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An interesting aticle on feminisn in religion by Gerda Lerner (found in a Harvard Divinity Shool Bulletin). It mentions feminist biblical criticism.

Straight from the words of Derrida in an interview. Came across this quote which does a good job of describing a deconstructionist approach: Derrida says, "There is the general structure of Messianicity as the structure of experience, and on this groundless ground there have been revelations, a history which one calls Judaism or Christianity and so on. That is a possibility and then you would have a Heideggerian gesture, in style. You would have to go back from these religions to the fundamental ontological conditions of possibilities of religions, to describe the structure of messianicity on the groundless ground on which religions have been made possible (23)".

Collection of essays from some of the prominent voices in cultural memory studies.

This is rather theoretical work, but some very useful material.

Phil Davies on Cultural Memory

Phil is a bit polemical, but this is a good intro.

Whereas historical study tended to be concerned with the prehistory of the text (oral traditions and written source materials) and with its development through successive redactions, literary study focused on the final form of the text.

Good summary of social scientific criticism