Publications

Books:

An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: A Thematic Approach. With Sandra Gravett, F. Volker Greifenhagen, and Karla Bohmbach. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.

Authorizing an End: The Isaiah Apocalypse and Intertextuality. Biblical Interpretation Series 50. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

“Listening to a Conversation: Divorce, the Torah and Earliest Christianity.” Review & Expositor 106 (2009): 591–602 (with Sandra Hack Polaski).

“Where Men are Men and Women are Women?: The Song of Songs and Gender.” Review & Expositor 105 (2008):435–451.

“Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin: Writing and Resistance in Daniel 5 and 6.” Journal of Biblical Literature 123 (2004): 649–669.

“The Politics of Prayer: A New Historicist Reading of Isaiah 26.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 25 (1998): 357–371.

“Reflections on a Mosaic Covenant: The Eternal Covenant (Isa. 24:5) and Intertextuality.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 77 (1998): 55–73.

“What Will Ye See in the Shulammite?: Women, Power and Panopticism in the Song of Songs.” Biblical Interpretation 5 (1997): 64–81.

“On Taming Tamar: Amram’s Rhetoric and Women’s Roles in Pseudo-Philo’s Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum 9.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 13 (1995): 79–99.

Articles in Edited Volumes

“‘And Also To The Jews in Their Script’: Power and Writing in the Scroll of Esther.” Forthcoming in Reading and Teaching Ancient Fiction: Greco-Roman, Early Jewish, and Christian Narrative, edited by Clare Rothschild. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017.

“Writing and the Chronicler: Authorship, Ambivalence and Utopia.” In Worlds that Could Not Be: Constructing Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, edited by Steven Schweitzer and Frauke Uhlenbruch, pp. 129–145. London: T. & T. Clark, 2016.

“Nehemiah: Subject of the Empire, Subject of Writing.” In New Perspectives on Ezra-Nehemiah: Story and History, Literature and Interpretation, edited by Isaac Kalimi, pp. 37–59. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2012.

“‘What Mean These Stones?’: Inscriptions, Textuality and Authority in Persia and Yehud.” In Approaching Yehud: New Approaches to the Study of the Persian Period, edited by Jon L. Berquist, pp. 37–48. Semeia Studies 50. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

“Tom Lehrer and Historical Criticism,” “The Flood as Jigsaw Puzzle,” “Holiness as an Unknown Culture,” “Qoheleth Sings Stamps-Baxter,” “The Social Settings of Ancient and Modern Wisdom,” and “Hosea Meets Hank Williams.” In Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction, edited by Mark Roncace and Patrick Gray. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

“Deuteronomy: Moses’ Final Examination.” In Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible: A Reader, edited by A. K. M. Adam, pp. 29–42. St. Louis: Chalice, 2001.

“Destruction, Construction, Argumentation: A Rhetorical Reading of Isaiah 24–27.” In Vision and Persuasion: Rhetorical Dimensions of Apocalyptic Discourse, edited by L. Gregory Bloomquist and Greg Carey, pp. 19–39. St. Louis: Chalice, 1999.