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Yigal Levin – List of Publications
Books (editor):
1. A Time of Change: Judah and its Neighbors in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Period, London, T&T Clark, 2007 – editor
2. War and Peace in Jewish Tradition from the Biblical World to the Present, London, Routledge, 2012 – co-editor (with A. Shapira).
3. New Studies on Jerusalem – vol.18, Ramat-Gan, 2012 (with E. Baruch and A. Levy-Reifer)
4. "See, I will bring a scroll recounting what befell me" (Ps 40:8): Epigraphy and Daily Life - From the Bible to the Talmud - Dedicated to the memory of Professor Hanan Eshel, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014 – co-editor (with E. Eshel)
5. “And Inscribe the Name of Aaron”: Studies in Bible, Epigraphy, Literacy and History Presented to Aaron Demsky, Rolling Hills Estates: Western Academic Press, 2017 (Maarav 21 (2014); co-editor with Ber Kotlerman).
Books (author):
1. The Chronicles of the Kings of Judah: 2 Chronicles 10-36 – A New Translation and Commentary, London, Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2017 (2 additional volumes under contract).
Articles:
1. “The Territories of Ephraim and Manasseh in the Book of Chronicles”, in: Y. Eshel and Z.H. Ehrlich (eds.): Judea and Samaria Studies – Proceedings of the Third Conference, Ariel, 1994, pp. 55-64 (Hebrew with English abstract)
2. “The South of Judah According to the Biblical Lists”, in: Z. Safrai and Y. Levin (eds.): Settlement and Security in the Southern Hebron Hills in Ancient Times (The Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Department of Land of Israel Studies), Ramat-Gan, 1994, pp. 9-29 (Hebrew)
3. “The Burial Place of Joab son of Zeruiah, Chief of David’s Hosts”, in: Y. Eshel and Z.H. Ehrlich (eds.): Judea and Samaria Studies – Proceedings of the Fourth Conference, Ariel, 1995, pp. 53-58 (Hebrew with English abstract)
4. “Earthly Jerusalem in the Book of Chronicles: Contemporary or Historical?”, in: A. Faust (ed.): New Studies on Jerusalem – Proceedings of the Second Conference, Ramat-Gan, 1996, pp. 24*-44*
5. “The Changes in the Borders of Yehud During the Persian Period”, in: Y. Eshel and Z.H. Ehrlich (eds.): Judea and Samaria Studies – Proceedings of the Fifth Conference, Ariel, 1996, pp. 81-96 (Hebrew with English abstract)
6. “The Connections Between the Tribes of Asher and Benjamin”, in: Y. Eshel (ed.): Judea and Samaria Studies – Proceedings of the Seventh Conference, Ariel, 1998, pp. 225-231 (Hebrew with English abstract) (with A. Faust)
7. “Understanding Biblical Genealogies”, Currents in Research: Biblical Studies 9 (2001), 11-46
8. “Moreshet Gath: A New Identification of Tel Harasim”, in: S. Givon (ed.), The Eleventh Season of Excavation at Tel Harasim [Nahal Barkai] 2000 – Preliminary Report * 11, Tel Aviv 2002, 35-49 (Hebrew)
9. “The Land of Goshen, Gibeon, and the Southern Frontier of Saul’s Kingdom”, in: Y. Eshel (ed.): Judea and Samaria Research Studies XI, Ariel, 2002, 51-68 (Hebrew with English abstract)
10. “Nimrod the Mighty, King of Kish, King of Sumer and Akkad”, Vetus Testementum 52 (2002), 350-366
11. “The Search for Moresheth-Gath: A New Proposal”, Palestine Exploration Quarterly 134 (2002), 28-36
12. Review Article of The Keepers – An Introduction to the History and Culture of the Samaritans, by Robert T. Anderson and Terry Giles, Journal of Biblical Studies 3/1 (2003), 27-32 (http://journalofbiblicalstudies.org/Issue6/Origins_Revisited.pdf)
13. “Who Was the Chronicler’s Audience? – A Hint from his Genealogies”, Journal of Biblical Literature 122 (2003), 229-245
14. “Chisloth-tabor, Rimmon, The Brook that is Before Jokneam and the Valley of Yiphtah-el: the Border of the Allotment of Zebulun” Cathedra 108 (2003), 5-36 (Hebrew with English abstract)
15. “‘From Goshen to Gibeon’ (Josh. 10:41): The Southern Frontier of the Early Monarchy”, Maarav 10 (2003), 195-220
16. “Joseph, Judah and the ‘Benjamin Conundrum’”, Zeitschrift für Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 116 (2004), 223-241
17. “From Lists to History: Chronological Aspects of the Chronicler’s Genealogies”, Journal of Biblical Literature 123 (2004), 601-636
