RESEARCH INTERESTS

• The literature of the Bible
• The history of ancient Israel
• The historical development of the Hebrew language
• The relationship between ancient Egypt and ancient Israel

COURSES TAUGHT

PUBLICATIONS:

COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Books Authored

The Redaction of Genesis (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1986).

Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew (American Oriental Series 72; New Haven:

American Oriental Society, 1990).

Linguistic Evidence for the Northern Origin of Selected Psalms

(Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series 43; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990).

The Bible and the Ancient Near East, co-authored with Cyrus H. Gordon

(New York: W. W. Norton, 1997).

Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Kings

(Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University 5; Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2002).

Solomon’s Vineyard: Literary and Linguistic Studies in the Song of Songs,

co-authored with Scott B. Noegel
(SBL Ancient Israel and Its Literature; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, forthcoming).

Books Edited

Co-Editor, The Bible World: Essays in Honor of Cyrus H. Gordon (New York: Ktav, 1980).

Co-Editor, Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. 1

(Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1987).

Co-Editor, Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. 2

(Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1990).

Co-Editor, Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. 3

(Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1992).

Co-Editor, Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. 4

(Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002).

PUBLIC LECTURES

• "Unlikely Heroes: Women as Israel," delivered at Brigham Young University, March 7, 2007
• "Light from Egypt on the Exodus Story," delivered at Brigham Young University, March 8, 2007
• "Dead Sea Scrolls at 60, Part One,"
  delivered at the Highland Park Conservative Temple (Highland Park, NJ), March 4, 2009
  (both audio download and pdf file of the images presented are available)
• "Dead Sea Scrolls at 60, Part Two,"
  delivered at the Highland Park Conservative Temple (Highland Park, NJ), March 11, 2009
  (both audio download and pdf file of the handout are available)

LINKS TO ONLINE ARTICLES

• Down with History, Up with Reading: The Current State of Biblical Studies
• Confused Language as a Deliberate Literary Device in Biblical Hebrew Narrative
• Cyrus H. Gordon, the First American-Born, American-Trained Jewish Bible Scholar to Accede to a University Position
• Genesis of the Bible
• Biblical Literature as Politics: The Case of Genesis

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