Scholarly Profile
I am professor emerita of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies. I now reside in the US, where I continue to engage in research and publish regularly. I am co-supervising one PhD student at TF.
In addition to being the series editor for Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean for Equinox Press, I also am co-editor of a new series, Themes and Issues in Biblical Studies, for Equinox. Each volume in the series contains multi-authored, collected essays on a given book of the Hebrew Bible and Intertestamental Literature. Rather than a verse-by-verse commentary, these volumes focus on themes and issues associated with the history of scholarship on a given book. The target audience begins with upper-level undergraduates with no knowledge of Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic, and each is suitable as background reading for the classroom.
My primary areas of current research include the Bible and cultural memory, southern Levantine history and archaeology, identity formation reflected in the Hebrew Bible, emerging forms of Judaisms in the Persian and Hellenistic periods, and different definitions of what constitutes membership in the religious community of Israel among diasporic and homeland literati, in both Samaria and Yehud.
Background
B.A. Smith College, with a major in Religion
M.A. University of Chicago in Religious StudiesPhD. University of Chicago in Biblical Studies, with specialization in Hebrew Bible
I was professor at TF from 2015–3019. Before that, I was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield (January, 2000-July, 2013) and Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University (August 1993-December, 1999). From 1986-1993 I taught part-time at various colleges, universities, and seminaries in the greater Chicago area.
Publications
Books: 2 authored, 1-co-authored, 4 edited and 15 co-edited in print; 2 co-edited, forthcoming
Articles in refereed journals: 18 in print
Chapters in edited volumes: 71 in print; 14 forthcoming
E-publications: 6
Encyclopedia or dictionary articles: 58 in print
Book reviews: 133 in print
Books
Authored or Co-authored
In print:
2012 Opening the Books of Moses. Co-authored with P. Davies, C. Nihan and T. Römer. BibleWorld. Durham: Acumen, 200 pp. FRENCH VERSION: Clés pour le Pentateuque: État de la recherche et thèmes fondamentaux. Translated by F. Smyth and C. Lanoir. Le monde de la Bible. Geneva: Labor et fides, 2013. 239 pp.
2005 The Origins of the ’Second’ Temple: Persian Imperial Policies and the Rebuilding of Jerusalem. BibleWorld. London: Equinox, 440 pp.
1991 King Saul in the Historiography of Judah. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 125. Sheffield: JSOT Press. 347 pp.
Edited or Co-edited:
In Print:
2022 About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period: Recent Research and Approaches from Archaeology, Hebrew Bible Studies and Ancient Near East Studies. Co-edited with Benedikt Hensel and Ehud Ben-Zvi. Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Sheffield: Equinox. vi + 460 pp.
2021a The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity. Co-edited with C. Hezser. Sheffield: Equinox. viii + 268 pp.
2021b Deuteronomy in the Making: Studies in the Production of Debarim. Co-edited with B. Rossi, K. Berge, and P. Guillaume. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 533. Berlin: de Gruyter. x + 430.
2021c Collective Memory and Collective Identity: Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History in their Context. Co-edited with J.U. Ro. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 534. Berlin: De Gruyter. xiv + 466.
2016a Leadership in Biblical Memory and Judean Discourse in the 5th–2nd Centuries BCE. Co-edited with E. Ben Zvi. Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Sheffield: Equinox. ix + 284 pp.
2016b Religion in the Achaemenid Persian Empire: Emerging Judaisms and Trends. Co-edited with A. Fitzpatrick-McKinley, and P. Guillaume. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 17. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. vi +390 pp.
2015 History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures: A Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi. Co-edited with I.D. Wilson. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. 474 pp.
2014a Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period. Co-edited with E. Ben Zvi. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 591. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark. xii + 336 pp.
2014b Memory and the City in Ancient Israel. Co-edited with E. Ben Zvi. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. ix + 340 pp.
