Journal of Biblical Literature

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Biblical Literature is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Craftsman: Paul’s Law of Christ and the Stoic Law of Nature2
Isaiah 39 and the Motif of Human Trust in First Isaiah2
Introduction to the Presidential Address2
Where (and When) Did the Authors of Joshua 10:1–39, 11:1–15 Live?1
Not Seeing, Unseeing, and Blind: Disentangling Disability from Adjacent Topoi in the Hebrew Bible1
Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It: Ezekiel 24:15–27 and Divine Dissociation1
With Whom Is Peter Eating in Antioch? Reading τὰ ἔθνη in Galatians 2:12 as Including Nonbelieving Gentiles1
The Concept of Διαθήκη in Galatians 3:15–181
Biblical Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: A New Interpretation of Jeremiah 30–331
Is the Gospel of Mark Distinctly Pauline? A Critical Evaluation1
4QpaleoExodm and the Gerizim Composition1
How You Learned Christ: Petrine Christological Transformation of Pauline Vocabulary1
Theorizing Laughter and Ethnicity in Philo’s Embassy to Gaius1
Judges 2:11–19: A Palimpsest of Political History1
The Strange Significance of the Name Carpocrates in Early Christian Polemic0
Humor in the Midst of Tragedy: The Comic Vision of 1 Samuel 4–60
Text-Correcting Qere, Scribal Errors, and Textual Variants in Medieval Hebrew Bible Manuscripts0
The Root of Ephraim among Amalek in the Song of Deborah0
Babatha’s Final Days: New Light from Papyrus Starcky0
Taking Biblical Authors at Their Word: On Scholarly Ethics, Sexual Violence, and Rape Culture in the Hebrew Bible0
A History of Kissing in Ancient Israel: Evidence from the Hebrew Bible0
Drinking as Slaughter in Obadiah 160
Colonizing Frank Moore Cross: The Dead Sea Scrolls in 1950s Popular Media0
The Tabernacle Manual: Exodus 25:1–31:18 in Light of the Cuneiform Procedural Genre0
Embracing the Jewess: Reading Gender and Ethnicity in Judith with the Belle Juive0
Making Sense of the Incense Altar: Location in Sacred Space and Text0
An Early Ḥarklean Version in a Syriac Gospel Fragmentary Manuscript (MS Or. 403)0
Paul’s Use of Συναπάγω in Romans 12:160
Challenging Emotion: Is Divine “Regret” (נחם) an Anthropopathism After All?0
Daniel and the Diadochi0
The Omens at Jesus’s Death (Mark 15:33–39) and the Divine Abandonment of the Temple before Its Destruction in 70 CE0
Local Manifestations of YHWH within El’s Divine Council: Psalm 82 in the Context of Israelite Religion0
Exotica and the Ethiopian of Acts 8:26–40: Toward a Different Fabula0
The Relationship between 3 Maccabees and the Vetus Latina of Esther0
Fluid Boundaries and Conflicted Meaning in the Book of Joshua0
Additions of Conjunctive Vav (“and”) in 1QIsaa: Evidence for the Role of Language Processing Strategies0
Enoch the Explorer: 1 Enoch 17–36 in Its Hellenistic Context0
Demons Seeking Identity? The Psychic Life of New Testament Exorcisms0
Spirit Possession and Intimate Partner Violence in the Law of Jealousy (Numbers 5:11–31)0
Resurrecting Amulets and Ostraca within New Testament Textual Criticism0
John of Patmos and the Appeal of an Exotic Apocalypse0
“You Shall Be Holy”: A Reassessment of Israel’s Call to Holiness0
The Jurisprudential Significance of אשר: A Case Study in Leviticus 10:1–30
Torches, Not Lamps, in the Wedding Parable of Matthew 250
A Child Is Being Eaten: Maternal Cannibalism and the Hebrew Bible in the Company of Fairy Tales0
