CURRICULUM VITAE
Jack M. Sasson
Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and
Hebrew Bible
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Birth
October 1, 1941
Major Fields I: Near Eastern History [Assyriology], Hebrew Scriptures
Major Fields II: Islamic Studies [Pursued in all phases except for dissertation]
Academic positions and appointments
2002-2005- Director, Program in Jewish
Studies, Vanderbilt University
1999- Mary Jane Werthan
Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies, Vanderbilt University
Professor of Classics, Department of Classical Studies, Vanderbilt
University
1991- William Rand Kenan, Jr.
Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina
1988-93- Chair, Department of Religious Studies,
University of North Carolina
1966- Department of Religious Studies,
University of North Carolina)
Professor (1977-)
Associate Professor (1972-)
Assistant Professor (1966-)
1983-88 - Adjunct Professor, Department of Religion, Duke
University
Honors, grants and awards (select)
2005- President, International
Association for Assyriology
2005: Loy H. Witherspoon Lecture in Religious Studies, UNC, Charlotte
2001 E. Maynard Adams Lecture in the Humanities and Human values, UNC,
Chapel Hil
2000 Chuen King Lectures, Chinese University,
Hong Kong
1997-8 Distinguished Scholar (Brigham Young University;
Ben Gurion University, Beersheva)
1997 Visiting Scholar, École
Pratique des hautes Études
1996-7 President, American Oriental Society
1996 Director, Dupont
Summer Seminars for Liberal Arts College Faculty: "The Hebrew Bible in
Cultural Contexts"
1994-5 Fellow, National Humanities Center
1993-4 President, AAUP, UNC-CH
1988 President, Society for Biblical Literature
(SE)
1982-3 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies,
Jerusalem
1979 Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers:
"Folklore Research in the Ancient Near Eastern Narrative"
1969- Society for Religion in Higher Education:
Post-Doctoral Award for Cross-Disciplinary Studies, To study the phenomenology
of religion in Leiden, The Netherlands.
University service (Selected)
Vanderbilt University Senate, Transinstitutional
and Academic Priority Committee, Vanderbil University
Press, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Jewish Studies, MTS revision
Committee chair (Divinity School), Faculty Search Committee (Divinity School
and University), and others.
University of North Carolina Elected or
appointed to numerous committees, including: Chair, Department of Religious
Studies; Chair, Advisory Committee on Endowed Professorships; Faculty Council;
Faculty Assembly Delegation; Faculty Club, President; Grievance Committee;
Faculty Athletic Committee; Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee; Council of
Chairs; Advisory Committee, Program in the Humanities and Human Values; Library
Board; Nominating Committee; Convener for the Near Eastern Studies Group;
Search Committee, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; President-elect,
President, AAUP-UNC chapter, and others.
Courses (select)
A. Ancient Near Eastern Studies: The Literature of the Ancient
Near East; Elementary, Intermediate Akkadian; The Culture of the Ancient Near
East; Literature of the Ancient Near East, West Semitic Inscriptions; Ugaritics, Elementary Egyptian,.
B. Biblical Studies: The Age of the Patriarchs; Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced Biblical Hebrew; Biblical Motifs in Modern Fiction; Biblical Literature: The Five Scrolls; The Book of Judges; Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East; Worship and the Cult in Israel and the Ancient Near East; Literary Interpretations of Biblical Texts
C. Miscellaneous Studies: Jewish Messianism, The Religious Literature of Islam; Arabic Fiction; Methodology in the Study of Religion.
