Dialogues in Judaic Studies

John Martens and Kristine Henriksen Garroway, *Children and Methods: Listening To and Learning From Children in the Biblical World*. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Send us Fan Mail This carefully selected compilation, assembled by Kristine Henriksen Garroway and John W. Martens with considerable sensitivity, presents a multidiscipl

Shawn Zelig Aster, *Reflections of Empire in Isaiah 1-39: Responses to Assyrian Ideology*. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017.

Send us Fan Mail Shawn Zelig Aster's monograph establishes a compelling connection between First Isaiah's prophecies and the eighth century BCE historical land

Agnes Judith Goppinger, *Moribus Antiquis Res Stat Iudaea Virisque: Exempla in Flavius Josephus' Antiquitates Iudaicae*. Leiden: Brill, 2026

Send us Fan Mail Josephus' Antiquities offers a thoughtful and detailed exploration of Jewish history, tracing its arc from the world's origins to the outbreak

Yaacov Maoz, *Jerusalem and Nineveh: The Renewal of Aramit-Ashurit in Israel and the Alliance between Israel and Assyria*. Toronto [English Version]: Self-Published by the Author on behalf of *Lishana: Aramit Renewal in Israel*, 2025.

Send us Fan Mail This is the first time a work has been produced to jointly document the history of the Assyrian Christian and Jewish peoples. The two civilizations occu

Gerbern Oegema, *The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha*. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Send us Fan Mail This in-depth exploration examines the Old Testament Apocrypha—respected ancient Jewish texts that have gained deutero-canonical recognition in some Chr

Brad Kelle, *The Bible and Moral Injury: Reading Scripture Alongside War's Unseen Wounds*. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020.

Send us Fan Mail This monograph presents a comprehensive examination, incorporating case studies, of how biblical texts—particularly those addressing warfare and rituals

Nathaniel Deutsch, Tony Michels and Alma Rachel Heckman, *Radical Jewish Politics: A Global Perspective*. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2026.

Send us Fan Mail This groundbreaking study illuminates the compelling yet frequently overlooked legacy of radical Jewish political movements across the Middle East and N

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, trans., *Dineh: An Autobiographical Novel by Ida Maze*. Amherst, MA: White Goat Press (an imprint of the Yiddish Book Center), 2022.

Send us Fan Mail For the very first time, the novel *Dineh* is now available in English translation. This autobiographical work in Yiddish by Ida Maze (1893–1962), publi

Gavin McDowell, *The Rewritten Bible in Late Antiquity: “Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer," "Jubilees," and the "Cave of Treasures"*. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025.

Send us Fan Mail This monograph investigates the "Rewritten Bible" genre, which narrates the history of ancient Israel independently from the biblical text. It suggests

Eric Barrios, *Foreign Soldiers in Judah’s Military: Biblical Attitudes in Light of Extra-Biblical Evidence*. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2026.

Send us Fan Mail This book delves into the biblical viewpoints concerning the use of mercenaries in ancient Judah. Although contemporary warfare often casts a negative l

Julia O’Brien, *Prophets Beyond Activism: Rethinking the Prophetic Roots of Social Justice*. Westminster John Knox, 2024.

Send us Fan Mail This monograph thoughtfully questions the prevalent progressive belief that the prophets of ancient Israel were mainly focused on social justice. Instea

Phillip Michael Lasater and Benedikt Hensel, *Fear, Fear of God, God Fearers: Philological and Historical Perspectives on the World of Ancient Judaism and Christianity*. Tubingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2026.

Send us Fan Mail This compilation examines the significance of fear and the reverence of God as essential components within the religious and cultural realms of ancient

Assaf Likhovski, *Legal Theory in the Colonies: Hindu and Jewish Scholars under British Rule*. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Send us Fan Mail In colonial India and Mandatory Palestine, early twentieth-century legal scholars made notable contributions to the understanding of law's essence,

Yael Shemesh, *Elisha: The Holy Man of God*. Lenn Schramm, trans. Leiden: Brill, 2025.

Send us Fan Mail In contrast to the narratives surrounding Elijah, the tales of Elisha, particularly the brief legends, have not garnered much scholarly focus or thoroug

Sandra Jacobs, *The Body as Property: Physical Disfigurement in Biblical Law*. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Send us Fan Mail This monograph posits that physical disfigurement played a role in biblical law to validate legal property acquisition, especially when the status of de

Eshbal Ratzon, Asaf Gayer and Jonathan Ben-Dov [with the assistance of Einat Tamir and Anna Shirav], *Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of 4Q418a*. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

Send us Fan Mail Researchers dedicated to ancient scrolls are keen to find effective ways to extract the most valuable information from the extensive collection of fragm

Jonathan Darby, *Shaping Text through Song: The Influence of Singing upon Processes of Textual Interpretation and Variation in the Dead Sea Scrolls*. Leiden: Brill, 2026.

Send us Fan Mail This book examines the significant role of singing as a performative medium in the processes of textual interpretation and variation during the late Sec

Pancratius Beentjes, *“Wisdom Sings Her Own Praise” (Sir. 24:1): Collected Essays on the Book of Ben Sira [III]*. Louvain, Belgium: Peeters Publishing House, 2025

Send us Fan Mail For students and scholars of Ben Sira, this is truly a Golden Age. In the past twenty-five years, research on the Book of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) has

Nathan French, *A Theocentric Interpretation of הדעת טוב ורע: The Knowledge of Good and Evil as the Knowledge for Administering Reward and Punishment*. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021.

Send us Fan Mail In this scholarly inquiry, Nathan French seeks to address the question: what is the most accurate interpretation of הדעת טוב ורע, or "The Knowledge of G

Mikhl Yashinsky, ed. and trans., *The Mother of Yiddish Theatre: Memoirs of Ester-Rokhl Kaminska*. London: Bloomsbury, 2025.

Send us Fan Mail This intimate self-portrait of Ester-Rokhl Kaminska (1870–1925), a pioneering Yiddish actress, first appeared in the Warsaw daily *Der Moment* (1926-7)