Publications

  • “Sifre Deuteronomy 26 (ad Deut. 3:23):  How Conscious the Composition?” Hebrew Union College Annual 54 (1983): 245-301.
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  • Enosh and His Generation: Pre-Israelite Hero and History in Post-Biblical Interpretation. Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series, no. 30. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1984.
  • Review: Jacob Neusner, ed. The Study of Ancient Judaism. In Religious Studies Review 10 (1984): 79.
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  • Review: Alan Peck, The Priestly Gift of Mishnah. In Religious Studies Review 10 (1984): 188-89.
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  • “Targum Jonathan to the Prophets” (Review Essay: Leivy Smolar and Moses Aberbach, Studies in Targum Jonathan to the Prophets, and Pinkhos Churgin, Targum Jonathan to the Prophets). Jewish Quarterly Review 75 (1985): 392-401.
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  • “Ascetical Aspects of Ancient Judaism.” In Jewish Spirituality: From the Bible Through the Middle Ages, ed. Arthur Green, pp. 253-88. Vol. 13 of World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest. New York: Crossroad Press, 1986. Corrected paperback ed., 1988.
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  • “Moses at Meribah: Speech, Scepter, and Sanctification.” Orim: A Jewish Journal at Yale 2.1 (Autumn, l986): 43-67.
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  • “Enoch.” The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. M. Eliade et al., vol. 5, pp. 116-118. New York, 1987. Reissued with updated bibliography in The Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition, ed. Lindsay Jones, vol. 4, pp. 2802-2804. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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  • “Interpreting Midrash 1: Midrash and the History of Judaism.” Prooftexts 7.2 (May, 1987): 179-94.
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  • “Interpreting Midrash 2: Midrash and its Literary Contexts.” Prooftexts 7.3 (Sept., 1987): 284-300 (with corrigenda in 8.1 [Jan., 1988]: 159-60).
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  • Review: Jacob Neusner, What is Midrash? The Journal of Religion 69 (1989): 439-41.
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  • “The Early Rabbinic Sage.” In The Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East, ed. John G. Gammie and Leo G. Perdue, pp. 417-436. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1990.
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  • “The Nazirite in Ancient Judaism (Selected Texts).” In Vincent L. Wimbush, ed., Ascetic Behavior in Greco-Roman Antiquity: A Source Book, pp. 213-223. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1990.
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  • From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy. Jewish Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion Series. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.
  • “Palestinian Judaism.” Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. David Noel Friedman, vol. 3, pp. 1054-1061. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1992.
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  • “Disclosure and Deception.” Review essay on Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception.The Yale Review 80.3 (July 1992): 170-178.
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  • Review: Gary G. Porton, Goyim: Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta. In Religious Studies Review 18.2 (April 1992): 155.
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  • “Rabbinic Views on the Practice of Targum, and Multilingualism in the Jewish Galilee of the Third-Sixth Centuries.” In The Galilee in Late Antiquity, ed. Lee I. Levine, pp. 253-286. New York and Jerusalem: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1992.
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  • “Interpretive Authority in the Studying Community at Qumran.” Journal of Jewish Studies 44.1 (Spring 1993): 46-69. [=Legal Fictions, 37-67]
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  • “The Turn To Commentary in Classical Judaism: The Case of Sifre Deuteronomy.” In The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Post-Critical Scriptural Interpretation, ed. Peter Ochs, pp. 142-171. New York: Paulist Press, 1993.
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  • “Navigating the Anomalous: Non-Jews at the Intersection of Early Rabbinic Law and
    Narrative.” In The Other in Jewish Thought and History:Constructions of Jewish Culture and Identity, ed. Laurence J. Silberstein and Robert L. Cohn, pp. 145-165. New York: New York University Press, 1994. [=Legal Fictions, 345-363]
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  • “Response to Herbert Basser.” Jewish Quarterly Review 84.2-3 (October 1993-January 1994): 237-247.
