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EDITED VOLUME<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studies in Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature<\/a><\/em><\/em>. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2021 (with Arnon Atzmon).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabbinic Literature<\/a><\/em>. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2022 (with Tal Ilan, Lorena Miralles Maci\u00e1). (English) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Literatura rab\u00ednica<\/a><\/em>. Navarra: Editorial verbo divino, 2021 (with Tal Ilan, Lorena Miralles Maci\u00e1). (Spanish) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabbinische Literatur<\/a><\/em>. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2020 (with Tal Ilan, Lorena Miralles Maci\u00e1). (German)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language, Cognition, and Biblical Exegesis: Interpreting Minds<\/a><\/em>. Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 (with Istv\u00e1n Czachesz, Frederick S. Tappenden, and Tam\u00e1s Bir\u00f3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabbinic Traditions Between Palestine and Babylonia<\/a><\/em>. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff\/Brill, 2014 (with Tal Ilan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTICLES<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“<\/a>Chapter 12 Why Are Biblical Verses Not Quoted in Parables? A Cultural-Cognitive Explanation<\/a>“, in Eric Ottenheijm, Marcel Poorthuis, and Annette Merz (eds.), The Power of Parables: Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish and Christian Parables. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2024, 264\u2013281.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Mystery of Abraham\u2019s Circumcision: The Circumcised God according to Midrash Tanchuma and Related Texts\u201d, in Teugels, Lieve and Neutel, Karin.\u00a0Circumcision and Jewish Identity: Case Studies on Ancient Texts and Their Reception<\/em>, Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press, 2023, 227-264. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.31826\/9781463245801<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet Our Rabbi Teach Us: Introduction to Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature”<\/a>, in Ronit Nikolsky and Arnon Atzmon (eds.), Studies in Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature<\/a><\/em>. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“\u05d4\u05d3\u05e8\u05da \u05d4\u05db\u05e9\u05d9\u05dc \u05db\u05bc\u05b9\u05d7\u05d9 \u05de\u05d0\u05d3: \u05de\u05b4\u05db\u05b0\u05ea\u05b0\u05d1\u05b5\u05d9 \u05d0\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4\u05dd \u05d9\u05e6\u05d7\u05e7 \u05d4\u05db\u05d4\u05df \u05de\u05d5\u05d8\u05d5\u05dc\u05e0\u05e1\u05e7\u05d9”<\/a> (“The road weakened my strength greatly”: The Letter of Abraham Yitzhaq Ha-Kohen Motolansky, (Unpublished)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Rabbiininen kulttuuri havainnollistaa kulttuurievoluuti<\/a>on n\u00e4k\u00f6kulmaa” (Rabbinic Culture Explained through the Perspective of Cultural Evolution; translated by Jutta Jokiranta), Teologia.fi<\/em><\/a> 28.9.2021. (Finnnish)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmotional Discourse in Rabbinic Literature<\/a>\u201d, in W. David Nelson and Rivka Ulmer (eds.), Emerging Horizons. 21st Century Approaches to the Study of Midrash<\/em><\/a>. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJoseph, Judah, and the Study of Emotions in Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature<\/a>\u201d, in Ronit Nikolsky and Arnon Atzmon (eds.), Studies in Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature<\/a><\/em>. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>Midrash Sarah and Abraham – A Lost Rabbinic Interpretation of ‘The Woman of Valor’ Song<\/a>\u201d<\/em>, in Ronit Nikolsky, Tal Ilan and Lorena Miralles Maci\u00e1 (eds.), Rabbinic Literature<\/a>, <\/em>The Reception of Biblical Women and Gender in Rabbinic Literature. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2022, 323-358.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>Introduction<\/a>\u201d<\/em>, in Ronit Nikolsky, Tal Ilan and Lorena Miralles Maci\u00e1 (eds.), Rabbinic Literature<\/a>, <\/em>The Reception of Biblical Women and Gender in Rabbinic Literature. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2022, 1-44.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDer Midrasch Sara und Abraham<\/em>: eine verlorengegangene rabbinische Auslegung des \u201eLieds der f\u00e4higen Frau\u201c\u201d, in: Tal Ilan, Lorena Miralles Maci\u00e1 and Ronit Nikolsky (hrsg), Rabbinische Literatur<\/a><\/em>, Aus der Reihe Die Bible und die Frauen, Tuebingen: Kohlhammer, 2020. 