2014c Deuteronomy-Kings as Emerging Authoritative Books: A Conversation. Ancient Near Eastern Monographs 6. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature. xi + 289 pp.
2013 Remembering Biblical Figures in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods: Social Memory and Imagination. Co-edited with E. Ben Zvi. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xxiv + 516.
2011 What Was Authoritative for Chronicles? Co-edited with E. Ben Zvi. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. vi +268.
2010 The Historian and the Bible: Essays in Honour of Lester L. Grabbe. Co-edited with P.R. Davies. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 530. London: T&T Clark. xiv + 238.
2009a A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics and Language Relating to Persian Israel. Co-edited with E. Ben Zvi and F. Polak. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias. xi +330 pp.
2009b The Production of Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud. Co-edited with E. Ben Zvi. BibleWorld. London: Equinox. x + 235.
1998 God, Meaning and Morality, co-edited with I.S. Maclean. New York: Harcourt Brace Custom Books, 606 pp.
1995a You Shall not Abhor an Edomite for He is Your Brother: Edom and Seir in History and Tradition. Archaeology and Biblical Studies Series 3. Atlanta: Scholars Press. xiv +190 pp.
1995b The Triumph of ’Elohim: From Yahwisms to Judaisms. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 3. Kampen: Kok Pharos. 262 pp.
1991 The Fabric of History: Text, Artifact and Israel's Past. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 127. Sheffield: JSOT. 148 pp.
Forthcoming:
Deuteronomy: Outside the Box. Co-edited with Philippe Guillaume. Themes and Issues in Biblical Studies. Sheffield: Equinox, 2024.
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in 5 Minutes. Co-edited with Philippe Guillaume. Religion in 5 Minutes. Sheffield: Equinox, 2023.
Articles in Refereed Journals, Chapters in Edited and Co-Authored Volumes, and Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries
Forthcoming:
In Print:
2023a “Scribes (šōṭerîm) in Deuteronomy.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 37.1 (2023): 34–57.
2023b “Saying Goodbye to the Theory of the Influence of Esarhaddon’s Succession Adê on Deuteronomy 13 and 28.” In Deuteronomy-Outside the Box. Edited by Diana Edelman and Philippe Guillaume. Sheffield: Equinox eBooks. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=44273. doi:10.1558/equinox.44273
2023c “The Role of the Oath-Bound Agreement (Berît) in the Book of Deuteronomy.” In Deuteronomy: Outside the Box. Edited by Diana Edelman and Philippe Guillaume. Sheffield: Equinox eBooks. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=44274. doi:10.1558/equinox.44274
2023d “Geographical Dimensions of the Book of Deuteronomy.” In Deuteronomy-Outside the Box. Edited by Diana Edelman and Philippe Guillaume. Sheffield: Equinox eBooks. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=44276. doi: 10.1558/equinox.44275
2023e “Yhwh (ha)Elohim and a Reconceived Yahwism in the Book of Deuteronomy.” In Deuteronomy: Outside the Box. Edited by Diana Edelman and Philippe Guillaume. Sheffield: Equinox eBooks. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=44585. doi: 10.1558/ equinox.44585
2022a “Economic and Administrative Realia of Rural Idumea at the End of the Persian Period.” Pages 277–301 in About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period: Recent Research and Approaches from Archaeology, Hebrew Bible Studies and Ancient Near East Studies. Edited by Benedikt Hensel, Ehud Ben-Zvi, and Diana V. Edelman. Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Sheffield: Equinox.
2022b “Late Historical Edom and Reading Edom, Seir, and Esau in the Prophetic Literature through Persian Lenses: Preliminary Observations.” Pages 392–428 in About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period: Recent Research and Approaches from Archaeology, Hebrew Bible Studies and Ancient Near East Studies. Edited by Benedikt Hensel, Ehud Ben-Zvi, and Diana V. Edelman. Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Sheffield: Equinox.
