Digital Resource
2026
Masoretica: Beyond the Critical Edition
Advanced research platform for biblical manuscripts, computationally indexing nearly 70,000 digitized pages and aligning hundreds of Hebrew, Samaritan, Aramaic Targum, and Greek witnesses by verse for direct comparison.
Digital Resource
2026
Etnachta: Computational Studies in Biblical Cantillation
Search biblical cantillation marks, sequences, word forms, and clause patterns across the twenty-one prose books.
Digital Resource
2020–2026
Kennicott Key
Search manuscripts by Kennicott number and open corresponding Ktiv records and digitized witnesses in Masoretica.
Digital Resource
2021–2026
The Valediction of Moses: A Critical Synoptic Edition with Commentary
Part of the interactive second edition. Read the Valediction of Moses alongside its parallels in Deuteronomy and Numbers, with a critical apparatus and commentary.
Article
Forthcoming
First Isaiah Unbound: The Making of the Great Isaiah Scroll
Forthcoming in Vetus Testamentum
Essay
2025
What is Hanukkah and how is it celebrated?
The Conversation (2025), with David Slucki and Yaffa Bart
Reference
2025
David
Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations (EJCR), De Gruyter Brill (2025)
Essay
2025
The אוֹת (ʾOt) of Cain, Rahab, and Shabbat: Stop Looking for Signs!
TheTorah.com: A Historical and Contextual Approach (June 2025), with Na’ama Pat-El
Article
2025
The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת
Vetus Testamentum (2025), with Na’ama Pat-El
Article
2021
The Shapira Scrolls: The Case for Authenticity
Biblical Archaeology Review 47:4 (Winter 2021), with James Tabor
Essay
2021
Response to Ronald Hendel, ‘Notes on the Orthography of the Shapira Manuscripts: The Forger’s Marks’
Academia.edu (May 30, 2021)
Essay
2021
Response to Benjamin Suchard, ‘The “Valediction of Moses” is not a proto-Deuteronomy: evidence from the verbal system’
Academia.edu (April 26, 2021), with Na’ama Pat-El
Book
2021
The Valediction of Moses: A Proto-Biblical Book
First published by Mohr Siebeck in 2021. Interactive second edition, 2026.
Book
2021
The Dismembered Bible: Cutting and Pasting Scripture in Antiquity
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021
Article
2021
The Valediction of Moses: New Evidence on the Shapira Deuteronomy Fragments
Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 133:1 (2021): 1–22
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)
Article
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)
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)
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
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