Tracing Bathsheba’s Metamorphosis through the Lens of Trauma and Recovery0
From Zaphon to Zion: The Redaction of Psalm 200
Introduction to the Presidential Address0
Travel and Anxiety in Early Jewish Literature0
Demonic Faith and Demonic Wisdom in James: A Response to Kenneth M. Wilson0
The “Community Setting” of the Ascension of Isaiah: A New Analysis0
Still Invisible after All These Years? Female God-Language in the Hebrew Bible: A Response to David J. A. Clines0
The Bible in the Aramaic Bowls: Between Memorization, Orality, and Writtenness0
Centurions in the Jesus Movement? Rethinking Luke 7:1–10 in Light of the Gaianus Inscription at Kefar ‘Othnay0
The Census in Luke 2: Using Josephus to Make Sense of Luke’s Irreconcilable Chronology0
Abraham and the Jerusalem Collection: Kinship Diplomacy in Paul’s Letters0
Deconstructing the Downward Spiral: Anthology as Coherence in the Book of Judges0
There Is a Tide in the Affairs of Women: The Biology of Menstruation in Levitical (and Israelite) Thought0
What Is Not, but Might Be: Disnarration as Narrative Device in the Hebrew Bible0
2 Corinthians 8:16–9:5 as a Letter of Commendation and Instruction0
The Covenant Code: A New Way of Reading the Writing0
Death and Salvation in Paul and Ancient Judaism (1 Corinthians 5:5)0
Saul’s Israel, the “Hebrews,” and Identity Politics in 1 Samuel 13–140
Conquests Need Monuments and Monuments Need Inscriptions: The Textual Location of the Mount Ebal Altar Episode in Joshua0
Designing the Golden Calf: Pens and Presumption in the Production of a “Divine” Image0
Love, Marriage, and a Delayed Harvest: Isaiah 61 as the Reversal of the Song of the Vineyard (5:1–7)0
Suddenly and Then Gradually: The Growth of the Septuagint and Its Canon0
Crucifixion as Parodic Parousia: Eschatological Foreshadowing and the Death of Jesus in Mark0
Re-remembering Hagar: Reading the Σάρξ in Galatians with Hortense Spillers0
Holy Land Sanctity for Every Greco-Roman City: Rethinking the Lukan Apostolic Decree (Acts 15:19–21)0
Isaiah 55–66 and the Psalms: Shared Viewpoints, Literary Similarities, and Neighboring Authors0
Ethics in Paul and Paul in Ethics0
Behold, the Global Translated Bible(s)! Research and Pedagogical Implications0
Is Hosea Also among the Traumatized? The Book of Hosea and Trauma Hermeneutics0
Compilation or Redaction in the Pentateuch: Reassessing Numbers 250
Our Cloud of Witnesses: A Writing of Hebrews 11:1–12:2 in Memory of the Asian and Asian American Women Killed 16 March 20210
The Literary-Historical Memory of Sargon of Akkad in Assyria as the Background for Nimrod in Genesis 10:8–120
Toilets and Toilet Humor in the Story of Eglon’s Murder by Ehud (Judges 3:15–26)0
The Anti-Eschatological Elijah and the Reinterpretation of the “Day of YHWH” in Malachi 3:23–240
The Souring of the Ways: Anti-Jewish Readings of Psalm 69 and the Wine Offerings to Jesus0
Reading Slavery in the Epistle of Jude0
Reconsidering the Composition of Ezra-Nehemiah in Light of 2 Maccabees 1:10–2:180
Matthean Conflations and Luke’s Utilization Procedure under the Farrer Hypothesis: In Defense of F. Gerald Downing0
The Greek in Daniel 3: Code-Switching, Not Loanwords0
The Hemorrhaging Woman Embodies Violence: Reading Gendered Health Barriers in Mark 5:260
Introduction to the Presidential Address0
Let the Nations Sing Hallelujah: The Influence of the Egyptian Hallel on the Citation of Psalm 117 OG in Mark 12:10–110