2022c “Was Abraham Really a Man of Faith?” TheTorah.com. https://thetorah.com/article/was-abraham-really-a-man-of-faith
2021a “Early Forms of Judaism as a Mixture of Strategies of Cultural Heterogeneity and the Re-Embedding of Local Culture in Archaic Globalization.” Pages 242–292 in Levantine Entanglements: Local Dynamics of Globalization in a Contested Region. Edited by Terje Stordalen and Øystein LaBianca. Sheffield: Equinox.
2021b “Strategies for Disseminating Jewish Religious Knowledge in Judean Communities ca. 350–30 BCE.” Pages 60–92 in The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity. Edited by Diana V. Edelman and Catherine Hezser. Sheffield: Equinox.
2021c “Introduction.” Pages 1–10 in Deuteronomy in the Making: Studies in the Production of Debarim. Co-edited with Benedetta Rossi, Kåre Berge, and Philippe Guillaume. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 533. Berlin: de Gruyter.
2021d “Deuteronomy as the Instructions of Moses and Yhwh vs. a Framed Legal Code.” Pages 25–75 in Deuteronomy in the Making: Studies in the Production of Debarim. Co-edited with Benedetta Rossi, Kåre Berge, and Philippe Guillaume. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 533. Berlin: de Gruyter.
2021e “Creating the Memory of an Unbroken Davidic Dynasty in the Book of Kings in Response to Political Discontinuity.” Pages 109–124 in Negotiating Memory from the Romans to 21st Century: Damnatio Memoriae. Edited by Øivind Fuglerud, Kjersti Larsen and Marina Prusac-Lindhagen. Routledge Studies in Cultural History. London: Routledge.
2021f “Using the Past to Mold New Attitudes in the Present and Future: Examples from the Books of Deuteronomy, Judges (17–18), and 1 Samuel (28).” Pages 49–84 in Collective Memory and Collective Identity: Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History in their Context. Edited by Johannes Unsok Ro and Diana Edelman. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 534. Berlin: De Gruyter.
2021g “Abraham Negotiates to Buy the Cave of the Machpelah in the Promised Land.” TheTorah.com. https://thetorah.com/article/abraham-negotiates-to-buy-the-cave-of-the-machpelah-in-the-promised-land
2021h “How Starting Assumptions Affect Results: The Story of David’s Slaying of Goliath (1 Samuel 17; 2 Samuel 21:19) Interpreted in Terms of Orality, Scribalism, and Cultural Memory.” Pages 259–292 in Oral et écrit dans l’Antiquité orientale: le processus de rédaction et l´édition. Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 26–27 mai 2016. Edited by Thomas Römer, Hervé Gonzalez, Leonel Marti and Jan Rückl. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 291. Leuven/Paris/Bristol, CT: Peeters.
2020a “The Text-Dating Conundrum: Viewing the Hebrew Bible from an Achaemenid Framework.” Pages 7–38 in Stone,Tablets and Scrolls: Four Periods of the Formation of the Bible. Edited by Peter Dubovský and Federico Giuntoli. Archaeology and Theology 3. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
2020b “Are economics a key to dating Urdeuteronomium? A response to Sandra Lynn Richter.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 45.1: 65–78. Co-authored with Kåre Berge, Philippe Guillaume, and Benedetta Rossi.
2020c “Credit or Tally Imagery in Ezek 37:15–19?” Pages 265–271 in Forgeschriebenes Gotteswort. Studien zu Geschichte, Theologie und Auslegung des Alten Testaments. Festschrift für Christoph Levin zum 70. Geburtstag. Edited by Reinhard Müller, Urmas Nõmmik, and Juha Pakkala. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
2020d “Possible Rituals Involving the Dead Reflected in Isaiah 65:3–5 and 66:17.” Pages 96–121 in Approaching the Dead: Studies on Mortuary Ritual in the Ancient World. Edited by Anne-Katrine de Hemmer Gudme and Kirsi Valkama. Publications of the Finnish Exegetical Society 118. Helsinki: Finnish Exegetical Society.
