Articles, 2020-present
- "The Epic Tradition in Ancient Israel – And What Happened to It?" in Isaac Kalimi, ed., Writing and Rewriting History in Ancient Israel and Near Eastern Cultures (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020), pp. 17-30.
- "Tribute to Jim Eisenbraun," in "He Inscribed upon the Stone": Celebrating the Work of Jim Eisenbraun (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2020), pp. 178-180.
- "A Rare Piyyuṭ Text Used as a Binding Fragment in Torat Moshe (Venice, 1601) Held in the University of Sydney Library," in Andreas Lehnardt, ed., European Genizah: Newly Discovered Hebrew Binding Fragments in Context (European Genizah: Texts and Studies, vol. 5; Studies in Jewish History and Culture, vol. 63; Leiden: Brill, 2020), pp. 185-203.
- "Israelite Origins," in Richard E. Averbeck and K. Lawson Younger, eds., "An Excellent Fortress for His Armies, A Refuge for the People": Egyptological, Archaeological, and Biblical Studies in Honor of James K. Hoffmeier (University Park, Penn.: Eisenbrauns / Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020), pp. 327-339.
[PDF used with permission granted by Pennsylvania State University Press, publisher of this volume. - “Chiasmus in the Book of Genesis," in John W. Welch and Donald W. Parry, eds., Chiasmus: The State of the Art = BYU Studies Quarterly 59, supplement (2020), pp. 17-34.
[article may be read online and/or the pdf file may be downloaded gratis at the link provided] - "The Twelfth-Century Exodus View," in Mark D. Janzen, ed., Five Views on the Exodus: Historicity, Chronology, and Theological Implications(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2021), pp. 183-209 (plus smaller essays, including: a) responses to other contributors to the volume on pp. 66-70, 121-123, 172-174, 274-279; and b) rejoinder to responses to my essay on pp. 231-234).
- "Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Amos," in Aaron D. Hornkohl and Geoffrey Khan, eds., New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2021), pp. 717-739.
- "Targumic Parallels to Variant Readings of the Book of Samuel amongst the Cairo Geniza Manuscripts," Aramaic Studies 19 (2021), pp. 41-53.
- “Aramaisms in Hymn 32 (1QHa 24:2 – 25:33),” in Steven E. Fassberg, ed., Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period: Proceedings of an Eighth Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira (Studies in the Texts of the Desert of Judah, vol. 134; Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 236-259.
- " The Ancestral Narratives" (= ch. 1), in John Merrill and Hershel Shanks, eds., Ancient Israel, 4th edition (Washington: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2021), pp. 1-15, 340-342. [pdf file posted with permission of Biblical Archaeology Society]
- " Egypt and the Exodus" (= ch. 2), in John Merrill and Hershel Shanks, eds., Ancient Israel, 4th edition (Washington: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2021), pp. 17-58, 342-351 (co-authored with Manfred Bietak). [pdf file posted with permission of Biblical Archaeology Society]
- " The Emergence of Israel in Canaan" (= ch. 3), in John Merrill and Hershel Shanks, eds., Ancient Israel, 4th edition (Washington: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2021), pp. 59-91, 351-355. [pdf file posted with permission of Biblical Archaeology Society]
- “Approaching Scripture: Insights from Judaism,” in Trevan G. Hatch and Leonard J. Greenspoon, eds., “The Learning of the Jews”: What Latter-day Saints Can Learn from Jewish Religious Experience (Salt Lake City: Kofford Books, 2021), pp. 1-21.
- “Genesis 49:4 – The Route of Facile Textual Emendation vs. Appreciation for Literary Brilliance,” Vetus Testamentum 71 (2021), pp. 673–686.
- “Form Form Follows Content in Biblical Literature,” in Peter Machinist, Robert A. Harris, Joshua A. Berman, Nili Samet, and Noga Ayali-Darshan, eds., Ve-’Ed Ya‘aleh (Gen 2:6): Essays in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Edward L. Greenstein, 2 vols. (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021), vol. 1, pp. 559‒578.
- “ Israelian Hebrew, Inscriptions from the North of Israel, and Samaritan Hebrew: A Complex of Northern Dialects,” Journal for Semitics 30:2 (2021), 19 pp. [Posted in accordance with the journal’s guidelines, which allows authors to post their articles “12 months after the date of publication.”]
- "The Etymology of Sabaic brṯ ‘place’,” Journal of Semitic Studies 67 (2022), pp. 317–335.
