Publications

Book

2012

Edited Volume

201520142013
  • In the Name of God: The Bible in the Colonial Discourse of Empire (BibInt 126; Leiden: Brill). Edited together with C. L. Crouch.
  • Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East (Ancient Israel and its Literature 15; Atlanta: Society for Biblical Literature). Co-edited with Corrine L. Carvalho.
2012
  • Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East (LHBOTS, 566; London: T & T Clark, 2012). Co-edited with C.L.Crouch and Anna Elise Zernecke.

Articles

2015
  • ‘Innibana, Deborah and Huldah: Thoughts on the Construction on Female Prophets in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible’, Journal of Ancient Judaism 6, 320-34.
  • ‘Prophetic Hermeneutics in Texts from the Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia: Roots, Images and Genres’, HeBAI 4, 267-92.
  • ‘“A Youth Without Blemish, Handsome, Proficient in all Wisdom, Knowledgeable and Intelligent”: Ezekiel’s Access to Babylonian Culture’ in J. Stökl and C. Waerzeggers (eds), Exile and Return: The Babylonian Context (BZAW, 478; Berlin: de Gruyter), 223–52.
  • ‘Schoolboy Ezekiel: The Text of Ezekiel, Scribal Education and the Production of Knowledge’, WO 45, 50-61.
  • ‘Prophecy and the State in the Ancient Near East’, Religion Compass 9, 55-65.
2014
  • ‘Divination as Warfare: The Use of Divination Across Borders’, in J. Stökl and A. Lenzi (eds.), Divination, Politics and Ancient Near Eastern Empires (Ancient Near Eastern Monographs 7; Atlanta: Society for Biblical Literature), 49-63 [for a pdf of the entire book see here].
2013
  • ‘“I Have Rained Stones and Fiery Glow on Their Heads!” Celestial and Meteorological Prophecy in the Neo-Assyrian Empire’, in: R. P. Gordon and H. M. Barstad (eds.), ‘Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela’: Prophecy in Israel, Assyria and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns), 239-51.
  • ‘Nebuchadnezzar: History, Memory and Myth-Making in the Persian Period’, in E. Ben Zvi and D. Edelman (eds.), Bringing the Past to the Present: Images of Central Figures, in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 257-69.
  • ‘“Gender Ambiguity” in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy? A Re-Assessment of the Data Behind a Popular Theory’, in C. L. Carvalho and J. Stökl (eds.), Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East (Ancient Israel and its Literature 15; Atlanta: Society for Biblical Literature), 27-58 
  • ‘The מתנבאות of Ezekiel 13 Reconsidered', Journal of Biblical Literature 132 (2013), 61-76. (courtesy of the SBL, with whom the copyright remains)
2012
  •  ‘(Intuitive) Divination, (Ethical) Demands and Diplomacy in the Ancient Near East’, in C. L. Crouch, J. Stökl and A. E. Zernecke (eds.), Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 566; London: T & T Clark), 82-92.
  • ‘How Unique was Israelite Prophecy?’, in A. T. Levenson (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell), 53-69.
  • ‘Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy’ in J. G. McConville and M. J. Boda (eds.), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets (Downer Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press), 16-24.
2011
  • ‘Where are All the Prophetesses Gone? Women and Prophetic Communication in Mari’, in Lidia D. Matassa and Jason M. Silverman (eds.), Text, Theology, and Trowel: New Investigations in the Biblical World (Eugene, Or.: Pickwick Publications), 75-94.
2010
  •  ‘Female Prophets in the Ancient Near East’, in John Day (ed), Prophets and Prophecy: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (LHBOTS, 531; T & T Clark: London),  47-61.
2009
  • ‘Ištar’s Women, Yhwh’s Men? A Curious Gender-Bias in Neo-Assyrian and Biblical Prophecy’, Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 121, 87-100.
2008
  • ‘The Role of Women in the Prophetical Process in Mari: A Critique of Mary Keller’s Theory of Agency’, in Hermann Michael Niemann / Matthias Augustin (eds), Thinking Towards New Horizons. Collected Communications to the XIXth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Ljubljana 2007 (BEATAJ, 55; Frankfurt a.M.: Lang), 173-88.
  •  ‘Kings, Heroes, and Gods. The History of the Translation of the Term ’r’l dwdh in Line Twelve of the Meša‘-Stele’, Kleine Untersuchungen zur Sprache des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt 8-9, 135-62.
2006



numerous reviews for the Society of Old Testament Studies Booklist, Vetus Testamentum, Journal of Jewish Studies, Marginalia and European Legacy.

Dictionary and Lexicon Entry

2016
  • ‘Hooke, Samuel Henry’ in H.-J. Klauck et al. (eds), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol 12 (Berlin: de Gruyter), 368-69.
2014
  • ‘Religious Leaders: Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy’ in J. O’Brien (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2014, 166-67.
2012
  • ‘Driver, Godfrey Rolles (1892-1975)’ in H.-J. Klauck et al. (eds), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol 7 (Berlin: de Gruyter), 24.
  • ‘Driver, Samuel Rolles (1846-1914)’ in H.-J. Klauck et al. (eds), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol 7 (Berlin: de Gruyter), 25.
  • ‘Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy’ in J. G. McConville and M. J. Boda (eds.), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets (Downer Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press), 16-24.
  • ‘רֹאֶה’, in Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database Project (SAHD), Oxford Group under the editorship of Hugh Williamson.
  • ‘נָבִיא/נְבִיאָה’, in Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database Project (SAHD), Oxford Group under the editorship of Hugh Williamson.
  • ‘חֹזֶה’, in Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database Project (SAHD), Oxford Group under the editorship of Hugh Williamson.

Forthcoming

  • ‘Prophecy and Empire in Mari and Nineveh’ in Ch. Rollston (eds), Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns).
  • ​‘Dreaming and Dream Divination in Daniel’, in E. Hamori and J. Stökl (eds), Dream Divination in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean.

Radio-work

I have taken part in a discussion about prophecy in the Abrahamic religions at the BBC programme 'In Our Time' with Melvyn Bragg, Mona Siddiqui (Edinburgh) and Justin Meggit (Cambridge). If you would like to listen to it, follow this link.

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