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CURRICULUM VITAE

Marc Zvi Brettler Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Judaic Studies

Duke University

Department of Religious Studies 118 Gray Building, Box 90964 Durham, NC 27708

Email: marc.brettler@duke.edu Web: https://sites.google.com/site/toolsforstudyingthehebrewbible/home

EDUCATION 1986 Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University. 1978-1980 Visiting Graduate Student, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Studied

Hebrew Bible and Semitic Languages. 1978 B.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University.

M.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University.

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS 2015 Doctor of Humane Letters – Hebrew College (Honoris Causa). 2014 Winner of Gold Medal in Independent Publisher Book Awards, Religion

category, for participation in The Three Testaments. 2013 Elected to American Academy of Jewish Research. 2012 Lady Davis Visiting Professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 2011 Elected to Biblical Studies Colloquium. 2010 Elected to Colloquium for Biblical Studies. 2009 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Modern Jewish Thought and

Experience Category, for participation in My People’s Passover Haggadah.

2008 National Jewish Book Award, Modern Jewish Thought and Experience

Category, for My People’s Prayer Book (contributed to all ten volumes).

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2006 Best Books 2006 Book Awards, Judaism Category, for How to Read the Bible.

2004 National Jewish Book Award, Scholarship Category, for The Jewish Study

Bible. 1999 Keter Torah Award from the Boston Board of Jewish Education for

Outstanding Contributions to Jewish Education. 1995, 1999 Mazar Research Grant. 1991 Michael L. Walzer Award for Excellence in Teaching. 1991 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. 1991 American Philosophical Society Grant for Travel Abroad. 1991 Bernstein-Perlmutter Fellowship from Brandeis University. 1981-2, 83-4 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship. 1979-80 Lady Davis Fellowship. 1978 B.A. Magna Cum Laude with highest honors in Near Eastern and Judaic

Studies, Brandeis University. M.A. with high distinction in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University

ACADEMIC TEACHING POSITIONS 2015- Morton Lerner Professor of Judaic Studies, Duke University. 2011-2015 Chair of Program in Religious Studies, Brandeis University. 2001-2006 Chair of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University. 2001-2015 Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies, Brandeis University. 1999-2001 (Full) Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University. 1992-1999 Associate Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University. 1986-1992 Assistant Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University.

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1984-1986 Lecturer in Religious Studies, Yale University. 1982-1983 Instructor in Hebrew Bible, Wellesley College. VISITING TEACHING POSITIONS 2012 Lady Davis Visiting Professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, teaching

graduate course in Psalms. Fall 1997 Visiting Associate Professor, Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University. Spring 1995 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University. 1982 Visiting Lecturer in Biblical Hebrew, Middlebury College. OTHER TEACHING POSITIONS 2007 Visiting lecturer and Shandong University, Jinan, China. 2007 Visiting scholar for Beth Shalom, Japan. 2007 Visiting summer instructor for Hebrew College. 2005, 2008 Instructor in Hebrew College Rabbinical School. 2004 Professor for Me’ah Graduate Institute. 1998 Instructor for Me’ah Online. 1994-2006, 2010- Professor in Me’ah Program, Commission for Jewish Continuity. 1993, 2007 Professor in Wexner Heritage Jewish Adult Education Program. 1987, 89-91, 93-96 Teacher of Hebrew College Adult Bible Study Group, Boston. 1992 Professor at Skidmore College Summer Judaic Institute. OTHER POSITIONS 2007-08 Visiting Research Fellow at Mandel Leadership Institute, Jerusalem. 2008-2011 Visiting Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem.

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BOOKS The Jewish Study Bible. Second Expanded Edition. New York: Oxford University Press,

2014. Co-edited with Adele Berlin. The Bible and the Believer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 (paperback 2014).

Co-written with Peter Enns and Daniel Harrington. How to Read the Bible. Revised Hebrew Version. Transalated Shimon Bouzaglu and

others. Tel-Aviv: Yediot Acharonot, 2012. The Jewish Annotated New Testament. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011. Co-

edited with Amy-Jill Levine. How to Read the Jewish Bible. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007. Revised

paperback edition of How to Read the Bible. How to Read the Bible. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, September 2005. The Jewish Study Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Co-edited with

Adele Berlin. The Book of Judges: Old Testament Readings. London: Routledge, 2001. Biblical Hebrew for Students of Modern Hebrew. New Haven: Yale University Press,

2001. The Creation of History in Ancient Israel. London: Routledge Press, 1995 (paperback

1998). God is King: Understanding an Israelite Metaphor, Supplement to the Journal for the

Study of the Old Testament, 76. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1989. (A substantially revised version of Ph.D. thesis.)

BOOKS UNDER CONTRACT Book Four of Psalms Commentary for the Jewish Publication Society (2015). Commentary on Judges for Eisenbrauns (2020).

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EDITED VOLUMES The Oxford Encyclopedia of Books of the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press,

2011 (Associate Editor). The New Oxford Annotated Bible: Fully Revised Fourth Edition. New York: Oxford

University Press, 2010 (Associate Editor). The New Oxford Annotated Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001 (Associate

Editor). With Anne Golub Hoffman, Reading Through the Lens of Gender: A Special Issue of

Prooftexts, 2000. With Michael Fishbane, Minhah le-Nahum: Biblical and Other Studies Presented to

Nahum M. Sarna in Honour of his 70th Birthday, JSOTSup 154. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES With Amy-Jill Levine, “The Jewish Annotated New Testament: Retrospect and

Prospects,” Melilah 11 (2014): 1-7. “Some Reflections on the Literary Artistry of the Bible,” Milin Havivin (forthcoming). “The Bible as History” in The Bible and Critical Scholarship, ed. Chayuta Deutsch (in

Hebrew, forthcoming). “Modern Jewish Biblical Scholarship,” The New Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 4,

with Edward Breuer; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming). “The Early Boundaries of Jewish Studies,” Shofar 32 (2014), 27-34. “Jewish Theology of the Psalms” in The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms, ed. William P.

Brown (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 485-498. “Historical Texts in the Hebrew Bible?” in Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in

the Ancient World, ed. Kurt A. Raaflaub (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2014), 213-233.

“Psalm 136 as an Interpretive Text” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 2 (2013), 373-395. “Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg” in Jewish Concepts of Scripture, ed.

Benjamin Sommer (New York: NYU Press, 2012), 247-266.

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“A Jewish Approach to Psalm 111,” in Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Psalms, ed. Y. Zakovitch and M. Grohmann, (2009), 141-159.

