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ARTICLES AND PAPERS ON-LINE

Second Temple Judaism

“Job as Jobab: The Interpretation of Job in LXX Job 42:17b-e,” Journal of Biblical Literature 120.1 (2001): 31-55. [PDF from SBL site]

“Abraham as Chaldean Scientist and Father of the Jews: Josephus, Ant. 1.154–168, and the Greco-Roman Discourse about Astronomy/Astrology,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 35.2 (2004): 119-58. [PDF from Ingenta]

"Apocrypha, Outside Books, and Pseudepigrapha: Ancient Categories and Modern Perceptions of Parabiblical Literature," 40th Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins, Colloquium on "Parabiblical" Literature, University of Pennsylvania, October 10, 2002. [HTML version on PSCO webpage]

Early Christianity

“The Trickery of the Fallen Angels and the Demonic Mimesis of the Divine: Aetiology and Polemics in the Writings of Justin Martyr,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 12.2 (2004): 141-71 [PDF from Project Muse]

“EUAGGELION: Orality, Textuality, and the Christian Truth in Irenaeus’ Adversus haereses,” Vigiliae Christianae 56.1 (2002): 11-46.[PDF from Catchword]

Review of Rolf Noormann's Ireneaus als Paulusinterpret (1994), for panel on "Irenaeus in Recent Scholarship: A Review of Recent Monographs," North American Patristics Society 17th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill., USA, May 28, 2004. [PDF]

Jews and Christians

“From Jewish Sage to Christian Messiah,” Anne Simon Lecture Series, Main Line Reform Temple, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, March 31, 2008. [PDF]

“Christian Origins as Jewish History” [Hebrew] in A New Jewish Time - Jewish Culture in a Secular Age - An Encyclopedic View, ed. Yirmiyahu Yovel, et al., Keter Publishing House, 2007. [Unpublished English version]

“Christianity, Second Temple,” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, ed. Judith Baskin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. [Pre-print (PDF)]

“’Jewish Christianity’ as Counterhistory? The Apostolic Past in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies,” in Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World, ed. Gregg Gardner and Kevin Osterloh, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming. [Pre-print (PDF)]

“‘Jewish-Christian’ Apocrypha and the History of Jewish/Christian Relations,” Christian Apocryphal Texts for the New Millennium: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges, ed. Pierluigi Piovanelli, forthcoming. [Pre-print (PDF)]

Reception-history

Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2005 [Excerpt from Cambridge UP]

"Beyond Revealed Wisdom and Apocalyptic Epistemology: Early Christian Transformations of Enochic Traditions about Knowledge," in Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality, ed. C.A. Evans and H.D. Zacharias, forthcoming. [Pre-print (PDF)]

"Watchers, Giants, and Forbidden Lore: Some Angelological/Demonological Prosopographies in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam," 41st Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins: Parabiblical Prosopography,Princeton University, March 25, 2004. [HTML version on PSCO webpage]

Cosmology

(with Ra’anan S. Boustan) “Introduction: The Late Antique Discourse about Heaven” in Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions, ed. R. S. Boustan and A. Y. Reed, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 1-15.[Excerpt]

“Was there Science in Ancient Judaism? Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Science,” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 36.3-4 (2007): 461-96. [Preprint (PDF)]

Other

“Beyond the Land of Nod: India and China in Syriac Christian Literature,” Oriental Club of Philadelphia, December 6, 2007. [Powerpoint presentation]