Publications

On this page, I’ve collected a list of current or forthcoming publications. For works-in-progress and more detailed information about each of the monographs, see my research page.

Monographs

  1. The Story of Sacrifice: Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Pentateuchal Source. Forschungen zum Alten Testament. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020.

  1. The Consuming Fire: The Complete Priestly Source, From Creation to the Promised Land. World Literature in Translation. Berkeley; Los Angeles:  The University of California Press (in press, expected 2023; edition with Hebrew text in 2024).

Peer Reviewed Articles

  1. “Quantifying the Sacred: Numbers and Mathematics in the Tabernacle Building Account,” Postscripts 16.2 (2026): 184–209.
  2. “The Legacy of Benjamin Franklin in the Biblical Studies Classroom in the United States,” Teaching Theology and Religion 28.2 (2025): 78–80.
  3. “Priestly Warfare and the Battle of Jericho,” Vetus Testamentum 75.4–5 (2025): 565–606.
  4. “Rethinking the Place of the Pentateuch in Late Persian and Hellenistic-era ‘Priestly’ Literature,” Journal of Ancient Judaism 13.3 (2022): 257–284.
  5. “Challenging a Priestly Credit Theology: A New Translation of Niphal חשב,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 84.2 (2022): 183–201.
  6. “Sanitized Sacrifice in Aramaic Levi’s Law of the Priesthood,” Journal of Ancient Judaism 3 (2020): 1–26.
  7. “The Idea and Study of Sacrifice in Ancient Israel,” Religion Compass, e12380 [Early View online], 2020.
  8. with Candida Moss, “The New Jerusalem: Wealth, Ancient Building Projects, and Revelation 21–22,” New Testament Studies 66 (2020): 351–366.
  9. “Ritual Sequence and Narrative Constraints in Lev 9:1–10:3,” Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 17 (2017): 1–35.
  10. “The Composition of Numbers 32: A New Proposal,” Vetus Testamentum 63 (2013): 408–432.

Essays in Edited Volumes

  1. “Moving Pieces: Materiality, Plurality, and the Beginning of the Aramaic Levi Document,” in The Scrolls of the Torah: Material, Compositional and Interpretive Perspectives, ed. Jan Christian Gertz, Julia Rhyder, Thomas Römer, and Konrad Schmid (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026): 405–422.
  2. with Annette Yoshiko Reed, “Sirach” (Introduction, notes, excurses), Westminster Study Bible. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2024.

  3. “Misplaced Places: Redaction and the Priestly Wilderness Itinerary” in in The Pentateuch and its Readers, ed. Joel Baden and Jeffrey Stackert (Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2023): 27–53.

  4.  “The Literary Representation of Sacrifice in Biblical Narrative,” Pages 183–197  in New Perspectives on Ritual in the Biblical World, ed. Laura Quick and Melissa Ramos. London; New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2022.

Invited Essays and other writings

  1.  “Displaying the Literary Artistry of P,” Ancient Jew Review, September 12, 2023. https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/9/12/displaying-the-literary-artistry-of-p

  2.  “Adaptation to the Story World: a Response to Nathan MacDonald,” Ancient Jew Review, February 14, 2022. https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2022/2/2/adaptation-to-the-story-world

  3. “Scapegoat,” Bible Odyssey, May 6, 2020. https://www.bibleodyssey.org/passages/related-articles/scapegoat

  4. “Dissertation Spotlight: Story and Sacrifice: Ritual, Narrative, and the Priestly Source,” Ancient Jew Review, March 6, 2019. http://www.ancientjewreview.com/articles/2019/3/6/dissertation-spotlight-story-and-sacrifice-ritual-narrative-and-the-priestly-source

  5.  “Gad and Reuben Receive Land in the Transjordan: A Documentary Approach,” TheTorah.com, July 11, 2018. https://thetorah.com/gad-and-reuben-receive-land-in-the-transjordan-a-documentary-approach/

  6. “On the State of Pentateuchal Criticism,” Ancient Jew Review, November 30, 2014.