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  • Review: Jack N. Lightstone, The Rhetoric of the Babyloinian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context. Religious Studies Review 21.4 (October 1995): 341.
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  • Review: David Kraemer, Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature. Critical Review of Books in Religion 9 (1996): 349-352.
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  • “Looking for Legal Midrash at Qumran.” In Biblical Perspectives: Early Use and Interpretation of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Proceedings of the First International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 12-14 May, 1996, ed. Michael E. Stone and Esther G. Chazon, pp. 59-79. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 28. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998. [=Legal Fictions, 145-167]                                                                                                                          [click here for pdf file]
  • “Scripture, Targum, and Talmud as Instruction: A Complex Textual Story from the Sifra.” In Hesed ve-Emet: Studies in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs, ed. Jodi Magness and Seymour Gitin, pp. 109-122. Brown Judaic Studies 320. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998.
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  • “Enosh and His Generation Revisited.” For Biblical Figures Outside the Bible, ed. Michael E. Stone and Theodore A. Bergren, pp. 59-86. Harrisburg, Pennsuylvania: Trinity Press International, 1998.
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  • “Bekenntnis: Im Judentum, Antike.” In Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4th edition, vol. 1, cols. 1267-68. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1998.
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  • “‘Comparative Midrash’ Revisited: The Case of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Midrash.” In Agendas for the Study of Midrash in the Twenty-first Century, ed. Marc Lee Raphael,  pp. 4-17. Williamsburg, VA: Department of Religion, The College of William and Mary, 1999.
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  • “The Teaching and Study of Tannaitic Midrash According to Judah Goldin.” In Judah Goldin and the Study of Rabbinics: Proceedings of a Symposium in Memory of Professor Judah Goldin (1914-1998), pp. 6-11. Philadelphia: The Jewish Studies Program, The University of Pennsylvania, 1999.
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  • “Shifting from Priestly to Non-Priestly Legal Authority: A Comparison of the Damascus Document and the Midrash Sifra.” Dead Sea Discoveries 6 (1999): 109-125. [=Legal Fictions, 193-210]
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  • “Literary Composition and Oral Performance in Early Midrashim.” Oral Tradition 14 (1999): 33-51. [=Legal Fictions, 365-379]
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  • “Midrashim.” Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman and James C. VanderKam, vol. 1, pp. 549-552. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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  • “Hagu, Book of.” Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman and James C. VandeKam, vol. 1, p. 327. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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  • “To Whom It May Concern: 4QMMT and Its Addressee(s).” Revue de Qumran 76 (19.4) (2000): 507-526. [=Legal Fictions, 69-91]
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  • “‘The Kisses of His Mouth’: Intimacy and Intermediacy as Performative Aspects of a Midrash Commentary.” In Textual Reasonings: Jewish Philosophophy and Text Study at the End of the Twentieth Century, ed. Peter Ochs and Nancy Levene, pp. 52-56. London: SCM Press, 2002.
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  • “Priests, Kings, and Patriarchs: Yerushalmi Sanhedrin in its Exegetical and Cultural Settings.” In The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture, ed. Peter Schäfer, vol 3, pp. 315-333. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 93. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002. [=Legal Fictions, 323-344]
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  • “‘The Torah of the King’ (Deut. 17:14-20) in the Temple Scroll and Early Rabbinic Law.” In The Dead Sea Scrolls As Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity: Papers from an International Conference at St. Andrews in 2001, ed. James R. Davila, pp. 25-60. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 46. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003. [=Legal Fictions, 285-319]
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  • “Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Miqsat Ma‘ase Ha-Torah (4QMMT): The Case of the Blessings and Curses.” Dead Sea Discoveries 10 (2003): 150-161. [=Legal Fictions, 93-124]
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  • Review: Martin S. Jaffee, Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism, 200 BCE – 400. Religious Studies Review 29 (2003): 307.
