Synoptic Edition of Deuteronomy and The Valediction of Moses
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Publications
Books, articles, essays, reference entries, and conference papers.
First Isaiah Unbound: The Making of the Great Isaiah Scroll
Forthcoming in Vetus Testamentum
What is Hanukkah and how is it celebrated?
The Conversation (2025), with David Slucki and Yaffa Bart
David
Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations (EJCR), De Gruyter Brill (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
The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת
Vetus Testamentum (2025), with Na’ama Pat-El
The Shapira Scrolls: The Case for Authenticity
Biblical Archaeology Review 47:4 (Winter 2021), with James Tabor
Response to Ronald Hendel, ‘Notes on the Orthography of the Shapira Manuscripts: The Forger’s Marks’
Academia.edu (May 30, 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
The Valediction of Moses: A Proto-Biblical Book
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021
The Dismembered Bible: Cutting and Pasting Scripture in Antiquity
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021
The Valediction of Moses: New Evidence on the Shapira Deuteronomy Fragments
Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 133:1 (2021): 1–22
MORDECAI, SON OF JAIR (HEBREW BIBLE/OLD TESTAMENT)
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 18, De Gruyter (2020; forthcoming)
NAOMI (HEBREW BIBLE/OLD TESTAMENT)
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 18, De Gruyter (2020; forthcoming)
Four Unidentified Fragments from 4QJoba (4Q99)
Revue de Qumrân (RevQ) 32 (2020), with Rebekka Luther
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)
The Secret History of Leviticus
The New York Times (2018)
Revealing Nakedness and Concealing Homosexual Intercourse: Legal and Lexical Evolution in Leviticus 18
Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (HeBAI) 6:4 (2017)
Darius II Delays the Festival of Matzot in 418 BCE
TheTorah.com: A Historical and Contextual Approach (2017)
KENATH
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])
KENAZ, BROTHER OF CALEB
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])
KENAZ, SON OF ELAH
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])
KENAZ, SON OF ELIPHAZ
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])
Man of the Land: Unearthing the Original Noah
Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 128:3 (2016): 357–373
The Guilt of the Slanderer and the Sotah: Between Certainty and Uncertainty
TheTorah.com: A Historical and Contextual Approach (2015)
Computerized Source Criticism of Biblical Texts
Journal of Biblical Literature 134:2 (2015), with Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, and Nachum Dershowitz
Flowing with Fat and (Bee) Honey
Vetus Testamentum 64:4 (2014)
Orthography and Biblical Criticism
Proceedings of Digital Humanities (DH 2014), Lausanne, Switzerland, 451–453, with Nachum Dershowitz, Tomer Hasid, and Amnon Ta-Shma
Computerized Bible Criticism
The Bible and Interpretation (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
Exploiting Synonym Choice to Identify Discrete Components of a Document
Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (2010), with Navot Akiva and Moshe Koppel
A Land Flowing with Fat and Honey
Vetus Testamentum 60:2 (2010): 172–176