Books
- Amos’s Oracles against the Nations (Society for Old Testament Study monograph series 6), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1980.
- Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study, London: Darton, Longman & Todd and Philadelphia: Westminster Press 1984. Second edition with two new chapters 1996.
- Oracles of God: Perceptions of Ancient Prophecy in Israel after the Exile, London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1986 and New York: Oxford University Press 1988; second edition, 2007.
- Love Unknown: Meditations on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, London: SPCK and Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989. Danish edition, 1992.
- People of the Book? The Authority of the Bible in Christianity, London: SPCK and Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox Press 1988. Second edition with additional Introduction, 1993; third edition with additional chapter, 2011.
- Isaiah 1-39 (Old Testament Guides), Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press 1995. German edition, 2006.
- The Spirit and the Letter: Studies in the Biblical Canon, London: SPCK 1997; American edition Holy Writings, Sacred Text, Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press 1998.
- What is the Bible?, London: SPCK 1991. Second edition with additional chapter 1997; third edition, 2009. Spanish edition, 2004.
- Making the Christian Bible, London: Darton, Longman & Todd 1997; American edition How the Bible came to be, Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press 1998.
- Ethics and the Old Testament, London: SCM Press 1998; Czech edition, 2006.
- Joel and Obadiah: A Commentary, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press 2001.
- Understanding Old Testament Ethics, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press 2003.
- Living Belief: Being Christian, Being Human, London: Continuum 2005.
- The Nature of Biblical Criticism, Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox, 2007.
- The Old Testament: Canon, Literature and Theology: Collected Essays of John Barton, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
- The Theology of the Book of Amos, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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