CURRICULUM VITAE Cynthia Edenburg November 2023 ORCID 0000-0002-7714-7049 Professional Education 1976 B.A. in Biblical Studies, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem 1986 M.A. with honors in Biblical Studies, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem 2003 Ph.D in Biblical Studies and the History of Ancient Israel, Tel Aviv University Awards 2012 Visiting Fellow, Center of Advanced Study, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Employment 1982–2020 The Open University of Israel, now retired Editorial boards and Peer Review: Ancient Israel and its Literature book series, Society of Biblical Literature Press (editorial board 2015–2019) Vetus Testamentum (advisory board) Peer review: Vetus Testamentum; The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures; Journal of Theological Studies; Catholic Biblical Quarterly; Neotestamentica; The Library of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies (Bloomsbury and T&T Clark) Professional Organizations Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) SBL Professional Development Committee 2016–2018 Annual Meeting Deuteronomistic History Steering Committee, Chair 2009–2012 Annual Meeting Book of Deuteronomy Consultation and Unit, Chair 2013–2017 Annual Meeting Pentateuch Committee 2013–2018 European Association for Biblical Studies (EABS) 1 Cynthia Edenburg – List of Publications Books 2016 Dismembering the Whole (Judg 19–21); Composition and Purpose of the Story of the Outrage at Gibeah (SBL Ancient Israel and Its Literature Series 24; Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature Press) Joshua (Hermeneia Commentary Series; Minneapolis: Fortress Press), Forthcoming Edited Volumes 2013 Cynthia Edenburg and Juha Pakkala, eds., Is Samuel among the Deuteronomists? Current Views on the Place of Samuel in a Deuteronomistic History (SBL Ancient Israel and Its Literature Series 16; Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature) 2016 Walter Dietrich, Cynthia Edenburg and Philippe Hugo, eds. The Books of Samuel: Stories – History – Reception History (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium; Leuven: Peeters) Periodical Guest Editor 2015 With Reinhard Müller, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 4, 145–229; issue titled “Deuteronomy: a Judean or Samari(t)an Composition? Perspectives on Deuteronomy’s Origins, Transmission and Reception”, with additional contributions by Gerald Knoppers, Ingrid Hjelm, Magnar Kartveit and Adrian Schenker 2019 With Reinhard Müller, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 8 ; issue titled “Treaty and Covenant: Deuteronomy in Light of the Neo-Assyrian and Aramaic adê-Tradition”, with contributions by Hans Ulrich Steymans, William Morrow, Juha Pakkala and Jacob Lauinger Articles 1998 “How (Not) to Murder a King: Variations on a Theme in 1 Sam 24; 26,” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 12: 64–85. 2009 “Ideology and Social Context of the Deuteronomic Women's Sex Laws (Deut 22:13–29),” Journal of Biblical Literature 128: 43–60. 2010 “David, the Great King, King of the Four Quarters: Structure and Signification in the Catalogue of David’s Conquests (2 Sam 8:1–14; 1 Chr 18:1–13),” in Raising Up a Faithful Exegete: Essays in Honor of Richard D. Nelson (K. Noll and B. Schramm, eds.; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns), 159–75. 2010 “Intertextuality, Literary Competence and the Question of Readership: Some Preliminary Observations,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 32: 131–48. 2011 “Notes on the Origin of the Biblical Tradition Regarding Achish King of Gath,” Vetus Testamentum 61: 34–38. 2011 “From Eden to Babylon; Reading Gen 2–4 as a Paradigmatic Narrative,” in Pentateuch, Hexateuch, or Enneateuch: Identifying Literary Works in Genesis Through 2 Kings (eds. Thomas Dozeman, Thomas Römer and Konrad Schmid; Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Israel and Its Literature Series 8; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature), 155–67. 2 2012 “’Overwriting and Overriding,’ or What is Not Deuteronomistic,” in Congress Volume: Helsinki, 2010 (20th Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament; M. Nissinen, ed.; Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 148; Leiden: Brill), 443– 60. 2012 “Joshua 9 and Deuteronomy; an Intertextual Conundrum: the Chicken or the Egg?” in Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch, Hexateuch, and the Deuteronomistic History (eds. R. Person and K. Schmid; Forschungen zum Alten Testament II/56; Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck), 115–32. 2012 “Rewriting, Overwriting, and Overriding: Techniques of Editorial Revision in the Deuteronomistic History,” in Words, Ideas, Worlds in the Hebrew Bible: Essays in Honour of Yairah Amit (F. Polak, et al. eds.; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press), 54–69. 