Editorial responsibility (recent)
2002-Editorial Board, Near Eastern Archaeology
2000- Consulting Editor, Eerdmans
Dictionary of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
2000)
1998- Advisory Board, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern
Religions (E.J. Brill, Leiden)
1997- Board member, Estudios
de Asia y Africa (El Colegio de Mexico)
1996- Editor for the "Ancient Near Eastern and
Bible," Journal of the American Oriental Society;
American Oriental Series and other Society monographs
1990-95 Chief Editor, Scribner's Civilization of the
Ancient Near East. Companion to Scribner's Civilization of the Ancient
Mediterranean:
1987-92 Editorial Board, The Anchor Bible Dictionary
(Doubleday)
1984-92 Editor, Documenta
et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui. E.J. Brill
1976-84 Editor for the "Ancient Near Eastern and
Bible," Journal of the American Oriental Society; American
Oriental Series and other Society monographs
1984- Editorial Board, Mesopotamian Studies (The
Johns Hopkins University)
1984- Editorial Board, Biblical Archaeologist
1983- Editorial Board, Bulletin of the American
Schools of Oriental Research
1977-82 Editorial Board, Journal of Biblical
Literature
1978-92 Networker for Mesopotamian Culture, Religious
Studies Review
Publications
Monographs and Articles
1966 -"Canaanite Maritime Involvement in the
Second Millennium B.C.," Journal of the American Oriental Society
86:126-38
.-"Circumcision in the Ancient Near East," Journal of Biblical Literature 85:473-76.
-"Remarks on Two 'Anatolian' Personal Names from Mari," Revue Hittite et Asianique 79:155-59.
-"A Sketch of North Syrian economic Relations in the Middle Bronze Age," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 9:161-81.
1968 -"Bovine Symbolism in the Exodus Narrative," Vetus Testamentum 18:380-87.
-"Instances of Mobility Among the Artisans of Mari," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 190:46-54.
-"An Early King of Assyria: Shamsi-Adad," History Today 18: 794-801.
1969
The Military Establishment at Mari. [Studia Pohl, 3.] Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute.
1971 -"Šarbit in Esther," Vetus
Testamentum 21:111.
-"Mari Notes," Revue d'Assyriologie
45:172.
1972 -"Flora, Fauna, and Minerals," pp. 383-452 in Ras Shamra Parallels, 1 [Analecta Orientalia, 49], Loren R. Fisher, ed. Rome, Pontifical Biblical Institute.
-"Some Literary Motifs in the Composition of the Gilgamesh Epic," Studies in Philology 69:259-79.
-"Some Comments on Archive Keeping at Mari," Iraq 34: 55-67.
-"Numbers 5 and the 'Waters of Judgment'," Biblische Zeitschrift 19:249-51.
-"Zimri-Lim's March to Victory," Revue d'Assyriologie 6:179-180.
1973 -English-Akkadian
Analytical Index to the
Department of Religion.
-"The
Worship of the Golden Calf," pp. 151-59 in Orient and
Occident: Essays Presented to Cyrus H. Gordon on the Occasion of
His Sixty-Fifth Birthday [Alter Orient und Altes
Testament, 22], edited by H. A. Hoffner, Jr. Neukirchner-Vluyn: Verlag Neukirchner,
Butzon and Bercker Kevelaer.
-"A Further Cuneiform Parallel to the Song of Songs?,"
Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentlische Wissenschaft 85:59-60.
-"Biographical Notices on Some Royal Ladies from Mari," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 25:59-78.
1974 -"Hurrian and Hurrian Personal Names from Mari," Ugarit-Forschungen 6:353-400.
-"Reflections on an Unusual Practice Reported in ARM X:4," Orientalia 43:404-10.
1975 -"Word-play in Genesis 6:9," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 37:165-66.
1976 -"Ass," "Generation; seventh," "Mari," "Twins," "Wordplay in the OT," Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible: Supplementary Volume.
-"Isaiah lxvi 3-4a," Vetus Testamentum 26:199-207.
-"The
ENGAR/ikkarum at Mari,"
pp. 401-409 in Kramer Anniversary Volume: Cuneiform Studies in
Honor of Samuel Noah Kramer, ed. B. L. Eichler. Neukirchner-Vluyn: Verlag Neukirchner, Butzon and
Bercker Kevelaer.
-"Divine
1977
Editor of The Treatment of Criminals in
the Ancient Near East: Studies Presented before the 185th Annual Meeting
of the American Oriental Society.
-"The Treatment of Criminals at Mari: A Survey," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 20:90-113.
1978 -"A Genealogical 'Convention' in Biblical
Chronography?", Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
90:171-85.
-"On Pope's Song of Songs (AB 7c)" MAARAV 1:177-196.
