A Hebrew Reader for the Pentateuch: 40 Pivotal Narratives for Study and Teaching (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Academic, 2024). Pp. xvi + 232. [co-authored with Karen DeCrescenzo Lavery]

2021

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New Oxford Annotated Bible, 2001

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Expository Times, 2007

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2011

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“The Sources of the Pentateuch: Their Literary Extent and the Bridge between Genesis and Exodus. A Survey of Scholarship since Astruc”, in: Christoph Berner / Harald Samuel (eds.), Book-Seams in the Hexateuch I. The Literary Transitions between the Books of Genesis/Exodus and Joshua/Judges, FAT 120, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018, 21-41.

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2019

An introduction to the Pentateuch and the History Books up to the united monarchy with a focus on both the original meaning of the texts and their Christian significance.

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Journal of Ancient Judaism, 2012

This article considers the book of Deuteronomy in its narrative integrity and dynamic, from beginning to end. It focuses on six main threads and themes of Deuteronomy’s overall construction, paying attention to their (interconnected) sequential unfolding: the relationship between Moses, speaker and narrator within the narrated world, and the narrator of the framing book (section 2); Deuteronomy’s overall plot, which surfaces only when the final disclosure about the obedience of the sons of Israel (34:9) is taken into consideration (section 3); Moses’ switch from oral to written communication (section 4); the motif of Moses’ death, from his dissimulation to God’s ultimate education of his prophet (section 5); the narrative centrality of the law code within Deuteronomy’s system of if-plots (section 6); the identity of Joshua as “prophet like Moses,” and epitome of the system of mediations set up by Moses, the prophet whom God knew face-to-face (section 7).

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This will be my last Hebrew Bible course! I've tried to make it a little adventurous, and am adopting David Carr's excellent introductory textbook

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The Pentateuch lies at the heart of the Western humanities. Yet despite nearly two centuries of scholarship, its historical origins and its literary history are still a subject of intense discussion. Critical scholarship has isolated multiple layers of tradition, inconsistent laws, and narratives that could only have originated from separate communities within ancient Israel, and were joined together at a relatively late stage by a process of splicing and editing. Recent developments in academic biblical studies, however, jeopardize the revolutionary progress that has been accomplished over the last two centuries. The past forty years of scholarship have witnessed not simply a proliferation of intellectual models, but the fragmentation of discourse within the three main research centers of Europe, Israel, and North America. Even when they employ the same terminology (redactor, author, source, exegesis), scholars often mean quite different things. Concepts taken for granted by one group of scholars (such as the existence of the Elohist source) are dismissed out of hand by other scholarly communities. In effect, independent and sometimes competing scholarly discourses have emerged in Europe, Israel, and North America. Each centers on the Pentateuch, each operates with its own set of working assumptions, and each is confident of its own claims. This volume seeks to stimulate international discussion about the Pentateuch in order to help the discipline move toward a set of shared assumptions and a common discourse. With the wide range of perspectives examined, this publication is an invaluable resource for subsequent research. Keywords: pentateuchal theory, source criticism, historical linguistics, dating, historical geography, 4Q158, Dead Sea Scrolls, inner biblical exegesis, Torah, Prophets, allusion

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