“Method in the Application of Source Material to Historical Writing (With Particular

Reference to the Ninth Century BCE),” in Understanding the History of Ancient Israel, ed. H.G.M. Williamson (Oxford: Oxford University Press/The British Academy, 2007), 305-336.

“Cyclical and Teleological ‘Time in the Hebrew Bible’,” in Time and Temporality in the

Ancient World, ed. Ralph M. Rosen (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2004).

“The Copenhagen School: The Historiographical Issues,” Association for Jewish Studies

Review 27 (2003), 1-21. “Is There Martyrdom in the Hebrew Bible?” in Sacrificing the Self: Perspectives on

Martyrdom and Religion, ed. Margaret Cormack (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002), 3-22.

“Memory in Ancient Israel,” in Memory and History in Christianity and Judaism, ed.

Michael Signer (Notre Dame: Notre Dame Press, 2001), 1-17. “Deuteronomy 34 and the Case for a Persian Hexateuch,” Journal of Biblical Literature

119 (2000), 401-419. Co-written with Thomas Römer. “The Many Faces of God in Exodus 19,” in Jews, Christians, and the Theology of the

Hebrew Scriptures, ed. Joel Kaminsky and Alice O. Bellis (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2000), 353-367.

“Afterword: Sof Davar Ha-Kol Nishma?” Prooftexts 20 (2000), 219-23. “Judaism in the Hebrew Bible? An Exploration of the Transition from Ancient Israelite

Religion to Judaism,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 61 (1999), 429-47. “Predestination in Deuteronomy 30.1–10,” in Those Elusive Deuteronomists: The

Phenomenon of Pan Deuteonomism, JSOT Sup 268, ed. Linda Shearing and Steven McKenzie (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), 171-88.

“Women and Psalms: Toward an Understanding of the Role of Women’s Prayer in the

Israelite Cult,” in Gender and Law, JSOTSup 262, ed. Victor Matthews and Bernard Levinson (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), 25-56.

“Incompatible Metaphors for YHWH in Isaiah 40-66,” Journal for the Study of the Old

Testament 78 (1998), 97-120. “Biblical History and Jewish Biblical Theology,”Journal of Religion 77 (1997), 563-83.

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“The Composition of 1 Samuel 1-2,” Journal of Biblical Literature 116 (1997), 601-612. “Biblical Literature as Politics: The Case of Samuel,” in Religion and Politics in the

Ancient Near East, ed. Adele Berlin (Bethesda, MD: University Press of Maryland, 1996), 71-92.

“From the Deuteronomist(s) to the Chronicler: Continuities and Innovations,” in

Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress for Jewish Studies, Division A: The Bible and Its World, ed. Aron Dotan (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1994), 83-90.

“Images of YHWH the Warrior in Psalms,” Semeia 61 (1993), Women, War, and

Metaphor: Language and Society in the Study of the Hebrew Bible, ed. Claudia V. Camp and Carole R. Fontaine, 135-165.

“Interpretation and Prayer: Notes on the Composition of 1 Kings 8.15-53,” in Minhah le-

Nahum, JSOTSup 154, ed. Brettler and Fishbane (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993), 17-35.

“Never the Twain Shall Meet? The Ehud Story as History and Literature,” Hebrew

Union College Annual 62(1991), 285-304. “The Structure of 1 Kings 1-11,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 49 (1991),

87-97. “2 Kings 24:13-14,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 53 (1991), 541-52. “Rabbi Simeon ben Lakish at the Gladiator’s Banquet: Rabbinic Observations on the

Roman Arena,” Harvard Theological Review 83 (1990), 93-98. Co-written with Michael Poliakoff.

“Classical Hebrew in the Modern Hebrew Curriculum,” Melton Journal 24 (Spring 1991),

25-26. “Glossary: Manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible,” Bible Review 6/4 (August 1990), 40-42. “Jud 1,1-2,10: From Appendix to Prologue,” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche

Wissenschaft 101 (1989), 433-435. “The Book of Judges: Literature as Politics,” Journal of Biblical Literature 108 (1989),

395-418. “Ideology, History and Theology in 2 Kings XVII 7-23,” Vetus Testamentum 39 (1989),

268-282.

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“The Promise of the Land of Israel to the Patriarchs,” Shnaton: An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, 5-6 (1983), vii-xxiv.

ESSAYS IN EDITED VOLUMES AND FESTSCHRIFTEN “Happy is the Man Who Fills His Quiver With Them (Ps. 127:5): Constructions of

Masculinities in the Psalms” in Being a Man: Negotiating, Legitimating, and Maintaining Ancient Constructs of Masculinity. Ed. Ilona Zsolnay (Routledge, NY). (forthcoming, 2014)

“The Hebrew Bible and History,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible-

Old Testament, ed. Stephen B. Chapman and Marvin Sweeney (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014) (forthcoming).

“(Divine) Silence is Golden: A New Reading of the Prologue of Job,” in Interested

Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David J. A. Clines, eds. James K. Aitken, Jeremy M. S. Clines, and Christl M. Maier (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013), 19-26.

“A Woman’s Voice in the Psalter: A New Understanding of Psalm 113,” in Built by Wisdom, Established by Understanding: Essays on Biblical and Near Eastern Literature in Honor of Adele Berlin, ed. Maxine L. Grossman (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2013), 155-170.

“Adele Berlin: An Appreciation,” in Built by Wisdom, Established by Understanding:

Essays on Biblical and Near Eastern Literature in Honor of Adele Berlin, ed. Maxine L. Grossman (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2013), 1-6.

“Psalms and Jewish Biblical Theology,” in Jewish Biblical Theology: Perspectives and

Case Studies, ed. Isaac Kalimi (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2012), 187-197. “The Hebrew Bible and the Early History of Israel,” in The Cambridge Guide to Jewish

History, Religion and Culture, ed. Judith R. Baskin and Kenneth Seeskin (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010), 6-33.

“The ‘Coherence’ of Ancient Texts,” in Gazing on the Deep: Ancient Near Eastern and

Other Studies in Honor of Tzvi Abusch,” ed. J. Stackert et al. (Bethesda, MD: CDL, 2010), 411-419.

“The Riddle of Psalm Ps 111” in Scriptural Exegesis: The Shapes of Culture and the

Religious Imagination: Essays in Honour of Michael Fishbane, ed. Deborah A. Green, Laura S. Lieber (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 62-73.

“Fire, Cloud, and Deep Darkness (Deuteronomy 5:22): Deuteronomy’s Recasting of

Revelation” in The Significance of Sinai: Traditions About Sinai and Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity, ed. George J. Brooke et al. (Boston: Brill, 2008), 15-28.