18. “The Political Status of the Tribe of Benjamin and the Joseph Story”, in: Y. Eshel (ed.): Judea and Samaria Research Studies XIV, Ariel, 2005, 35-52 (Hebrew with English abstract)
19. “Jesus, ‘Son of God’ and ‘Son of David’: The ‘Adoption’ of Jesus into the Davidic Line”, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 28 (2006), 415-442
20. “‘In Hebron He Reigned Seven Years’: Notes on David’s Rule in Hebron”, in: Y. Eshel (ed.): Judea and Samaria Research Studies XV, Ariel, 2006, 21-38 (Hebrew with English abstract)
21. “The Roads of the Land of Israel in the Biblical Period”, Mar’eh 1 (2006), 25-42 (Hebrew)
22. “Numbers 34:2-12, The Boundaries of the Land of Canaan and the Empire of Necho”, Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 30 (2006), 55-76
23. “Baal-Shalishah, Baal-Perazim, Baal-Hazor and Baal-Tamar: On ‘Baal’ Toponyms in the Central Hill Country”, in: Y. Eshel (ed.): Judea and Samaria Research Studies XVI, Ariel, 2007, 17-34 (Hebrew with English abstract)
24. “When did the Galilee become Israelite?”, in: S. Japhet (ed.), Shnaton – Annual of Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 17 (2007), 113-132 (Hebrew with English abstract)
25. “The Southern Frontier of Yehud and the Creation of Idumea”, in Y. Levin (ed.), A Time of Change: Judah and its Neighbors in the Persian and Early Hellenistic Period, London, T&T Clark, 2007, 239-252
26. “Israelite and Jewish Identity during the Biblical and Second Temple Period: Tribalism, Nationhood and Religion” (news article), Henoch 31 (2009), 210-213.
27. “Aphek, Aphekah”, “Aroer, Aroerite”, “Antipatris”, “Arbela”, in: H.-J. Klauck et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception II, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
28. “Was the Ark Present at the Battle of Michmash?”, in: M. Billig (ed.), Judea and Samaria Research Studies 19, Ariel, 2010, 21-30 (Hebrew with English abstract).
29. Review article of Nili Wazana, All the Boundaries of the Land, Zion 75 (2010), 347-354 (Hebrew).
30. “The Status of Gath in Micah’s Lament for the Cities of Judah”, in: M. Garsiel, R. Kasher, A. Frisch, D. Elgavish (eds.), Studies in Bible and Exegesis 10, Presented to Shmuel Vargon, Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat-Gan, 2011, 223-237 (Hebrew).
31. “Baal-gad”, “Baal-hanan”, “Baal-hazor”, “Baal-hermon”, “Baal-perazim”, “Baal-tamar” in: H.-J. Klauck et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception III, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2011.
32. “Rab-shakeh’s Hebrew Speech: History versus Rhetoric”, in E. Baruch, A. Levy-Reifer and A. Faust (eds.), New Studies on Jerusalem 17, Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Ramat-Gan, 2011, 137-149 (Hebrew with English abstract).
33. “The Wars of Joshua – Weaning Away from the Divine”, in Y. Levin and A. Shapira (eds.), War and Peace in Jewish Tradition from the Biblical World to the Present, London, Routledge, 2012, 37-50.
34. “Philistine Gath in the Biblical Record”, in A.M. Maeir (ed.), Tell es-Safi/Gath I: The 1996-2005 Seasons (Ägypten und Altes Testament 69) Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2012, 141-152.
35. “Did Pharaoh Sheshonq Attack Jerusalem?”, Biblical Archaeology Review 38/4 (2012), 42-52, 66.
36. Review article of Zipora Talshir (ed.), Israel and its Land: Inscriptions and History, Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Shmuel Ahituv (Beer-Sheva XIX, 2010), Beit Mikra 57 (2012), 135-142 (Hebrew).
37. “The Family of Man: The Genre and Purpose of Genesis 10”, in K. Abraham and J. Fleishman (eds.), Looking at the Ancient Near East and the Bible through the Same Eyes – Minha LeAhron, A Tribute to Aharon Skaist, Bethesda, CDL Press, 2012, 291-308.
38. “The Identification of Khirbet Qeiyafa: A New Suggestion”, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 367 (2012), 73-86.
39. “The Formation of Samaritan Identity between the Rule of Assyria and the Rule of Persia”, in Aharon Tavger, Zohar Amar and Miriam Billig (eds.), In the Highlands Depth: Ephraim Range and Binyamin Research Studies vol. II, Ariel – Talmon, Midreshet Harei Gofna, 2012, 49-64 (Hebrew with English abstract).