- “ Jewish Babylonian Aramaic נוולא (B. Bava Meṣiʿa 67a, etc.): Its Meaning and Etymology,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 142 (2022), pp. 145‒156. [pdf file posted per the JAOS guidelines available here]
- " Pithom and Rameses (Exodus 1:11): Historical, Archaeological and Linguistic Issues (Part I)," Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 33 (2022), pp. 1‒19 (co-authored with James K. Hoffmeier) [Posted with permission, per the journal's guidelines: "Submissions may be freely shared by their authors in other venues six months after the publication in JAEI."]
- " Pithom and Rameses (Exodus 1:11): Historical, Archaeological and Linguistic Issues (Part II)," Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 34 (2022), pp. 36‒52 (co-authored with James K. Hoffmeier). [Posted with permission, per the journal's guidelines: "Submissions may be freely shared by their authors in other venues six months after the publication in JAEI."]
- "Hebrew Compositions from the Pen of Thomas Neale, Regius Professor of Hebrew (1559‒1569), Addressed to Queen Elizabeth I on the Occasion of Her Majesty’s Visit to Oxford in 1566," Bodleian Library Record 32 (2019) (though published in 2022), pp. 62‒85 + Plates 4-5-6 (co-authored with Aaron D. Rubin). [pdf file used with permission granted by Bodleian Library Publishing]
- “ Moses as Pharaoh’s Equal – Horns and All,” Biblical Archaeology Review 49:3 (Fall 2023), pp. 60-62. [pdf file with first page of the article used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society]
- “ The Original Wordle,” Textual Cultures 16 (2023), pp. 275–282. [pdf file used with permission granted by the editors of Textual Cultures]
- “ A Complete Old Torah Scroll (Nicholson Ms. 37) Held at Fisher Library, University of Sydney,” Australian Biblical Review 71 (2023), pp. 15–54 (co-authored with Marc Michaels, Ian Young, Julie Sommerfeldt, Vladimir Levchenko, and Linda Barry). [pdf file used with permission granted by the Fellowship for Biblical Studies, publisher of the Australian Biblical Review]
- “Palimpsest: Judaism,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, available online at https://www.degruyter.com/database/ebr/html (print edition forthcoming).
- “ A Hebrew Poem by Edward Burdon Addressed to Queen Elizabeth I on the Occasion of Her Visit to Oxford in 1566,” Bodleian Library Record 36 (2023), pp. 53‒79 (appeared Dec 2024) (co-authored with Aaron D. Rubin). [pdf posted in accordance with the Liverpool University Press policy]
- “ A Hebrew Poem from the Pen of Edward Burdon (c.1540–1588), Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I,” Sundial 19 (February 2024), pp. 12‒13 (co-authored with Aaron D. Rubin). [open access at https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/sundial-and-pelican-record]
- “ CCC MS 133: A Singular Treasure in Our Library,” Sundial 20 (August 2024), pp. 12‒13 (co-authored with Aaron D. Rubin). [open access at https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/sundial-and-pelican-record]
- “Notes on the Hebrew Names of the Planets, as Transmitted by Epiphanius of Salamis,” Journal of Ancient Judaism 15 (2024), pp. 415–439 (online version available here) (pre-publication version available here, in accordance with Brill's self-archiving policy).
- “ Jews in Arabia,” Biblical Archaeology Review 50:3 (Fall 2024), pp. 32‒37. [pdf file with first page of the article used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society]
- “Samuel and Genesis,” in Rachelle Gilmour and Benjamin Johnson, eds., Explorations in the Interpretation of Samuel: Intertextuality and Reception (Studies of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 26) (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2025), pp. 231-250.
- “The Pronunciation of תִּזְכְּרוּ (Num. 15.40) in Rabbinic Sources and in Light of Phoenician,” in Aaron D. Hornkohl, et al., eds., Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures ‒ A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures; Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2025), pp. 223‒258.
- “Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew,” Religions 16: 576 (2025), 21 pp. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/5/576
- “The Rothschild Pentateuch” (Getty Ms. 116), Hebrew Union College Annual (forthcoming) (co-authored with Samuel S. Lurie).
- “The Literary Unity of the Abraham Narrative,” in Kenneth Bergland, et al., eds., Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch, vol. 3 (University Park, Penn.: Eisenbrauns / Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming).
- “Valle, Pietro della,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, forthcoming).