EDITED VOLUMES
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The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance.
Gary Knoppers, co-editor. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2007.
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Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law: Revision, Interpolation, and Development.
Classic Reprints series, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2006.
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Judge and Society in Antiquity.
Edited by Aaron Skaist and Bernard M. Levinson. Special double issue of MAARAV: A Journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures 12.1–2 (2005). |
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Recht und Ethik im Alten Testament: Beiträge des Symposiums “Das Alte Testament und die Kultur der Moderne.”
anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags Gerhard von Rad (1901–1971).
Eckart Otto, co-editor, with Walter Dietrich. Münster/London: LIT, 2004.
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Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East.
Victor H. Matthews and Tikva Frymer-Kensky, co-editors.
JSOTSup 262. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998; paperback, 2004.
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COMMENTARIES
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- Deuteronomy.” Pages 240–313 in The New Oxford Annotated Bible. Third edition.
- New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Augmented edition, 2007. Revised for The New Oxford Annotated Bible, with the Apocrypha: An Ecumenical Study Bible. Fully Revised Fourth Edition. Edited by Michael D. Coogan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pages 247–312.
- “Deuteronomy.” Pages 356–450 in The Jewish Study Bible. Edited by Adele Berlin
- and Marc Zvi Brettler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- “The Development of the Jewish Bible: Critical Reflections upon the Concept of a
- ‘Jewish Bible’ and on the Idea of Its ‘Development.’” In What is Bible? Edited by Karin Finsterbusch and Armin Lange. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, forthcoming in 2011.
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- “Gab es eine Bundestheologische Redaktion des Deuteronomiums?” In Viele Wege
- zu dem Einen: Historische Bibelkritik - Die Vitalität der Glaubensüberlieferung in der Moderne. Edited by Stefan Beyerle and Axel Graupner. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, forthcoming in 2011.
- “Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty as the Source for the Canon Formula in
- Deuteronomy 13:1,”Journal of the American Oriental Society 130 (2010): 337–347 (in press).
“Deuteronomy.” The Encyclopedia of the Bible. Edited by Michael D. Coogan. New
- York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (in press).
- “The King James Bible at 400: Scripture, Statecraft, and the American Founding.”
- (Co-author Joshua Berman). The History Channel Magazine, special supplement, November 2010, pp. 1–11. PDF
“The Bible’s Break with Ancient Political Thought to Promote Equality—‘It Ain’t
- Necessarily so.’” A review article of Joshua Berman, Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought. The Journal of Theological Studies61:2 (2010): 685–94. Online: doi: 10.1093/jts/flq048. PDF
- “The Neo-Assyrian Origins of the Canon Formula in Deuteronomy 13:1.” Pages
- 25–45 in Scriptural Exegesis: The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination (Essays in Honour of Michael Fishbane). Edited by Deborah A. Green and Laura Lieber. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
“Reading the Bible in Nazi Germany: Gerhard von Rad’s Attempt to Reclaim the
- Old Testament for the Church.” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology62 (2008): 238–54.
“‘Du sollst nichts hinzufügen und nichts wegnehmen’ (Dtn 13,1): Rechtsreform und
- Hermeneutik in der Hebräischen Bibel.” Pages 62–94 in Houses Full of All Good Things: Essays in Memory of Timo Veijola. Edited by Juha Pakkala and Martti Nissinen. Publications of the Finnish Exegetical Society, vol. 95. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008.
“How, When, Where, and Why Did the Pentateuch Become the Torah?” (Co-author:
- Gary N. Knoppers). Pages 1–19 in The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance. Edited by Bernard M. Levinson and Gary Knoppers. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2007.
“The First Constitution: Rethinking the Origins of Rule of Law and Separation of
- Powers in Light of Deuteronomy.” Cardozo Law Review 27:4 (2006): 1853–88.
“‘Du sollst nichts hinzufügen und nichts wegnehmen’ (Dtn 13,1): Rechtsreform und
- Hermeneutik in der Hebräischen Bibel.” Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche102 (2006): 157–83.
- “The Manumission of Hermeneutics: The Slave Laws of the Pentateuch as a
- Challenge to Contemporary Pentateuchal Theory.” Pages 281–324 in Congress Volume Leiden 2004. Edited by André Lemaire. Vetus Testamentum Supplements 109. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006
“The ‘Effected Object’ in Contractual Legal Language: The Semantics of ‘If You
- Purchase a Hebrew Slave’ (Exod. xxi 2).” Vetus Testamentum 56 (2006): 485–504.
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“Deuteronomy’s Conception of Law as an ‘Ideal Type’: A Missing Chapter in the
- History of Constitutional Law.” In Judge and Society in Antiquity. Edited by Bernard M. Levinson and Aaron Skaist = Maarav: A Journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures 12:1–2 (2005): 83–119.
“The Birth of the Lemma: The Restrictive Reinterpretation of the Covenant
- Code’s Manumission Law by the Holiness Code (Leviticus 25:44–46).” Journal of Biblical Literature 124 (2005): 617–39.
