Publications

Books, articles, essays, and conference work

Books, articles, essays, reference entries, and conference papers by Idan Dorshav Dershowitz.

Book 2021

The Valediction of Moses: A Proto-Biblical Book

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021

Book 2021

The Dismembered Bible: Cutting and Pasting Scripture in Antiquity

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021

Article 2025

The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת

Vetus Testamentum (2025), with Na’ama Pat-El

Reference 2020

MORDECAI, SON OF JAIR (HEBREW BIBLE/OLD TESTAMENT)

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 18, De Gruyter (2020; forthcoming)

Reference 2020

NAOMI (HEBREW BIBLE/OLD TESTAMENT)

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 18, De Gruyter (2020; forthcoming)

Article 2020

Four Unidentified Fragments from 4QJoba (4Q99)

Revue de Qumrân (RevQ) 32 (2020), with Rebekka Luther

Article 2019

Response to: ‘Was There Ever an Implicit Acceptance of Male Homosexual Intercourse in Leviticus 18?’ by George M. Hollenback

Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW) 131:4 (2019)

Essay 2018

The Secret History of Leviticus

The New York Times (2018)

Article 2017

Revealing Nakedness and Concealing Homosexual Intercourse: Legal and Lexical Evolution in Leviticus 18

Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (HeBAI) 6:4 (2017)

Essay 2017

Darius II Delays the Festival of Matzot in 418 BCE

TheTorah.com: A Historical and Contextual Approach (2017)

Reference 2017

KENATH

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])

Reference 2017

KENAZ, BROTHER OF CALEB

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])

Reference 2017

KENAZ, SON OF ELAH

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])

Reference 2017

KENAZ, SON OF ELIPHAZ

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])

Article 2016

Man of the Land: Unearthing the Original Noah

Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 128:3 (2016): 357–373

Essay 2015

The Guilt of the Slanderer and the Sotah: Between Certainty and Uncertainty

TheTorah.com: A Historical and Contextual Approach (2015)

Digital / Conference 2015

Computerized Source Criticism of Biblical Texts

Journal of Biblical Literature 134:2 (2015), with Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, and Nachum Dershowitz

Article 2014

Flowing with Fat and (Bee) Honey

Vetus Testamentum 64:4 (2014)

Digital / Conference 2014

Orthography and Biblical Criticism

Proceedings of Digital Humanities (DH 2014), Lausanne, Switzerland, 451–453, with Nachum Dershowitz, Tomer Hasid, and Amnon Ta-Shma

Essay 2011

Computerized Bible Criticism

The Bible and Interpretation (2011)

Digital / Conference 2011

Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components

Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2011): 1356–1364, with Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, and Nachum Dershowitz

Digital / Conference 2010

Exploiting Synonym Choice to Identify Discrete Components of a Document

Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (2010), with Navot Akiva and Moshe Koppel

Article 2010

A Land Flowing with Fat and Honey

Vetus Testamentum 60:2 (2010): 172–176