40. “Ideology and Reality in the Book of Judges”, in G. Galil, A. Gilboa, A.M. Maeir and D. Kahn (eds.), The Ancient Near East in the 12th-10th Centuries BCE: Culture and History - Proceedings of the International Conference Held in the University of Haifa, 2-5 May 2010, AOAT 392, Münster, Ugarit-Verlag, 2012, 309-326.
41. “Sheshonq I and the Negev Ḥaṣerim”, Maarav 17 (2010), 189-215 (published in 2012).
42. “Judea, Samaria and Idumea: Three Models of Ethnicity and Administration in the Persian Period”, in Johannes Ro (ed.), From Judah to Judaea: Socio-economic Structures and Processes in the Persian Period, Sheffield Phoenix Press, Sheffield, 2012, 4-53.
43. “Conquered and Unconquered: Reality and Historiography in the Geography of Joshua”, in E. Noort (ed.), The Book of Joshua (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 250), Peeters, Leuven, 2012, 361-370.
44. “Bi-Directional Forced Deportations in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and the Origins of the Samaritans: Colonialism and Hybridity”, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 28.1 (2013), 213-236.
45. “Whose God did Goliath Curse and Where did David Take his Head? Notes on 1 Samuel 17”, Beit Mikra 58/2 (2013), 83-99 (Hebrew with English abstract).
46. “Bible and Historical Geography”, in Daniel M. Master (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology vol. I, Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, 139-146.
47. “Jezreel Valley”, in Daniel M. Master (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology vol. II, Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, 42-46.
48. “The Identification, Function and Context of Khirbet Qeiyafa: Archaeology, Historical-Geography and Historiography”, in: M. Billig (ed.), Judea and Samaria Research Studies 23, Ariel, 2014, 43-59 (Hebrew with English abstract).
49. “Ancient Israel through a Social Scientific Lens” (review article), Biblical Archaeology Review 40/5 (2014), 43-47, 66.
50. “From the Land of Canaan to the State of Israel: The History of Biblical Israel and its Place in the Israeli Educational System”, In: Yossi Goldstein (ed.), Religion Nationalism: The Struggle for Modern Jewish Identity, Jewish Studies: An Interdisciplinary Annual 1 (2014), Ariel, 106-138.
51. “Gaza”, in: Dale C. Allison et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception vol. 9, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014, 1046-1057.
52. “How did Rabshakeh Know the Language of Judah?”, in Shamir Yonah, Ed L. Greenstein, Mayer I. Gruber, Peter Machinist, and Shalom M. Paul (eds.), Marbeh Ḥokmah: Studies in the Bible and in the Ancient Near East in Loving Memory of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, 2015, 323-337.
53. “Geography” in: Dale C. Allison et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception vol. 10, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2015, 46-61.
54. “The Formation of Idumean Identity”, ARAM 27 (2015), 187-202.
55. “The Disappearance of the Biblical Period from the Study of Jewish History”, International Journal of Jewish Education Research 9 (2016), 29-61 (Hebrew with English Abstract).
56. “Where did David Take Goliath’s Head?”, in Walter Dietrich and Cynthia Edenburg (eds.), The Book of Samuel: Stories – History – Reception History (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 284), Peeters, Leuven, 2016, 371-384.
57. Review of Donald P. Moffat, Ezra’s Social Drama: Identity Formation, Marriage and Social Conflict in Ezra 9 and 10, Hebrew Studies 57 (2016), 455-458.
58. “Baal Worship in Early Israel: An Onomastic View In Light of the ‘Eshbaal’ Inscription from Khirbet Qeiyafa”, Maarav 21 (2014); in Yigal Levin and Ber Kotlerman (eds.) “And Inscribe the Name of Aaron”: Studies in Bible, Epigraphy, Literacy and History Presented to Aaron Demsky, Rolling Hills Estates: Western Academic Press, 2017, 203-222.
59. “The Days of the Return to Zion: Jerusalem Under Persian Rule”, in Avraham Faust, Eyal Baruch and Joshua Schwartz (eds.), Jerusalem: From its Beginning to the Ottoman Conquest, Ramat-Gan: Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar-Ilan University, 2017, 81-101 (Hebrew).
60. “'My Father was a Wandering Aramean': Biblical Views of the Ancestral Relationship between Israel and Aram”, in A. Berlejung, A.M. Maeir and A. Schüle (eds.), Wandering Arameans: Arameans Outside Syria - Textual and Archaeological Perspectives (Leipziger Altorientalische Studien 5), Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2017, 39-52.
61. “The Jordan River in Biblical Geography: From Boundary to Allegory”, ARAM 29 (2017), 221-234.
62. Review of Bill T. Arnold and Brent A. Strawn (eds.), The World around the Old Testament: The People and Places of the Ancient Near East (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016), Catholic Biblical Quarterly 79 (2017), 725-729.
