Papers & Academic Articles

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“Reading the Torah as Scripture,” Wesleyan Theological Journal 58.1 (2023): 42-53.  

“Deuteronomy 13 and The Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon: A Fresh Investigation” (with Brian T. Shockey). Pages 1-14 in “Now These Records are Ancient”: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical History, Language and Culture in Honor of K. Lawson Younger, Jr. Edited by James K. Hoffmeier, Richard E. Averbeck, Caleb Howard, and Wolfgang Zwickel. Ägypten und Altes Testament, 114. Münster: Zaphon, 2022. 

“Deuteronomy, Hosea, and the Theory of Northern Origins.” In Oxford Handbook of Deuteronomy. Edited by Don C. Benjamin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Oxford Handbooks Online. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190273552.013.20. Date of Electronic Publication: December 2020. [Click here for access] 

“Innovations of the Deuteronomic Law and the History of Its Composition.” Pages 163-94 in Deuteronomy in the Making: Studies in the Production of Debarim. Edited by Diana Edelman, Benedetta Rossi, Kåre Berge, and Philippe Guillaume. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenshaft 533 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021).

“A Centennial Review of Die Große Täuschung: Friedrich Delitzsch’s Final Reflections on the Babel-Bibel Controversy.” Pages 45-61 in Der Babel-Bibel-Streit und die Wissenschaft des Judentums: Beiträge einer internationalen Konferenz vom 4. bis 6. November 2019 in Berlin. Edited by Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum and Thomas L. Gertzen. Investigatio Orientis 6 (Münster: Zaphon, 2021).

“Deuteronomy’s Book and Hammurapi’s Stela: The Referent of ‘this sēper’ in Deuteronomy 28:58,” Vetus Testamentum 71 (2021): 1-18.

“Genesis and the Challenges of a 21st-Century Reading,” Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology 29/4 (2020): 387-406.

“Covenant.” Pages 92-96 in Global Wesleyan Encyclopedia of Biblical Theology. Edited by Robert D. Branson. Kansas City: The Foundry Publishing, 2020.

“Genesis.” Pages 1-36 in Wesley One Volume Commentary. Edited by Kenneth J. Collins and Robert W. Wall. Nashville: Abingdon, 2020.

“Divine Revelation in the Pentateuch,” The Asbury Journal 73/2 (2018): 85-103. Reprint, pages 1-20 in Rhetoric, History, and Theology: Interpreting the New Testament. Edited by Todd D. Still and Jason A. Myers. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books / Fortress Academic, 2022. 

“Number Switching in Deuteronomy 12-26 and the Quest for Urdeuteronomium,” Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte 23 (2017): 163-80. 

“The Holiness Redaction of the Primeval History.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 129/4 (2017): 483-500. 

“Reexamining the ‘Fathers’ in Deuteronomy’s Framework.” Pages 10-41 in Torah and Tradition: Papers Read at the Sixteenth Joint Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap, Edinburgh, 2015. Edited by Klaas Spronk and Hans Barstad. Oudtestamentische Studiën. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 

“The Book of Deuteronomy: Pseudepigraphy, Pseudonymity, or Something Else Altogether?” Pages 139-160 in Sefer Torath Mosheh: Essays on Deuteronomy. Edited by Daniel I. Block and Richard L. Schultz. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2017.  

“Graf and Wellhausen and Their Contribution to Biblical Interpretation” (with David B. Schreiner). Pages 252-73 in History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 3: The Rise of Modern Biblical Criticism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, edited by Alan J. Hauser and Duane F. Watson. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2017. 

“Israelite Worship as Envisioned and Prescribed in Deuteronomy 12,” Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte 22 (2016): 161-175. 

“Wordplay on ‘Hammurapi’ in CH iv 54,” NABU: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2016/2 (June), 72.

“1-2 Chronicles.” Society for Old Testament Studies (SOTS) Wiki Pages, released November 2015. Edited by Walter Houston, with the assistance of James Aitken and Stuart Weeks; http://sots-ot.wikispaces.com/1–2+Chronicles.

“Lessons of The Jerusalem Council for The Church’s Debate over Sexuality,” The Asbury Journal 69/2 (2014): 63-83.

“The Genesis Narratives.” Pages 23-45 in Ancient Israel’s History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources, edited by Bill T. Arnold and Richard S. Hess. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2014.

“Deuteronomy 12 and the Law of the Central Sanctuary noch einmal,” Vetus Testamentum 64/2 (2014): 236-248.