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“Feminist and Anti-Feminist Visions of the Bible,” Seinan Theological Review 65

(2008), 143-165 (in Japanese). “How Should Jews Interpret the Bible,” Seinan Theological Review 65 (2008), 123-141

(in Japanese). “Biblical Authority: A Jewish Pluralistic View,” in Engaging Biblical Authority:

Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture, ed. William P. Brown (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007), 1-9, 141-143.

“The Poet as Historian: The Plague Tradition in Ps 105,” in Bringing the Hidden to Light:

Studies in Honor of Stephen A. Geller, ed. K. F. Kravitz and D. M. Sharon (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2007), 19-28.

“Redaction, History, and Redaction-History of Amos in Recent Scholarship” in Israel's

Prophets and Israel's Past: Essays on the Relationship of Prophetic Texts and Israelite History in Honor of John H. Hayes, ed. Brad E. Kelle and Megan Bishop Moore (New York: T & T Clark, 2006), 103-112.

“Unresolved and Unresolvable: Problems in Interpreting the Song,” in Scrolls of Love:

Ruth and the Song of Songs, ed. Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg (New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2006), 185-198.

“A ‘Literary Sermon’ in Deuteronomy 4,” in A Wise and Discerning Mind: Essays in

Honor of Burke O. Long, ed. Saul Olyan (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2000), 33-50. “The Metaphorical Mapping of God in the Hebrew Bible,” in Metaphor, Canon and

Community: Jewish, Christian and Islamic Approaches. Ralph Bisschops and James Francis (Religions and Discourse 1; Bern: Peter Lang, 1999), 219-32.

“The Metaphorical Mapping of God in the Hebrew Bible,” Working Paper in

Preparation for the L.A.U.D. [Linguistic Agency of the University of Duisburg] Symposium, University of Duisburg, 1997.

“God as a Woman in Jewish Theology,” Working Paper in Preparation for the L.A.U.D.

[Linguistic Agency of the University of Duisburg] Symposium, University of Duisburg, 1997.

“Sensual or Sublime: On Teaching the Song of Songs,” in Approaches to Teaching the

Hebrew Bible as Literature in Translation, ed. Barry N. Olshen and Yael S. Feldman (New York: Modern Language Association, 1989), 133-135.

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POPULAR ARTICLES “Krister Stendahl on Peace: A Jewish Perspective” (forthcoming). “Biblical Precursors: Father, King, Potter” in Naming God: Avinu Malkeinu – Our Father,

Our King, ed. Lawrence Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2015), 79-86.

“Canon” (revision of old essay), “Modern Biblical Scholarship” (new), and “Gender and

the Bible” (new) in The Jewish Study Bible. Second Expanded Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

“Biblical Views: Reaching Across the Great Divide” Biblical Archaeology Review 39/5

(Sep/Oct 2013), 26, 73. “Would Jeremiah have Recited Yizkor? Yizkor and the Bible” in May God Remember:

Memory and Memorializing in Judaism, ed. Lawrence Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013), 71-76.

“Introduction to the Torah,” Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, Quran, ed. Brian Arthur

Brown (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012), 55-65. “Sin, Sanction, and Confession in the Bible,” in We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in

Judaism, ed. Lawrence A. Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2012), 3-12. “Women and Psalms” in Biblical Archaeology Review 36/3 (May June 2010), 28, 78. “Perplexing Passions,” in The Jerusalem Report (July 20, 2009), 47. Essays on “The Pentateuch,” “The Historical Books,” “The Poetical Books,” Canon

(Hebrew Bible),” “The Jewish Inner-Biblical Interpretation of the Bible,” and “The Premodern Jewish Interpretation of the Bible” for The New Oxford Annotated Bible, ed. Michael Cogan et al. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

“Reengineering Our Courses,” Perspectives 1 (1999) [Newsletter of the Association for

Jewish Studies], 16-17. “The Masorites at Work,” Bible Review 13/4 (Aug. 1997), 38-39. “How the Books of the Bible were Chosen,” “Old Testament Manuscripts: From

Qumran to Leningrad” and “TheTorah, The Prophets and the Writings: A New Jewish Translation,” reprinted in Approaches to the Bible: The Best of Bible Review, Vol, 1: Composition, Transmission and Language, ed. Harvey Minkoff (Washington D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1994), 108-13, 198-204, 309-19.

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“Syllabus for ‘Women and the Hebrew Bible,’” in Gender and Jewish Studies: A

Curriculum Guide, ed. Judith Baskin and Shelly Tennenbaum (New York: Biblio Press, 1994), 10-15.

“On Becoming a Male Feminist Bible Scholar,” Bible Review 10/2 (April 1994), 44-45. “On Becoming a Male Jewish Feminist,” All Sides of Ourselves: Brandeis University

Women’s Studies Working Papers 6 (April 1994). “Glossary: Canon,” Bible Review 5/4 (1989), 12-13. WORKS ON THE BIBLICAL ROOTS OF THE JEWISH LITURGY “A Biblical Perspective” in Prayers of Awe: Who by Fire, Who by Water Un’taneh Tokef,

ed. L. Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2011), 83-87. “The Heavenly Assembly” in All these Vows: Kol Nidre, ed. L. Hoffman (Woodstock,

VT: Jewish Lights, 2011), 22-25. “A Biblical Commentary on the Haggadah,” in My People’s Haggadah, ed. Lawrence A.

Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2007). “Our Biblical Heritage,” in My People’s Prayer Book, Vol.10: Additions for the Sabbath,

ed. Lawrence A. Hoffman(Woodstock, VT; Jewish Lights, 2007). “Our Biblical Heritage,” in My People’s Prayer Book, Vol. 9: Welcoming the Night, ed.

Lawrence A. Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2006). “Kabbalat Shabbat: A Liturgy from the Psalms,” in My People’s Prayer Book, Vol. 8:

Kabbalat Shabbat, ed. Lawrence A. Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2005).

“Our Biblical Heritage,” in My People’s Prayer Book, Vol. 7: The Shabbat at Home, ed.

Lawrence A. Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2004). “Our Biblical Heritage,” in My People’s Prayer Book, Vol. 6: Tachanun and Concluding

Prayers, ed. Lawrence A. Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2003). “Our Biblical Heritage,” in My People’s Prayer Book, Vol. 5: The Concluding Prayers,

ed. Lawrence A. Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2002). “Our Biblical Heritage,” in My People’s Prayer Book, Vol. 5: Birkhot Hashachar

(Morning Blessings), ed. Lawrence A. Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2000).

