Ancient Israel, Ancient West Asia, Hebrew Bible, Early Judaism, History of Violence

Books

Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine: 1200 BCE to 200 CE. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2010. Paperback edition, 2014. 308 pp.
Reviews: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 365 (2012): 88-90.
Journal of the American Oriental Society 132.2 (2012): 316-317.
Biblical Interpretation 19 (2011): 525-527.
Biblical Theology Bulletin 41.4 (2011): 227-228.
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 35.5 (2011): 67-68.
Review of Biblical Literature (two reviews; www.bookreviews.org)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (www.bmcreview.org)
(Brief book notes not included here.)

Editor, with John J. Collins and Saul M. Olyan. Worship, Women, and War: Essays in Honor of Susan Niditch. Brown University Judaic Studies Series 357. Providence, RI: Brown University, 2015.

Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts, under contract with Oxford University Press, five of six chapters completed.

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Dispossessing Nations: Population Growth, Scarcity, and Genocide in Ancient Israel and Twentieth-century Rwanda.” Pages 27-66 in Ritual Violence in the Hebrew Bible: New Perspectives, edited by Saul M. Olyan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

“The Apotheosis of Rage: Divine Anger and the Psychology of Israelite Trauma,”
Biblical Interpretation 23 (2015): 101-121.

“Physical Violence and the Boundaries of Personhood in the Hebrew Bible,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 2.4 (2013): 500-531.

“Where There is Dirt, Is There System?: Revisiting Biblical Purity Constructions,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 37.3 (2013): 265-294.

“‘They Have Become Women’: Judean Diaspora and Postcolonial Theories of Gender and Migration.” Pages 81-109 in Social Theory and the Study of Israelite Religion: Essays in Retrospect and Prospect, edited by Saul M. Olyan. Resources for Biblical Study Series. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.

“‘Like the Eunuch Who Does Not Beget’: Gender, Mutilation, and Negotiated Status in the Ancient Near East.” Pages 47-66 in Disability Studies and Biblical Literature, edited by Jeremy Schipper and Candida R. Moss. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

“The Universal and the Particular: Mary Douglas and the Politics of Impurity.” The Journal of Religion 89.2 (2009): 236-251.

“Shame and Mutilation of Enemies in the Hebrew Bible.” Journal of Biblical Literature
125.2 (2006): 225-241.

Articles in Edited Volumes

“Kinship, Community, and Society.” Pages 377-393 in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel, edited by Susan Niditch. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

“Were Israelite Women Chattel?: Shedding New Light on an Old Question.” Pages 227-241 in Worship, Women, and War: Essays in Honor of Susan Niditch, edited by T. M. Lemos, John J. Collins, and Saul M. Olyan. Brown Judaic Studies Series. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2015.

“Response: Forging a Twenty-first-century Approach to the Study of Israelite Warfare.” Pages 271-286 in Warfare, Ritual, and Symbol in Biblical and Modern Contexts, edited by Brad Kelle, Frank Ritchel Ames, and Jacob Wright. Ancient Israel and Its Literature Series. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.

“Cultural Anthropology: Hebrew Bible.” Pages 157-165 in The Oxford
Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 1, edited by Steven L. McKenzie, et al.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

“The Emasculation of Exile: Hypermasculinity and Feminization in the Book of
Ezekiel.” Pages 377-393 in Interpreting Exile: Interdisciplinary Studies of Displacement and Deportation in Biblical and Modern Contexts, edited by Brad E. Kelle, Frank Ritchel
Ames, and Jacob Wright. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.
Volume selected by American Association of University Presses for commendation.

“Intermarriage.” Pages 767-769 in The Dictionary of Early Judaism, edited by John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010.

Reviews

Review of Jione Havea, Margaret Aymer, Steed Vernyl Davidson, editors, Islands, Islanders,
and the Bible: RumInations, in Review of Biblical Literature (www.bookreviews.org), forthcoming.

Review of Sandra Jacobs, The Body as Property: Physical Disfigurement in Biblical Law, in
Journal of Theological Studies, 65.2 (2014): 628-631.

Review of William R. G. Loader, The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality, in Dead Sea
Discoveries, 20.1 (2013): 163-165.

Review of Étan Levine, Marital Relations in Ancient Judaism, in the Journal of the
American Oriental Society 130.1 (2010): 105-107.

Review of Bernard M. Levinson, “The Right Chorale”: Studies in Biblical Law and
Interpretation, in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 72.2 (2010): 401-403.

Review of Johanna Dorman, The Blemished Body: Deformity and Disability in the Qumran
Scrolls, in Review of Biblical Literature 11 (2009): 238-242.

Review of Brad E. Kelle, Ancient Israel at War 853–586 BC, in Review of Biblical
Literature 11 (2009): 38-41.

Review of Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Priestly Rites and Prophetic Rage: Post-Exilic Prophetic
Critique of the Priesthood, in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 8 (2008) (www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/).

Review of Paul E. Fitzpatrick, The Disarmament of God: Ezekiel 38-39 in Its Mythic
Context, in Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5 (2004-2005) (www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/).

Miscellaneous

“Forgiven Your Debts.” Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and
Studies, forthcoming.

“Weddings and Marriage Traditions in Ancient Israel.” Society of Biblical Literature’s Bible
Odyssey website, www.bibleodyssey.org.

“‘Is Not My Word Like Fire?’: The Hebrew Bible and Anglican Theology.” Huron
Horizons 12 (2011): 10-14.