-"The Issue of ge'ullah in Ruth," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 5:49-51.
-"Response to D.R.G. Beattie's 'Ruth III'," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 5:52-64.
-"A Short Note on a "Mayor" Subject," Journal of Biblical Literature 97:104-05.
1979 -Ruth: A New Translation. With a
Philological Commentary and a Folkloristic-Formalist Interpretation.
-"The Calendar and Festivals of Mari during the time of Zimri-Lim," pp. 119-141 in Studies in Honor of Tom B. Jones. [Alter orient und Altes Testament, 203,] Ed. by R. Sack and M. Power, Jr. Neukirchner-Vluyn: Verlag Neukirchner, Butzon and Bercker Kevelaer.
-"Hurrian Personal Names in the Rimah Archives," Aššur 2:37-68.
1980 -"The
`Tower of
pp. 211-219
in The Bible World: Essays in Honor of
Cyrus H. Gordon. Ed. by G. Rendsburg, et al., KTAV.
-"Two Recent Works on Mari," Archiv für Orientforschung 27:127-135.
-"The Old Babylonian Tablets from Al-Rimah," The Journal of the American Oriental Society 100:453-460.
1981 -Datable Texts from Mari.
[ARTANES, 5]; Undena Publications:
-Compiler and Editor: Oriental Wisdom. Six Essays on the Sapiential Traditions
of
Eastern Civilizations.
-"Literary Criticism, Folklore Scholarship and Ugaritic Literature," pp. 81-89 in Ugarit in Retrospect. Ed. by G.D. Young, Eisenbrauns.
-"On Choosing Models for Recreating Israelite Pre-Monarchic History," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 21:3-24.
1982 -"Apocalypticism
at Mari? Speculations on ARM X:9," Mari: Annales de
Recherches Interdisciplinaires 1:151-67.
-"Idrimi and Šarruwa, the Scribe," pp. 309-324 in Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians: In Honor of E. R.Lacheman. Ed. by D. I. Owen and M. Morrison. Eisenbrauns.
-"Accounting
Discrepancies in the Mari NÌ.GUB [NÍG.DU] Texts," pp. 326-341 in Zikir šumim: Assyriological Studies Presented to F.R. Kraus.
Ed. by G. van Driel. E.J. Brill.
1983 -"Rehovot cîr,"
Revue Biblique 90:94-96.
-"Mari Dreams," Journal of the American Oriental Society 103:283-293.
-"Musical Settings for Cuneiform Literature: A Discography," Journal of the American Oriental Society 103:233-235.
1984 -Editor
of Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near
East Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer; by Members of the American Oriental
Studies. American Oriental Series, 65.
-"On Relating 'Religious' Texts to the Old Testament," MAARAV 3 (1982), 217-229. [Appeared 1984.]
-"Thoughts of Zimri-Lim," Biblical Archeologist 47:110-120.
-"Zimri-Lim Takes the Grand Tour," Biblical Archaeologist 47:246-251.
-"On Jonah's Two Missions," Henoch 6:23-30.
-"The
Biographic Mode in Hebrew Historiography," pp. 305-312 in In the Shelter of Elyon.
Essays on Ancient Palestinian Life and Literature in Honor of
G.W. Ahlström.
Edited by W. Boyd Barrick,
et al. [Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement
Series, 31.]
1985 -"Unlocking the Poetry of Love in the Song of Songs," Bible Review 1:10-19.
-"welo' yitbošašû (Gen 2,25) and Its Implications," Biblica 66:418-421.
-"Boaz," "boundary stones," "Chileab," "Chilion," "Elimelech," "Eliphelet," "Mahlon," "Mara," "Mari," "Waters of bitterness," each a one page entry in the Harper's Bible Dictionary.
-"`Year: Zimri-Lim Offered a Throne to Shamash of Mahanum'; An Overview of One year at Mari. Part I: The Presence of the King," Mari: Annales de Recherches Interdisciplinaires 4:437-52.
-" [Remarks on Ikribum Vows at Mari,] Revue d'Assyriologie 79:91-92.
-"Yarim-Lim's
Declaration of War," pp. 237-255 Miscellanea Babyloniaca.
