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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
How You Learned Christ: Petrine Christological Transformation of Pauline Vocabulary5
Biblical Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: A New Interpretation of Jeremiah 30–333
Theorizing Laughter and Ethnicity in Philo’s Embassy to Gaius2
The Concept of Διαθήκη in Galatians 3:15–182
Where (and When) Did the Authors of Joshua 10:1–39, 11:1–15 Live?2
Spirit Possession and Intimate Partner Violence in the Law of Jealousy (Numbers 5:11–31)2
Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It: Ezekiel 24:15–27 and Divine Dissociation2
With Whom Is Peter Eating in Antioch? Reading τὰ ἔθνη in Galatians 2:12 as Including Nonbelieving Gentiles2
“Even the Birds Find a Home”: Psalm 104:16–18 and the Concept of the Cosmic Sanctuary2
Judges 2:11–19: A Palimpsest of Political History2
Not Seeing, Unseeing, and Blind: Disentangling Disability from Adjacent Topoi in the Hebrew Bible2
Is the Gospel of Mark Distinctly Pauline? A Critical Evaluation2
4QpaleoExodm and the Gerizim Composition2
Papyrus Bookrolls with Jewish and Christian Content2
The Root of Ephraim among Amalek in the Song of Deborah1
Courtroom Theatrics in the Letter of James1
The Story of Codex H (GA 015): Manuscript Migration and Primary Sources in Biblical Studies1
The Book of the Daughters of Adam in the Gelasian Decree1
Rethinking John and “the Synagogue” in Light of Expulsion from Public Assemblies in Antiquity1
Introduction to the Presidential Address1
The Census in Luke 2: Using Josephus to Make Sense of Luke’s Irreconcilable Chronology1
“Children Dwelling in a Field”: Age, Gender, and the Exegesis of Creation in Gospel of Thomas 211
Ethics in Paul and Paul in Ethics1
Reading Slavery in the Epistle of Jude1
“Let Us Fix Our Eyes on the Blood of Christ” (1 Clement 7.4): Blood and Atonement in 1 Clement and Hebrews1
Gendered Lament, Gendered Response: Reading Lamentations with Its Early Interpreters1
Alter-Altars1
Phoebe, a Host of Christian Travelers: The Meaning of Προστάτις in Romans 16:21
Internalized Foreignness and Judahite Identity (Re)Construction in Ezekiel 161
The Letter to Titus and Apostolic Succession in Crete1
Torches, Not Lamps, in the Wedding Parable of Matthew 251
Introduction to the Presidential Address1
The Golden Rule and Ancient Jewish Biblical Exegesis: The Pluriformity of a Tradition0
Holy Land Sanctity for Every Greco-Roman City: Rethinking the Lukan Apostolic Decree (Acts 15:19–21)0
Theft of Livestock in the Covenant Code: A New Synchronic Approach0
Holy Impairment: The Body as the Nexus of Apocalyptic Ekphrasis in Acts 2:1–130
An Early Ḥarklean Version in a Syriac Gospel Fragmentary Manuscript (MS Or. 403)0
Is Hosea Also among the Traumatized? The Book of Hosea and Trauma Hermeneutics0
A Messianic Secret and an Unconventional Christ in Matthew’s Gospel0
The Bible in Politics and Politics in the Bible0
Death and Salvation in Paul and Ancient Judaism (1 Corinthians 5:5)0
The Pro-Choice Biblical Ethic of American Evangelical Scholars before the Religious Right0
“He Shall Not Be Put to Shame”: Honor-and-Shame Culture as the Overlooked Context of Psalm 1270
Introduction to the Presidential Address0
Abraham and the Jerusalem Collection: Kinship Diplomacy in Paul’s Letters0
The Paraclete as Christian Muse: Audience-Critical Reflections on the Fourth Gospel’s Extrahistorical Claims0
From Zaphon to Zion: The Redaction of Psalm 200
The Jewish Pig Prohibition from Leviticus to the Maccabees0
The Relationship between 3 Maccabees and the Vetus Latina of Esther0
Miriam’s Dance as Embodied Prophecy (Exodus 15:20–21)0
Irresolution as Historical Practice and the Case of the Unnamed Woman in Timnah0
Thomas in Alexandria: Arguments for Locating the Gospel and Book of Thomas in Alexandria0