2018 “Different Sources, Different Views: Snapshots of Persian-Era Yehud Based on Texts and on Archaeology.” Estudios biblicos 76: 411–451.
2017a “Adjusting Social Memory in the Hebrew Bible: TheTeraphim.” Pages 115–142 in Congress Volume, Stellenbosch 2016. Edited by Loius C. Jonker, Gideon R. Kotzé and Christl M. Maier. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 177. Leiden: Brill.
2017b “Living with Ancestral Spirits in Judah in the Iron Age and Persian Period.” Pages 135–171 in Entre dieux et hommes: anges, démons et autres... Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 19-20 mai 2014. Edited by Thomas Römer, Bertrand Dufour, Fabian Pfitzmann, and Christope Uehlinger. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 286. Fribourg: Academic Press and Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
2016a “Iconography on Double-Shekel Sidonian Coinage in the Persian Period: Is It a God or a King in the Chariot?” Pages 228–286 in Religion in the Achaemenid Persian Empire: Emerging Judaisms and Trends. Edited by Diana V. Edelman, Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, and Philippe Guillaume. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 17. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
2016b “Introduction.” Pages 1–5 in Religion in the Achaemenid Persian Empire: Emerging Judaisms and Trends. Edited by Diana V. Edelman, Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, and Philippe Guillaume. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 17. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
2016c “Remembering Samson in a Hellenized Jewish Context (Judges 13–16).” Pages 231–247 in Leadership in Biblical Memory and Judean Discourse in the Fifth–Second Centuries BCE. Edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi. Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Sheffield: Equinox.
2016d “Introduction.” Pp. 1–8 in Leadership in Biblical Memory and Judean Discourse in the Fifth–Second Centuries BCE. Edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi. Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Sheffield: Equinox.
2015a “What is Persian About Genesis?” Pages 149–181 in Assessing Biblical and Classical Sources for the Reconstruction of Persian Influence, History and Culture. Edited by Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley. Classica et Orientalia 10. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
2015b “The Metaphor of Torah as a Life-Giving Well in Deuteronomy.” Pages 317–333 in History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures: A Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi. Edited by Ian D. Wilson and Diana V. Edelman. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
2015c “The Economy and Administration of Rural Idumea at the End of the Persian Period.” Pages 175–204 in The Economy of Ancient Judah in its Historical Context. Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi, Gary N. Knoppers, and Marvin Miller. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
2015d “Intertextual Allusion Using the Root גנן in Zechariah 9:13–15.” Pages 77–88 in Poets, Prophets and Texts in Play: Studies in Biblical Poetry and Prophecy in Honour of Francis Landy. Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi, Claudia V. Camp, David M. Gunn, and Aaron W. Hughes. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 597. London: Bloomsbury.
2014a “The Nile in Biblical Memory.” Pages 69–95 in Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period. Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi and Christoph Levin. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 461. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
2014b “Introduction.” Pages xiii-xx in Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period. Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana V. Edelman. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 591. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark.
2014c “YHWH’s Othering of Israel.” Pages 41–69 in Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period. Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana V. Edelman. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 591. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark.
2014d “Gardens in Biblical Memory.” Pages 115–156 in Memory and the City in Ancient Israel. Edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
2014e “Cisterns and Wells in Biblical Memory,” co-authored with Hadi Ghantous. Pages 177–196 in The City as a Site of Memory in the Bible. Edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
2014f “Introduction.” Pages 1–25 in Deuteronomy-Kings as Emerging Authoritative Books: A Conversation. Edited by Diana V. Edelman. Ancient Near Eastern Monographs 6. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.