Mélanges offerts à Maurice Birot.
Ed. by J.-M. Durand and J.-R.
Kupper.
Paris: Editions Recherches sur les
Civilisations.
1986 -"On Recently Published Administrative Tablets," Bibliotheca Orientalis 43:114-48.
1987 -"`Year: Zimri-Lim Dedicated his Statue to the God Addu of Halab': Locating a Year in the Reign of Zimri-Lim," Mari: Annales de Recherches Interdisciplinaires 5:577-89. -"On Mesha's Sacrifice of his Son: a Response," Biblical Archeology Review, 13:12-15; 60.
-"Love's
Roots: On the Redaction of Genesis 30:14-24," pp. 205-09 in John H. Marks
and Robert M. Good, ed., Love and Death in the Ancient Near
East. Essays in Honor of Marvin
H. Pope.
-"Ruth,"
pp. 321-28 and "Esther," pp. 335-42 in Robert Alter and Frank
Kermode, The Literary Guide to the Bible.
-"A Major Contribution to Song of Songs Scholarship," Journal of the American Oriental Society 107: 733-39.
-"Assyriological notes," appearing NABU: Nouvelles assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires: "A Satisfying Oath," 1:#39 (p. 22); "ARM IV, 20," 1:#40 (pp. 22-23); "ARM X 97," 1:#83 (p. 44); "Yasmakh-Addu's letter to God (ARM I:3)," 1:#109 (pp. 63-64).
-"Ruth and Naomi," Encyclopedia of Religion, Volume 12, pp. 491-492.
-"Human Sacrifice and Circumcision," Biblical Archeology Review 13/2: 12-15, 60.
1988 -"The Numerical Progression in Keret I:15-20: Yet Another Suggestion," Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici [Festschrift Manfred Dietrich]: 5(1988), 181-88.
-"Who Cut Samson's Hair? (And Other Trifling Issues Raised by Judges 16)," Prooftexts 8(l988), 333-46.
-"Shunukhra-Khalu," pp. 329-51 in A Scientific Humanist. [Abe Sachs Memorial Volume.] Edited by Erle Leichty, et al. Philadelphia: The University Museum.
1989 -Ruth: A New Translation. With a
Philological Commentary and a Folkloristic-Formalist Interpretation.
Revised Edition, with Comments.
-"Artisans...Artists:
Documentary Perspectives from Mari," pp. 21-27 in Investigating
Artistic Environments in the Near East. Ann C. Gunter, Ed.
-"Zimri-Lim's Letter to Tish-ulme," NABU: Nouvelles assyriologiques
Brèves et Utilitaires 3:#116 (pp. 91-92).
1990
-Jonah. A New Translation with
Introduction, Commentary and Interpretations.
[The Anchor Bible, 24b.] Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Garden City,
-"Mari
Historiography and the Yakhdun-Lim Disc
Inscription," pp. 440-49 in Lingering over Words: Studies in
Ancient Near Eastern Literature in Honor of William H. Moran. [Harvard Semitic Studies, 37.] Ed. by T. Abusch, J. Huehnergard, and P. Steinkeller.
1992 -"Time...to Begin," pp. 183-194 in "Shacarei Talmon":
Studies in the Bible,
-"Gilgamesh Epic," The Anchor Bible Dictionary 2:1024-1027.
-"Afterthoughts on Writing A Bible Commentary," Shofar 11, 61-69.
"Time is
Pressing," NABU: Nouvelles assyriologiques
Brèves et Utilitaires 1992/72 (p. 55).
1993 -"Albright as an Orientalist," Biblical Archaeologist 56:3-7.
-"Marriage entre
grandes familles" NABU: Nouvelles assyriologiques
Brèves et Utilitaires 1992/52 (pp. 43-44).
-"La cultura de Mari, crocevia per molti
popoli," pp. 72-75 in O. Rouault and M. G. Maseti-Rouault, ed., L'Eufrate
e il Tempo. Le civiltá del medio Eufrate e della Gezira.
1994 -"The Blood of Grapes: Viticulture and Intoxication
in the Hebrew Bible," pp. 399-419 in Lucio
Milano, ed., Drinking in Ancient Societies. History and Culture of Drinks
in the Ancient Near East.
