Edward L. Greenstein - Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae (August 2026) Edward L. Greenstein Department of Bible Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan 52900 Israel Home address: 42 Zippori Street Jerusalem 94544 Israel Email: [email protected], [email protected] Born: 18 January 1949, Rockville Centre, New York Citizenship: U.S.A., Israel (since 1996) Married with two adult children (one married) Education Ph.D. Columbia University; Ancient Semitic Languages and Cultures; with distinction; 1977; dissertation: “Phonological Studies in Akkadian” (sponsor: Prof. Moshe Held). M.Phil. Columbia University, Semitics, 1975. M.A. Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Judaica, 1974. Year of study, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1970-1971. B.A. Columbia University; cum laude with honors in history; Phi Beta Kappa; 1970. B.H.L. Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Bible major; 5 awards/prizes; 1970. Teaching Positions Bar-Ilan University 2017- Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies 2006-17 Professor of Biblical Studies 1996-99 Visiting Professor in Bible Tel Aviv University 2015 Visiting Professor of Biblical Studies 1996-2006 Professor of Biblical Studies 1992-93 Visiting Professor in Bible Hebrew University, Rothberg International School, Graduate Division 2004-10 Visiting Professor of Bible Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies (Jerusalem) 2005-6 Visiting Professor of Bible 1991-92 Visiting Professor in Bible Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem) 2012 Visiting Professor of Bible Jewish Theological Seminary 2023 Adjunct Professor in Bible (Fall) 2014 Visiting Professor in Bible (Summer) 2011 Visiting Professor in Bible (Summer) 2 2008 Visiting Professor in Bible (Summer) 2007 Visiting Professor in Bible (Summer) 2006 Visiting Professor in Bible (Summer) 2004 Visiting Professor in Bible (Summer) 2000 Visiting Professor in Bible (Spring and Summer) 1996 Visiting Professor in Bible (Summer) 1989-96 Professor of Bible 1983-89 Associate Professor of Bible 1977-83 Assistant Professor of Bible 1976 Preceptor in Bible Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1992-93 Visiting Professor of Bible Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1990-91 Adjunct Professor of Semitic Languages 1987-89 Adjunct Associate Professor 1985-87 Visiting Lecturer 1982-83 Adjunct Lecturer 1978 Lecturer 1975-77 Preceptor Yale University 1990 Visiting Professor in Religious Studies 1987 Visiting Associate Professor in Religious Studies Reconstructionist Rabbinical College 1986-88 Visiting Associate Professor of Bible Princeton University 1985 Visiting Associate Professor in Religion Union Theological Seminary 1986 Visiting Associate Professor in Hebrew Bible 1979-80 Lecturer Hunter College, City University of New York 1975-79 Adjunct Lecturer in Hebrew Division Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York 1975-76 Lecturer in Bible Administrative Positions Head, Interdisciplinary Program (of graduate study) for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, Bar-Ilan University, 2015-2019. Director, The Institute for Jewish Biblical Interpretation, Bar-Ilan University, 2009-2018 (Meiser Chair, Merkin Chair). Chair, Department of Bible, Tel Aviv University, 2004- 2005; head of Bible program, 2005-2006. Acting Dean, [Jewish Theological] Seminary College of Jewish Studies, 1984-1985; Academic Adviser, Seminary College of Jewish Studies, 1980-1987. Chair, Department of Bible, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1985-1989; Acting Chair, 1984; Assistant Chair, 1979-1984. 3 Festschrift Ve-’Ed Ya‘aleh (Gen 2:6): Essays in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Edward L. Greenstein, 2 vols., ed. Peter Machinist, Robert A. Harris, Joshua A. Berman, Nili Samet, and Noga Ayali-Darshan (Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World Supplement 5; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021). Conference in Honor “Taking Nothing for Granted: Philology and Poetics. A Conference in Honor of the Biblical Scholar Prof. Ed Greenstein,” The Ralli Museum, Caesarea, 28 June 2018 (in Hebrew). Awards, Fellowships, Grants Honorary Doctorate, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, 2022. Jordan Schnitzer Book Award (finalist with prize) of the Association for Jewish Studies (2020). EMET Prize (“Israel’s Nobel”) for the Humanities-Biblical Studies (2020). Algemeiner List of 100 People Making a Positive Influence on the Jewish People (2019). Rector’s Prize for Innovation in Research, Bar-Ilan University (2017). Research Grant, Beit Shalom Japan, 2016-2017. Israel Science Foundation Research Grant, 2016-2018. Research Grant, Beit Shalom, Japan, 2016. Research Grant, Beit Shalom, Japan, 2015. Senior Research Fellowship, The Herzl Institute, Jerusalem (2013-2014). Israel Science Foundation Research Grant (2012-2014). Research Grant, Beit Shalom, Japan, 2013. Research Grant, Beit Shalom, Japan, 2011. Honored as an Outstanding Immigrant Scientist, Ministry of Absorption of the State of Israel, 2010. Research Grant, Beit Shalom, Japan, 2010. Israel Science Foundation Research Grant (together with Dr. Yoram Cohen; 2008-2010). Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Distinguished Scholar, Bar Ilan University, 2006-2009. Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, 2001-2002. Publication Grant, Dorot Foundation, 2001. Publication Grant, Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, 2001. Publication Grant, School of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2001. Listed in Who’s Who in the World, 16th ed., 1999. Guastella Fellow (for distinguished immigrant scholars), Tel Aviv University, 1995-1998 (includes $10,000 academic supplies grant). John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1992-1993. Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellow, 1991-93. National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellow, 1991-1992. 4 Summer Research Stipend, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1992. Visiting Scholar, Institute for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, 1991-1993. Summer Research Stipend, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1990. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1989. Publication Grant, Max Richter Foundation, 1987 (plus matching grant from the Jewish Theological Seminary). Summer Research Stipend, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1987. Summer Research Stipend, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1986. Summer Research Stipend, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1985. Abbell Research Fellowship, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1983-84. Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellow, 1983-1984. Summer Research Stipend, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1983. F. J. E. Woodbridge Distinguished Fellow, Columbia University, 1976-1977 (honorary). President’s Fellow, Columbia University, 1973-1975 (full tuition plus stipend). Danciger Foundation Fellow, Columbia University, 1972-1973 (full tuition plus stipend). National Defense Education Act Fellow, Columbia University, 1971-1972 (full tuition plus stipend). Professional Service and Affiliations Editor/Coeditor, Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society (an annual), 1974-2021; Associate Editor, 1973, 2021- . Member, Editorial Board, Studies in Bible and Exegesis (Hebrew; Bar-Ilan University annual, 2022- ). Member, American Society of Overseas Research, 2023- . Member, Israel Association for Religious Studies, 2020- . Academic Consultant, David Rechgold Books, Textbook on Genesis for Second Grade, 2019-20 (Hebrew). Member, Grants Committee for Biblical Studies, Israel Science Foundation, 2018-2019. Member, Editorial Board, Narcissus—A Series for Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Cultural Studies, Resling Publications (Hebrew), 2018-20. Academic Consultant, Koren Jerusalem Bible Translation Project—the Book of Job, 2018-2019. Academic Consultant, Yavneh-Bonus Books, Teacher’s and Student’s Guides in Bible for high school (2018-2019; Hebrew). Member, Editorial Board, Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, book series of Carmel Publishing (Hebrew), 2016-2018. Member, Israel Science Foundation Committee on Book Publication Grants, 2017. Member, President (of the State of Israel)’s Committee for Doctoral Fellowships, 2015. Chair, Israel Prize in Bible Committee, 2014-2015. Chair, Biblical World Section, World Congress of Jewish Studies, 2010-2013; member, Planning Committee, World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1992-2013. Chair, Supervisory Committee appointed by Council for Higher Education, M.Ed. program in Biblical Studies, Sha’anan College, Haifa, 2010-2012. Chair, Grants Committee for Biblical Studies, Israel Science Foundation, 2008-2010. Chair, Israel Prize in Bible Committee, 2009-2010. 