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“Our Biblical Heritage,” in My People’s Prayer Book, Vol. 3: Pseukei D’Zimra, ed. Lawrence A. Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 1999).

“Prayer in the Bible and the Use of the Bible in Later Jewish Prayer,” in My People’s

Prayer Book, Vol. 3: Pseukei D’Zimra, ed. Lawrence A. Hoffman (Woodstock, VT; Jewish Lights, 1999), 15-22.

“Our Biblical Heritage,” in My People’s Prayer Book, Vol. 2: The Amidah, ed. Lawrence

A. Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 1998). “Our Biblical Heritage,” in My People’s Prayer Book, Vol. 1: The Sh’ma and its

Blessings, ed. Lawrence A. Hoffman(Woodstock, VT; Jewish Lights, 1997). ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES “Judaism, Bible in” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (forthcoming). Four articles (including “Psalms,” “Biblical Hebrew”) in The Cambridge Dictionary of

Judaism and Jewish Culture, ed. Judith Baskin (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011).

Seven articles, including major articles on “King, Kingship” and “Samson” for New

Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible (2008-2011). Nine Articles for Women and Scripture, ed. Carol Meyers et al. (Boston: Houghton

Mifflin, 2000). “Sarna, Nahum,” Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. John H. Hayes (Nashville:

Abingdon, 1999), 438-9. “Joel,” “Obadiah,” Harper’s Bible Dictionary, revised edition (1995). Nineteen articles in Anchor Bible Dictionary (Doubleday, 1992). Approximately twenty articles in Harper’s Bible Dictionary, (1985). REVIEW ESSAYS “An Outsider’s Look at Mishkan T’filah: Partaking and Informing,” CCAR Journal 58/3

(Summer 2011), 3-15. “A Bible Commentary for Israel (Review of Zakovitch, Ruth),” Prooftexts 13 (1993),

175-181.

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“Review of Baal’s Death and Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges and Murder and Difference: Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on Sisera’s Death,” Hebrew Studies 31 (1990), 96-101.

“The Torah, the Prophets and the Writings: A New Jewish Translation,” Biblical

Archeology Review 8 (1982), 63-67. BOOK REVIEWS Weiss, Andrea L., Figurative Language in Biblical Prose Narrative, in Biblica 89 (2008),

410-412. Smith, Mark, The Memoirs of God, in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 68 (2006), 129-130. Mowinckel, Sigmund, The Spirit and the Word, in Jewish Quarterly Review 95 (2005),

328-330. Fox, Nili Sacher, In the Service of the King, in Jewish Quarterly Review 95 (2005), 695-6. Torijano, Pablo A., Solomon the Esoteric King, in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 66 (2004),

142-142. Watts, James W. ed., Persia and Torah: The Theory of Imperial Authorization of the

Pentateuch, and Boccaccini, Gabriel, Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: An Intellectual History, from Ezekiel to Daniel, in Journal of Religion 83 (2003), 317-319.

Halpern, Baruch, David’s Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King, in Jewish

Quarterly Review 94 (2004), 149-152. Friedman, Richard Elliott, Commentary on the Torah with a New English Translation, in

Bible Review 18 (2002), 42-45. Olyan, Saul, Rites and Rank, in Jewish Quarterly Review 93 (2002), 269-271. Freedman, David Noel, The Nine Commandments: Uncovering a Hidden Pattern of

Crime and Punishment in the Hebrew Bible, in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 63 (2001), 517-19.

Davies, Philip R., Scribes and Schools: The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures, in

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 121 (2001), 311. Sperling, S. David, The Original Torah: The Political Thought of the Bible’s Writers, in

Jewish Quarterly Review 89 (1999), 403-5. Cohen, Menahem ,Mikraot Gedolot ‘Haketer’ Vol 4 Isaiah, in Hebrew Studies 40 (1999),

314-15.

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Weitzman, Steven, Song and Story in Biblical Narrative, in Journal of Biblical Literature 118 (1999), 335-7.

Accordance Software for Biblical Studies, in Prooftexts 18 (1998), 281-83. Weisman, Ze’ev, Political Satire in the Bible, in Jewish Quarterly Review 89 (1998),

180-81. Macchi, Jean-Daniel, Les Samaritans: Histoire d’une Légende, in Religious Studies

Review 22 (1996), 350. A. R. Millard, James K. Hoffmeier and David W. Baker ed., Faith, Tradition, and

History: Old Testament Historiography in Its Near Eastern Context, in Shofar 14/3 (1996), 183-89.

McKenzie, The Trouble with Kings, in AJS Review 20 (1995), 161-163. Carr, From D to Q: A Study of Early Jewish Interpretations of Solomon’s Dream at

Gibeon, in Journal of Religion 74 (1994), 119. Jones, The Nathan Narratives, in Hebrew Studies 34 (1993), 148-51. Long, The Reign and Rejection of King Saul, in Jewish Quarterly Review 83 (1993), 411-

12. Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament, in AJS Review 17 (1992),

98-100. Rofé, The Prophetical Stories, in Jewish Quarterly Review 82 (1992), 507-510. Becker, Richterzeit und Königtum: Redaktionsgeschichtliche Studien zum Richterbuch,

BZAW 192, in Journal of Biblical Literature 111 (1992), 517-19. Bailey, Noah: The Person and the Story in History and Tradition and Humphreys,

Joseph and His Family: A Literary Study, in Bible Review VII/2 (April 1991), 13-14.

Cogan and Tadmor, 2 Kings, Anchor Bible, in Jewish Quarterly Review 81 (1990), 155-

58. Polzin, Samuel and the Deuteronomist, in Journal of Religion 70 (1990), 625-626. Halpern, The First Historians, in Journal of Religion 70 (1990), 83-84. O’Conner, The Confessions of Jeremiah: Their Interpretation and Role in Chapters 1-25,

in Journal of Religion 70 (1990), 85-86.