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  • “Moses and the Commandments: Can Hermeneutics, History, and Rhetoric Be Disentangled?” In The Idea of Biblical Interpretation, ed. Hindy Najman and Judith H. Newman, pp. 399-422. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 83. Leiden: Brill, 2004. [=Legal Fictions, 477-499]
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  • Review: Martin S. Jaffee, Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in PalestinianJudaism, 200 BCE – 400. For The Journal of Religion 84.1 (January 2004): 145-146.
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  • “Deuteronomy in Sifre to Deuteronomy.” In Encyclopaedia of Midrash: Biblical Interpretation in Formative Judaism, ed. Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck, vol. I, pp. 54-59. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
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  • “Nomos and Narrative Before Nomos and Narrative.” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 17 (2005): 81-96. [=Legal Fictions, 17-34]
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  • “Rewritten Bible and Rabbinic Midrash As Commentary.” In Current Trends in the Study of Midrash. Ed. Carol Bakhos, pp. 59-78. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 106. Leiden: Brill, 2006. [=Legal Fictions, 381-398]
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  • “Deuteronomy and Polity in the Early History of Jewish Interpretation.” Cardozo Law Review 28.1 (October 2006):245-258 (as part of “Symposium:Text, Tradition, and Reason in Comparative Perspective,” with an Introduction by Adam Seligman and Suzanne Last Stone). [=Legal Fictions, 211-225]
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  • “Looking for Narrative Midrash at Qumran.” In Rabbinic Perspectives: Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 7-9 January, 2003, ed. Steven D. Fraade, Aharon Shemesh, and Ruth A. Clements, pp. 43-66. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 62. Leiden: Brill, 2006. [=Legal Fictions, 169-192]
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  • Rabbinic Perspectives: Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 7-9 January, 2003, ed. Steven D. Fraade, Aharon Shemesh, and Ruth A. Clements. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 62. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
  • “Locating Targum in the Textual Polysystem of Rabbinic Pedagogy.” In Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studues 39 (2006): 69-91.
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  • ‘‘מבט חדש על ה’מדרש ההשוואתי’: מגילות ים המלח ומדרשי חז”ל’‘(“‘Comparative Midrash’ Revisited: The Case of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Midrash”). In Higayon L’Yonah: New Aspects in the Study of Midrash, Aggadah, and Piyut in Honor of Professor Yona Fraenkel, ed. Joshua levinson, Jacob Elbaum, and Galit Hasan-Rokem, pp. 261-284. Jerusalem: Magnes, 2006.
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  • “Ancient Jewish Law and Narrative in Comparative Perspective: The Damascus Document and the Mishnah.” Diné Israel: Studies in Halakhah and Jewish Law 24 (2007): 65*-99*. [=Legal Fictions, 227-254]
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  • “Rabbinic Polysemy and Pluralism Revisied: Between Praxis and Thematization.” AJS Review 31.1 (April, 2007): 1-40. [=Legal Fictions, 427-475]
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  • “Rabbinic Midrash and Ancient Jewish Biblical Interpretation.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature, ed. Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert and Martin S. Jaffee, pp. 99-120. Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. [=Legal Fictions, 399-426]
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  • “Confession. Judaism. Early Judaism.” Religion Past and Present: Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion, ed Hans Dieter Betz et al., vol. 3, pp. 386-387. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
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  • “Law, History, and Narrative in the Damascus Document.” Meghillot 5-6 (Festschrift for Devorah Dimant) (2008): *35-*55.
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  • “Hearing and Seeing at Sinai: Interpretive Trajectories.” In The Significance of Sinai: Traditions about Sinai and Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity, ed. George J. Brooke, Hindy Najman, and Loren T. Stuckenbruck, 247-268. Themes in Biblical Narrative, 12. Leiden: Brill, 2008. [=Legal Fictions, 501-522]
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  • “Introduction to Symposium: ‘What is (the) Mishnah?’” AJS Review 32.2 (November, 2008): 221-223.