-"The
posting of letters with Divine Messages," pp. 299-316 in D. Charpin and
J.-M. Durand, Florilegium
marianum, 2. Recueil d'études à la mémoire de Maurice Birot. [Mémoires de N.A.B.U., 3.] Paris: SEPOA.
-"Divine divide: re, FM2:71:5-9," NABU 1994/43.
1995 -(Editor-in-chief)
Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. 4 volumes.
-"Water
beneath Straw. Adventures of a Prophetic Phrase in the Mari
Archives," pp. 599-608 in Ziony Zevit (et al, ed)
Solving Riddles and Untying Knots. Biblical, Epigraphic,
and Semitic Studies in Honor of Jonas C. Greenfield. Winona
Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
-"Mari
Apocalypticism Revisited," pp. 285-295 in K. van
Lerberghe and A. Schoors (eds), Immigration and Emigration within the Ancient
Near East. Festschrift E.
Lipiński.
-"In
the Time of Hammurabi: King Zimri-Lim of Mari," Ideas: From the
1996 -"Akkadian
Documents from Mari and
1997 -"The
Vow of Mutiya, King of Shekhna,"
pp.483-498 in G.D. Young, M. W. Chavalas, and R. E. Averbeck (eds), Crossing
Boundaries and Linking Horizons: Studies in Honor of Michael C. Astour on his 80th Birthday.
1998 -"The King and I: A Mari King in Changing Perceptions," Journal of the American Oriental Society 118: 453-470
-"Canaan-Phoenicia,
Religions of," and "Inanna," pp.
136-139, 466-467 in Serenity Young (et al., ed), Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion.
New York: Macmillan Reference USA.
- "About 'Mari and the Bible'," Revue d'Assyriologie 92: 97-123.
2000-"'The Lord of Hosts, Seated over the Cherubs'," pp. 227-234 in
S.L. McKenzie and Th. Römer (eds)
Rethinking the Foundations: Historiography in the Ancient World and in the Bible . Essays in Honour
of John Van Seters.
Beihefte
zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 294 (Berlin:
Walther de Gruyter).
- "'The ‘Mother of All… ’ Etiologies," pp. 205-220 in Saul M. Olyan and Robert C. Culley (eds) "A Wise and Discerning Mind": Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long. Brown Judaic Studies, 325 ( Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies).
-Consulting Editor, The
Ancient Near East: an Encyclopedia for Students. 4 Volumes (Ronald Wallenfels, ed.;
2001-"The Road to Vanderbilt" (Inaugural address, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Judaic and Religious Studies), The Spire 22:28-32.
-"Ancestors Divine?," pp. 413- 428 in Veenhof Anniversary Volume: Studies Presented to Klaas R. Veenhof on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (W.H. van Soldt, J.G. Dercksen, N.J.C. Kouwenberg, Th.J.H. Krispijn, eds; Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten).
-"The Search for the Hebrew God,"Fourth Annual E. Maynard Adams Lecture in the Humanities and Human Values, (Chapel Hill, NC.: Program in the Humanities and Human Values).
-"Absalom's Daughter. An Essay in Vestige
Historiography," pp. 179-196 in The Land that I Will Show You.
Essays on the History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honor of J.
Maxwell Miller (J. Andrew Dearman and M. Patrick
Graham, eds; Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament, Supplementary Series, 343; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press).
-"On Reading the Diplomatic
Letters in the Mari Archives," Amurru 2 (Mari, Ébla et les Hourrites, dix ans de travaux.
Deuxième partie. Actes du colloque International, Paris, mai 1993):
329-338.
2002-"On the Use of Images in
-"The Burden of Scribes!," pp. 211-228 in Tzi Abusch (ed), Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen (Tzvi Abusch, ed., Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns).
-"Ritual
Wisdom? On 'Seething a Kid in its Mother's Milk,’" pp. 294-308 in
Ulrich Hübner and Ernst Axel Knauf
(eds),
-Hebrew
Origins: Three Lectures on the Historiography, History, and the God of Ancient
- "Mari," Religion in Geschichte und
Gegenwart, 4th edition (2002), vol. 5: 795-797.
