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Name Sara Milstein
Position Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Institutional Affiliation University of British Columbia
Latitude 49.260892
Longitude -123.246552
Research Interests

Literary History of the Hebrew Bible
Biblical and Cuneiform Law
Writing and Scribal Culture in the Ancient Near East
Mesopotamian Literature

Department Affiliation Vancouver
Websites https://cnrs.ubc.ca/people/sara-milstein/
Publications

Publications

BOOKS

Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
Fleming, Daniel and Sara J. Milstein. The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic: The Akkadian Huwawa Narrative, Cuneiform Monographs Series 39 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010).
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“Making a Case: The Repurposing of ‘Israelite Legal Fictions’ as Post-Deuteronomic Law,” Supplementation and the Study of the Hebrew Bible, ed. Saul Olyan and Jacob Wright (Providence: Brown Judaic Studies), 161-181.
“Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: The Independent Origins of Deut 22:25–27,” Journal of Biblical Literature (forthcoming).
“Outsourcing Gilgamesh,” in ed., Raymond Person and Robert Rezetko, Empirical Models Challenging Biblical Criticism (Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature, 2016), 37-62.
“Saul the Levite and His Concubine: The ‘Allusive’ Quality of Judges 19,” Vetus Testamentum 66 (2016): 95-116.
“Insights into Editing from Mesopotamian Literature: Mirror or Mirage?” in ed., Reinhard Müller, Juha Pakkala, and Bas ter Haar Romeny, Insights into Editing in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East, Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology (Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2016).
“The Origins of Adapa,” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie 105.1 (2015): 30-41.
“The Magic of Adapa,” in ed., Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger, Texts and Contexts: Approaches to Textual Transmission in the Cuneiform World (Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2015).
“Delusions of Grandeur: Revision through Introduction in Judges 6-9,” in ed., John Greene, A Life in Parables and Poetry: Pedagogue, Poet, Scholar: Essays in Honor of Mishael Maswari Caspi (Berlin: Klaus-Schwarz Verlag, 2014), 210-239.
“‘Who Would Not Write?’ The Prophet as Yhwh’s Prey in Amos 3:3-8,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 75 (2013): 429-445.
“From Rambam to Richard Wright: Job, the Delayed Angel, and the Conception of Modern Midrashim,” in ed., Mishael Caspi, Why Hidest Thy Face: Job in Traditions and Literature (Berkeley, California: Bibal Press, 2002).
REFERENCE MATERIALS
“Adapa,” in ed., Lisbeth Fried, Routledge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions (New York: Routledge, 2015).
“Enkidu,” in ed., Lisbeth Fried, Routledge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions (New York: Routledge, 2015).
“Gilgamesh,” in ed., Lisbeth Fried, Routledge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions (New York: Routledge, 2015).

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