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  • “The Temple as a Marker of Jewish Identity Before and After 70 CE: The Role of the Holy Vessels in Rabbinic Memory and Imagination.” In Jewish Identities in Antiquity: Studies in Memory of Menahem Stern, ed. Lee I. Levine and Daniel R. Schwartz, 237-65. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. [=Legal Fictions, 523-554]
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  • “Qumran Yahad and Rabbinic Havurah: A Comparison Revisited.” Dead Sea Discoveries 16 (2009):433-453. [=Legal Fictions, 125-143]
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  • “Jacob Neusner as Reader of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Halakhic Midrashism.” Henoch 31.2 (2009): 259-71.
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  • “Theory, Practice, and Polemic in Ancient Jewish Calendars.” Diné Israel: Studies in Halakhah and Jewish Law 26-27 (2009-2010): 147*-81*. [=Legal Fictions, 255-283]
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  • “Targumim.” In The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, ed. John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow, 1278-1281. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2010.
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  • “Local Jewish Leadership in Roman Palestine: The Case of the Parnas in Early Rabbinic Sources in Light of Extra-Rabbinic Evidence.” In Halakhah in Light of Epigraphy, ed. Albert I. Baumgarten, Hanan Eshel, Ranon Katzoff, and Shani Tzoref, 155-173. Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements 3. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011. [=Legal Fictions, 555-576]
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  • Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 147. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
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  • “Anonymity and Redaction in Legal Midrash: A Preliminary Probe.” In Melekhet Mahshevet: Studies in the Redaction and Development of Talmudic Literature, ed. Aaron Amit and Aharon Shemesh, 9*-29*. Ramat-Gan, Israel: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2011.
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  • ”עירוב לשונות ורב־לשוניות בארץ ישראל בעת העתיקה: ממצאים ספרותיים ואפיגרפיים” (“Language Mix and Multilingualism in Ancient Palestine: Literary and Inscriptional Evidence”) Leshonenu 73 (2011): 273-307.
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  • Studies in the History and Culture of North African Jewry: Proceedings of the Symposium at Yale University, April 25, 2010, ed. Moshe Bar-Asher and Steven D. Fraade. 2 vols. (English and Hebrew). Jerusalem: The Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures, Hebrew University; The Program in Judaic Studies, Yale University, 2011.
  • “Before and After Babel: Linguistic Exceptionalism and Pluralism in Early Rabbinic Literature.” Diné Israel 28 (2011): 31*-68*.
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  • Review: Aharon Shemesh, Halakhah in the Making: The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis. Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 43 (2012): 131-135.
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  • “Violence and Ancient Public Spheres: A Response.” In Representing and Contesting Ideologies of the Public Spheres. Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 24.1 (Winter 2012): 137- 138.
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  • “Concepts of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism: Oral Torah and Written Torah.” In Jewish Concepts of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction, ed. Benjamin D. Sommer, 31-46. New York: New York University Press, 2012.
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  • “Response to ‘Biblical Debates’: Yes and No.” In What is Bible?, ed. Karin Finsterbusch and Armin Lange, 151-55. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 67. Leuven: Peeters, 2012.
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  • “Language Mix and Multilingualism in Ancient Palestine: Literary and Inscriptional Evidence.” Jewish Studies 48 (2012): 1*-40*.
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  • “L’étude de la Torah comme valeur suprême.” In Aux origines du judaïsm, ed. Jean Baumgarten and Julien Darmon, 16-38. Paris-Arles: Les Liens Qui Libèrent and Actes Sud, 2012.
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  • “Rabbinic Literature.” The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine R. Huebner, 5721-5723. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
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  • Review: Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories. AJS Review 37.1 (April 2013): 135-39.
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  • “Moses and Adam as Polyglots.” In Envisioning Judaism: Studies in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, ed. Ra’anan S. Boustan, Klaus Hermann, Reimund Leicht, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Giuseppe Veltri, with the collaboration of Alex Ramos, 2 vols., 1:185-94. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.