2013a “The ‘Seeing God’ Motif and Yahweh as a God of Justice.” Pages 159–187 in Loi et Justice dans l’Orient ancien: Questions socio-historiques, idéologiques et éthiques. Edited by Olivier Artus. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 20. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
2013b “Court Prophets during the Monarchy and Literary Prophets in the So-called Deuteronomistic History.” Pages 51–73 in Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History: Portrait, Reality, and the Formation of a History. Edited by Mignon R. Jacobs and Raymond F. Person, Jr. Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Israel and Its Literature Series 14. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.
2013c “Genesis: A Composition for Construing a Homeland of the Imagination for Scribal Circles or for Educating the Illiterate?” Pages 47–66 in Writing the Bible: Scribes, Scribalism and Script. Edited by Philip R. Davies and Thomas Römer. BibleWorld. Durham: Acumen.
2013d “David in Biblical Memory.” Pages 141–157 in Remembering Biblical Figures in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods: Social Memory and Imagination. Edited by Diana Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2013e “Introduction.” Pages xi–xxiv in Remembering Biblical Figures in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods: Social Memory and Imagination. Edited by Diana Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi; Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2012a “What Can We Know about the Persian-Era Temple at Jerusalem?” Pages 343–368 in Temple Building and Temple Cult: Architecture and Cultic Paraphernalia of Temples in Levant (2.–1. Mill. B.C.E.). Edited by Jens Kamlah. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 41. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
2012b “Hidden Ancestor Polemics in the Book of Genesis?” Pages 35–56 in Words, Ideas, World: Biblical Essays in Honour of Yairah Amit. Edited by Athalya Brenner and Frank Polak. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix.
2012c “Earthquakes in the Ancient Southern Levant: A Literary Topos and a Problem Requiring Architectural Solutions.” Pages 205–238 in Disaster and Relief Management/Katastrophen und ihre Bewaltigung. Edited by Angelika Berlejung. Forschungen zum Alten Testaments 81. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
2012d “Exodus and Pesah-Massot as Evolving Social Memory.” Pages 163–193 in Remembering (and Forgetting) in Judah’s Early Second Temple Period. Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi and Christoph Levin. Forschungen zum Alten Testaments 85. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
2012e “Were Zerubbabel and Nehemiah the Same Person?” Pages 112–131 in Far From Minimal: Celebrating the Work and Influence of Philip R. Davies. Edited by Duncan Burns and John W. Rogerson. The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 484. London: T. & T. Clark.
2012f “Apples and Oranges: Textual and Archaeological Evidence for Reconstructing the History of the Persian Period.” Pages 133–144 in Congress Volume Helsinki 2010. Edited by Martti Nissinen. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 148. Leiden: Brill.
2012g “Writing a History of Yehud in the Persian Period: Creating Understanding.” Pages 36–45 in Second Temple Studies 4. Historiography and History. Edited by Alice Hunt. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 550. London: T&T Clark.
2011a The Location and Function of the Towers of Hananel and the Hundred in Persian-Era Jerusalem.” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 127.1: 49–74.
2011b “The Chronicler and the Atthidographers,” co-authored with Lynette Mitchell. Pages 225–248 in What Was Authoritative for Chronicles? Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana Edelman. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
2011c “Saul as a Young Hero.” Pages 161–183 in Le jeune héros: Recherches sur la formation et la diffusion d'un thème littéraire au Proche-Orient ancient. Edited by Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer and Michael Langlois. Orbis biblicus et orientalis 250. Fribourg: Academic Press; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
2010 “Of Priests and Prophets: The Egyptian Hm-Ntr and Hry-Hbt and the Judahite nabi’.” Pages 103–113 in The Historian and the Bible: Essays in Honour of Lester L. Grabbe. Edited by Philip R. Davies and Diana V. Edelman. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 530. London: T. & T. Clark.
2009a “Cultic Sites and Complexes beyond Jerusalem.” Pages 82–103 in Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel. Edited by Francesca Stavrakopoulou and John Barton. London: T&T Clark International.