5 Chair, Israel Association for Assyriology and the Ancient Near East, 2003-4; member since 1997. Executive Committee Member, World Union of Jewish Studies, 2009-2013; member, academic council, 2005-2013; member, board, 1997-2013. Member, Board, Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies, Jerusalem, 2013- . Member, Academic Council, Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies, Jerusalem, 2009-13. Member, Academic Advisory Board, Resling Publications (Israel; in Hebrew), 2003- . Associate Editor, Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World, 2002-2008. Member, Publications Committee, Te’uda (Series of the School of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University), 2002-2006. Trustee, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, 2005- . Member, Board, Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University, 2007- . Member, Board of Trustees, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2008-2018. Member, Post-Doctoral Fellowship Committee, Yad Hanadiv/Beracha Foundation for Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Jewish Studies, 2011-17. Member, Post-Doctoral E. E. Urbach Memorial Fellowship Committee, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and World Union of Jewish Studies, 2012. Member, Fellowship Committee, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1995-1996, 1999-2000, 2006-7, 2013-2014. Member, Supervisory Committee appointed by Council for Higher Education, M.Ed. program in Biblical Studies, Herzog College, Kefar Etzion, Israel, 2006-2009. Advisory Committee, Bible program, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, 2006-2020. Academic Consultant, Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan-Dvir Publications, Bible Guide for High School (Hebrew), 2010-2013. Academic Consultant, Studies in the Book of Genesis, by Shamai Gelander, The Open University, Raanana, Israel, 2009; academic consultant, Bible Curriculum, 2002-06. Academic Consultant, Reches Publications, Three Bible Guides (Genesis, Poetry, Wisdom; in Hebrew), 2004. Academic Consultant, MaTaH (Centre for Educational Technology), Bible Curriculum, 2003-2005; Two Bible Guides (Genesis, Law & Society; in Hebrew). Organizer, Symposium on “The Contribution of Assyriology to Biblical Studies,” Tel Aviv University, February 24, 2005. Chair, Grants Committee for Bible and Talmud, Israel Science Foundation, 2001-2003. Member, Israel Prize in Bible Committee, 1999-2000. Member, Editorial Board, Biblicon, 1995-1998. Member, Fellowship Committee, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1995. Member, Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards Committee, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1995-1996. Special Editor, The Schocken Bible 1: The Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox (1995). Steering Committee Member, Narrative Research Group, Society of Biblical Literature, 6 1989-1995. Editor, Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies, 1988-93 (ten volumes published, several more accepted under my editorship). Member, Editorial Board, Semeia, 1988-1993. Chair, Ugaritic Studies Group, Society of Biblical Literature, 1988-1990. Chair, Columbia University Seminar for the Study of the Hebrew Bible, 1987-1990. Member, Editorial Board, Hebrew Annual Review, 1987-1990. Chair, Conference on “The State of Jewish Studies,” Jewish Theological Seminary, May 17-19, 1987. Member, Advisory Board, Indiana (University) Studies in Biblical Literature, 1985-1995. Member, Publication Committee, Jewish Publication Society, 1985-1989. Steering Committee and Founding Member, Hebrew Linguistics Group, Society of Biblical Literature, 1983-1991. Associate Editor, Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, 1979-1990. Member of Board, Association for Jewish Studies, 1981-1983, 1988-1990. Member, American Oriental Society, 1972- . Member, Linguistic Society of America, 1976-2005. Consultant/referee to numerous publishers, journals, foundations, museum exhibits, television documentaries, among them: the WNET television series “Heritage: Civilization and the Jews” (1984-85); the Core Exhibit of the Jewish Museum, New York (1990-92); the Melton Research Center of the Jewish Theological Seminary (1977-84, 1994-95); the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Israel Science Foundation; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; many more. Named Lectures The Haskell Lecture, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, August 11, 2021: “Radical Rhetoric: Poetics and Meaning in the Book of Job.” The Sara Kroland Coster Memorial Lecture, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York City, November 19, 2013: “Lamentations and Its Rabbinic Interpretation.” The Louis and Frieda Cristol Endowment Lecture in Jewish Studies, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas, November 15, 2011: “The Problem of Evil in the Hebrew Bible.” The James S. Ackerman Lecture, Indiana University at Bloomington, February 11, 2009: “Wisdom Undermined: A New Look at the Book of Job.” The Stanley H. Arffa Visiting Scholar Lectures, Yale University, February 2008: “Is God Just, or Just God?—Rethinking Job” (a series of three presentations). The Jeanette Krieger and Herman D. Mytelka Memorial Lecture on Jewish Civilization, Princeton University, February 14, 2008: “The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job” The Frederick Neumann Memorial Lecture, Princeton Theological Seminary, October 18, 2006: “Truth or Theodicy? Speaking Truth to Power in the Book of Job” The Bokser Memorial Lecture, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, February 7 1998: “The Temple Is Dead: Long Live the Temple!” The Aaron-Roland Lecture, Stanford University, November 1992: “Reader Responsibility: Making Sense and Non-Sense in Biblical Narrative” The Solomon Goldman Lecture, Spertus College of Judaica, Chicago, February 10, 1991: “Sensitivity to Language in Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah” Academic Publications Books (Authored) Job: A New Translation (New Haven-London: Yale University Press; 2019). [Library Journal list of best books in religion, 2019; CHOICE (American Library Association) Outstanding Academic Title, 2020.] Paperback edition, lightly corrected, 2020. Essays on Biblical Method and Translation (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989); second edition with corrections and a new preface published digitally (Brown Judaica Series; Providence, RI, 2020). The Hebrew Bible in Literary Criticism (Library of Literary Criticism; New York: Frederick Ungar, 1986; co-compiled and co-edited with Alex Preminger). Books (Authored in Preparation) Reader Responsibility: The Making of Meaning in Biblical Narrative (T & T Clark International). Postmodern Interpretation of the Bible (Resling Publications; in Hebrew). JPS Commentary on Lamentations (Jewish Publication Society). Radical Rhetoric: Studies on the Book of Job (Mohr-Siebeck Publishing). Wisdom from Western Asia (co-author and editor; in series Library of Ancient Wisdom, Society of Biblical Literature). Job (Hermeneia series; Fortress Augsburg Press). Ruth (Hermeneia series; Fortress Augsburg Press). Job: Introduction with Commentary (Miqra Le-Yisra’el series; Am Oved Publishers; in Hebrew). The Fugitive Hero: A Near Eastern Pattern that Shaped the Stories of Israel (Yale University Press). Between Canaan and Israel: Selected Studies on Northwest Semitic Literature and Language (Asuppot series; Mossad Bialik Publishing; Hebrew). Books (Edited) “David gavra tava”: Studies in Honor of David Marcus (Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society special supplement; New York, 2022). Marbeh Hokmah: Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East in Loving Memory of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz (co-editor; Eisenbrauns; 2015). Edited with an introduction: Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? (Tel Aviv: Resling Publications; Hebrew edition; 2012). 8 Comparative Studies in Honor of Yochanan Muffs (New York: Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, 1993; coedited with David Marcus). The State of Jewish Studies (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990; coedited with Shaye J. D. Cohen). Semitic Studies in Memory of Moshe Held (New York: Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, 1989; coedited with David Marcus). Ancient Studies in Memory of Elias Bickerman (New York: Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, 1985-86; coedited with Shaye Cohen and David Marcus). Near Eastern Studies in Memory of M. M. Bravmann (New York: Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, 1981; edited). Books (Edited in Preparation) “May You Favor the Work of His Hands”: Essays in Memory of Michael Patrick O’Connor (associate editor). Monographs “The Phonology of Akkadian Syllable Structure,” Afroasiatic Linguistics 9 (1984), pp. 1-71. “The Akkadian Inscription of Idrimi,” Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 8 (1976), pp. 59-96 (co-authored with David Marcus). Commentaries and Editions “The Book of Job” (introduction and annotations), in The Jewish Study Bible, 2nd ed., ed. Adele Berlin and Marc Z. Brettler (Oxford University Press; 2014), pp. 1489-1556. “Kirta” [critical transcription and verse translation with introduction and bibliography], in Ugaritic Narrative Poetry, ed. Simon B. Parker (Writings from the Ancient World; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997), pp. 9-48 (plus bibliography). “The Book of Exodus” (introduction and annotations) in The HarperCollins Study Bible (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 77-150; revised for 2006 edition, pp. 83-149. Journal Articles, Chapters in Edited Volumes, Review Essays “The Language of the Book of Job and the Challenges in Translating It,” The Book of Job, ed. James Harding. Themes and Issues in Biblical Studies. Equinox Press (forthcoming). “The Postmodern Study of the Bible and Jewish Hermeneutics,” Festschrift for Amos Frisch, ed Yitzhak Amar et al. (Bar-Ilan University Press; forthcoming). “How Are We Meant to Understand the Story of Ruth?” in Vetus Testamentum Conference Volume, ed. Berndt Schipper et al. (forthcoming). “Job and the Proverbial Sage,” in The Intertextuality of Job, ed. Annette SchellenbergLagler et al. (forthcoming.) 