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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)
Negotiating empire: Jewish life and Jewish theology under the Achaemenids.
(Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock, 2019)
לבוא ולהיכנס : Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of the Semantics of ‘Coming’ and ‘Going’ in Ancient Hebrew,
(Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2013)
This paper investigates the semantics of the verb בוא in ancient Hebrew. After reviewing some of the scholarship on the semantics of English 'to come', it shows that in many respects biblical בוא differs from 'to come'. ...
Constructing Fear and Pride in the Book of Daniel: The Profile of a Second Temple Emotional Community
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2015)
This paper examines the seminal role that emotions, particularly fear and pride, play in the book of Daniel. Drawing upon the idea of "emotional communities," I view the book's final redactor as engaged with the views of ...
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 ...
Emotional Regimes, Ritual Practice, and the Shaping of Sectarian Identity: The Experience of Ablutions in the Dead Sea Scrolls
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)
In this article, I explore the role that the purification rites attested in some of the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls played in identity construction. Ritual ablutions communicated “canonical” messages to initiates about some ...
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 ...
Aramaic.
(Oxford University Press, 2017-04-27)
Diachronic change and synchronic readings: Midrashim on stative verbs and participles.
(Oxford University Press, 2012-10)
Because of the different verbal systems in the Hebrew of the Bible and the Hebrew of the Mishnah, reading the Bible as if written in Mishnaic Hebrew can produce interesting results. This paper analyses rabbinic comments ...
UNRAVELING THE STORY OF LUCIUS CORNELIUS SULLA
(Yeshiva College, 2016-09)
When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River in early 49 B.C.E.1
and proceeded to
march on Rome, he set in motion a series of events which would culminate in the transformation
of the Roman state. Never again would the ...