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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)
 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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....

 

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Three Biblical Beginnings, Beginning/Again (2002)

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the process of literary shaping as it...

 

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The Limits of Omniscience, Journal of Biblical Literature (2000)

Can the God of the Hebrew Bible read minds? Contrary to popular belief, most biblical...

 

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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...

 

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Review of Waltke, The Book of Proverbs (NICOT), Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (2006)