9 “Quotations in the Poetry of Job,” in May You Favor the Work of His Hands”: Essays in Memory of Michael Patrick O’Connor (forthcoming). “Remarks on an Old Babylonian Dialogue between a Father and His Son,” in On Scribes and Scholars: Essays in Honor of Wayne Horowitz, ed. Peter Zilberg et al. (Gorgias Press, 2025), pp. 215-228. “The Enumeration of Divine Attributes and their Parody in the Discourses of Job,” in Festschrift for David Golinkin, ed. Martin Cohen (The Schechter Institute of Judaic Studies; 2025 abridged English version of Hebrew article from 2020), pp. 104-12. “‘My hand I place over my mouth’: Interpreting Gestures in the Poetry of Job,” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 22 (special issue on The Literal Sense; 2024), pp. 313-330.. “The Epic Background of the Balaam Narrative (Numbers 22-24),” in The Shamir, the Letters, the Writing, and the Tablets (Mishnah Avot 5:6): Studies in Honor of Shamir Yona, ed. Mayer I. Gruber et al. (Israel: Ostracon Publishers, 2023), pp. 301-11 (in Hebrew). “Sans érasure: A Counterintuitive Scribal Practice,” Textus 32 (2023), pp. 1-18. “Out of the Sweet Came Good: A Study in Semitic Etymology,” in Linguistic and Philological Studies of the Hebrew Bible and Its Manuscripts, ed. Vincent D. Beiler and Aaron D. Rubin (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2023), pp. 13-25. “Lamentations 3: A Four-Voiced Rendering,” in In the Face of Adversity: Translating Difference and Dissent—In Honour of Lawrence A. Rosenwald, ed. Thomas Nolden (London: UCL Press, 2023), pp. 19-32. “Syntax and Poetics in the Interpretation of Job,” in Where is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light? Studies in Genesis, Job, and Linguistics in Honor of Ellen J. van Wolde, ed. Pierre van Hecke and Hanneke van Loon (Brill 2023), pp. 184-95. “Wisdom in Mesopotamia in Relation to Von Rad’s Wisdom in Israel,” in Fifty Years of Wisdom: Gerhard von Rad and the Study of Wisdom Literature, ed. Timothy J. Sandoval and Bernd Schipper (Society of Biblical Literature, 2022), pp. 287-320. “Exile as the Staging Ground for a Comeback,” in “David gavra tava”: Studies in Honor of David Marcus (Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society special supplement, 2022), pp. 45-59. “A Critique of the Counter-Argument for yaqtul Preterite in Ugaritic,” in “Like ’Ilu You Are Wise”: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literature in Honor of Dennis G. Pardee, ed. H. Hardy, J. Lam, and E. D. Reymond (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; 2022), pp.19-30. “The Name Qohelet and the Language of the Author,” in Menschein in Weisheit und Freiheit: Festschrift für Thomas Krüger, ed. Veronika Bachmann, Annette Schellenberg, Frank Ueberschaer (Leuven-Paris-Bristol, CT: Peeters, 2022), pp. 324-31. “Early Hebrew Poetry,” in Studies in Bible and Exegesis, 11: Presented to Yaakov Kaduri, ed. Michael Avioz, Eric Lawee, and Yosef Ofer (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2020), pp. 229-44 (in Hebrew). “The Heart as an Organ of Speech in Biblical Hebrew,” Semitic, Biblical, and Jewish Studies in Honor of Richard C. Steiner, ed. Mordechai Z. Cohen, Aaron Koller, Adina Moshavi (Yeshiva University Press and Mossad Bialik, 2020), pp. 206-18 10 (English section). “The Enumeration of Divine Attributes and Their Parody in the Discourses of Job,” in Theopoetics: Collected Essays, ed. Avi Elkayam and Shlomi Mualem (Idra Jewish Philosophy Series; Tel Aviv: IDRA, 2020), pp. 225-33 (in Hebrew). “Critical Discourse as a Jewish Thing and Its Beginnings in the Bible,” There’s a Jewish Way of Saying Things: Studies in Honor of David Roskies, ed. Alan Rosen and Jillian Davidson (special issue of In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies; June 2020), 9 pp. (on-line). “Metaphoric Chains in the Dialogues of Job: A Case in Point,” in Networks of Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible, ed. Danilo Verde and Antje Labahn (Leuven: Peeters, 2020), pp. 281-97 (coauthored with Nehamit Peri). “Biblical Narrative and Canaanite Narrative,” in Some Wine and Honey for Simon: Biblical and Ugaritic Aperitifs in Memory of Simon B. Parker, ed. A Joseph Ferrara and Herbert B. Huffmon (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2020), pp. 1-22 [updated adaptation of Hebrew article from 2003]. “The Language of the Book of Job: Characterizing Its Features,” in Topics in Biblical Hebrew, ed. Michael Ryzhik (Jerusalem: Israel Academy for the Hebrew Language, 2020), 241-255 (in Hebrew). “‘If the Sun Shone on Him’ (Exodus 22:1-2): A Different Approach,” in Ben Porat Yosef: Studies in the Bible and Its World, Essays in Honor of Joseph Fleishman, ed. Michael Avioz, Omer Minka, and Yael Shemesh (AOAT 458; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2019), pp. 35-41. “Proverbs and Popular Sayings, Real or Invented, in the Book of Job,” in Teaching Morality in Antiquity: Wisdom Texts, Oral Traditions, and Images, ed. T. M. Oshima with Susanne Kohlhaas (Mohr Siebeck; 2018), pp. 137-49. “Signs of Poetry Past: Literariness in Pre-Biblical Hebrew Literature,” in Strength to Strength: Essays in Appreciation of Shaye J. D. Cohen, ed. Michael L. Satlow (Providence, RI: Brown Judaica Studies, 2018), pp. 5-25. “Bildad Lectures Job: A Close Reading of Job 8,” Biblical Poetry and the Art of Close Reading, ed. J. Blake Couey and Elaine T. James (Cambridge University Press; 2018), pp. 63-79. “Challenges in Translating the Book of Job,” Found In Translation: Essays on Jewish Biblical Translation in Honor of Leonard J. Greenspoon. Ed. James W. Barker, Anthony Le Donne, and Joel N. Lohr. (Purdue University Press; 2018), pp. 17999. “Metaphors of Illness and Wellness in the Book of Job,” in “When the Morning Stars Sang”: Essays in Honor of Choon Leong Seow on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. Scott C. Jones and Christine Roy Yoder (BZAW series; Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 2018), pp. 39-50. “The Book of Job and Mesopotamian Literature: How Many Degrees of Separation?” in Citation, Allusion, and Translation in the Hebrew Bible, ed. Ziony Zevit (London: Equinox Press; 2017), pp. 143-58. “What Was the Book of Yashar?” Maarav 21 (2014 [published in 2017]; Festschrift for Aaron Demsky), pp. 25-35. “Noah and Jonah: An Intertextual Interpretation,” in Ushmu’el beqore’e shemo: Shmuel (Samuel) Leiter Memorial Volume, ed. Shamma Friedman et al. (Mossad Bialik; 11 2016), pp. 23-32 (in Hebrew). “A Woman’s Voice in Lamentations 3,” Shenaton: An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 24 (2016), pp.167-76 (in Hebrew). “Verbal Art and Literary Sensibilities in Ancient Near Eastern Context,” in The WileyBlackwell Companion to Ancient Israel, ed. Susan Niditch (Wiley-Blackwell; 2016), pp. 457-75. “Finding One’s Way in Proverbs 30:18-19,” in Marbeh hokmah: Memorial Volume for Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, ed. Shamir Yona et al. (Eisenbrauns; 2015), pp. 261-68. “The Fugitive Hero Narrative Pattern in Mesopotamia,” in Worship, Women, and War: A Festschrift for Susan Niditch, ed. Tracy Lemos et al. (Society of Biblical Literature, 2015), pp. 17-35. “Decalogue,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Bible and Law (ed. Brent Strawn; Oxford University Press, 2015), vol. 1, pp. 164-172. “Direct Discourse and Parallelism,” in Discourse, Dialogue and Debate in the Bible: Essays in Honour of Frank Polak, ed. Athalya Brenner-Idan (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2014), pp. 79-91 [revised and expanded English version of a Hebrew article from 2000). “Some Metaphors in the Poetry of Job,” in Built by Wisdom, Established by Understanding: Essays on Biblical and Near Eastern Literature in Honor of Adele Berlin, ed. Maxine L. Grossman (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2013), pp. 179-95. [Revised version of Hebrew article published in 2009.] “The Invention of Language in the Poetry of Job,” in Interested Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David J. A. Clines, ed. James K. Aitken, Jeremy M. S. Clines, and Christl M. Maier (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature; 2013), pp. 331-46. “Three Philological Notes on the Book of Job,” in Zer Rimmonim: Studies in Biblical Literature and Exegesis Presented to Professor Rimon Kasher, ed. Michael Avioz, Elie Assis, and Yael Shemesh (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature; 2013), pp. 297-308 (in Hebrew). “Wisdom Written in Ugaritic,” Beit Mikra 57 (2012), pp. 72-91 (in Hebrew). [Revised version of part of an English article]. “Parody as a Challenge to Tradition: The Use of Deuteronomy 32 in the Book of Job,” in Reading Job Intertextually, ed. Katharine J. Dell and Will Kynes (Bloomsbury T. and T. Clark, 2012), pp. 66-78 (plus bibliography). “Stanley Fish: Always Thinking Again,” in Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? (Hebrew edition; Tel Aviv: Resling Press, 2012), pp. 7-26 (in Hebrew). “Reading Pragmatically: The Binding of Isaac,” in Words, Ideas, Worlds: Biblical Essays in Honour of Yairah Amit, ed. Athalya Brenner and Frank H. Polak (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press; 2012), pp. 102-32. “Wisdom in Ugaritic,” in Language and Nature: Papers Presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, ed. Rebecca Hasselbach and Na’ama Pat-El (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2012), pp. 69-89. “On the Use of Akkadian in Biblical Hebrew Philology,” in Looking at the Ancient Near East and the Bible through the Same Eyes: A Tribute to Aaron Skaist, ed. Kathleen Abraham and Joseph Fleishman (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2012), pp. 335-353. 