Creative Imitation in the Story of Josiah0
The נתינים in Tannaitic Literature: The Puzzle and a Proposed Solution0
Responsibility for Murder: The Background of Judith’s Legal Argumentation0
Returning the King and the Women to the Beginning of the Song of Songs0
Christ’s Piety: 1 Timothy 3:16 in Light of Early Christian Traditions0
Behold, the Global Translated Bible(s)! Research and Pedagogical Implications0
The “Community Setting” of the Ascension of Isaiah: A New Analysis0
Who Lies Beneath? Revising Paul Holloway’s Angelic Interpretation of Philippians 2:6–110
The Rot of the Bones: A New Analysis of קנאה (“Envy/Jealousy”) in the Hebrew Bible0
Demons Seeking Identity? The Psychic Life of New Testament Exorcisms0
Enthroned and Coming to Reign: Jesus’s Eschatological Use of Psalm 110:1 in Mark 14:620
Saul and the Not-So-Holy Ghost: 1 Samuel 16:14–23 and Ghost-Induced Illness0
“You Shall Be Holy”: A Reassessment of Israel’s Call to Holiness0
Colonizing Frank Moore Cross: The Dead Sea Scrolls in 1950s Popular Media0
Kingship and Covenant: Reconsidering the Oath of David and Jonathan0
Mourning for Tammuz: Prophecy and Projection in Ezekiel 8:140
Challenging Emotion: Is Divine “Regret” (נחם) an Anthropopathism After All?0
What Is Not, but Might Be: Disnarration as Narrative Device in the Hebrew Bible0
Poor Circulation: Embodied Economics in Haggai, Malachi, and Zechariah 1–80
The Origins of “In the Beginning . . .”: Genesis 1:1 in Light of the Biblical Hebrew Reading Traditions0
Taking Biblical Authors at Their Word: On Scholarly Ethics, Sexual Violence, and Rape Culture in the Hebrew Bible0
Transgenerational “Righteousness” in Ezekiel and Aramean (Sam’alian) Texts0
Local Manifestations of YHWH within El’s Divine Council: Psalm 82 in the Context of Israelite Religion0
Soft Clothing, Hard Jesus: Toughness and Class Conflict in Q 7:24–250
Babatha’s Final Days: New Light from Papyrus Starcky0
A History of Kissing in Ancient Israel: Evidence from the Hebrew Bible0
What and Where Is “the Plain of Dura” in Daniel 3:1?0
Tracing Bathsheba’s Metamorphosis through the Lens of Trauma and Recovery0
Drinking as Slaughter in Obadiah 160
The Field Belonging to Boaz: Creating Kinship through Land, Labor, Food, and Feeding0
Noah’s Sacrifice and the Relation between Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon0
Introduction to the Presidential Address0
Saul’s Israel, the “Hebrews,” and Identity Politics in 1 Samuel 13–140
Revisiting Sabbath Observance during the Great Jewish Revolt (66–73/74 CE)0
The Strange Significance of the Name Carpocrates in Early Christian Polemic0
The Postexilic נתינים and the Neo-Babylonian Širkū: A Reassessment0
The Tabernacle Manual: Exodus 25:1–31:18 in Light of the Cuneiform Procedural Genre0
The Anti-Eschatological Elijah and the Reinterpretation of the “Day of YHWH” in Malachi 3:23–240
Re-remembering Hagar: Reading the Σάρξ in Galatians with Hortense Spillers0
John 21:15–19 as a Prophetic Succession: A Reading in Light of 2 Kings 2:1–180
Open the Gates! Exploring Futures for Us as Scholars, for Our Field, and for Our Society of Biblical Literature0
The Allotment of Canaan in Joshua and Numbers0
Abigail and Her Honor Culture Wisdom0
Exotica and the Ethiopian of Acts 8:26–40: Toward a Different Fabula0
The Problems of Land Possession and the Meaning of Isaiah 60:210
Enoch the Explorer: 1 Enoch 17–36 in Its Hellenistic Context0
The Souring of the Ways: Anti-Jewish Readings of Psalm 69 and the Wine Offerings to Jesus0
The Allegory of the Cross in Galatians0
The Bible in the Aramaic Bowls: Between Memorization, Orality, and Writtenness0
Matthean Conflations and Luke’s Utilization Procedure under the Farrer Hypothesis: In Defense of F. Gerald Downing0
The Jurisprudential Significance of אשר: A Case Study in Leviticus 10:1–30