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  • “4 Ezra and 2 Baruch with the (Dis-) Advantage of Rabbinic Hindsight.” In Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall, ed. Matthias Henze and Gabrielle Boccaccini, 363-378. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 164. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
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  • “1 Baruch.” In Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture, ed. Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman, 1545-1564. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society; Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
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  • “Letter of Jeremiah.” In Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture, ed. Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman, 1535-1544. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society; Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
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  • “Enosh, Judaism.” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013. Vol. 7, p. 967.
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  • “Between Rewritten Bible and Allegorical Commentary: Philo’s Interpretation of the Burning Bush.” In Rewritten Bible after Fifty Years: Texts, Terms, or Techniques? A Last Dialogue with Geza Vermes, ed. József Zsengellér, 221-232. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 166. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
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  • “The Rehov Inscriptions and Rabbinic Literature — Matters of Language.” In Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine, ed. Steen Fine and Aaron Koller, 225-238. Studia Judaica 73. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014.
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  • “Memory and Loss in Early Rabbinic Text and Ritual.” In Memory and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity: A Conversation with Barry Schwartz, ed. Tom Thatcher, 113-27. Semeia Studies 78. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.
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  • “Response to Azzan Yadin-Israel on Rabbinic Polysemy: Do They ‘Preach’ What They Practice?” AJS Review 38.2 (November 2014): 339-61.
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  • “‘A Heart of Many Chambers’: The Theological Hermeneutics of Legal Multivocality.” Harvard Theological Review 108.1 (January 2015): 113-28.
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  • Studies in the Culture of North African Jewry: Collection of the Lectures Presented in the Workshop at Yale University, October 15-24, 2012, ed. Moshe Bar-Asher and Steven D. Fraade. Jerusalem: The Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures, The Hebrew University; New Haven: The Program in Judaic Studies, Yale University, 2015.
  • Studies in the Culture of North African Jewry: Edited and Annotated Texts, ed. Moshe Bar-Asher and Steven D. Fraade. Jerusalem: The Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures, The Hebrew University; New Haven: The Program in Judaic Studies, Yale University, 2015. Hebrew.
  • כי יפלא ממך דבר (דברים יז, ח־יג): פירוש המקרא בפרשת בית הדין העליון: בין מגילת המקדש למדרש התנאים (“‘If a Case is Too Baffling for You to Decide . . .’ [Deuteronomy 17:8-13]: Biblical Interpretation in the Pericope on the High Court — Between the Temple Scroll and Tannaitic  Interpretation”) Meghillot 11-12 (2014-2015): 199-218.                       [click here for pdf file]
  • “Nazirite.” The Routledge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. Eric Orlin, Lisbeth S. Fried, Jennifer Wright Knust, Michael L. Satlow, 642. New York and London: Routledge, 2016. [click here for pdf file]
  • Review: Alex P. Jassen, Scripture and Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Dead Sea Discoveries 23.1 (2016):  105-108.                                                                                                  [click here for pdf file]
  • “‘If a Case is Too Baffling for You to Decide . . .’ (Deuteronomy 17: 8-13): Between Constraining and Expanding Judicial Autonomy in the Temple Scroll and Early Rabbinic Scriptural Interpretation.” Pages 409-431 in vol. 1 of Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy. Edited by Joel Baden, Hindy Najman, and Eibert Tigchelaar. Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplements 175. Leiden: Brill, 2017. [click here for pdf file]
  • “The Innovation of Nominalized Verbs in Mishnaic Hebrew as Marking an Innovation of Concept.” Pages 129-148 in Studies in Mishnaic Hebrew and Related Fields: Proceedings of the Yale Symposium on Mishnaic Hebrew, May 2014. Edited by Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal and Aaron J. Koller. New Haven: The Program in Judaic Studies , Yale University; Jerusalem: The Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures, Hebrew University, 2017.                                                                                                                             [click here for pdf file]