2014 “II Sam 21,1–14 and II Sam 23,1–7 as Post-Chr Additions to the Samuel Scroll,” in “Rereading the Relecture? The Question of (Post)chronistic Influence in the Latest Redactions of the Books of Samuel (U. Becker and H. Bezzel eds.; Forschungen zum Alten Testament II/16; Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck), 167–82. 2015 “From Covenant to Connubium: Persian Period Developments in the Perception of Covenant in the Deuteronomistic History,” in Covenant in the Persian Period (G. Knoppers and R. Bautsch eds.; Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns), 113–32. 2015 “Paradigm, Illustrative Narrative or Midrash: the Case of Josh 7–8 and Deuteromic/istic Law,” in The Reception of Biblical War Legislation in Narrative Contexts: Studies in Law and Narrative (C. Berner and H. Samuel, eds.; Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 460; Berlin: de Gruyter), 123–37. 2015 “A Northern Provenance for Deuteronomy? A Critical Review,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 4, 148–61. 2016 “‘David Reproached Himself’: Revisiting 1 Sam 24 and 26 in Light of 2 Sam 21–24,” in The Books of Samuel: Stories – History – Reception History (W. Dietrich, C. Edenburg and P. Hugo, eds.; Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 284; Leuven: Peeters), 469–80. 2016 “Do the Pentateuchal Sources Extend into the Former Prophets? Joshua 1 and the Relation of the Former Prophets to the Pentateuch,” in The Formation of the Pentateuch: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Europe, Israel, and North America (J. C. Gertz et al. eds.; Forschungen zum Alten Testament 111; Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck), 795–812. 2017 “2 Sam 21–24: Haphazard Miscellany or Deliberate Revision?,” in Insights into Editing in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (R. Müller and J. Pakkala, eds.; Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 84; Leuven: Peeters), 190–222. 2017 “Last Words of David,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Vol 15 (Berlin: de Gruyter), 852–53. 2017 “Josh 24: a Diaspora Oriented Overriding of the Joshua Scroll,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 6: 161–80. 3 2018 “Envelopes and Seams: How Judges Fits (or not) within the Deuteronomistic History,” in Book-Seams in the Hexateuch I: The Literary Transitions between the Books of Genesis/Exodus and Joshua/Judges (C. Berner and H. Samuel, eds.; Forschungen zum Alten Testament 120; Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck), 353–69. 2018 “Levite’s Concubine,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Vol. 16 (Berlin: de Gruyter), 327–30. 2019 “Book of the Covenant,” in Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law (P. Barmash, ed.; Oxford: Oxford University Press), 157–75. 2019 with Reinhard Müller, “Editorial Introduction: Perspectives on the Treaty Framework of Deuteronomy,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 8: 73–86. 2020 “The Radiance (of Yahweh) is Exiled: Reconsidering the Extent, Purpose and Historical Context of the Ark Narrative,” in Fortgeschriebenes Gotteswort. Studien zu Geschichte, Theologie und Auslegung des Alten Testaments. Christoph Levin Festschrift (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck), 153–174. 2020 “Falsifiable Hypotheses, Alternate Hypotheses and the Methodological Conundrum of Biblical Exegesis,” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 132: 383–401. 2021 “Construction of Self-identity by Marginalizing an Imaged Other” in Collective Memory and Collective Identity; Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History in their Context (Johannes Unsok Ro and Diana Edelman, eds.; BZAW 534; Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter), 85–104. 2021 “Wilderness, Liminality and David’s Rite of Passage,” in David in the Desert: 1 Sam 16 – 2 Sam 5 (H. Bezzel and R. Kratz, eds.; BZAW 514; Berlin: De Gruyter), 85–103. 2022 “Messaging Brothers in Distant Lands: Biblical Texts in Light of Judean, Samarian and Diaspora Target Audiences,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 11 supplement, 204–223. 2023 “The Book of Josiah, or the Book of Joshua: Excavating the Literary History of the Story of the Conquest” in From Nomadism to Monarchy? Revisiting the Early Iron Age Southern Levant (I. Koch, O. Sergi, and O. Lipschits, eds.; Mosaics 3; University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, and Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeolgy, Tel Aviv University), 263–78. Forthcoming “Evaluating Noth’s Deuteronomistic History Hypothesis as a Popperian Thought Experiment,” WdO 53 Forthcoming “In Search of Amalek: the Pursuit of an Historical Referent in 1 Sam 30,” in Israel, Judah, and Neighboring Groups in the Book of Samuel: Historical and Textual Approaches (Benedickt Hensel and Stephan Germany, eds.; RIAB 000; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck) Forthcoming “Prostitute, Prostitution: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Vol. 23 (Berlin: de Gruyter). 4 5