Additions of Conjunctive Vav (“and”) in 1QIsaa: Evidence for the Role of Language Processing Strategies0
The Faithful Son: Rereading Hebrews 1:3b0
Paul’s Use of Συναπάγω in Romans 12:160
Conquests Need Monuments and Monuments Need Inscriptions: The Textual Location of the Mount Ebal Altar Episode in Joshua0
From the Chattel to the Cattle: Human and Animal Laborers in Ancient Israel and Its Context0
The “Teachings of Demons” as “Magical” Practices in 1 Timothy 4:10
Making Sense of the Incense Altar: Location in Sacred Space and Text0
The Literary-Historical Memory of Sargon of Akkad in Assyria as the Background for Nimrod in Genesis 10:8–120
Centurions in the Jesus Movement? Rethinking Luke 7:1–10 in Light of the Gaianus Inscription at Kefar ‘Othnay0
Travel and Anxiety in Early Jewish Literature0
Remembering God’s Beloved Son: Jeremiah 38:20 LXX and Mark 1:110
Prophetic Validation and the Nonregnal Dates in the Superscriptions to Jeremiah and Amos0
There Is a Tide in the Affairs of Women: The Biology of Menstruation in Levitical (and Israelite) Thought0
The Materiality of Scribal Practice in Isaiah 8:1–2: Papyrus, Pens, and Authority in Inscribing Prophecy0
The Ethnolinguistic Significance of Tongues in Acts: From Xenolalia to Naturally Acquired Languages0
2 Corinthians 8:16–9:5 as a Letter of Commendation and Instruction0
The Johannine Reception of a Matthean Legend0
Fluid Boundaries and Conflicted Meaning in the Book of Joshua0
Asking for Trouble: Two Reading Traditions of פללים (Exodus 21:22) in Antiquity0
Embracing the Jewess: Reading Gender and Ethnicity in Judith with the Belle Juive0
אַשְׁרֵי and μακάριος: Contact Linguistics, Constrained Language, and the Nature of Judaic Greek0
Suddenly and Then Gradually: The Growth of the Septuagint and Its Canon0
Patterns of Allusive Poetry in Jonah’s Psalm: Intertexts in Jonah 2:3a and 10c0
Crucifixion as Parodic Parousia: Eschatological Foreshadowing and the Death of Jesus in Mark0
Revisiting Psalm 91 in Light of Rainer Albertz’s Model of Internal Religious Pluralism0
Love, Marriage, and a Delayed Harvest: Isaiah 61 as the Reversal of the Song of the Vineyard (5:1–7)0
Resurrecting Amulets and Ostraca within New Testament Textual Criticism0
Light and Luminaries: A Study of Genesis 1:3–5 and 14–190
The Omens at Jesus’s Death (Mark 15:33–39) and the Divine Abandonment of the Temple before Its Destruction in 70 CE0
Darkness or Blackness? A Semantic Study of חשך (Joel 3:4)0
Deconstructing the Downward Spiral: Anthology as Coherence in the Book of Judges0
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
Legal Thinking and Notions of the Self: Why Biblical Studies Needs an Anthropology of Law0
Compilation or Redaction in the Pentateuch: Reassessing Numbers 250
The Covenant Code: A New Way of Reading the Writing0
John of Patmos and the Appeal of an Exotic Apocalypse0
Persian-Style Historiography in Ezra-Nehemiah0
Toilets and Toilet Humor in the Story of Eglon’s Murder by Ehud (Judges 3:15–26)0
The Text of 1 Peter in Polycarp and Irenaeus0
The Hemorrhaging Woman Embodies Violence: Reading Gendered Health Barriers in Mark 5:260
The Time It Takes: Prolonged Pace in Luke’s Travel Narrative (9:51–19:44)0
The Rupture of an Association: Social Conflict and Its Management in the Thessalonian Christ Assembly0
Hagar on Sinai: The Choice of Heracles, Mountain Women, and Pauline Allegory in Galatians0
Exegeting God: Prophetic Sign Acts and Inner-Biblical Interpretation in the Book of Jeremiah0
Nonlinear Literary Dependence between Ezekiel and H? Evaluating Recent Suggestions0
On Having a Body: Time and Divine Embodiment0
The Little Messiah: Jesus as τῇ ἡλικίᾳ μικρός in Luke 19:30
Always Two There Are? The Combined Dragon in Job 40:15–41:26 LXX0
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