12 “Hebrew Poetry: Biblical Poetry,” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed., ed. Roland Greene (Princeton University Press, 2012), pp. 601603, 609. “Psalm,” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed., ed. Roland Greene (Princeton University Press, 2012; coauthored with Robert Alter), pp. 1123-24. “Parallelism,” in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed., ed. Roland Greene (Princeton University Press, 2012; coauthored with M. P. O’Connor), pp. 997-99. “Methodological Principles in Determining that the So-Called Jehoash Inscription is Inauthentic,” in Puzzling Out the Past: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures in Honor of Bruce Zuckerman, ed. Marilyn J. Lundberg, Wayne T. Pitard, and Steven Fine (Brill, 2012), pp. 83-92. “‘Difficulty’ in the Poetry of Job,” in A Critical Engagement: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of J. Cheryl Exum, ed, David J. A. Clines and Ellen van Wolde (Sheffield Phoenix Press; 2011), pp. 186-95. “Wisdom in the Book of Job—Undermined,” in Wisdom, Her Pillars are Seven: Studies in Biblical, Post-Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom Literature, ed. Shamir Yona and Victor Avigdor Hurowitz (Beer-sheva 20; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2011), pp. 41-50 (Hebrew with English abstract). “The Rhetoric of the Ten Commandments,” in The Decalogue in Jewish and Christian Tradition, ed. Henning Graf Reventlow and Yair Hoffman (T. and T. Clark International, 2011), pp. 1-12. “Some Chapters in the Biography of Job,” in Studies in Bible and Exegesis 10, Presented to Shmuel Vargon, ed. M. Garsiel et al. (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2011), pp. 385-401 (in Hebrew). “Ugaritic Literature,” in The Literature of the Hebrew Bible: Introductions and Studies, ed. Zipora Talshir (2 vols.; Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 2011), pp. 495-522 (in Hebrew). “Lamentation and Lament in the Hebrew Bible,” in The Oxford Handbook of Elegy, ed. Karen Weisman (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 67-84. “Aramaisms in the Bible. I. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al., vol. 2 (Berlin-New York: de Gruyter; 2009), cols. 630-34. “A Pragmatic Pedagogy of Bible,” Journal of Jewish Education 75 (2009), pp. 290-303. [Revision of a paper by the same title published on-line in 2006.] “Remarks on Some Metaphors in the Book of Job,” in Studies in Bible and Exegesis, 9, Presented to Moshe Garsiel, ed. S. Vargon et al. (Bar-Ilan University Press; 2009), pp. 231-41 (in Hebrew). “The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job,” in Mishneh Todah: Studies in Deuteronomy and Its Cultural Environment in Honor of Jeffrey H. Tigay, ed. Nili S. Fox et al. (Eisenbrauns, 2009), pp. 333-62. “The Poetic Use of Akkadian in the Book of Job,” in The Avi Hurvitz Festschrift, ed. S. Fassberg and A. Maman (Mehqarim be-Lashon; Jerusalem, 2008), pp. 51-68 (in Hebrew with English abstract). “Reanalysis in Biblical and Babylonian Poetry,” in Birkat Shalom: Studies in the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism Presented to Shalom 13 M. Paul on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, ed. Chaim Cohen et al. (Eisenbrauns, 2008), vol. 1, pp. 499-510. “The Canaanite Pantheon as Reflected in the Ugaritic Texts,” in Ancient Gods: Polytheism in Eretz Israel and Neighboring Countries from the Second Millennium BCE to the Islamic Period, ed. Menahem Kister et al. (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2008), pp. 47-63 (in Hebrew). “The Book of Lamentations: Response to Destruction or Ritual of Rebuilding?” in Religious Responses to Political Crisis, Ed. Henning G. Reventlow and Yair Hoffman (T & T Clark International; 2008), pp. 52-71. “God’s Test of Job,” in Shai le-Sara Japhet: Studies in the Bible, Its Exegesis and Its Language, ed. M. Bar-Asher et al. (Mossad Bialik; 2007), pp. 263-272 ( in Hebrew). “Features of Language in the Poetry of Job,” in Das Buch Hiob und seine Interpretationen, ed. Thomas Krüger et al. (Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments, Zurich, 2007), pp. 81-96. “Sages with a Sense of Humor: The Babylonian Dialogue between a Master and His Servant and the Book of Qohelet,” in Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel, ed. R. J. Clifford (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007), pp. 55-65 [revised version of a Hebrew article from 1999]. “‘On My Skin and in My Flesh’: Personal Experience as a Source of Knowledge in the Book of Job,” in Bringing the Hidden to Light: Studies in Honor of Stephen A. Geller, ed. K. F. Kravitz and D. M. Sharon (The Jewish Theological Seminary and Eisenbrauns; 2007), pp. 63-77. “Truth or Theodicy? Speaking Truth to Power in the Book of Job,” The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 27 (2006), pp. 238-58. “A Pragmatic Pedagogy of Bible,” Initiative in Bridging Scholarship and Pedagogy in Jewish Studies, Working Paper No. 2 (Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education, Brandeis University, July 2006; on-line). “Forms and Functions of the Finite Verb in Ugaritic Narrative Verse,” in Biblical Hebrew in Its Northwest Semitic Setting, ed. S. Fassberg and A. Hurvitz (Magnes Press and Eisenbrauns; 2006), pp. 75-102. “The Extent of Job’s First Speech,” in Studies in Bible and Biblical Exegesis, 7, Presented to Menachem Cohen, ed. Shmu’el Vargon et al. (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2005), pp. 245-262 (in Hebrew with English abstract). “The Wrath at God in the Book of Lamentations,” in The Problem of Evil and Its Symbols in Jewish and Christian Tradition, ed. Henning G. Reventlow and Yair Hoffman (JSOT Supplement; London-New York: T & T Clark International/Continuum, 2004), pp. 29-42. “Jeremiah as an Inspiration to the Poet of Job,” in Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East—Essays in Honor of Herbert B. Huffmon, ed. John Kaltner and Louis Stulman (JSOT Supplement; London-New York: T & T Clark International/Continuum, 2004), pp. 98-110. “Job’s Wife—Was She Right after All?” Beth Mikra 178 (2004), pp. 19-31 (in Hebrew). “Another Case of Hiphil in Amarna Age Canaanite,” in Sefer Moshe: The Moshe Weinfeld Jubilee Volume, ed. Chaim Cohen et al. (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2004), pp. 351-60. 14 “Interpreting the Bible by Way of Its Ancient Cultural Milieu,” in Studies in Jewish Education IX: Understanding the Bible in Our Times, Implications for Education ed. Marla L. Frankel & Howard Deitcher (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2003), pp. 61-73 (in Hebrew). “The Language of Job and Its Poetic Function,” Journal of Biblical Literature 122 (2003), pp. 651-66. “Biblical Prose Narrative and Early Canaanite Narrative,” in Essays on Hebrew Literature in Honor of Avraham Holtz, ed. Zvia Ginor (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 2003), pp. 9-29 (in Hebrew). “Hermeneutics in the Biblical World: From Dream Interpretation to Textual Exegesis,” Mo‘ed (Festschrift for Joseph Roth-Rotem; Beit Berl College, 2003), pp. 65-78 (in Hebrew). “The Poem on Wisdom in Job 28 in Its Conceptual and Literary Contexts,” in Job 28: Cognition in Context, ed. Ellen van Wolde (Leiden: Brill, 2003), pp. 253-80. “Some Developments in the Study of Language and Some Implications for the Study of Ancient Languages and Cultures,” in Semitic Linguistics: The State of the Art at The Turn of the Twenty-First Century, ed. Shlomo Izre’el (= Israel Oriental Studies 20; 2002), pp. 441-79. “God’s Golem: The Creation of the Human in Genesis 2,” in Creation in Jewish and Christian Tradition, ed. Yair Hoffman & Henning G. Reventlow (Sheffield Academic Press, 2002), pp. 219-39. “The Multifaceted Exegesis of Nechama Leibowitz and Postmodern Exegesis,” Limmudim 1 (2002), pp. 21-33 (in Hebrew). “The Lament over the Destruction of City and Temple in Early Israelite Literature,” in Homage to Shmuel [Ahituv]: Studies in the World of the Bible, ed. Zipora Talshir et al. (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2001), pp. 88-97 (in Hebrew). “Presenting Genesis 1, Constructively and Deconstructively,” Prooftexts 21 (2001), pp. 1-22. “The Dietary Laws,” in Etz Hayim Torah and Commentary, ed. David Lieber (The Rabbinical Assembly, 2001), pp. 1460-64; reprinted in: Etz Hayim Study Companion, ed. J. Blumenthal and J. L. Liss ((New York: Rabbinical Assembly, 2005), pp. 247-255. “The Ugaritic Epic of Kirta in a Wisdom Perspective,” Te‘uda 16-17 (2001), pp. 1-13 (in Hebrew). “The Role of the Reader in Ugaritic Narrative,” in “A Wise and Discerning Mind”: Essays in Honor of Burke Long, ed. Robert C. Culley and Saul M. Olyan (Brown Judaic Studies, 2000), pp. 139-51. “Direct Discourse and Parallelism,” in Studies in Bible and Exegesis, 5: Presented to Uriel Simon, ed. S. Vargon et al. (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2000), pp. 33-40 (in Hebrew). “Recovering ‘The Women Who Serve at the Entrance’,” in Studies in Historical Geography and Biblical Historiography Presented to Zecharia Kallai, ed. G. Galil and M. Weinfeld (Leiden: Brill, 2000), pp. 165-73. “In Job’s Face/Facing Job,” in The Labour of Reading: Desire, Alienation, and Biblical Interpretation (Festschrift for Robert C. Culley), ed. F. C. Black et al. (SBL 15 Semeia Studies, Scholars Press, 1999), pp. 301-17. “The God of Israel and the Gods of Canaan: How Different Were They?” in Proceedings Of the Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division A: The Bible and Its World (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1999), pp. 47*-58*. “Sages with a Sense of Humor: The Babylonian Dialogue between the Master and His Servant and the Book of Qohelet,” Beth Mikra 44 (1999), pp. 97-106 (in Hebrew). “Jethro’s Wit: An Interpretation of Wordplay in Exodus 18,” in On the Way to Nineveh: Studies in Honor of George M. Landes, ed. Stephen L. Cook and Sara C. Winter (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999), pp. 155-71. “On a New Grammar of Ugaritic,” Israel Oriental Studies 18 (1998), pp. 397-420. “New Readings in the Kirta Epic,” Israel Oriental Studies 18 (1998), pp. 105-23. “Reading Strategies and the Story of Ruth,” in Women in the Hebrew Bible, ed. Alice Bach (New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 211-31. “The Retelling of the Flood Story in the Gilgamesh Epic,” in Hesed ve-Emet: Studies In Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs, ed. Jodi L. Magness and Seymour Gitin (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998), pp. 197-204. “‘An Eye for an Eye, A Tooth for a Tooth’: Peshat, Derash, and the Question of Context,” Resling: A Multi-Disciplinary Stage for Culture 5 (Summer 1998), pp. 31-34 (in Hebrew). “On the Ethics of Translation: A Response,” Semeia 76 (= Race, Class, and the Politics of Biblical Translation; 1998), pp. 127-34. “The Canaanite Literary Heritage in Ancient Hebrew Writing,” Michmanim 9 (1996), pp. 19-38 (in Hebrew). “A Forensic Understanding of the Speech from the Whirlwind,” in Texts, Temples, and Traditions: A Tribute to Menahem Haran, ed. Michael V. Fox et al. (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1996), pp. 241-58. “Autobiographies in Ancient Western Asia,” in Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Ed. Jack M. 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Sara Japhet (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1994), pp. 587-600 (in Hebrew). “A Mind to Savage Judaism: A Review Essay,” Judaism 43 (1994), pp. 100-109. “Misquotation of Scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in Frank Talmage Memorial Volume I, ed. Barry Walfish (Haifa University Press, 1993), pp. 71-83. “Interpretation: The Fourfold Method,” in New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. A. Preminger and T. Brogan (Princeton University Press, 1993; Coauthored with M. Bloomfield), pp. 619-20. 16 “Sensitivity to Language in Rashi’s Torah Commentary,” Solomon Goldman Lectures 6, ed. Mayer I. 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Review of Bedouin Culture in the Bible, Biblical Archaeology Review 46/4 (Fall 2020), pp. 27-28. Review of A Moabite Girl: Halakhah and the Process of Acceptance in Midrash Ruth Rabbah, mikrarevivim blog of Dr. Lea Mazor, June 11, 2020, 2 pp. (in Hebrew). “Speaking Truth to Power: Job Accuses God of Being Unjust,” TheTorah.com (on-line; May 2020), 8 pp. Tribute to Jim Eisenbraun, in “He Inscribed upon a Stone”: Celebrating the Work of Jim Eisenbraun (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2020), p. 105. “Finding Meaning in Incoherence: The Joseph Story Beyond Source Criticism,” TheTorah.com (on-line, January 2020), 6 pp.; Hebrew version published December 2022; reposted (in English) December 2024. “Translating Job as Befits a Great Ancient Work,” The Ancient Near East Today 7/9.1 (Sept. 2019), 5 pp. “Moses and the Fugitive Hero Pattern,” TheTorah.com (on-line, 27 December 2018). Brief Comment on the Second Cycle of Dialogues in Job, Tanakh 929, November 2017 (www.929.org.il/author/1860; in Hebrew). Devar Torah on “Balak”, Limmud On-One-Leg [Jewish Adult Learning, UK], 6 July 2017. “What Was the Book of the Wars of the Lord?” TheTorah.com (on-line, June 2017); Hebrew version published 10 July 2022. “In Memoriam Victor Avigdor Hurowitz,” Archiv für Orientforschung 53 (2015 [2016]), 505-506. “Foreword” to A Critical Theology of Genesis by Itzhak Benyamini (New York: Palgrave Macamillan, 2016), pp. vii-ix. “Prof Greenstein Sees Common Fugitive Hero Story Pattern” [Letter], Biblical Archaeology Review 42/5 (Sept./Oct. 2016), pp. 8, 10. “An Inner-Biblical Elaboration of the Decalogue,” TheTorah.com (on-line, May 2016), 5 pp. Hebrew version published May 2024. “The So-Called Jehoash Inscription,” ASOR Blog: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Today (February 2016), 3 pp. “Voices in Lamentations: Dialogues in Trauma,” TheTorah.com (on-line, July 2015), 6 pp. “Menahem Haran: Appreciation and Remembrances,” On Bible, Teaching, and Education (blog of Dr. Lea Mazor; 26 May 2015), 2 pp. (in Hebrew). “A Mysterious Transgression or a Mysterious Deity? [Devar Torah on Parashat Shemini], 22 The Torah.com (on-line; March 21, 2014), 4 pp. (Hebrew version: “The Incident of Nadav and Avihu,” TheTorah.com [on-line; April 9, 2023], 5 pp.) “Feed Your Servant as You Would Feed Yourself” [Devar Torah on Parashat Mishpatim], Soul Food: The Leket Israel Parashat HaShavua Project (on-line, January 25, 2014), 2 pp. “Is It Possible to Make Sense of a Biblical Ritual (Chok)?” [Devar Torah on Parashat Chukat], The Torah: A Historical and Contextual Approach.com (on-line; June 15, 2013), 2 pp. “The Fugitive Hero,” Ha’aretz, April 5, 2013, Culture and Literature section, p. 4 (letter response in Hebrew). “The Faith of Laughter: Laughter, Hope, and God in (Itzhak) Benyamini’s Thought,” online on the Resling Publishing website, Nov. 4, 2012, 2 pp. (in Hebrew). Reply concerning “When Job Sued God,” Biblical Archaeology Review 38/5 (Sept./Oct. 2012), p. 9. “When Job Sued God,” Biblical Archaeology Review 38/3 (May/June 2012), pp. 55-57, 60. “There is What to Celebrate and What to be Concerned About” [invited comment in Symposium “What Development in Jewish Studies over the Last Twenty Years has Most Excited You?”] in AJS [Association for Jewish Studies] Perspectives, Fall 2010 [appeared 2011], p. 56. Reply concerning “Tales from Ugarit Solve Biblical Puzzles,” Biblical Archaeology Review 37/2 (March/April 2011), pp. 75-77. “Tales from Ugarit Solve Biblical Puzzles,” Biblical Archaeology Review 36/6 (November/December 2010), pp. 48-53, 70. “Yochanan Muffs, Scholar of Bible, Law and Languages, Is Dead,” Forward, December 18, 2009 (published on-line December 9, 2009). “A Distinctly American Work: Roy Harris’ Third Symphony,” Iton 77, no. 325 (November 2007), p. 34 (in Hebrew). Response to Devar Torah, Shabbat Shalom 523 (November 2007), p. 4 (in Hebrew). “Some Methodological Principles in Determining that the So-Called Jehoash Inscription Is a Forgery,” apud Hershel Shanks, Jerusalem Forgery Conference, Special Report, Biblical Archaeological Society, 2007, Appendices, pp. 16-21. Replies concerning “Hebrew Philology Spells Fake,” Biblical Archaeology Review 29/5 (Sept.-Oct. 2003), p. 9. “The Good Air” [Devar Torah], Jerusalem Report, May 2003, p. 37. “Hebrew Philology Spells Fake,” Biblical Archaeology Review 29/3 (May-June 2003), pp. 28-30. “The Expression ḥaraṣ lašon,” Millat Ha-Parashah (National Center for the Hebrew Language), January 1, 2003 (on-line; one page; in Hebrew). “Divine Integration,” MyJewishLearning.com, August 2002 (on-line; 3 pages). “Follow the Formula,” Biblical Archaeology Review 28/1 (Jan.