  • “The Temple Scroll As Rewritten Bible: When Genres Bend.” Pages 136-154 in Hā-ʾîsh Mōshe: Studies in Scriptural Interpretation in the Dead Seas and Related Literature: Studies in Honor of Moshe J. Bernstein. Edited by Binyamin Y. Goldstein, Michael Segal, George J. Brooke. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 122. Leiden: Brill, 2018.                                                                                                                                                          [click here for pdf file]
  • Review: Aryeh Amihay, Theory and Practice in Essene Law. Dead Sea Discoveries 25.2 (2018): 285-87.                                                                                                                                                [click here for pdf file]
  • “Early Rabbinic Midrash Between Philo and Qumran.” Pages 281-93 in Strength to Strength: Essays in Appreciation of Shaye J. D. Cohen. Edited by Michael L. Satlow. Providence, Rhode Island: Brown Judaic Studies, 2018.                                                            [click  here for pdf file]
  • “History (?) in the Damascus Document.” Dead Sea Discoveries 25.3 (2018): 412-28.       [click here for pdf file]
  • “Rabbis on Gentile Lawlessness: Three Midrashic Moments.” Pages 135-55 in Law and Lawlessness in Early Judaism and Early Christianity. Edited by David Lincicum, Ruth Sheridan, and Charles Stang. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 420. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019.                                                                                 [click here for pdf file]
  • “Facing the Holy Ark: In Words and in Images.” Near Eastern Archaeology 82.3 (September 2019): 156-63.                                                                                                                           [click here for pdf file]
  • “The Paradox of Pesach Sheni.” In TheTorah.com of June 9, 2020.                                           [click here for pdf file]
  • “Menorah: Judaism: Rabbinic Judaism.” In the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 18, cols. 648-50. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020.                                                            [click here for pdf file]
  • ”בין מקרא משוכתב לפרשנות אלגורית: פירושו של פילון האלכסנדרוני לסנה הבוער” (“Between Rewritten Bible and Allegorical Commentary: Philo’s Interpretation of the Burning Bush”)עיוני מקרא ופרשנות יא: מנחות ידידות והוקרה ליעקב כדורי, תש”ף, עמ’ 267־276, בעריכת מיכאל אביעוז, אריק לווי, ויוסף עופר. Studies in Bible and Exegesis 11: 267-76. Presented to Yaakov Kaduri. Edited by Michael Avioz, Eric Lawee, and Yosef Ofer. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2020.                                                                                 [click here for pdf file]
  • Review: Geoffrey Herman and Jeffrey Rubenstein, eds. The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World. Journal of Semitic Studies 65.2 (Autumn 2020): 647-48.                             [click here for pdf file]
  • “The Word אמת in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Pages 96–106 in Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period: Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira. Edited by Steven E. Fassberg. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 134. Leiden: Brill, 202.                                                                         [click here for pdf file]
  • “‘Reading Leads to Translating’ in a Multilingual Context: The View from Early Rabbinic Texts (and Beyond).” Pages 217–31 in Social History of the Jews in Antiquity: Studies in Dialogue with Albert Baumgarten. Edited by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and Jonathan Ben-Dov. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 185. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021.                                                                                                                                        [click here for pdf file]
  • “Retrospective on the Intersection of Translation and Commentary in Ancient Judaism and Its Greco-Roman Context.” Ancient Jew Review, October 6, 2021. https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2021/10/5/retrospective-on-the-intersection-of-translation-and-commentary-in-ancient-judaism-and-its-greco-roman-context-steven-fraade
  • The Damascus Document. The Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.                                                                                                                  [click here for pdf file of Table of Contents]
  • “Tractate Rosh Hashanah.” Volume 1, pages 678–96 in The Oxford Annotated Mishnah: A New Translation of the Mishnah With Introductions and Notes. Edited by Shaye J. D. Cohen, Robert Goldenberg, and Hayim Lapin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.   [click here for pdf file]