63. “Gath of the Philistines in the Bible and on the Ground: The Historical Geography of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath”, Near Eastern Archaeology 80/4 (2017), 232-240.
64. “Scholarly Insights: Uncovering the Mysteries of Aramean Origins and Diversity”, Review of K. Lawson Younger, Jr., A Political History of the Arameans: From Their Origins to the End of Their Polities (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016), Biblical Archaeology Review 44, 2-3 (March/April/May/June 2018), 80, 84, 86.
65. “Theophoric Names with the Element ‘Baal’ in Early Israel: An Updated View in Light of the ‘Eshbaal’ Inscription from Khirbet Qeiyafa”, Bible Lands e-Review 2018 l/2: https://biblelandsreview.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/levin-blmj-baal.pdf (Hebrew with English abstract).
66. Review of K. Lawson Younger, Jr., A Political History of the Arameans: From Their Origins to the End of Their Polities (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016), Review of Biblical Literature 09/2018.
67. “Sheshonq’s Levantine Conquest and Biblical History”, in Jonathan S. Greer, John W. Hilber, & John H. Walton (eds.), Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2018, 272-278.
68. Review of Marvin Lloyd Miller, Ehud Ben Zvi, and Gary N. Knoppers, eds., The Economy of Ancient Judah in Its Historical Context, Review of Biblical Literature 11/2018 http://www.bookreviews.org.
69. “‘Tell it Not in Gath’ (Micah 1:10): What is Gath Doing in a List of the Destroyed Towns of Judah?”, in Itzhaq Shai, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Louise Hitchcock, Amit Dagan, Chris McKinny and Joe Uziel (eds.), Tell it in Gath: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Israel: Essays in Honor of Aren M. Maeir on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, Ägypten und Altes Testament 90, Münster: Zaphon, 2018, 445-495. 70. “Mixed Marriages in the Book of Chronicles - A Reflection of Social Attitudes in Persian-Period Yehud”, Transeuphratène 50 (2018), 125-139 (with Iris Marsh).
71. “Why did Zerubbabel’s Adversaries Emphasize their Foreign Origins?”, in Richard Bautch and Mark Lackowski (eds.), On Dating Biblical Texts to the Persian Period: Discerning Criteria and Establishing Epochs, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, 91-99.
72. “The Chronicler as an Historian: The Chronicler’s Reinterpretation of the Deuteronomistic History of Israel”, in Johannes Unsok Ro (ed.), Story and History: The Kings of Israel and Judah in Context, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, 121-133.
73. Review of Lizbeth S. Fried, Ezra: A Commentary, Journal of Semitic Studies 64, 2 (2019), 642–643.
74. “Aram and Arameans in Chronicles”, in Angelika Berlejung and Aren M. Maeir (eds.), Research on Israel and Aram: Autonomy, Independence and Related Issues (Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times I), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, 91-104.
75. “The Role of the Levites in Chronicles: Past, Present, or Utopia?”, in Michael Avioz, Omer Minka and Yael Shemesh (eds.), Ben Porat Yosef: Studies in the Bible and its World – Essays in Honor of Joseph Fleishman, Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2019, 133-146.
76. Review of Jason M. Silverman and Caroline Waerzeggers, eds., Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire, Review of Biblical Literature, Review of Biblical Literature 1/2020 [http://www.bookreviews.org].
77. “Restoration in the Shadow of Destruction: Jerusalem in the Early Persian Period”, Jerusalem & Eretz-Israel 12-13 (2020), 83-107 (Hebrew with English abstract)
78. “The Chronicler’s Rewriting of the History of Israel: Why and How?”, in Isaac Kalimi (ed.), Writing and Rewriting History in Ancient Israel and Near Eastern Cultures, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020, 173-188.
79. Review of Ganzel, Tova; Brandes, Yehudah; Deutsch, Chayuta, eds. The Believer and the Modern Study of the Bible. H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews. April, 2020.
80. “Athalaih: An Israelean Princess in the Judahite Court”, Judea and Samaria Research Studies 29/1 (2020), 5-36.
81. Review of Jordan Guy, United in Exile, Reunited in Restoration, Review of Biblical Literature 7/2020 [http://www.bookreviews.org].
82. “The Religion of Idumea and Its Relationship to Early Judaism”, Religions 11, 487 (2020), 1-27; doi:10.3390/rel11100487.
83. “Merom, Waters of”, in: Dale C. Allison et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception vol. 18, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020, 782-784.
84. “Meshullam”, in: Dale C. Allison et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception vol. 18, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020, 803-806.
85. “Mikloth”, “Mizpah, Mizpeh” and several other entries in: Dale C. Allison et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (forthcoming).