I'm a biblicist by training, with secondary interests throughout Jewish studies of the pre-modern era. I teach Biblical Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. My major project right now is "The Commentators' Bible," an English-language edition of the Jewish commentaries on the Bible traditionally published as the "Miqra'ot Gedolot." Currently available volumes: Exodus — http://www.jewishpub.org/product.php?id=34 Leviticus — http://www.jewishpub.org/product.php?id=327 Numbers — forthcoming in 2011
Jewish biblical commentary
Syntactic Double Translation in the Targumim, Aramaic in Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity: Papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University (2010)
Targum
Syntactic Double Translation in the Targumim, Aramaic in Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity: Papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University (2010)
Biblical exegesis
Why Did Hannah Ask for “Seed of Men”?, Journal of Biblical Literature (2010)
I am suggesting in this article that what Hannah asked for in the original telling...
A Deuteronomic Voice in the Joseph Story, Mishneh Todah (2009)
In this article, I hope to show that a distinctively Deuteronomic voice can be heard...
Transcending the Boundary of Death: Ecclesiastes through a Nabokovian Lens, Biblical Interpretation (2006)
Ch. 12 of Ecclesiastes depicts a scene that combines elements of the death of a...
Qohelet’s Twists and Turns, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (2003)
Biblical texts regularly emphasize following the straight path that is marked out by God’s teachings....
wisdom literature
Transcending the Boundary of Death: Ecclesiastes through a Nabokovian Lens, Biblical Interpretation (2006)
Ch. 12 of Ecclesiastes depicts a scene that combines elements of the death of a...
Qohelet’s Twists and Turns, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (2003)
Biblical texts regularly emphasize following the straight path that is marked out by God’s teachings....
Exegetical Implications of the Masoretic Cantillation Marks in Ecclesiastes, Hebrew Studies (2001)
Who Were the "Men of Hezekiah" (Proverbs XXV 1)?, by Michael Carasik © BRILL., Vetus Testamentum (1994)
Deuteronomy
A Deuteronomic Voice in the Joseph Story, Mishneh Todah (2009)
In this article, I hope to show that a distinctively Deuteronomic voice can be heard...
To See a Sound: A Deuteronomic Rereading of Exodus 20:15, Prooftexts (1999)
In his chapter on inner-biblical exegesis in The Garments of Torah, Michael Fishbane says that...