  • “The Vital Intersection of Halakha and Aggada.”  Pages 463–71 in The Literature of the Sages: A Re-visioning. Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum 16. Edited by Christine Hayes. Leiden: Brill, 2022.                                                                               [click here for pdf file]
  • “‘Enjoin Them upon Your Children to Keep’ (Deut 32:46): Law as Commandment and Legacy, Or, Robert Cover Meets Midrash.” Pages 273–90 in Law as Religion, Religion as Law. Edited by David C. Flatto and Benjamin Porat. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.                                                                                                                                                         [click here for pdf file]
  • “The Torah Inscribed/Transcribed in Seventy Languages.” Pages 21–47 in Hebrew Between Jews and Christians. Edited by Daniel Stein Kokin. Studia Judaica 77 . Berlin: de Gruyter, 2023.                                                                                                                                              [click here for pdf file]
  • “Ezra the Scribe and the (Purported) Origins of Targum.” Pages 343–50 in A Sage in New Haven: Essays on the Prophets, the Writings, and the Ancient World in Honor of Robert R. Wilson. Edited by Alison Acker Gruseke and Carolyn J. Sharp. Ägypten und Altes Testament 117. Münster: Zaphon, 2023.                                                                                    [ckick here for pdf file]
  • “Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism.” In Ancient Jew Review, April 3, 2023. <https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/4/2/multilingualism-and-translation-in-ancient-judaism>
  • “‘They Shall Teach Your Statues to Jacob’: Priests, Scribes, and Sages in Second Temple Times.” In Ancient Jew Review, June 5, 2023 (1988). <https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/6/5/they-shall-teach-your-statues-to-jacob-priests-scribes-and-sages-in-second-temple-times>
  • Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism: Before and After Babel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.                                                                              [click here for flier and discount code]
  • “‘Bringing the Messiah(s) Through Law’: Reflections from the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Some Successors.” Pages 25–37 in Torah in Early Jewish Imaginations. Edited by Ariel Feldman and Timothy J. Sandoval. Forschungen zum Alten Testament 171. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023.                                                          [click here for pdf file]
  • “Leadership in the Damascus Document and Related Texts: A Tale of Two Titles.” Pages 61–81 in Above, Below, Before, and After: Studies on Judaism and Christianity in Dialogue with Martha Himmelfarb. Edited by Ra’anan Boustan, David Frankfurter, and Annette Yoshiko Reed. TSAJ 188. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023.                                  [click here for pdf file]
  • “Translation and Authority: Three (Very Different) Cases.” Pages 97–110 in Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin. Edited by Carol Bakhos and Alyssa M. Gray. Brown Judaic Studies 372. Providence, RI: Brown University, 2024.                                                                                      [click here for pdf file]

FORTHCOMING:

  • “Revelation and Prophecy in the Wilderness.” In The Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy: “Clear a Path in the Wilderness”: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Cosponsored by the University of Vienna, New York University, the Israel Antiquity Authority, and the Israel Museum, 29 April 2– May, 2018. Edited by Esther G. Chazon, Ruth A. Clements, Armin Lange, Adolfo Roitman, Lawrence H. Schiffman, and Pnina Shor. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
  • “Philo among the Rabbis.” In The Reception of Philo of Alexandria. Edited by Courtney Friesen, David Lincicum, and David Runia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024.
  • “Biblical Law and Rabbinic Literature.” In The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible. Edited by Bruce Wells. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  • “Übersetzungen (jüdisch)”. Reallexicon für Antike und Christentum. 2024.
  • “The Mishnah and Its Society: The Case of Tractate Taʿanit.” 2024[festschrift]
  • “Can the ‘Temporal Turn’ (Re-) Turn to Midrash Aggada?”  [festschrift]
  • “Second Passover: Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Early Rabbinic Judaism.” In Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2024.
  • “Traversing Dichotomies.” Intellectual Trajectory Talk at the Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty, Yale University, February 6, 2023. 2024.
  • “Note: A Newly Discovered and Identified Bilingual Targum Manuscript.” Journal of Jewish Studies. 2024.

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