Publications

  • Isaiah: A Paradigmatic Prophet and His Interpreters. With C. B. Hays. SOTS Guides (New Series). London: Bloomsbury, 2022. [buy from Bloomsbury]
  • An Introduction to the Study of Jeremiah. T & T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. [buy from Bloomsbury]

Edited volumes

  • God and Guns: The Bible against American Gun Culture. Co-edited with C. B. Hays. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2021. [buy from WJK]
  • Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. [buy from Cambridge]
  • Wellness and the Psalms. Special issue of Horizons in Biblical Theology 42 (2020): 139–225. [open access with Brill]
  • Forced Migration, Political Power and the Book of Jeremiah. Special issue of Political Theology 19 (2018): 457–536. [buy from Taylor & Francis]
  • Responses to Involuntary Migration in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Co-edited with C. A. Strine. Special issue of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 7 (2018): 285–402. [buy from Mohr Siebeck]
  • In the Name of God: The Bible in the Colonial Discourse of Empire. Co-edited with J. Stökl. Biblical Interpretation Series 126. Leiden: Brill, 2014. [buy from Brill]
  • Mediating between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East. Co-edited with J. Stökl and A. Zernecke. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 566. London: T & T Clark, 2012. [buy from Bloomsbury]

Articles and essays

  • “The History of Israel and Judah.” Pages 172-184 in Understanding the Hebrew Bible: Essays by Members of the Society of Old Testament Study, ed. J. Barton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. [chapter offprint] [buy the book from Oxford]
  • “Contested Kingship: Joseph, Jehoiachin, and Judah in Genesis 49.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 137 (2025): 185–211. [open access at de Gruyter Brill]
  • “Jeremiah and Ezekiel’s Sign-Acts through the Lens of Trauma.” Pages 15–33 in Ezekiel’s Sign-Acts: Method and Interpretation, ed. P. L. Barter and T. Mayfield. BZAW 562. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2024. [chapter offprint] [buy the book from de Gruyter Brill]
  • “At Home in the City: Migrant Integration in Urban Babylon and Today.” Pages 153-166 in Meaningful Meetings with Foreigners in the World of the Bible, ed. M. Korpel and P. Sanders. CBET 119. Leuven: Peeters, 2024. [chapter offprint] [buy the book from Peeters]
  • “Migration in the Book of Isaiah.” Pages 170-186 in The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah, ed. C. B. Hays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. [chapter offprint] [buy book from Cambridge]
  • “The North (ṣāpôn) in the Book of Jeremiah.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 135 (2023): 562–577. [open access with de Gruyter Brill]
  • “Ezekiel and the Foreign Nations.” Pages 278–294 in The Oxford Handbook of Ezekiel, ed. C. L. Carvalho. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. [chapter offprint] [buy book from Oxford]
  • “Rechtvaardigheid vanuit een oudtestamentisch perspectief [Justice from an Old Testament perspective].” Pages 179–195 in Zeven Doodzonden (en een Paar Deugden): Theologische Inzichten voor het Alledaagse Leven, ed. C. Hübenthal and C. Sterkens. Nijmegen: Radboud University Press, 2023. [open access with Radboud University Press]
  • “Involuntary Migration, Strategies of Identity Construction, and Religious Diversity after 586 BCE.” Pages 191-203 in Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions: Identity Perspectives from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Transjordan, Israel and Judah in the Second Temple Period, ed. B. Hensel, B. Adamczewski, and D. Nocquet. FAT 167. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. [chapter offprint] [buy book from Mohr Siebeck] Reprinted in expanded form as “Contesting the Past: Israelite and Judahite Narratives of Migration,” NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 79 (2025): 17–36. [open access with Amsterdam University Press]
  • “The Historical Contexts of the Books of Jeremiah.” Pages 25–39 in The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah, ed. L. Stulman and E. Silver. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. [chapter offprint] [buy book from Oxford]
  • “Ezekiel and Criminal Justice Reform.” Pages 192–207 in The Cambridge Companion to Hebrew Bible and Ethics, ed. C. L. Crouch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. [chapter offprint] [buy book from Cambridge]
  • “Migration and the Prophetic Imagination.” Pages 53–66 in Global Migration and Christian Faith, ed. M. D. Carroll R. and V. Bacote. Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock, 2021. [chapter offprint] [buy book from Wipf & Stock]
  • “Wellness, Illness, and the Psalms.” Horizons in Biblical Theology 42 (2020): 139–140. [open access with Brill]
