ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Song of Songs
International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament
Kohlhammer | Forthcoming
Oxford Handbook of Biblical Exile and Forced Migrations
Co-Edited with Mark W. Hamilton
Oxford University Press | Forthcoming
Women and Exilic Identity in the Hebrew Bible
Co-Edited with Katherine E. Southwood
Bloomsbury T&T Clark | Hardcover 2017 | Paperback 2019
Enduring Exile: The Metaphorization of Exile in the Hebrew Bible
Brill | 2011
Selected Essays & Articles
“Flora and Fauna in the Metaphorical Landscapes of the Song of Songs,” Crossing Borders between the Domestic and the Wild: Space, Flora, and Fauna (Mark Boda and Dalit Rom-Shiloni, eds.; DNI Bible Supplements; Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2024), 43–55.
“Introduction to the Song of Songs” [as well as revising the explanatory notes], The Society of Biblical Literature Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (HarperOne, 2023), 930–933.
“The Exiles of Empires in Prophetic Images of Restoration (and Micah 4:8–5:1 [ET 5:2])” in In the Shadow of Empire: Israel and Judah in The Long Sixth Century B.C.E. (Pamela Barmash and Mark Hamilton, eds.; Archaeology and Biblical Studies; SBL Press, 2021), 97–113.
“Prophetic Images of Women as Metaphors for Exile: Jeremiah’s Book of Consolation,” in Images of Exile in the Prophetic Literature: Copenhagen Conference Proceedings 7–10 May 2017 (Jesper Høgenhaven, Frederik Poulsen and Cian Power, eds.; FAT II 103; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019), 109–20.
“Displacement and Diaspora in Biblical Narrative,” in The Oxford Handbook to Biblical Narrative (Danna Nolan Fewell, ed.; Oxford University Press, 2015/2016), 498–506.
“Exile and Dislocation,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology (Samuel E. Balentine, ed.; Oxford University Press, 2015), 1:287–96.
“Secrets and Lies: Secrecy Notices (Esth 2:10, 20) and Diasporic Identity in the Books of Esther,” Journal of Biblical Literature 131 (Fall 2012): 467–485.
“‘There is No One!’: The Redaction of Exile in Jeremiah’s Book of Consolation (31:15–22)” in By the Irrigation Canals of Babylon: Approaches to the Study of the Exile (John Ahn & Jill Middlemas, eds.; LHBOTS; T & T Clark, 2012), 107–122.
“The Strange Case of the Disappearing Woman: Biblical Resonances in Kafka’s Fräulein Bürstner,” in From the Margins: Women of the Hebrew Bible and Their Afterlives (Peter Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, eds.; Sheffield, U.K.: Phoenix, 2009), 159–73.