Articles, 2020-present

184. "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.
185. "Tribute to Jim Eisenbraun," in "He Inscribed upon the Stone": Celebrating the Work of Jim Eisenbraun (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2020), pp. 178-180.
186. "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.
187. "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.
188. “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]
189. "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).
190. "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.
191. "Targumic Parallels to Variant Readings of the Book of Samuel amongst the Cairo Geniza Manuscripts," Aramaic Studies 19 (2021), pp. 41-53.
192. “Aramaisms in Hymn 32 (1QH^a 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.
193. " 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]
194. " 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]
195. " 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]
196. “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.
197. “Genesis 49:4 – The Route of Facile Textual Emendation vs. Appreciation for Literary Brilliance,” Vetus Testamentum 71 (2021), pp. 673–686.
198. “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.
199. “ 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.”]
200. "The Etymology of Sabaic brṯ ‘place’,” Journal of Semitic Studies 67 (2022), pp. 317–335.
201. “ 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]
202. " 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."]
203. " 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."]
204. "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]
205. “ 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]
206. “ The Original Wordle,” Textual Cultures 16 (2023), pp. 275–282.  [pdf file used with permission granted by the editors of Textual Cultures]
207. “ 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]
208. “Palimpsest: Judaism,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, available online  at https://www.degruyter.com/database/ebr/html (print edition forthcoming).
209. “ 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]
210. “ 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]
211. “ 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]
212. “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).
213. “ 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]
214. “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.
215. “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.
216. “Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew,” Religions 16: 576 (2025), 21 pp. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/5/576
217. “The Rothschild Pentateuch” (Getty Ms. 116), Hebrew Union College Annual (forthcoming) (co-authored with Samuel S. Lurie).
218. “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).
219. “Valle, Pietro della,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, forthcoming).