“The Holiness Redaction of the Flood Narrative (Gen 6:9–9:29).” Pages 13-40 in Windows to the Ancient World of the Hebrew Bible: Essays in Honor of Samuel Greengus. Edited by Bill T. Arnold, Nancy L. Erickson, and John H. Walton. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2014.

“Adversative: Biblical Hebrew,” “Comparative Clause: Biblical Hebrew,” “Number: Biblical Hebrew,” “Conjunctions: Biblical Hebrew.” Pages 1:53, 1:495-496, 1:562-566, 2:887-889 in Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics. Edited by Geoffrey Khan. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013.

“Babylon.” Pages 53-60 in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets. Edited by Mark J. Boda and J. Gordon McConville. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2012.

“Genesis 1 as Holiness Preamble.” Pages 331-43 in Let us Go up to Zion: Essays in Honour of H. G. M. Williamson on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Iain Provan and Mark J. Boda. Vetus Testamentum Supplements, 153. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

“Aramean Origins: The Evidence from Babylonia,” Archiv für Orientforschung 52 (2011): 179-85.

“Babylonia and the Bible.” Columns 311-16 in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Volume III: Athena–Birkat ha-Minim. Edited by Hans-Josef Klauck, Volker Leppin, Bernard McGinn, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski. Berlin/Boston, Mass.: Walter de Gruyter, 2011.

“The Patriarchs and Their Neighbors.” Pages 104-5 in The Eerdmans Companion to the Bible. Edited by Gordon D. Fee and Robert L. Hubbard, Jr. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2011.

“The Love-Fear Antinomy in Deuteronomy 5-11,” Vetus Testamentum 61/4 (2011): 551-69.

“Divination and Magic.” Pages 238-42 in Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics. Edited by Joel B. Green, Jacqueline Lapsley, Rebekah Miles, Allen Verhey. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2011.

“Deuteronomy as the Ipsissima Vox of Moses,” Journal of Theological Interpretation 4/1 (2010): 53-74.

“Biblical Perspectives on Torture: War Crimes, the Limits of Retaliation, and the Roman Cross,” The Asbury Journal 64/2 (2009): 4-11.

“Genesis Study Notes.” Pages 1-66 in The Wesley Study Bible. Edited by Joel B. Green and William H. Willimon. Nashville: Abingdon, 2009.

“Reflections on the Composition of Genesis.” No pages. The Bible and Interpretation. Cited December 2008. Online: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/genesis.shtml.

“Old Testament Eschatology and the Rise of Apocalypticism.” Pages 23-39 in The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology. Edited by Jerry L. Walls. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

“Nebuchadnezzar & Solomon: Parallel Lives Illuminate History.” Biblical Archaeology Review 33/1 (January/February, 2007): 48-54, 76.

“Babylon, OT,” “Darius,” “History and Historiography, OT,” “Mesopotamia,” “North Country, The,” “Stranger [with Michael D. Matlock].” Pages I:376-79, II:24-26, 833-37, IV:54-58, 282, V:384-85 in The New Interpreter’s® Dictionary of the Bible. Edited by Katharine Doob Sakenfeld. 5 vols. Nashville: Abingdon, 2006-2009.

“Hezekiah,” “Samuel, Books of,” “Word of God [with Paul M. Cook].” Pages 407-13, 866-77, and 999-1003 in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books. Edited by Bill T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2005.

“Assyriology and Biblical Studies: Time for Reassessment?” No pages. The Bible and Interpretation. Cited April 2005. Online: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Arnold_ Assyriology_Biblical_Reassessment.shtml; re-published in Assyria Times. Online: http://www.assyriatimes.com/engine/modules/news/article.php?storyid=97.

“Delitzsch in Context,” with David B. Weisberg. Pages 37-45 in God’s Word for Our World, Volume II: Theological and Cultural Studies in Honor of Simon John De Vries. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 389. Edited by J. Harold Ellens, Deborah L. Ellens, Rolf P. Knierim, and Isaac Kalimi. London: T & T Clark International, 2004. Repr., pages 373-81 in Leaders and Legacies in Assyriology and Bible: The Collected Essays of David B. Weisberg. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2012.

“Soul-Searching Questions about I Samuel 28: Samuel’s Appearance at Endor and Christian Anthropology.” Pages 75-83 in What About The Soul? Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology. Edited by Joel B. Green. Nashville: Abingdon, 2004.

