Here are a few excellent books worth considering: The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading, Meir Sternberg The Dynam

Here are a few excellent books worth considering: The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading, Meir Sternberg The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism, Berlin and Freedman Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes: A Literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke, Kenneth E. Bailey Robert Alter's translations of the Hebrew Bible have lots of interesting notes.