2003- (With Richard M. Heller and Toni W. Heller) "Mold. 'Tsara`at,' Leviticus, and the History of a Confusion," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46: 588-591
-"Should Cheeseburgers be Kosher?," Biblical Review 19/6 (December 2003): 41-43, 50-51.
- "Forcing Morals on Mesopotamian Society?" pp. 329-340 in Gary Beckman, Richard Beal and Gregory McMahon (eds), Studies in Honor of Harry A. Hoffner Jr., on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (Winona lake, IN: Eisenbrauns).
2004-"The Eyes of Eli: An Essay in Motif
Accretion," pp. 171-190 in Louis Stulman
and John Kaltner (eds), Inspired Speech Prophecy in the Ancient Near
East. Essays in Honor of Herbert B. Huffmon (Journal for the Study of the
Old Testament Supplement, 378;
-"Doeg's Job," Scriptura: International Journal of
Bible, Religion and Theology in
-"The King’s
Table: Food and Fealty in Old Babylonian Mari," pp. 179-215 in Cristiano Grottanelli and Lucio Milano (eds), Food
and Identity in the Ancient World (History of the Ancient Near East,
Studies 9;
2005-"Of Time & Immortality," Biblical Review 21/3 (Summer 2005): 32-41, 52-54.
-“Comparative
Observations on the Near Eastern Epic Traditions," pp. 215-232 in John
Miles Foley (editor), A Companion to Ancient Epic (
-“Wooing
Rebekah: How Isaac Got a Wife.” The Loy H.
Witherspoon Lectures in Religious Studies, April 21, 2005, The
2006-“Utopian and Dystopian Images in Mari Prophetic Texts,” pp. 27-40 in Ehud Ben Zvi (ed.), Utopia and Dystopia in Prophetic Literature (Publications of the Finnish Exegetical
Society, 92; Finnish Exegetical Society, Helsinki--Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen).
-“The Servant’s Tale: How Rebekah Found a Spouse,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65: 241-265.
-“Mari and the Holy Grail,” pp. 186-198 in Stanley W. Holloway (ed.), Orientalism, Assyriology & the Bible (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press).
2007-"Scruples: Extradition in the Mari Archives," pp. 453-73 in Festschrift für Hermann Hunger, zum 65. Geburtstag gewidmet von seinen Freunden, Kollegen, und Schülern (= WZKM 97; Wien: Institut für Orientalistik, 2007).
2008-“Another Wrinkle on Old Adapa,”
pp. 1-10 in R.J. van der Spek
(et al., eds), Studies in Ancient Near Eastern World View
and Society presented to Marten Stol on the occasion
of his 65th birthday (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press)
Forthcoming
- "Time and Mortality: Creation Narratives in Ancient Israel and in Mesopotamia," forthcoming in Kaskal.
-"Oracle Inquiries in Judges"; contribution to a Festschrift.
-“The Trouble with Nūr-Sin: Zimri-Lim’s Purchase of Alahtum”; contribution to a Festschrift.
- “Casus Belli in the Mari Archives”; 52nd RAI, Münster 2006.
-“Texts, Trade and Travelers,” in Beyond Babylon: Art and International Exchange in the Second Millennium B.C. (Catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, late November 2008-early March 2009).
-“Ethically Cultured Interpretations: The Case of Eglon's Murder (Judges 3)”; contribution to a Festschrift.
-“Another Look at the Tenth Commandment,” Focusing Biblical Studies: The Crucial Nature of the Persian and Hellenistic Periods: Essays in Honor of Douglas A. Knight (T&T Clark/ Continuum)
-“Where Angels Fearlessly Tread: Mari Insights on Genesis 19”; 53nd RAI, Russia 2007
Reviews
-Over 70 reviews, varying in size and substance, are published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Bibliotheca Orientalis, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Classical World, Journal of Biblical Literature, Southern Folklore Quarterly, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Archiv für Orientforschung, and Religious Studies Review.
-Reviews of classical records for the WDBX Program Guide, in the mid-70's.
Revised:
May ‘08