Browsing Faculty Publications by Title
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Love and Hate at Qumran: The Social Construction of Sectarian Emotion.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2013)Employing a "social constructionist" approach, according to which emotions are culturally conditioned expressions of values, this study considers how the sect behind 1QS used the emotions of love and hate to teach its ... -
Negotiating empire: Jewish life and Jewish theology under the Achaemenids.
(Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock, 2019) -
New genes often acquire male-specific functions but rarely become essential in Drosophila.
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2017-09-15)Relatively little is known about the in vivo functions of newly emerging genes, especially in metazoans. Although prior RNAi studies reported prevalent lethality among young gene knockdowns, our phylogenomic analyses reveal ... -
Not power but glory.
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On Texts, Contexts, and Countertexts: Review of Jacob L. Wright, David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory.
(Indiana University Press, 2015) -
Pornography or theology? The legal background, psychological reality, and theological import of Ezekiel 16.
(The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2017)The description of the relationship between Yhwh and Jerusalem in Ezekiel 16 has troubled readers, ancient and modern. Here I argue that the problems are actually more severe than has been realized in recent scholarship. ... -
Praying as a plaintiff.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2011)Several biblical prayers include the speaker's demand for judgment from God. Akkadian prayers contain similar language. Examination of plaintiffs' statements in Neo-Babylonian lawsuit records substantiates the interpretation ... -
Progress and punishment.
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The proper business of mankind.
(Religion and Public Life, 2018-11) -
Reading the Songs of the Sage in Sequence: Preliminary Observations and Questions.
(De Gruyter, 2017)The collection of hymns for protection from demonic harm known as the Songs of the Sage is represented in two Qumran manuscripts (4Q510–511), both of which date to around the turn of the era.1 4Q510 consists of just one ... -
Review of Stone, Michael E. Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views. Eerdmans, 2011
(The Society of Biblical Literature, 2012) -
The savor of science.
(Religion and Public Life, 2018-06) -
The Self-Referential Coda in the Mishnah and the Egyptian-Israelite Literary Tradition of Wisdom.
(Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, 2017-02)It has often been noted that Mishnah Avot is heir to aspects of the biblical tradition of Wisdom. A further element of this inheritance is studied here: the tradition of ending a Wisdom book with a selfreferential coda, ... -
Sex or power? The crime of the single girl in Deuteronomy 22.
(Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010)(From Conclusions): In sum, this study has argued that the law of the slandered bride is not primarily about sex. It is a law about power, in particular the power of the parents over their daughter’s sexuality, and is ... -
Soloveitchik the Zionist.
(Religion and Public Life, 2018-05) -
Teach Torah and fight for justice.
(Religion and Public Life, 2018-12) -
The traditional roots of priestly messianism at Qumran.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2010)