“The Metamorphosis of Law into Gospel: Gerhard von Rad’s Attempt to Reclaim
- the Old Testament for the Church.” Bernard M. Levinson and Douglas Dance. Pages 83–110 in Recht und Ethik im Alten Testament. Edited by Bernard M. Levinson and Eckart Otto. Münster/London: LIT Verlag, 2004.
“Is the Covenant Code an Exilic Composition? A Response to John Van Seters.”
- Pages 272–325 in In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar. Edited by John Day. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement Series, vol. 406. London and New York: T. & T. Clark, 2004.
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- “‘You Must Not Add Anything to What I Command You’: Paradoxes of Canon and
- Authorship in Ancient Israel.” Numen: International Review for the History of Religions 50 (2003): 1–51.
- “Revelation Regained: The Hermeneutics of כי and אם in the Temple Scroll.”
- Bernard M. Levinson and Molly M. Zahn (co-authors). Dead Sea Discoveries: A Journal of Current Research on the Scrolls and Related Literature 9 (2002): 295–346.
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“Goethe’s Analysis of Exodus 34 and Its Influence on Julius Wellhausen: The
- Pfropfung of the Documentary Hypothesis.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 114 (2002): 212–23.
“The Seductions of the Garden: The Genesis of Hermeneutics as Critique.” On
- Interpretation: Studies in Culture, Law, and the Sacred = Graven Images 5 (2002): 95–99.
“The Reconceptualization of Kingship in Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic
- History’s Transformation of Torah.” Vetus Testamentum 51 (2001): 511–34.
“Textual Criticism, Assyriology, and the History of Interpretation: Deuteronomy
- 13:7a as a Test Case in Method.” Journal of Biblical Literature 120 (2001): 211–43.
“The Hermeneutics of Tradition in Deuteronomy.” Journal of Biblical Literature 119
- (2000): 269–86.
“The Covenant at Mount Sinai: The Argument of Revelation.” Pages 23–27 in The
- Jewish Political Tradition, vol. 1: Authority. Edited by Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, and Noam J. Zohar. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000.
“Recovering the Lost Original Meaning of ולא תכסה עליו (Deut 13:9).” Journal of
- Biblical Literature 115 (1996): 601–20.
“‘But You Shall Surely Kill Him!’: The Text-Critical and Neo-Assyrian Evidence for
- MT Deuteronomy 13:10.” Pages 37–63 in Bundesdokument und Gesetz: Studien zum Deuteronomium. Edited by Georg Braulik. Herder’s Biblical Studies 4. Freiburg: Herder, 1995.
“The Case for Revision and Interpolation within the Biblical Legal Corpora.”
- Pages 37–59 in Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law: Revision, Interpolation and Development. Edited by Bernard M. Levinson. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement Series, vol. 181. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.
“The Case for Grounding Biblical Hermeneutics upon the Diachronic Method.” Pages
- 93–108 in Literary Theory and Biblical Hermeneutics. Edited by Tibor Fabiny. Papers in English and American Studies 4. Szeged, Hungary: Attila Jozsef University, 1992.
“The Human Voice in Divine Revelation: The Problem of Authority in Biblical Law.”
- Pages 35–71 in Innovation in Religious Traditions: Essays in the Interpretation of Religious Change. Edited by Michael A. Williams, Martin S. Jaffee, and Collett Cox. Religion and Society 31. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992.
“‘The Right Chorale’: From the Poetics of Biblical Narrative to the Hermeneutics of the
- Hebrew Bible.” Pages 129–53 (notes on pp. 242–47) in “Not in Heaven”: Coherence and Complexity in Biblical Narrative. Edited by Jason P. Rosenblatt and Joseph C. Sitterson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
“Calum M. Carmichael’s Approach to the Laws of Deuteronomy.” Harvard
- Theological Review 83 (1990): 227–57.
Reviews, Notes, and Similar
- Essay review of Jo Ann Hackett, A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, Review of
- Biblical Literature [www.bookreviews.org/BookDetail.asp?TitleId=7571] (Published 1/2/2011). PDF
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- Essay review of Michael Fishbane, Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology,
- Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 64 (2010): 294–300. PDF
Essay review of Susannah Heschel, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologian and the
- Bible in Nazi Germany (Co-author: Tina Sherman), Review of Biblical Literature Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/7576_8280.pdf] (2010). 8 pages. PDF
“Bible: Law.” Pages 85–87 in Reader’s Guide to Judaism. Edited by Michael Terry.
- Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
Review of Martha T. Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor,
- Journal of Near Eastern Studies 59 (2000): 119–121.
Two dozen entries in Harper’s Bible Dictionary. New York: Society of Biblical Literature,
- Harper & Row, 1985; second edition, 1997.
“McConville’s Law and Theology in Deuteronomy.” Jewish Quarterly Review 80
- (1990): 396–404 (review article).
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