Publications

Books

Ruly Stories, Unruly Plots: A Poetics of Storytelling in the Judean and Demotic Egyptian Novella. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Expected Spring 2026.

The Routledge Handbook of Ancient Egypt and the Hebrew Bible, with Bernd U. Schipper and Robert Kade, submission in Fall 2025

Exploring New Directions in Biblical Narrative: Contemporary Perspectives on Narrative Theory and Biblical Studies. Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History. Co-edited with Davide D’Amico, submission in November 2025

“Beyond Paradise: The Persian Paridaidā and Imperial Space in Persepolis and the Demotic Chronicle,” in Kristin Joachimsen and Jason Silverman, eds., Symbolic Spaces Associated with Paradise (Pardes) (Brill, Themes in Biblical Narrative) (with José Rafael Saade)
“The Style of the Opening of the Novella: Beginning a Story in Judean and Egyptian Narrative,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 15:3 (Forthcoming 2026)
“Finding God in Nineveh: Mapping a Motif in Judean and Egyptian Literature,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 25:2 (Forthcoming 2026)
“The Corpus of Northwest Semitic Texts in Egyptian Script,” in Susan Hollis, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Egypt and the Hebrew Bible (Forthcoming)

“Appearance and Reality in Setna’s Dialogue with ‘Pharaoh’ in First Setna 5.31-35,” in Aurore Motte and Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, eds., (Im)politeness in Ancient Egypt: Norms, Wit, and Rudeness in Texts from Pharaonic Times through Late Antiquity (Brill, Studies in Pragmatics 26), pp. 265–292 [link])

“Esther as Novella,” in Helge Bezold and Kristin Joachimsen, eds., Esther: Themes and Issues (Forthcoming 2025, Equinox Themes and Issues in Biblical Studies) [link]

“Mouvance and the Art of Fiction in Performance in Manuscripts of a Demotic Novella,” Manuscript and Text Cultures 2:2 (2023), pp. 168–200 [link]

“The Teaching of Amenemope,” in Global Humanities Reader: Engaging Ancient Worlds and Perspectives, ed. Brian S. Hook, Sophie Mills, Katherine C. Zubko, Keya Maitra (2022), pp. 77-79 [link]
“Egyptian Love Poetry,” in Global Humanities Reader: Engaging Ancient Worlds and Perspectives, ed. Brian S. Hook, Sophie Mills, Katherine C. Zubko, Keya Maitra (2022), pp. 98-100 [link]
“The Epic of Gilgamesh,” in Global Humanities Reader: Engaging Ancient Worlds and Perspectives, ed. Brian S. Hook, Sophie Mills, Katherine C. Zubko, Keya Maitra (2022), pp. 236-238 [link]

“Missing Pages: Two Manuscripts of the Samaritan Torah in the Oriental Institute,” Oriental Institute News & Notes 242 (2017), pp. 6-15 [link]