-Feb. 2002), pp. 12-13. “In Sorrow and in Anger” (Review of the Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation), Forward, November 30, 2001, pp. 14-15. “Something Old, Something New,” Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Journal 1/3 (Summer 1999), pp. 1, 6 (coauthored with Beverly Gribetz). “You are Not Bound to Complete the Task” [Devar Torah], Shabbat Shalom [of Netivot 23 Shalom], no. 89 (July 2, 1999), pp. 2-3 (in Hebrew). “The Spiritual Meaning of the Leper’s Purification” [Devar Torah], Daf Shevu’i [Center For Basic Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University] no. 284 (April 15, 1999), pp. 1-4. “The Plague of Darkness” [Devar Torah], Daf Shevu’i [Center for Basic Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University] no. 221 (January 25, 1998), pp. 1-2 (in Hebrew). “Remarks on the Death of Yitzhak Rabin,” Jewish Education 62/2 (Spring 1996), pp. 3-5. “Our Values: Covenant or Contract?” Masoret [Jewish Theological Seminary magazine] (Winter 1995), p. 7. “Beyond the Sovereign Self” [Devar Torah], The Jerusalem Report, Feb. 9, 1995, p. 45; Reprinted in G. Gorenberg (ed.), Seventy Facets: A Commentary on the Torah (Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1996), pp. 77-79. “Making Non-Sense of the Tenth Plague,” Masoret [Jewish Theological Seminary Magazine], Winter 1994, pp. 16-17. “It Was a Very Good Year,” Women’s League Outlook 64/3 (Spring 1994), pp. 26-27. “Yochanan Muffs: Portrait of a Colleague and Friend,” in Comparative Studies in Honor of Yochanan Muffs (Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 22; 1993), pp. 1-2 (coauthored with David Marcus). “Devar Torah on Parashat Noah,” Weekly Chronicles [Jewish Theological Seminary Student Life publication], October 13, 1993, p. 1. “The Pragmatist” [Devar Torah], The Jerusalem Report, December 3, 1992, p. 41. Review of Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach, in The Jerusalem Report, October 22, 1992, pp. 47-48. Review of The World of Biblical Literature, in Forward, May 15, 1992, p. 10. “In Memory of H. L.Ginsberg,” Jewish Studies Network 5/2 (Fall 1991), pp. 7-8; Reprinted in Hebrew in ‘et la‘asot [Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies Publication], Summer 1990, pp. 9-12; and in English and Hebrew in Ha-Do’ar 71/12 (April 17, 1992), pp. 20-22. “In Memory of Prof. Baruch M. Bokser,” Journal of the [Jewish Theological Seminary] Alumni Association, June 1991, p. 13. “Devar Torah on Parashat Vayikra,” Weekly Chronicles [Jewish Theological Seminary Student Life publication], March 11, 1991, p. 1. “Professor Moshe Held: Our Teacher,” in Semitic Studies in Memory of Moshe Held (Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 19; 1989; coauthored with David Marcus), pp. 1-2. “Get Happy: Musings on Sukkot,” Ansche Chesed [synagogue bulletin], October 1989, pp. 3, 5. “Purim and the Esther Scroll, or Exile Story,” Weekly Chronicles [Jewish Theological Seminary Student Life publication], March 9, 1989, p. 3. “Devar Torah on Parashat Mikketz,” Long Island Jewish World, December 9, 1988, p. 5. “To You Do I Call: A Critique of Impersonal Prayer,” The Reconstructionist, June 1988, pp. 13-16. Review of Congregation, in American Jewish Congress Monthly 55/4 (May-June 1988), pp. 18-19. Essays and Overviews, in Moses the Leader [Bible curriculum], Milwaukee Association For Jewish Education, Spring 1987 (about 20 pages). “The Value of a Good Response,” Response 52 (Fall 1987), pp. 41-42. 24 “Hanna-Barbera De-Judaizes the Bible,” in American Jewish Congress Monthly, February 1987, pp. 30-31. “How to Read Contradictions in Biblical Narrative,” in Jewish Theological Seminary Progress, June 1986, p. 3. “Devar Torah on Parashat Ki Tavo,” Long Island Jewish World, Sept. 19, 1986 (one page). “Torah Calls for Tolerance, Not Territory,” Ometz Shaliach [Center for Conservative Judaism on Campus publication], 3 (1986), p. 3. “Introducing Judaism: A Communal Approach,” The Reconstructionist, June 1986, pp. 10-14. “Devar Torah on Parashat Naso,” Long Island Jewish World, May 1985 (one page). Interview on King David in People [magazine], April 8, 1985, pp. 67-73. “Devar Torah on Parashat Vayikra,” Long Island Jewish World, March 22, 1985 (one Page). “Devar Torah on Parashat Va’eira,” Long Island Jewish World, January 18, 1985 (one Page). “Jewish Terror—How Did We Get It?: An Interview with Uriel Simon,” Midstream, December 1984, pp. 31-34. “Devar Torah: Unity within Diversity will Bring Sukkah of Peace,” Long Island Jewish World, October 12, 1984 (one page). “Devar Torah on Parashat Masa’ei,” Long Island Jewish World, July 27, 1984 (one Page). “Spiritual Values in Biblical Law,” [Jewish Theological] Seminary Bulletin 28/3 (April 1984), pp. 5-6. “Devar Torah: Are We a Special People?” Long Island Jewish World, April 20, 1984 (one page). “Devar Torah on Parashat Bo,” Long Island Jewish World, January 6, 1984 (one page). Marginal comments to The Jewish Holidays by Michael Strassfeld (New York: Harper & Row, 1984) (about 20 pages). “Understanding the Sinai Revelation” (Melton Research Center for Jewish Education; New York, 1984; 37 pages); also printed in Exodus: A Teacher’s Guide by Ruth Zielenziger (Melton Research Center, 1984; second ed. 1994), pp. 275-317. “The Maccabees: Are They Heroes in the Biblical Sense?” B’nai Brith Jewish Monthly, December 1983, pp. 8-11. “Devar Torah on Parashat Bereishit,” Long Island Jewish Monthly, September 30, 1983 (one page). “The Bible—Now a Jewish Translation,” Jewish Press Features [Jewish Student Press Service], September 1983 (3 pages). “What’s a Miracle?” article syndicated in several American Jewish newspapers, April 7, 1982 (one page). “Against Interpreting the Bible,” Ikka D’Amrei [Jewish Theological Seminary student Journal] 4 (1982), pp. 27-39. “Experiencing Shavuot with Your Havurah,” Havurah 1 (1981), pp. 1-2; correction: Havurah 2 (1981), p. 16. “M. M. Bravmann: A Sketch,” in Near Eastern Studies in Memory of M. M. Bravmann (Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 11; 1981), pp. 1-2. 25 “An Approach to Miracles in the Bible,” in Issues and Perspectives in Jewish Education (New York: Jewish Educators Assembly, 1980), pp. 43-47. Scores of mostly brief articles in the Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing, 1971). Non-Academic Editing Co-editor, Response magazine, 1983-85. Founding Co-Editor, Devar Torah syndicated newspaper column, 1983-85. Public Media Presentations Podcasts “Job Never Repented.” The Dig-in Podcast with (Pastor) Johnny Ova. August 2026. “Genesis 16: Hagar and the Pattern behind Biblical Heroes.” The Bible Bar (with Prof. Joshua Berman; Bar-Ilan University), June 2026. “The Scroll of Lamentations—Its Language and Style.” Hasket Podcast (with Yir’am Netanyahu), July 2025 (in Hebrew). “Who Really Sold Joseph?” NT Podcast (with Nemanja Jurišič), July 2025. “Shemot” [on the Moses story], Jewish Quest 25/13, with Simon Eder (January 2025). “Noach” [on the Tower of Babel story]. Between the Lines 101, with Simon Eder (October 2023). “Shemini” [on the Nadav and Avihu incident], Between the Lines 84, with Simon Eder (April 2023). “Learning as a Lifelong Experience” [Devar Torah on Abraham], Jewish Theological Seminary (November 2022). “What if Job is a Parody?” Dividing Scriptures (The Whole Church Podcast), with Joshua Noel and Pastor Will Rose, Episode 148 (September 2022). “A New Interpretation of the Book of Job,” Bar-Da’at, Bar-Ilan University (December 2020; in English and in Hebrew). “Job: A New Translation,” Christian Humanist Profiles with Nathan Gilmour (January 2020). “The Right Job for the Task,” Conversations on the Edge with Rami Shapiro (January 2020). “Job: A New Translation,” Jewish Theological Seminary Library Book Talk (November 2019), “Speaking Truth to Power—A New Translation of Job,” with Alex Sorin (Foreigncy; October 2019). YouTube Lectures “The Scroll of Lamentations—Its Language and Style”. Kololosha (interview with Yir’am Netanyahu). July 2025 (in Hebrew). “Job 29-31 (Job’s Final Discourse),” Two Testaments (academic interview; 2022). 26 “Esther—Putting on the Style,” The Megillah Project / Tanakh 929 (2021). “Fugitive Hero Narratives in the Bible and the Ancient Near East,” a ten-part lecture series, Beit AviChai, Jerusalem (December 2020-January 2021; in Hebrew). “The Akedah Story in Its Biblical Context,” The Akedah Project / Tanakh 929 (2020). “Interview with Professor Ed Greenstein about His New Translation of the Book of Job (Netanel Barak, 2020). “Job Does Not Recant: A New Translation of the Book of Job” (The Schocken Institute, Jerusalem, February 2020; Hebrew). “Translating the Book of Job to Make a Difference” (Jewish Theological Seminary Library, November 2019). “New Perspectives on the Book of Job” (Jewish National Library, 2019; Hebrew). “Feminist Interpretation of the Bible—Peshat or Derash?” (MichaelHagitAvioz, 2019; Hebrew). “Enumeration of the Divine Attributes as Theological Teaching and Its Parodic Use in the Discourses of Job” (Bar Ilan University Department of Jewish Thought, 2019; Hebrew). “On Dream Interpretation in the Ancient Near East and the Bible” (re-uploaded: mikranet, 2019; Hebrew). “The Enumeration of Divine Attributes and their Parody in the Discourses of Job” (Eitan Wetzler, 2018; Hebrew). “The Story of David, Bathsheba, and Uriah—New Perspectives” (barilanuniversity, 2016; Hebrew). “Metaphor of Illness and Health in the Book of Job” (barilanuniversity, 2016; Hebrew). “The Postmodern Study of the Bible and Jewish Hermeneutics” (World Congress of Jewish Studies, 2015). “From Canaanite Epic to Biblical Narrative” (barilanuniversity, 2014). “A Fugitive Aramean Was My Father” (barilanuniversity, 2014). “The Gilgamesh Epic and Its Interpretations” (barilanuniversity, 2013; 100K views). “The Theory of Metaphor and Metaphor in the Bible” (barilanuniversity, 2013). “What Is The Book of Job Actually About?” (barilanuniversity, 2012; Hebrew). “The Tower of Babel Story in Postmodern Interpretation” (Van Leer Institute, 2011; Hebrew). Post-doctoral Students Itzhak Benyamini (Bar-Ilan University, 2012-2013). Alison Lo (by request of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2003-2004). Robert D. Holmstedt (Fulbright Fellow, Jerusalem, 2000-2001). Michael Seleznev (Yad Ha-Nadiv Fellow, Jerusalem, 1999-2000). Doctoral Dissertations Directed (and completed) Asaf Steinberger: The Term ‘Good’ in the Hebrew Bible: Context, Evaluation, and Cognition (codirected; Bar-Ilan University, 2025; in Hebrew). Evelyn Elizabeth Damalie: The Form and Significance of Last Words in Biblical Literature (Bar-Ilan University, 2022). 