78-3-17-038895-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Parables in the Service of Emotional Translation”, in Eric Ottenheijm and Marcel Poorthuis (eds), Parables in Changing Contexts.<\/em> Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, (2020), 37-56. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/9789004417526_004<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The verb \u2018to love\u2019 (\u2019-h-b) in the Bible: a Cognitive Evolutionary Approach”<\/a>, in Ronit Nikolsky, Istv\u00e1n Czachesz, Tam\u00e1s Bir\u00f3, and Frederick S. Tappenden (eds.), Language, Cognition, and Biblical Exegesis: Interpreting Minds<\/em>, 70-87. Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. ISBN 9781350078123.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Trajectories of the Tanhuma in the Zohar: Pericope ‘Balak'”, Aramaic Studies<\/em>. 2019 (the volume was never published).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Are Parables an Interpretation?”, in: Meron Piotrkowski, Geoffrey Herman and Saskia D\u00f6nitz (eds.), Sources and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism: A volume for Tal Ilan at sixty<\/a><\/em>, Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 104 (978-90-04-36641-1). Leiden: Brill Academic Publisher, 2018, 289-315 (Chapter 13). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“De functie van parabels (mesjalim) in de Tanchuma”. NTT: Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion<\/em> 71:2 (2017), 152-169. (Dutch)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Rabbinic Discourse about Samson: Continuity and Change”. and Eynikel, Erik Nicklas, Tobias (ed.). Samson: Hero or Fool? The Many Faces of Samson.<\/em> Themes in Biblical Narrative 17. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff\/Brill, 2014, 101-118 (download<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“\u05de\u05d4\u05ea\u05dd \u05dc\u05d4\u05db\u05d0, from There to Here (bSanh 5a), Rabbinic Traditions between Palestine and Babylonia: An Introduction<\/a>” (with Tal Ilan). Rabbinic Traditions between Palestine and Babylonia.<\/em> Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff\/Brill, 2014, 1-31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“From Palestine to Babylonia and Back: Parallel Narratives in the Babylonian Talmud and in Tanhuma”, in: Ronit Nikolsky and Tal, Ilan (eds), Rabbinic Traditions between Palestine and Babylonia.<\/em> Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff\/Brill, 2014, 284-305. Available: 10.1163\/187502104788638804<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ishmael Sacrificed Grasshoppers<\/a>“, in Martin Goodman, George H. Kooten and Jacques T.A.G.M. Ruiten (eds), Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives on Kinship With Abraham<\/em> (Themes in Biblical Narrative 13, Leiden and Boston: Brill 2010), 243-262.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInterpret him as much as You Want : Balaam in the Babylonian Talmud<\/a>\u201d, in Geurt Hendrik (George) van Kooten and Jacques van Ruiten (eds), The Prestige of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early Christianity and Islam<\/em> (Themes in Biblical Narrative-Jewish and Christian Traditions 11, Martinus Nijhoff\/Brill, 2008), 213-230.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Gog in Two Rabbinic Narratives<\/a>“, in: van Bekkum, W. J., Drijvers, J. W. & Klugkist, A. C. (eds.), Syriac Polemics: Studies in Honour of Gerrit Reinink<\/em> (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; no. 170, Leuven-Paris-Dudley, MA: Peeters), 21-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“‘God Tempted Moses for Seven Days’: The Bush Revelation in Rabbinic Literature”<\/a>, in George H. van Kooten (ed), The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses: Perspectives from Judaism, the Pagan Graeco-Roman World, and Early Christianity<\/em> (Themes in Biblical Narrative 9, Leiden-Boston: Brill 2006), 89-104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Rechabites In Ma’aseh Alexandros and In the Medieval Ben Sira”, Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture<\/em> 4:1, 35-41 (DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/187502104788638804<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The History of the Rechabites and the Jeremiah Literature<\/a>“, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha<\/em> 13.2, 185-207.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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