2009b “God Rhetoric: Reconceptualizing Yahweh Sebaot as Yahweh Elohim in the Hebrew Bible.” Pages 81–107 in A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics and Language Relating to Persian Israel. Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman, and Frank Polak. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias.
2009c “Ezra 1–6 as Idealized Past.” Pages 178–190 in A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics and Language Relating to Persian Israel. Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman, and Frank Polak. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias.
2009d “In the Wake of The Wake.” Pages 19–30 in In the Wake of Tikva Frymer-Kensky. Edited by Richard H. Beal, Steven W. Holloway and JoAnn Scurlock. Gorgias Précis portfolios 4. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias.
2009e “From Prophets to Prophetic Books: Fixing the Divine Word.” Pages 29–54 in The Production of Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud. Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana Edelman. BibleWorld. London: Equinox.
2009f “Jonah among the Twelve: The Triumph of Torah over Prophecy.” Pages 150–167 in The Production of Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud. Edited by Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana Edelman. BibleWorld. London: Equinox.
2009g “Artaxerxes, Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes II, Artaxerxes III, Artaxerxes IV, Asher, Baal Shalisha, Beeroth, and Benjamin Gate” for The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, about 10 pp. in toto.
2008 “Hezekiah’s Alleged Cultic Centralization.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 32: 395–434.
2007a “The ‘Empty Land’ as a Motif in City Laments.” Pages 127–149 in Ancient and Modern Historiography/ L’historiograhie biblique, ancienne et modern. Edited by George J. Brooke and Thomas Römer. Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium 207. Leuven: Leuven University.
2007b “Taking the Torah out of Moses: Moses’ Claim to Fame Before He Became the Quintessential Law-Giver.” Pages 13–42 in La construction de la figure de Moïse/The Construction of the Figure of Moses. Edited by Thomas Römer. Transeuphratène Supplément 13. Paris: Gabalda.
2007c “Settlement Patterns in Persian-Era Yehud.” Pages 52–64 in A Time of Change: Judah and its Neighbours in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods. Edited by Yigal Levin. Library of Second Temple Studies 65. London: T&T Clark.
2006a “Seeing Double: Tobiah the Ammonite.” Revue biblique 113.4: 570–584.
2006b “Function of the m(w)sh-Stamped Jars Revisited.” Pages 659–671 in “I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times:” Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday. Edited by Aren M. Maeir and Pierre de Miroschedji. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
2006c “The Iconography of Wisdom.” Pages 149–152 in Essays on Ancient Israel in its Near Eastern Context: A Tribute to Nadav Na’aman. Edited by Yairah Amit, Ehud Ben Zvi, Israel Finkelstein, and Oded Lipschits. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
2006d “Tyrian Trade in Yehud under Artaxerxes I: Real or Fictional? Independent or Crown-Endorsed?” Pages 207–246 in Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period. Edited by Oded Lipschits and Manfred Oeming. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
2005 “Nehemiah’s Adversary, Tobiah the Patron.” Pages 104–114 in History og konstruction: Festskrift til Niels Peter Lemche i anledung af 60 års fødselsdagen den 6. september 2005. Edited by Mogens Müller and Thomas L. Thompson. Københaven: Museum Tusculanums Forlag.
2004 Two letters, “From Haggai to Zechariah” and “From Zechariah to Haggai.” Pages 109–112 in Yours Faithfully: Virtual Letters from the Bible. Edited by Philip R. Davies. London: Equinox.
2003a “Proving Yahweh Killed his Wife (Zechariah 5:5-11).” Biblical Interpretation 11: 335–344.
2003b “Gibeon and the Gibeonites Revisited.” Pages 153–168 in Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period. Edited by Oded Lipschits and Joseph Blenkinsopp. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
2001 “Did Saulide-Davidic Rivalry Resurface in Early Persian Yehud?” Pages 70–92 in The Land that I Will Show You: Essays in the History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honor of. J. Maxwell Miller. Edited by M. Patrick Graham & Andrew Dearman. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 343. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
2000a “What if We had No Accounts of Sennacherib’s Third Campaign or the Palace Reliefs Depicting his Capture of Lachish?” Pages 88–103 in Virtual History and the Bible. Edited by J. Cheryl Exum. Leiden: Brill= idem, Biblical Interpretation 8 (2000): 88–103.
