

The New Testament in Its Literary Environment, David Aune, ed. Wayne Meeks, Westminster, 1987

The New Testament in Literary Criticism, ed. Leland Ryken, Ungar, 1984

The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church, Roger Beckwith, Eerdmans, 1985

The Origin of the Bible, ed. Philip Comfort, Tyndale, 1992

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible, ed. John Rogerson, Oxford, 2001

The Reformation of the Bible: The Bible of the Reformation, Jaroslav Pelikan, Yale, 1996

The Septuagint, Jennifer Dines, T & T Clark, 2004

Studies in Early Christianity, Francois Bovon, Baker Academic, 2005