Asking for Trouble: Two Reading Traditions of פללים (Exodus 21:22) in Antiquity0
John 21:15–19 as a Prophetic Succession: A Reading in Light of 2 Kings 2:1–180
Poor Circulation: Embodied Economics in Haggai, Malachi, and Zechariah 1–80
Kingship and Covenant: Reconsidering the Oath of David and Jonathan0
Reading the Blood Plague (Exodus 7:14–25): The Hermeneutics of a Composite Text0
Gendered Lament, Gendered Response: Reading Lamentations with Its Early Interpreters0
Writing as a Source of Ritual Authority: The High Priest's Body as a Priestly Text in the Tabernacle-Building Story0
The Problems of Land Possession and the Meaning of Isaiah 60:210
The Golden Rule and Ancient Jewish Biblical Exegesis: The Pluriformity of a Tradition0
Alter-Altars0
Holy Impairment: The Body as the Nexus of Apocalyptic Ekphrasis in Acts 2:1–130
Returning the King and the Women to the Beginning of the Song of Songs0
Irresolution as Historical Practice and the Case of the Unnamed Woman in Timnah0
Phoebe, a Host of Christian Travelers: The Meaning of Προστάτις in Romans 16:20
The Bible in Politics and Politics in the Bible0
The Faithful Son: Rereading Hebrews 1:3b0
The Syntactic Flexibility of 1 Corinthians 14:33b0
R. H. Charles and Modern Biblical Studies0
The Time It Takes: Prolonged Pace in Luke’s Travel Narrative (9:51–19:44)0
The Jewish Pig Prohibition from Leviticus to the Maccabees0
Patterns of Allusive Poetry in Jonah’s Psalm: Intertexts in Jonah 2:3a and 10c0
The Little Messiah: Jesus as τῇ ἡλικίᾳ μικρός in Luke 19:30
The Field Belonging to Boaz: Creating Kinship through Land, Labor, Food, and Feeding0
Mourning for Tammuz: Prophecy and Projection in Ezekiel 8:140
The Materiality of Scribal Practice in Isaiah 8:1–2: Papyrus, Pens, and Authority in Inscribing Prophecy0
Darkness or Blackness? A Semantic Study of חשך (Joel 3:4)0
The Story of Codex H (GA 015): Manuscript Migration and Primary Sources in Biblical Studies0
Who Lies Beneath? Revising Paul Holloway’s Angelic Interpretation of Philippians 2:6–110
What Does It Mean to See Paul “within Judaism”?0
The Allotment of Canaan in Joshua and Numbers0
The נתינים in Tannaitic Literature: The Puzzle and a Proposed Solution0
From the Chattel to the Cattle: Human and Animal Laborers in Ancient Israel and Its Context0
Enthroned and Coming to Reign: Jesus’s Eschatological Use of Psalm 110:1 in Mark 14:620
The Rot of the Bones: A New Analysis of קנאה (“Envy/Jealousy”) in the Hebrew Bible0
Persian-Style Historiography in Ezra-Nehemiah0
Rethinking John and “the Synagogue” in Light of Expulsion from Public Assemblies in Antiquity0
The Rupture of an Association: Social Conflict and Its Management in the Thessalonian Christ Assembly0
Remembering God’s Beloved Son: Jeremiah 38:20 LXX and Mark 1:110
Thomas in Alexandria: Arguments for Locating the Gospel and Book of Thomas in Alexandria0
The Book of the Daughters of Adam in the Gelasian Decree0
Introduction to the Presidential Address0
Unbelievable: An Interpretation of Acts 12 That Takes Rhoda’s Cassandra Curse Seriously0
Prophetic Validation and the Nonregnal Dates in the Superscriptions to Jeremiah and Amos0
Sex Scandal and the Politics of David's Throne0
Revisiting Psalm 91 in Light of Rainer Albertz’s Model of Internal Religious Pluralism0
Miriam’s Dance as Embodied Prophecy (Exodus 15:20–21)0
Courtroom Theatrics in the Letter of James0
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