“Necromancy and Cleromancy in 1 and 2 Samuel.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 66/2 (2004): 199-213.

“A Pre-Deuteronomistic Bicolon in 1 Samuel 12:21?” Journal of Biblical Literature 123/1 (2004): 137-142.

“beyāh šemô in Ps 68,5: A Hebrew Gloss to an Ugaritic Epithet?” with Brent A. Strawn. Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 115/3 (2003): 428-432.

“Pentateuchal Criticism, History of.” Pages 622-631 in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch. Edited by T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Baker. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2003.

“A Centennial Review of Friedrich Delitzsch’s ‘Babel und Bibel’ Lectures,” with David B. Weisberg. Journal of Biblical Literature 121/3 (2002): 441-57. Repr., pages 355-72 in Leaders and Legacies in Assyriology and Bible: The Collected Essays of David B. Weisberg. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2012.

“What has Nebuchadnezzar to do with David? On the Neo-Babylonian Period and Early Israel.” Pages 330-355 in Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative Explorations. Edited by Mark W. Chavalas and K. Lawson Younger, Jr. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 341. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2002.

“Babel und Bibel und Bias: How Anti-Semitism Distorted Friedrich Delitzsch’s Scholarship,” with David B. Weisberg. Bible Review 18/1 (February, 2002): 32-40, 47. Repr., pages 382-89 in Leaders and Legacies in Assyriology and Bible: The Collected Essays of David B. Weisberg. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2012.

“Babylon,” “City, citizenship.” Pages 393-394, 414-416 in New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Edited by T. Desmond Alexander and Brian S. Rosner. Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity; Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2000.

“Word Play and Characterization in Daniel 1.” Pages 231-248 in Puns and Pundits: Word Play in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Literature. Edited by Scott B. Noegel. Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press, 2000.

“Religion in Ancient Israel.” Pages 391-420 in The Face of Old Testament Studies: A Survey of Contemporary Approaches. Edited by David W. Baker and Bill T. Arnold. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 1999.

“Marduk – Babylons øverste gud,” in TEL, udgives af Selskab for Bibelsk Arkæologi. Magazine of the Danish Society of Biblical Archaeology 3 (September, 1998): 5-8.

“The Use of Aramaic in the Hebrew Bible: Another Look at Bilingualism in Ezra and Daniel.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 22.2 (1996): 1-16.

“Luke’s Characterizing Use of the Old Testament in the Book of Acts.” Pages 300-323 in History, Literature, and Society in the Book of Acts. Edited by Ben Witherington, III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

“Age, Old (the Aged),” “Daniel, Theology of,” “Manna,” “Salvation,” “Vision(s).” Pages 13-14, 140-42, 506, 701-703, 802-803 in Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Edited by Walter A. Elwell. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 1996.

“Forms of Prophetic Speech in the Old Testament: A Summary of Claus Westermann’s Contributions.” Ashland Theological Journal 27 (1995): 30-40.

“Babylonians.” Pages 43-75 in Peoples of the Old Testament World. Edited by Alfred J. Hoerth, Gerald L. Mattingly and Edwin M. Yamauchi. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 1994.

“The Weidner Chronicle and the Idea of History in Israel and Mesopotamia.” Pages 129-148 in Faith, Tradition, and History: Old Testament Historiography in Its Near Eastern Context. Edited by A. R. Millard, James K. Hoffmeier, and David W. Baker. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1994.

“Wordplay and Narrative Techniques in Daniel 5 and 6.” Journal of Biblical Literature 112/3 (1993): 479-485.

“Recent Trends in the Study of Jeremiah.” Ashland Theological Journal 25 (1993): 75-95.

“Immer,” “Merathaim,” “Minni,” “North Country, The,” “Ulai.” Pages 3:396, 4:699, 842, 1136, 6:721 in Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by David Noel Freedman. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

“Ruth,” “Habakkuk,” “Zechariah.” Asbury Bible Commentary. Edited by Eugene E. Carpenter and Wayne McCown. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1992.

“An Early Neo-Babylonian Formula from Uruk.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 112.3 (1992): 383-387.

“The Quest for the Historical Israel Continued.” Ashland Theological Journal 24 (1992): 92-103.

“1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles.” The Wesley Bible: A Personal Study Bible for Holy Living. Edited by Albert F. Harper, John N. Oswalt, and Gareth Lee Cockerill. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1990.

“The Amalekite’s Report of Saul’s Death: Political Intrigue or Incompatible Sources?” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 32.3 (1989): 289-298.