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Gabel and Wheeler, The Bible as Literature, and Alter and Kermode, The Literary Guide

to the Bible, in Bible Review 5/4 (1989), 4, 44. Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible, in Conservative Judaism, 40/4 (Summer 1988), 85-87. Rendsburg, The Redaction of Genesis, in Jewish Quarterly Review 78 (1987), 113-119. Fox, Everett, In the Beginning: A New English Rendition of the Book of Genesis, in Bible

Review 1 (1985), 8-9. ONLINE PUBLICATIONS “Love Your Neighbor”, Bible Odyssey Website Project. “The Prophets and the Temple” Bible Odyssey Website Project. “What Role Has Faith Played in Scholars’ Reading of the Bible?” Bible Odyssey Website Project. “On Becoming a Critical Torah Scholar” http://thetorah.com/a-critical-torah-scholar/ “Relating to God in Calamity: The Approaches in Lamentations” http://thetorah.com/relating-to-god-in-calamity/ “Is the Torah a Pentateuch or Hexateuch?” http://thetorah.com/is-the-torah-a-pentateuch/ “Reaching Across the Great Divide” Published in Biblical Archaeology Review September / October 2013 http://thetorah.com/reaching-across-the-divide/ “Yom Kippur - How Much Forgiveness Can We Expect From God?” http://thetorah.com/yom-kippur-forgiveness/ Blog: http://thetorah.com/what-will-the-newly-found-tefillin-scrolls-reveal/ “Should Jews Read the New Testament?” with Amy-Jill Levine, Shma 2012, available at http://www.shma.com/2012/05/reading-the-new-testament/ Annotated Bibliography, “Biblical History” for Oxford Bibliographies on-line (2010). “Review of Diane Banks, Writing the History of Israel,” RBL online: http://www.bookreviews.org/BookDetail.asp?TitleId=6097

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OTHER TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS “Forward” to Shai Cherry, Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2007), ix-x. Commentaries on the weekly Torah portion for The Jewish Forward and The Jerusalem Report (2007-08). Obituaries for Nahum M. Sarna for Jewish Quarterly Review, AJS Perspectives, Society of Biblical Literature Website, and Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Israel). Op-Ed in various venues (e.g. Herald, NY Daily News) on Creationism and the Bible. “The Future of Biblical Studies” for Society of Biblical Literature On-line Forum. “Elu Ve-elu Divrei Elohim Hayyim: A Biblical View,” Shma March 2006. Article in the Brandeis Review. ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS 2013 Chair of Bible and Metaphor session at 2013 Annual Meeting of the

Society of Biblical Literature. 2013 Organizer and Chair of session reviewing Benjamin Sommer, Jewish

Concepts of Scripture at 2013 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.

2012 “The Place of Critical Biblical Studies and New Testament in the Judaic

Studies Curriculum,” at Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies.

2012 “The Place of Critical Biblical Studies and New Testament in the Judaic

Studies Curriculum,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Biblical Studies.

2012 Respondent in session about the Jewish Annotated New Testament (co-

editor) at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. 2012 “The ‘Same’ Metaphor in Parallel Texts: Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22,” at

the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. 2012 Respondent at session on “The Place of Judges in the Deuteronomistic

History” at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.

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2012 “The Love of God in the Bible” at rededication of the Swedish

Theological Institute of Jerusalem. 2012 “Modern Jewish Biblical Interpretation,” with Edward Breuer, at Tauber

Colloquium, Brandeis University. 2011 “The Jewish Annotated New Testament” at Annual Meeting of the Society

for Biblical Literature. 2011 “George Lakoff’s Influence on the study of Biblical Metaphor,” at Annual

Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature. 2011 “Gender in Psalms” at University of Pennsylvania conference on

Masculinity in the Ancient Near East. 2010 “Psalm 92” at Johns Hopkins Bible Colloquium. 2010 “Moshe Greenberg as a Jewish Biblical Theologian” at Annual Meeting of

the Society for Biblical Literature. 2010 “Review of Hanne Lolland, Silent or Salient God” at Annual Meeting of

the Society for Biblical Literature. 2010 Chair of Metaphor and the Bible session at Annual Meeting of the Society

for Biblical Literature. 2010 “The Hebrew Bible and Religious Belief: A Jewish Perspective” at

University of Pennsylvania conference on Critical Study of the Bible and Religious Belief.

2010 “Jeremiah 31 in Jewish Tradition” at Georgetown University Colloquium

on Jewish-Catholic Relations. 2010 Moderator of DtrH session at regional Society of Biblical Literature. 2009 “Respondent” at Johns Hopkins Biblical Colloquium. 2009 “Psalm 98” at the Biblical Colloquium. 2009 “Revisiting Women and Psalms,” at Univ. of Maryland Conference in

Honor of Adele Berlin. 2008 “Historical Tests in the Hebrew Bible?” at major conference at Brown

University on Historiography in Antiquity.

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2008 invited speaker at “Roundtable on Graduate Programs in Biblical Studies” at Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature.

2008 invited participant, delivered paper on “The Problem with Covenant” for

biblical theology group at Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature.

2007 “A Jewish Interpretation of Psalm 113?” at International Society of

Biblical Literature (Vienna). 2007 “Revelation at Sinai: Biblical Perspectives” at Durham England

conference on Revelation at Sinai in Jewish and Christian Tradition. 2007 “Psalm 113 as an Introduction to Hallel” at the Hebrew University Psalm

Colloquium. 2007 “The Riddle of Psalm 111” at Hebrew University Faculty Bible

Colloquium. 2007 “The Theology of Psalms” at Northwestern University conference on

Psalms. 2006 “The Bible as History: Evidence from the Ninth Century,” invited paper

for the European History Group of the Society of Biblical Literature, at Budapest, Hungary.

2006 Chair of Bible session at Association for Jewish Studies. 2006 Chair of session on Deuteronomistic history at Society of Biblical

Literature. 2005 “Method in the Application of Source Material to Historical Writing (With

Particular Reference to the Ninth Century BCE): Textual Sources,” Invited lecture for historiography conference at the Royal Academy in London.

2005 “Cohesion in the Hebrew Bible,” at World Congress of Jewish Studies in

Jerusalem. 2005 Chair of session on Deuteronomistic History at Society of Biblical

Literature Annual Meeting. 2005 “Writing a Psalms Commentary” at Association for Jewish Studies

meeting. 2004 Invited lecture on “The State of Biblical Studies (the Hebrew Bible)” at

Regional Society of Biblical Literature Conference.

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2003 Chair of session on Biblical Studies at Association for Jewish Studies meeting.

2003 “Psalms and Jewish Biblical Theology,” Society of Biblical Literature. 2002 “Unresolved and Unresolvable Problems in Interpreting the Songs,”

Boston University Conference on the Song of Songs. 2002 “Teleological and Cyclical Time in the Hebrew Bible,” University of

Pennsylvania Conference on Time in Antiquity. 2001 “Jewish Biblical Commentary” moderator and panel convener at

Association for Jewish Studies. 1999 “The Copenhagen School: The Historiographical Issues,” Northwestern

University Conference on the Copenhagen School of Biblical Studies. 1999 “A ‘Literary Sermon’ in Deuteronomy 4,” Society of Biblical Literature. 1999 “The Literary Interpretation of Biblical Historical Texts,” International

Society of Biblical Literature. 1997 “The Metaphorical Mapping of God in the Hebrew Bible” and “God as a

Woman in Jewish Theology,” International LAUD Conference in Germany on Metaphor and Religion.