2000b “The Deuteronomist’s David and the Chronicler’s David: Competing or Contrasting Ideologies?” Pages 67–83 in The Future of the Deuteronomistic History. Edited by Thomas Römer. Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium 147. Leuven: Peeters.
1999a “Ahlström, G.W.” Page 19 in Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, Vol. I. Edited by John H. Hayes. Nashville: Abingdon.
1999b “Clio’s Dilemma: The Changing Face of Historiography.” Pages 247–255 in Congress Volume, 1998. Edited by André Lemaire & Magnus Saebø. Supplements to Vetus Testament 80. Leiden: Brill.
1998a 12 articles for Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, Apocrypha, and New Testament. Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Craven and Ross Shepard. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, including the entries on Abihail, Ahinoam 1, Merab, Naamah, Rizpah, Taphath, Zeruiah, wives of Saul, wives of David, daughters of David, women of Solomon, and wives of Ahab (about 6 pp. in toto).
1998b “The Creation of Exodus 14-15.” Pages 137–158 in Jerusalem Studies in Egyptology. Edited by Irene Shirun-Grumach. Ägypten und altes Testament 40. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz.
1997 “Foreward.” Pages xv-xx in The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium. Edited by Lowell K. Handy. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East 11. Leiden: Brill.
1996a “Saul Ben Kish in History and Tradition.” Pages 142–159 in The Origins of Ancient Israelite States. Edited by Volkmar Fritz and Philip Davies. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 228. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
1996b “Ethnicity and Early Israel.” Pages 25–55 in Ethnicity and the Bible. Edited by Mark G. Brett. Biblical Interpretation Series 19. New York: Brill, 1996.
1995a “Solomon's Adversaries Hadad, Rezon, and Jeroboam: A Trio of ‘Bad Guy’ Characters.” Pages 166–191 in The Pitcher is Broken: Gösta W. Ahlström Memorial Volume. Edited by Lowell K. Handy and Steven W. Holloway. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 190. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
1995b “Tracking Observance of the Aniconic Tradition through Numismatics.” Pages 185–225 in The Triumph of ’Elohim: From Yahwisms to Judaisms. Edited by Diana V. Edelman. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 3. Kampen: Kok Pharos.
1995c “Edom: A Historical Geography.” Pages 1–11 in You Shall not Abhor an Edomite for He is Your Brother: Edom and Seir in History and Tradition. Edited by Diana V. Edelman. Archaeology and Biblical Studies Series 3. Atlanta: Scholars.
1994 “Huldah the Prophetess- of Yahweh or Asherah?” Pages 231–250 in A Feminist Companion to Samuel and Kings. Edited by Athalya Brenner. The Feminist Companion to the Bible 5. Sheffield: JSOT.
1992a “Saul (person).” Pages 989–999 in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Volume 5. Edited by David N. Freedman et al. New York: Doubleday.
1992b 35 additional articles in the Anchor Bible Dictionary, including the entries on Abel- Meholah, Abiel, Abinadab, Abner, Adriel, Ahinoam, Aphiah, Armoni, Asher, the Ashurites, Becorath, En-Dor, Eshbaal, Hanun, Harnepher, Ishbosheth, Ishvi, Jaasiel, Jabesh-Gilead, Jonathan ben Saul, Kish, Lo-Debar, Mahanaim, Malchishua, Meholathite, Mephibosheth, Meribaal, Ner, Rizpah, Shua, Shual (person), Shual (place), Zela, Zelzah, and Zeror (about 33 pp. in toto).
