Forms of the Old Testament Literature

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

The first volume was Wisdom Literature:Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Canticles, Ecclesiastes, and Esther by Roland E. Murphy (1981).

The series focuses on a form-critical approach to the text.

[1] Each volume examines the genre, structure, setting, and intention associated with biblical texts.

[2][3] Henry T. C. Sun calls it "the only serious and sustained discussion of Old Testament form criticism available in English.