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“Sex and the Single Girl in Deuteronomy 22.” Mishneh Todah: Studies in Deuteronomy and Its Cultural Environment in Honor of Jeffrey H. Tigay. Edited by Nili Sacher Fox, David A. Glatt-Gilad, and Michael J. Williams. Winona Lake:... more
“Sex and the Single Girl in Deuteronomy 22.” Mishneh Todah: Studies in Deuteronomy and Its Cultural Environment in Honor of Jeffrey H. Tigay. Edited by Nili Sacher Fox, David A. Glatt-Gilad, and Michael J. Williams. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. 2008. Pp. 131-148.
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On the Use of Traditional Jewish Exegesis in the Modern Literary Study of the Bible. In Tehillah le-Moshe. Biblical and Judaic Studies in Honor of Moshe Greenberg.
Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. 1997. Pp. 173-183.
Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. 1997. Pp. 173-183.
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In Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 48. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls... more
In Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 48. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 19-23 January, 2000. Edited by Esther G. Chazon with the collaboration of Ruth A. Clements and Avital Pinnick. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 1-17.
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“From scripture to literature. Modern ways of reading the Bible,” in Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries. Edited by Mordechai Z. Cohen and Adele Berlin, with the assistance of Meir M.... more
“From scripture to literature. Modern ways of reading the Bible,” in Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries. Edited by Mordechai Z. Cohen and Adele Berlin, with the assistance of Meir M. Bar-Asher, Rita Copeland, and Jon Whitman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 326-335.
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Four of the most famous medieval Jewish commentators on Psalms: Saadia, Rashi, Ibn Ezra, and David Qimhi.
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The topic of Bible translation has come to the fore recently with Robert Alter's The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary 1 , a work that completes Alter's decades-long project of translating the entire Tanakh. I want to put this... more
The topic of Bible translation has come to the fore recently with Robert Alter's The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary 1 , a work that completes Alter's decades-long project of translating the entire Tanakh. I want to put this newest translation into the larger context of Bible translations, especially English Bible translations, and examine many of the issues involved in translating the Bible and the choices that translators make.
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This commentary on Lamentations offers a translation, discussing questions of historical background and literary architecture before providing a theologically sensitive exposition of the text.
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This essay, dedicated to my friend and colleague, Yehoshua Gitay, discusses the story of Hannah, with emphasis on the speeches and on Hannah’s two prayers, the prose prayer embedded in the narrative and the poetic prayer that follows it.... more
This essay, dedicated to my friend and colleague, Yehoshua Gitay, discusses the story of Hannah, with emphasis on the speeches and on Hannah’s two prayers, the prose prayer embedded in the narrative and the poetic prayer that follows it. The two prayers are compared in terms of their rhetoric and their function. Hannah is a barren mother. That is, her story, like those of Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Samson’s mother, employs the motif of a woman who is barren for a long while and then gives birth to a child of special destiny. As in the case of Sarah and Rachel, another woman is involved, a co-wife named Peninah, who is fertile while Hannah is not, and who feels superior to Hannah for that reason. Peninah is a wife of equal status to Hannah, not a slave woman like Hagar but a full-status wife like Leah. Since Hannah is listed before Peninah, we may assume that she was Elkanah’s first wife. In any case, as we soon see, she is clearly his favorite. The first thing we are told about the...
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The status of foreigners who wish to join the postexilic Jewish community.
This paper was submitted in August 2012 to be published in the Michael O'Connor Memorial Volume. The volume has not yet been published.
This paper was submitted in August 2012 to be published in the Michael O'Connor Memorial Volume. The volume has not yet been published.
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Speakers and Scenarios. Imagining the First Temple in Second Temple Psalms (Psalms 122 and 137), In Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period. Edited by Mika S Pajunen and Jeremy Penner. BZAW 486. Berlin:... more
Speakers and Scenarios. Imagining the First Temple in Second Temple Psalms (Psalms 122 and 137), In Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period. Edited by Mika S Pajunen and Jeremy Penner. BZAW 486. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2017. Pp. 341-355.
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Journal of Ancient Judaism 1 (2010): 3-19
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Vetus Testamentum Supplement. Congress Volume. Cambridge 1995. Leiden: Brill. 1997. Pp. 25-36.
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in Barry Eichler Festschrift
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Textus 24 (2009): 107-117
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in Homeland and Exile: Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of Bustenay Oded. Edited by Gershon Galil, Mark Geller and Alan Millard. VT Supplement. Leiden: Brill. 2009. Pp. 323-333.
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in Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange. Edited by D. Stern and N. Dohrmann. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008. Pp. 20-36, 239-243.
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in Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients. Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by R. Troxel et al. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. 2005. Pp. 71-83.
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in Shai le-Sara Japhet: Studies in the Bible, its Exegesis and its Language. Edited by: Moshe Bar-Asher, Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Emanuel Tov and Nili Wazana. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute. 2007. Pp. 21*-36*.