1996 “Discussion of Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses,” Association for

Jewish Studies. 1996 “Predestination in Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Deuteronomy 30:1-10,” Society

of Biblical Literature. 1996 “The Theology of Biblical History,” University of Chicago Conference on

Jewish Biblical Theology. 1995 “The Transition From Israelite Religion to Judaism,” Association for

Jewish Studies. 1995 “Women and Psalms,” Society of Biblical Literature. 1994 “1 Samuel 1-2: Structure and Composition,” Society of Biblical Literature. 1994 “History and Memory in Ancient Israel,” University of Notre Dame,

Minnow Conference, The Uses and Misuses of Memory: Memory and History in Christianity and Judaism.

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1993 “Redaction and Meaning in Amos,” Society of Biblical Literature. 1993 “Is there Martyrdom in the Hebrew Bible?” Smith College Symposium on

Martyrdom. 1993 “Teaching Biblical Hebrew in the Modern Hebrew Curriculum” NEH

Seminar on The Teaching of Modern Hebrew, Brandeis University. 1993 “From the Deuteronomist(s) to the Chronicler: Continuities and

Innovations,” World Congress of Jewish Studies. 1992 “Literature as Politics in the Hebrew Bible: Judges, Samuel, Kings,”

Cornell University Conference on Literature and Politics in Antiquity. 1992 “Incompatible Metaphors for YHWH in Deutero-Isaiah,” Society of

Biblical Literature. 1992 “The Composition of Samuel: Literary and Ideological Considerations,”

Association for Jewish Studies. 1991 “Never the Twain Shall Meet: The Ehud Pericope as History and

Literature,” Association for Jewish Studies. 1991 “A Macintosh Hypercard Biblical Hebrew Program,” Society of Biblical

Literature. 1991 “Classical Jewish Interpretation and its Contemporary Applications,”

Society of Biblical Literature. 1991 “The Composition of 1 Kings 8:15-53,” Society of Biblical Literature. 1988 “Ancient Exegesis: Historiographical Texts,” Wayne State Conference on

Bible as Literature and History. 1987 “God is King: A New Approach to an Old Problem,” Association for

Jewish Studies. 1987 “The Influence of the Secular on the Religious in Ancient Israel,” Bible

and Constitutionalism Conference as part of celebration of bicentennial of U.S. constitution.

1987 “The Position of Classical Hebrew in the Modern Hebrew Curriculum,”

National Association for Professors of Hebrew.

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OTHER ACADEMIC PAPERS PRESENTED 2014 “Discussion of Itamar Kislev’s On the Threshold of the Promised Land”

Haifa University (in Hebrew). 2014 “The Bible in Jewish Culture,” Duke University. 2014 “On Writing a Jewish Critical Commentary on Psalms,” Vanderbilt University. 2014 “The Bible as History,” a four-part lecture series at Pardes Institute in

Jerusalem. 2014 “On Teaching the Bible at College: A View from America,” Oranim

College (in Hebrew). 2013 “The Metaphorical World of God-Language in Psalms,” Boston College

Symposium on Psalms. 2013 “Flipping the Bible Classroom,” Harvard, Yale, Brown, Brandeis Bible

Day keynote lecture. 2013 “Will the Real Biblical God Please Stand Up,” Colby College. 2013 “The Dead Sea Scrolls” Trinity Church at Copley Square, Boston. 2013 Respondent at the Biblical Colloquium. 2013 Respondent at the Colloquium for Biblical Research. 2013 “Why the Dead Sea Scrolls Matter to Jews and Christians,” The Leonardo,

Salt Lake City. 2013 “The Utility of Jewish Perspectives on the New Testament,” University of Utah. 2012 “The Jewish Annotated New Testament,” book talk offered at Brandeis

University, Elmira NY, Great Barrington MA and Jerusalem Israel. 2012 “The Righteous Shall Live by Faith,” Boston College. 2012 “How Jews Read the Book of Psalms,” Rainbow Group for Ecumenical

Bible Discussion, Jerusalem. 2011 “The Lectionary for the High Holidays,” Reform Movement Machzor

Committee.

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2011 “The Bible and History,” Tel Es-Safi Archeological Dig. 2010 Two lectures on the Bible from a Jewish perspective at the MF Norwegian

School of Theology. 2010 “Should we Expect to Find Goliath’s Bones?” Tel Es-Safi Archeological

Dig. 2010 “The Excavations at the City of David” at Brandeis University Israel

Summer Seminar. 2010 “How the Bible Became the Bible” and “The Shabbat Psalms” at Limmud

Philly. 2009 “Writing a Commentary on Psalms” at Pontifical Biblical Institute,

Jerusalem. 2009 “Women and Psalms” at Tel-Aviv University Jewish Studies Colloquium

(in Hebrew). 2009 “Dating of Pottery and of Biblical Texts” Tel Es-Safi Archeological Dig. 2009 “How to Read the Bible,” The Smithsonian Institute. 2009 “Women and Psalms” Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem. 2009 “The Bible and American Public Life” Brandeis in the Berkshires. 2009 “Jewish Biblical Interpretation” invited Jewish Studies lecture at

University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. 2008 “Jerusalem and Archaeology: Fact and Fiction,” Brandeis Israel Studies

Seminar. 2008 Is the Bible True?” Academic lecture to staf and volunteers at Tel-Gath

Archaeological site. 2008 “Halleluya: Psalms in Jewish and Christian Tradition,” endowed lecture

at Dartmouth University. 2008 “Dead Sea Scrolls in Archaeology” and “Is the Bible True?” endowed

lectures at Arizona State University. 2007 “The Song of Songs,” Cambridge Limmud.

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2007 “Appreciation of the Work of Anne Lapidus Lerner on Genesis,” Hadassah Brandeis Institute.