1991b “Are the Kings of the Amorite ‘Swept Away’ in Josh. xxiv 12?” Vetus Testamentum 41: 279–286.
1991c “The Manassite Genealogy in 1 Chr 7:14-19: Form and Sources.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 53: 179–201.
1991d “Doing History in Biblical Studies.” Pages 13–25 in The Fabric of History: Text, Artifact and Israel's Past. Edited by Diana V. Edelman. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 127. Sheffield: JSOT. Reprinted in Israel’s Past in Present Research, ed. V.P. Long. Sources for Biblical and Theological Study. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1999.
1990 “The Deuteronomist's Story of King Saul: Narrative Art or Editorial Product?” Pages 207–222 in Pentateuchal and Deuteronomistic Studies. Edited by Christianus Brekelmans and Johan Lust. Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 94. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
1988a “Saul's Journey through Mt. Ephraim and Samuel's Ramah (1 Sam. 9:4-5; 10:2-5).” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 104: 44–58.
1988b “The Asherite Genealogy in 1 Chr 7:30-40.” Biblical Research 33: 13–23.
1988c “Tel Masos, Geshur, and David.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 47: 253–258.
1988d “2 Sam 1:26 in Light of the Historicity of David's Covenant with Jonathan.” Scandinavian Journal for the Old Testament 3: 66–75.
1985a “The ‘Ashurites’ of Eshbaal's State (2 Sam. 2:9).” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 117: 85–91.
1985b “The Meaning of qiṭṭer.” Vetus Testamentum 35: 395–404.
1985c “Merneptah's Israel.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 44: 59–61 (co-authored with G. W. Ahlström).
1984 “Saul's Rescue of Jabesh-Gilead (1 Sam. 11:1-11): Sorting Story from History.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 96: 195–209.
Forthcoming:
2023 11 entries in The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in 5 Minutes. Co-edited with Philippe Guillaume. Religion in 5 Minutes. Sheffield: Equinox. They include: “How Does One Read the Bible from a Scholarly Perspective?”; “Who Wrote the Hebrew Bible?”; “How Do We Determine Biblical Genres?”; “Pre-Exilic, Exilic, and Post-Exilic: Can We Date the Books of the Hebrew Bible?”; “How Did Scribes Periodize the Past in the Hebrew Bible?”; “Was Josiah’s Scroll Lost and Found Twice?”; “Why Were the Ancestors De-Divinized?”; “Heaven, Hell, or She’ol?”; “What Is a Covenant?”; “Are There Polemics (Even) in the Hebrew Bible?”; “Synchronic versus Diachronic Readings: Why Choose?” Each is 3 pp.
“Creating Israelite Cultural Hegemony in the Persian Period: Shared Strategies and Points of Dispute Among the Literati.” In Cultural Hegemony in Second Temple Judaism: Texts, Ideologies, and Struggles for Power. Edited by Benedetta Rossi and Daniel Verde. Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium. Leuven: Peeters, 2023.
“Yhwh Shomron and Yhwh Elohim in the Achaemenid Province of Samaria.” In Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire: Prof. Shaul Shaked in Memoriam. Edited by. Gad Barnea and Reinhard Kratz. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2024.
“Sanballat, Abraham, and Jacob.” In a Festschrift for Thomas Römer. Edited by Christophe Nihan and Jean-Daniel Macchi. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2024.
“The Case for Post-Exilic Deuteronomy.” In The Book of Deuteronomy: Composition, Contexts, Interpretation, and Reception. Edited by Kyung S. Baek and Dominik Markl. Formation and Interpretation of Old Testament Literature; Supplements to Vetus Testamentum. Leiden: Brill, 2024 or 2025.
“The Mezuzah in Post-Secular American Society.” To be submitted to a journal since the original publication volume has been abandoned.
“The Origin of the Biblical Pork Ban: Pig Use at Lachish.” Co-authored with Johannes Unsok Ro.