27 Hana Cohen Yadan: Spatial Conceptualization and the Imagery of Space in Biblical Narrative (Bar-Ilan University; in Hebrew; 2020). Chaviva Speter: A Multidimensional Perspective on the Emotion of Fear in the Narratives of Saul and David (codirected; Haifa University; in Hebrew; 2020). Maya Shmu’eli: Discourse Concerning the Return to Zion in Biblical Literature: A Comparative Study of Ruth, Psalms, the Second Isaiah and Ezra-Nehemiah (Bar-Ilan University; in Hebrew; 2020). Ettie Shilo Ben-Yashar: Conflict Narratives in the Bible Analyzed by Means of the Theory of Constraints: A Study of the Book of Ruth (Bar-Ilan University; in Hebrew; 2020). Adi Marili: Body, Language and Gender in the Bible: Semantic Examinations of Gender in the Hebrew Bible: ‘Eye’, ‘Hand’ and ‘Mouth’ (Bar-Ilan University; in Hebrew; 2017). Dominick Hernandez: “Will the Lamp of the Wicked Wane?”: The Prosperity of the Wicked as a Theme in Job and the Ancient Near East (Bar-Ilan University; 2016). Howard Markose: Metaphors in the Book of Numbers: An Analysis (Bar-Ilan University; 2015). ShinAe Kim: Continuity and Discontinuity between Biblical and Post-biblical Wisdom Texts (codirected; Bar-Ilan University; 2015). Yoshiahu Fargeon: God’s Involvement in Lying and Deception in the Biblical Narrative (Bar-Ilan University; in Hebrew; 2014). Udi Shevach: The Ideological Message of the Song of Songs (Bar Ilan University; in Hebrew; 2013). Jaeyoung Jeon: A Redactional-Critical Study of the Call of Moses (Exodus 3-4) and the Exodus Story (Exodus 5-13) (Tel Aviv University; 2012). Noga Ayali-Darshan: The Diffusion of the Story of Combat between the Storm-god and The Sea in the Ancient Near East: Sources, Traditions, and History (codirected; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; in Hebrew; 2012). Orit Avnery: The Threefold Cord: Interrelations between the Books of Samuel, Ruth and Esther (Bar-Ilan University; in Hebrew, 2011). Shirly Natan Yulzary: Narration and Characterization in the Epic of Aqhat from Ugarit (Tel Aviv University; in Hebrew; 2011). Adiel Cohen: Creation Traditions in Psalms, Proverbs and Job in the Light of Creation Models from the Ancient Near East and from Genesis (Bar-Ilan University; in Hebrew; 2011). Micha Roi: The Wayfarer’s Prayer in the Bible and the Literary Expressions of the Genre of “Departure for a Journey” Stories (Tel Aviv University; in Hebrew; 2010). Zvi Shimon: Contrast in Biblical Narrative: The Literary Device and the Drama of Choice (Bar-Ilan University; in Hebrew; 2009). Amira Baider: Stories of Confrontation between Priests and Prophets: A Literary and Ideological Study (Tel Aviv University; in Hebrew; 2009). Osnat Faust: Law in Narrative Garb (codirected; Tel Aviv University; in Hebrew; 2008). Bat-sheva Brosh: Complex Royal Characters in the Book of Kings (Tel Aviv University; in Hebrew; 2007). Assnat Bartor: Reading Law as Narrative—A Study in the Casuistic Laws of the 28 Pentateuch (codirected; Tel Aviv University; in Hebrew; 2006). Amnon Shapira: Confrontations between the People and the Leadership in Biblical Narrative (codirected; Tel Aviv University; in Hebrew; 2006). Joshua Berman: The Battle Report as Narrative Analogy in Biblical Literature (codirected; Bar-Ilan University, 2005). Dmitri Slivniak: The Opposing Helper—Hierarchical Oppositions, Dangerous Assistants and Ambivalence in the Pentatuech (Tel Aviv University; in Hebrew; 2004). Yitzhak Peleg: “Going Up and Going Down”: The Structure and Meaning of Jacob’s Dream (Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies; in Hebrew, 2000). Moshe Haggai: Dialogue in the Book of Ruth: Structure and Meaning (Jewish Theological Seminary; in Hebrew, 2000). Arie Cohen: The Story of David and the Gibeonites (codirected; Jewish Theological Seminary; in Hebrew, 1997). Robert A. Harris: The Literary Hermeneutics of Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency (Jewish Theological Seminary; 1997). Vesta Kowalksi: Rock of Ages: A Study of the Metaphor ṣur as Related to God (Jewish Theological Seminary; 1997). Emanuel Ben-Naeh: The Terms zar and nokri in the Bible (Jewish Theological Seminary; in Hebrew, 1993). Alice Bach: A Literary-Feminist Approach to the Story of Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife (Union Theological Seminary, 1991). Ora Horn Prouser: The Phenomenology of the Lie in Biblical Narrative (Jewish Theological Seminary; 1991). Eliezra Herzog: Multiple Questions in the Latter Prophets (codirected; Jewish Theological Seminary; 1991). Deborah Bedor: A Poly-artistic Approach to the Samson Narrative (Jewish Theological Seminary, 1989). Amnon Shapira: Jacob and Esau—A Polyvalent Reading (codirected; Jewish Theological Seminary; in Hebrew, 1988). Yaakov Thompson: The Commentary of Rabbi Samuel ben Meir to the Song of Songs (Jewish Theological Seminary; 1988). Israel Haggay: Syntactic Deletion in the Bible Commentaries of Abraham Ibn Ezra and Rabbi David Qimhi (codirected; Jewish Theological Seminary; in Hebrew, 1983). M.A. Theses Directed (11 completed, Tel Aviv University; 8 completed, Bar-Ilan University). Participation in International Academic Conferences (since 2001) Lecture (invited): “Characterizing the Poetry of Job,” International Conference “Studies in Poetics and Historiography of the Bible,” Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 1-2 January 2001. 29 Lecture (invited): “The Relation between Law and Narrative in the Pentateuch,” the international conference “Law and Literature: Mutual Negotiations,” Tel Aviv University, 3-5 June 2001. Lecture (invited): “A Pragmatic Approach to Biblical Interpretation”; chaired a session on Interpretations of the Book of Job, the Thirteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 12-17 August 2001. Lecture (invited): “The Wrath at God in the Book of Lamentations,” the symposium “Evil and Its Symbols in Jewish and Christian Tradition,” the University of Bochum, Germany, 15-17 October 2001. Lecture (invited): “To What Extent Can a Literary Study in which One Is Aware of the Connectedness of Language and Ancient Culture Contribute to an Understanding of Job 28?” the Colloquium “The Book of Job: Suffering and Cognition in Context,” The Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam, 18-19 April 2002. Lecture (invited): “New Evidence of Canaanite Hif‘il,” the International Conference on Biblical Hebrew in Its Northwest Semitic Setting, the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 11-12 June 2002. Lecture: “Who Has Seen the Wind/Spirit? The Identity of the Speaker in Job 4:12-21,” the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Toronto, 22-25 November 2002. Lecture (invited): “Wisdom in the Book of Job—A Question,” the international conference “Wisdom—Its Pillars are Seven: Wisdom Literature in Ancient Israel and in Neighboring Lands,” Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, 12 January 2003 (in Hebrew). Lecture (invited): “Some Remarks on Metaphors in the Poetry of Job,” the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature; also lectured on the so-called Jehoash Inscription for the Biblical Archaeological Society, Atlanta, 22-25 November 2003. Lecture (invited): “H. L. Ginsberg and the Book of Job,” the conference “Remembering H. L. Ginsberg,” the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, 28 April 2004. Keynote Address (invited): “Reading for Meaning: A Pragmatic Pedagogy of Bible”; Response on the plenary session “Goals for the Teaching of Bible,” the conference “Teaching Bible: Bridging Scholarship and Pedagogy,” Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., 30-31 January 2005. Lecture (invited): “The Book of Lamentations: Response to Destruction or Ritual of Rebuilding?”; Greetings and Closing remarks, international symposium at Tel Aviv University, 21-23 March 2005. 