  • “Duelling Dynasties: A Proposal concerning Ezekiel’s Sign-Act of the Two Sticks.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 45 (2020): 3-19. [article offprint]
  • “The Neo-Assyrian Context of First Isaiah.” With C. B. Hays. Pages 145–158 in The Oxford Handbook of Isaiah, ed. L.-S. Tiemeyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. [chapter offprint] [buy book from Oxford]
  • “Playing Favourites: Israel, Judah, and the Marriage Metaphor in Jeremiah 3.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 44 (2020): 594-609. [article offprint]
  • “Ezekiel’s Immobility and the Meaning of ‘the House of Judah’ in Ezekiel 4.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 44 (2019): 182-1997. [article offprint]
  • “Before and after Exile: Involuntary Migration and Ideas of Israel.” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 7 (2018): 334–358. [article offprint]
  • “Reflections on Methodology.” With C. A. Strine. Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 7 (2018): 399–402. [article offprint]
  • “Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Social Scientific Study of Involuntary Migration.” With C. A. Strine. Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 7 (2018): 285-288. [article offprint]
  • “Migration, Political Power and the Book of Jeremiah.” Political Theology 19 (2018): 457–459. [article offprint]
  • “Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Nahum.” Pages 357–381 in Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context, ed. C. A. Rollston. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2018. [chapter offprint] [buy book from Eisenbrauns]
  • “Deuteronomy as a Translation of Assyrian Treaties: An ‘Optimal Translation’ Approach.” With J. Hutton. Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 7 (2018) (Special Issue: Theoretical Approaches to Epigraphic Texts and Their Relationship to the Bible): 201–252. [article offprint]
  • “Jehoiachin: Not a Broken Vessel but a Humiliated Vassal (Jer 22,28-30).”Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 129 (2017): 234–246. [article offprint]
  • “Made in the Image of God: The Creation of אדם, the Commissioning of the King and the Chaoskampf of Yhwh.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 16 (2016): 1–21. [article offprint]
  • “What Makes a Thing Abominable? Observations on the Language of Boundaries and Identity Formation from a Social Scientific Perspective.” Vetus Testamentum 65 (2015): 516-541. [article offprint]
  • “On Floods and the Fall of Nineveh: The Origin of a Spurious Tradition.” Pages 212–216 in New Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy and History: Essays in Honour of Hans M. Barstad, ed. R. Thelle, T. Stordalen, M. Richardson and R. P. Gordon. Leiden: Brill, 2015. [chapter offprint] [buy book from Brill]
  • “Military Crimes.” With J. Wright. Pages 46–53 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Bible and Law, ed. B. Strawn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • “Yhwh’s Battle against Chaos in Ezekiel: The Transformation of Judahite Mythology for a New Situation.” With C. A. Strine. Journal of Biblical Literature 132 (2013): 883–903. [article offprint]
  • “Ištar and the Motif of the Cosmological Warrior: Assurbanipal’s Adaptation of Enūma eliš.” Pages 129–141 in ‘Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela’: Prophecy in Israel, Assyria and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period, ed. R. P. Gordon and H. M. Barstad. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2013. [essay offprint] [buy book from Eisenbrauns]
  • “The Threat to Israel’s Identity in Deuteronomy: Mesopotamian or Levantine?” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 124 (2012): 541–554. [article offprint]
  • “Adapting the Cosmological Tradition in Isaiah 40–45.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 25 (2011): 260–275. [article offprint]
  • “Ezekiel’s Oracles against the Nations in Light of a Royal Ideology of Warfare.” Journal of Biblical Literature 130 (2011): 473–492. [article offprint]
  • “חטאת as Interpolative Gloss: A Solution to Gen 4:7.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 123 (2011): 250–258. [article offprint]
  • “Ethics as Cross-cultural Reaction: Deuteronomic Ethics as Reaction to Manassean Multiculturalism.” Pages 182–201 in Text, Theology, and Trowel: Recent Research in the Biblical World, ed. L. D. Matassa and J. M. Silverman. Eugene, Or.: Pickwick, 2011.
  • “Cook, Stanley Arthur.” Pages 750–751 in vol. 5 of Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. H. Spieckermann et al. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010.
  • “Genesis 1:26-7 as a Statement of Humanity’s Divine Parentage.” Journal of Theological Studies 61 (2010): 1-15. [article offprint]