2007 “Feminist and Anti-Feminist Visions of the Bible” and “How Should Jews

Interpret the Bible” at Seinan Gakuin University, Fukaoka, Japan. 2007 “Teaching Bible in Israel,” Ovnayim Institute, Revivim Fellows

(Jerusalem— in Hebrew). 2007 “The Psalms of Hallel,” Pardes Institute (Jerusalem). 2007 “Biblical History in the Psalms,” Bible Lands Museum (Jerusalem). 2007 “The Sabbath Psalms” at Psalms Day at the Israeli Conservative Yeshiva. 2006 “The Biblical Period” Docent Training Program at Spertus College,

Chicago. 2006 “Psalms” in the Genesis Forum, Boston (2 sessions). 2006 “The Bible and Evolution” at 92nd St. Y. 2006 “The Bible as a Source of History,” invited paper at Jagellonian

University, Krakow, Poland. 2006 27 lectures on 17 topics as scholar in residence at The Foundation for

Jewish Studies, Washington DC. 2006 “The Ten Commandments in Public Life in North America,” Wolinsky

Lecture at York University, Canada. 2005 “How Jews Interpret the Bible, and Why Non-Jews Should Care,”

Endowed lecture at Assumption College. 2004 “The Song of Songs” as part of a Zamir chorale concert on the Song. 2003-04 A variety of invited talks on the Jewish Study Bible, which I co-edited. 2000 Invited lecture on Biblical Historiography as part of Jewish

Historiography Workshop at University of Chicago. 1998 Invited lecture on Jewish Biblical Theology at the Harvard University

Divinity School. 1996 “Women in the Psalms,” Boston Theological Institute Old Testament

Seminar.

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1995 “Academia and the Arts in Concert: A Discussion with Elizabeth Swados.”

(A symposium on women in the Bible as part of the celebration of Swados’ premiere of Bible Women at Brandeis University).

1995 “The Transition From Israelite Religion to Judaism,” Boston Theological

Institute Bible Colloquium. 1993 “The Case of the Hebrew Bible,” Looking at Jews through Two Eyes: A

Conference in Celebration of Marshall Sklare’s New Book.

1993 “Accommodation and Resistance to Imperialism in Ancient Israel,” Brandeis University Conference on Martyrdom and Resistance.

1992 “David, Saul and Samuel: Structure and Ideology,” Boston Theological Institute Bible Colloquium.

1992 “Bible as Myth, Bible as History,” Hebrew Union College Conference on

Current Academic Understanding of Judaica. 1988 “Medieval Interpretation: Continuity and Innovation,” Meyerhoff Lecture

at the University of Maryland. TELEVISIONAND RADIO APPEARANCES Interviewed by Alan Chartok on WAMC Roundtable on The Jewish Annotated New Testament. Interviewed for Jewish Sunday morning TV show on Channel 7, Boston about How to Read the Bible. Interviewed on WBZ and two Christian Radio stations about How to Read the Bible. Interviewed on Terry Gross, Fresh Air, January (Jan. 30, 2006). Interviewed on National Public Radio, All Things Considered, about the Place and Meaning of the Ten Commandments in Jewish Life (Jan 20, 2004). Interview on “Jerry Bowyer Show” about the Jewish Study Bible (11/15/03). Interviewed on National Public Radio in November 1995 concerning the term “Atonement” in connection to the Million Man March. Interviewed on episode concerning Abraham for Arts and Entertainment series, “Mysteries of the Bible” (aired January 1995). I also acted as a consultant for several episodes of that series.

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Consultant for WGBH (Boston Public Television) documentary on the Ten Commandments and other projects about religion and the Bible. OTHER ACADEMIC PROJECTS Co-founded Website thetorah.com (integrates Jewish and critical perspectives on biblical studies). Steering committee for Society of Biblical Literature Odyssey on-line project (NEH sponsored). One of the organizers of new section as Annual Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, on Metaphor and the Hebrew Bible. Consultant for Oxford University Press on-line Bible project. Consultant for WGBH on series on Religion in America. Head of Bible group for Center for Online Judaic Studies. Consultant for WGBH for their Ten Commandments project. Consultant for WGBH Nova program on the Bible as History. Development of on-line instructional program of Bible pilot unit for Me’ah Program. Development and publication of Me-ah Bible Curriculum through Boston Hebrew College. Development and implementation of Me-ah on-line project for Boston Hebrew College. Development (with William Schniedewind) of Macintosh Hypercard software for the instruction of Intermediate Biblical Hebrew at Brandeis University. Participant in Ford Foundation Seminar on African Culture and the Humanities. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS American Oriental Society. American Schools for Oriental Research. Association for Jewish Studies.

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OFFICES IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Nominated as Secretary and member of executive committee of the American Academy for Jewish Research. Member of the Council of the Society of Biblical Literature (2014-). Board Member for Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Israel and Its Literature Series (2014-). President, Colloquium for Biblical Research (2012-2013). Nominating Committee for the Society of Biblical Literature (2012-). Board of Directors, Association for Jewish Studies (1987-2003). Fundraising Committee, Association for Jewish Studies (1987-2003). Co-Chair of Steering Committee, Deuteronomistic History Group, Society of Biblical Literature (2004-2010). Associate Editor, Journal of Biblical Literature (1987-2003). Editorial Board member of Prooftexts (1996-2002). Editorial Board member of Nashim (2003-). Editorial Board member of Hebrew Studies (2005-). Editorial Board member of Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies (2015-) ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Organizer for 2013 Summer Program of the Colloquium for Biblical Research (Special 50th Anniversary Program). Brandeis University Liaison for Dead Sea Scrolls: Life in Ancient Times Exhibit with Boston Museum of Science (2013). Consultant for Eric Chasalow’s original music composition (“Where it Finds Nothing But the Wind”) on the Dead Sea Scrolls (2013). Invited disputant for doctoral defense at Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo. Invited member to Johns Hopkins Bible Colloquium.