30 Chaired a plenary session on “Recent Trends in Biblical Studies,” the Fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 31 July-4 August 2005 (Hebrew and English). Lecture (invited): “Features of Language in the Poetry of Job,” symposium on “Das Buch Hiob und seine Interpretationen,” sponsored by the Swiss Academy of Sciences, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, 14-19 August 2005. Lecture (invited): “Writing a Commentary on the Book of Job,” annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, 19-22 November 2005. Lecture (invited): “From Oral Epic to Writerly Verse and Some of the Stages in Between,” annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Washington, D.C., November 18, 2006. Lecture (invited): “What I Learn from the CAD and What the CAD Can Learn from Me,” annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2007. Lecture: “The Poetic Use of Akkadian in the Book of Job,” annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 2008. Lecture (invited): “Remarks on How To Read the Bible by James L. Kugel,” annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 2008. Lecture: “Argument from Tradition and Argument from Experience in the Book of Job”—Conference on “The Bible and Philosophy: Rethinking the Fundamentals” at the Shalem Center, Jerusalem, October 2009. Lecture (invited): “Remarks on David Clines’ Commentary on Job and the State of Job Philology Today,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 2009. Lecture (invited): “Wisdom Undermined: A New Look at the Book of Job”— International conference on the Bible and Literature, Bar Ilan University, November 2009. Lecture (invited): “Signs of Poetry Past: Literariness on Pre-Biblical Hebrew Literature”—Conference on “The Biblical Literary”—Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 2010. Lecture (invited): “Remarks on Ellen van Wolde’s Reframing Biblical Studies”—Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, November 2010. Lecture: “An Akkadian Etymology and a Different Meaning for Hebrew bāgad,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 20, 2011. 31 Lecture: “Wisdom in Ugaritic,” annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 21, 2011. Lecture (invited): The Book of Job and Mesopotamian Literature: How Many Degrees of Separation,” annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, November 2012. Chaired a session on Hebrew Linguistics, the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, November 2012. Lecture (invited): “The Postmodern Study of the Bible and Jewish Hermeneutics,” World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 2013. Lecture (invited): “Philological Principles in Practice: The Case of Job 12,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore, November 2013. Lecture (invited): “Finding One’s Way in Proverbs 30:18-19), Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore, November 2013. Lecture (invited): “‘A Fugitive Aramean Was My Father’: The Stories of Jacob-Israel and the Fugitive Hero Pattern,” international conference on literary approaches to the Book of Genesis, Bar-Ilan University, June 2014. Lecture (invited): “Remarks on The Senses of Scripture by Yael Avrahami,” annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature,” San Diego, November 2014. Lecture (invited): “Metaphors of Illness and Wellness in Job,” annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2014. Chaired a session at the international conference on Prophecy, Bar-Ilan University, June 2015. Response (invited) on “The Tiberias Project”, annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, November 2015. Discussion (invited) on The Formation of the Pentateuch (large new edited volume), annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, Texas, November 2016. Lecture (invited): “Proverbs and Popular Sayings, Real or Invented, in the Book of Job,” University of Leipzig, November-December 2016. Discussion (invited) on Biblical Hebrew Poetry, international conference on Wisdom and Poetry in the Bible, Bar-Ilan University, May 2017. 32 Lecture: “Pre-Biblical Hebrew Poetry,” World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 2017. Lecture: “The Heart as an Organ of Speech in Biblical Hebrew,” annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November 2017. Lecture (invited): “An Attempt to Reconstruct Early Hebrew Epic,” conference on new directions in the study of biblical mythology, Tel Aviv University, January 2018 (in Hebrew). Lecture (invited): “The Language of the Book of Job: Its Diverse Features and New Examples,” conference on the language and grammar of Biblical Hebrew, the Academy for the Hebrew Language, Jerusalem, January 2018 (in Hebrew). Lecture: “’If the Sun Shone on Him’ (Exodus 22:2): A Different Approach,” international meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Helsinki, August 2018. Lecture (invited): “The Enumeration of Divine Attributes and their Parody in the Discourses of Job,” international meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Helsinki, August 2018. Lecture (invited): “Exile as the Staging Ground for a Comeback: The Fugitive Hero in the Hebrew Bible,” conference on Migration and the Bible, Princeton University, March 2019. Lecture (invited): “The Story of the Story as the Focus of Engagement,” Word and Wisdom Conference, University of Notre Dame, April 2019. Lecture (invited): “Feminist Biblical Interpretation—Peshat or Derash?”, international conference on Biblical studies and exegesis in honor of Prof. Uriel Simon, Bar-Ilan University, June 2019. Lecture (invited): Remarks on Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on Its Own Terms, annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2019. Lecture (invited): “Overcoming Assumptions in Reading Lamentations 1,” annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2019. Lecture (invited): “Metaphor Chains in the Dialogues of Job,” annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Virtual, December 2020 (based on a paper written with Nehamit Peri). Workshop (invited) on “Ancient Near Eastern Literature in a Comparative Perspective: Methodological Issues,” annual meeting of the Israel Association for Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Virtual, January 2021 (co-led with Nili Samet; in Hebrew). 33 Response (invited): Remarks on Nili Samet’s paper “The Language of Qohelet: ExtraLinguistic Considerations,” winner of the David Noel Freedman Award, Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, San Antonio, November 2021 (pre-recorded). Response (invited): Response in panel discussion of my Job: A New Translation, Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, San Antonio, November 2021 (by Zoom). Lecture (invited): “My hand I place over my mouth”: Interpreting Gestures in the Poetry of Job,” International Colloquium on The Literal Sense, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 14-16 June 2022. Lecture (invited): “He Trusted in YHWH, and He Reckoned it tzedakah to/for Him” (Genesis 15:6): A Survey of Traditional Jewish Interpretation,” International Colloquium on Divine and Human Righteousness in the Bible, University of Notre Dame at Tantur, Jerusalem, 3-6 July, 2022. Lecture: “Sans érasure: A Counterintuitive Scribal Practice,” World Congress of Jewish Studies, 11 August 2022. Lecture: “Out of the Sweet Came Good: A Study in Semitic Etymology,” Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, Denver, 22 November 2022. Lecture (invited): “Remarks on an Old Babylonian Dialogue between a Father and a Son,” international conference “Reading Mesopotamian Literature: Ancient and Modern Perspectives,” The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and The Israel Society for Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and The Samuel Noah Kramer Institute for Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University, 27 March 2023. Lecture: “Another Look at the Structure of the Book of Job.” Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, Amsterdam, 30 July 2024. Lecture: “Hagar and the Fugitive Hero Narrative Pattern.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego, 24 November 2024. Lecture (invited): “Fatalism in the Ancient Near East, in Qohelet, and Even in Job.” International conference: Wisdom Beyond Boundaries: New Directions in the Study of Ancient Wisdom. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 30-31 March 2025. Lecture (invited): “The Siege of Jerusalem as It Is Reflected in the Book of Lamentations” (Hebrew). International conference: War and Peace in the Hebrew Bible. Bar-Ilan University, 29-28 May 2025. Lecture (invited): “How Are We Meant to Understand the Book of Ruth?” International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament annual meeting, Berlin, 14 August 2025. 34 Lecture (invited): “Job and the Proverbial Sage.” International conference on the Intertextuality of Job: Intersecting Voices in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond. University of Vienna, 17 September 2025. Lecture: “Jeroboam as a Fugitive Hero.” Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, Boston, 23 November 2025. Lecture (invited): “Wisdom in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions,” International Conference “Phoenician Identity in the Making,” Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 3 February 2026. Lecture: “The Ancient Near Eastern Fugitive Hero and the Homeric Nostos: Why Are They Not the Same?” “Bringing Ancient Greek and Hebrew Literature into Conversation: An International Conference,” Maaleh Hachamishah, Israel, 6 July 2026. Lecture (invited): “Epic in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Iron Age in the Levant,” Conference on “Resilience of the Word: Literary Traditions that Survived the Bronze Age Collapse,” University of Kiel (Germany),15-17 July 2026.