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Invited member to Northeast Bible Colloquium. Active member of Hebrew University Bible Project (when in Jerusalem). Research Fellow at Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. Reviewed manuscripts for publication in Cambridge University Press, Shnaton: Annual for the Bible and the Ancient Near East (Israel), Princeton University Press, Hebrew Union College Annual, Indiana University Press, Oxford University Press, Magnes Press (Israel), Brill, Hebrew Studies, Prooftexts, Pennsylvania State Press, Garland Press, Routledge Press, Jewish Publication Society, Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series, Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series, Jewish Quarterly Review, Journal of Biblical Studies, Journal of Religion, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Prooftexts, Vetus Testamentum, Signs and Society, AJS Review. On editorial board of Religions and Discourse Series, published by Peter Lang. Bible Editor for Journal of the American Oriental Society (through 12/00), Journal of Biblical Literature (through 2003) and Nashim. Member of planning committee, New England Society for Biblical Literature (1989-93) and Chair of Old Testament Section, Regional Society of Biblical Literature Conference (1990). Head of Bible Section of Association for Jewish Studies (1998-2001). Chair of sessions at the annual meetings of the Association for Jewish Studies 1986, 88, 94, 98 +) and Society of Biblical Literature (1997, 98, 00 +). Reviewed grant applications for the NEH Summer Stipends, NEH Special Projects, NEH Collaborative Research Projects, Buntings Institute of Radcliffe College, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. Outside reader on dissertations from: University of Chicago, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Outside evaluator for tenure and promotion (names and universities are confidential). UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT Justice in the Bible, Freshman Humanities Course, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Prophecy, Women and the Hebrew Bible (cross-listed with Women’s Studies), Gender and the Hebrew Bible (cross-listed with Women’s and Gender Studies),The Torah (Hebrew Text Course), Biblical Narrative Texts (Hebrew Text Course), Intermediate Biblical Texts, Biblical Poetic Texts (Hebrew Text Course), Song of Songs (Hebrew Text Course), Psalms (Hebrew Text Course), Biblical Wisdom Literature, Love Poetry of

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the Hebrew Bible, Biblical Historical Texts, Genesis in Jewish and Critical Interpretation (seminar), Intensive Introductory Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew Texts and Grammar. GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT Graduate Proseminar in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Dead Sea Scrolls and Hebrew Reading Section for Dead Sea Scrolls, Samuel, Hosea, Amos, Biblical Religion, Jewish Medieval Biblical Commentary, Genesis: A Study in Method, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Biblical Historiography, Introduction to Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew Composition, Reading and Teaching the Hebrew Bible (co-taught with Danny Margolis for the Hornstein Program). UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2014 Member of Search Committee for Head of Hebrew Language Program. 2013 Organizer: Accordance Bible Seminar. 2013 Speaker: Brandeis Hillel. 2013 Organizer: Graduate Colloquium on the Dead Sea Scrolls. 2012-13 Chair of Committee on Dead Sea Scrolls with the Boston Museum of

Science. 2011- Member of Schusterman Committee planning conference on the use of the

past for the present. 2011 Member of Arabic coordinator search committee. 2011 (fall) Acting chair of Religious Studies Program. 2010- Member of NEJS curriculum committee. 2010-12 Member of Committee exploring Jewish nature of Brandeis. 2010 Selection committee for Olshansky Prize. 2010 Selection committee for graduate mentoring prize. 2009-present Mentor for junior faculty member in NEJS. 2009-10 Deans’ Committee on University Workload. 2009-present Provost’s Assessment Committee.

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2008-09 Participant in Davis Seminar concerning Writing Intensive courses. 2008-09 Head of Graduate Program of NEJS. 2008 Chair of cancelled search for Islamic Studies position. 2008- Member of Provost’s Committee on Assessment. 2007-08 Chair of Faculty Senate. 2007 Weekend lecturer for Brandeis Hillel. 2007 Member of Search Committee for University Chaplain. 2006-08 Member of Dean’s Advisory Council. 2006 Member of Voice of Palestine Exhibit Investigation Committee. 2006 Helped produce Dialogue: The Humanities at Brandeis. 2006 Member of Faculty Senate Committee on tenure. 2005-08 Member of Faculty Senate. 2005-06 Chair of Humanities Council. 2005-08 Member of Deans Advisory Council. 2005-07 Member of LARC (Liberal Arts Review Committee). 2004-06 Brandeis Representative to national Humanities initiative. 2004-11 Member of Intellectual Property Committee. 2003-09 Member of ITS-Library (later renamed LTS) Committee. 2002 Member of Faculty Committee on Disabilities. 2002-06 Member of the CST subcommittee on teaching prizes. 2001-06 Member of the Committee for the Support of Teaching (CST). 2001-06 Member of the CST subcommittee on teaching evaluations. 2001 Member of Provost Search Committee.

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2001-02 Member of Intellectual Property Committee. 2000 Member of Bernstein-Marcus Selection Committee. 1999-01 Member of Provost’s Advisory Council. 1999-05 Member of Bronfman Committee (IJE). 1998-01 Chair of Graduate Program of NEJS. 1997-98 Developed Departmental Website. 1997-06 Member of Dorot Fellows Selection Committee. 1997-present Board member of International Research Institute for Jewish Women. 1996-2005 Member of Sachar Scholarship Selection Committee. 1995-11 Member of Departmental GTR Committee. 1995-96 Member of Task Force on Jewish Education (Mandel). 1995-96 Member of Steering Committee on Jewish Education (Mandel). 1995 Member of Planning Committee for Women and the Bible Symposium. 1994-95 Member of Committee on Learning Disabilities. 1993-95, 97 Participant in Graduate Student Orientation (taught focus groups on TA

Professor Relations and on leading discussions). 1993-95 Member of Ad Hoc Committee on Study Abroad. 1993-94 Member of Presidential Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity at Brandeis. 1993 Main author of brochure on graduate studies in NEJS at Brandeis. 1992-94 Member of the Educational Policy Committee. 1992-07 Member of the Graduate Fellowships Abroad Committee. 1991-93 Undergraduate Advising Head for Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. 1990-93 Member of Faculty Committee on Computers and the Library. 1990-03 Member Brandeis Admissions Faculty Advisory Committee.

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1989-90 Co-chair of Board of Overseers of Undergraduate Fellows Program. 1989 Main author of brochure on graduate studies in NEJS at Brandeis. 1988-91 Member of Faculty Senate. 1988-90 Member of Board of Overseers of Undergraduate Fellows Program. 1988-90, 91-93 Mentor in Undergraduate Fellows Program. 1988-1994 Member of Library Select Acquisition Committee. 1988-91, 93-97 Freshman advisor. 1985-1986 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Jewish Studies Program at Yale. DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED William Schniedewind, “Prophecy in the Book of Chronicles” (Published) Owen Dickens, “Poetic Techniques in Ugaritic Poetry” David Bernat, “Circumcision in the Priestly Code” (Published) Michael Carasik, “Philosophy of Mind in Ancient Israel” (Published) Jason Gaines, “Poetic Features in Priestly Narrative Texts” Hilary Lipka, “Sexual Transgression in the Bible” (Published) Tamar Kamionkowski, “Ezekiel 16 and 23” (Published) Susan Tanchel, “The Holiness Code in Genesis” (Published) Sara Shectman, “Feminism and Source Criticism” (Published) Jeffrey Leonard, “Sources in Psalm 78” (Forthcoming)