Published Lecture

Art and Identity in Latter Second Temple Period Judaea: The Hasmonean Royal Tombs
at Modi‘in, The Twenty-fourth Annual Rabbi Louis Feinberg Memorial Lecture in Judaic Studies. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati, Department of Judaic Studies, 2002.

Selected Academic and Popular Articles

“The Talmudic Village of Qatzrin,” with A. Killebrew, Biblical Archaeology Review, (April, 1991), 44-56.

“From Meeting House to Sacred Realm: Holiness and the Ancient Synagogue,” Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World, New York: Oxford University Press and Yeshiva University Museum, 1996, 21-47.

“Did the Synagogue Replace the Temple?,” Bible Review, (April, 1996), 18-26, 41.

“Art and the Liturgical Context of the Sepphoris Synagogue Mosaic,” Galilee: Confluence of Cultures:
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Galilee, ed. E. M. Meyers, Winona Lake, Ind.:
Eisenbrauns, 1999, 227-237.

“Why Bone Boxes?” in Biblical Archaeology Review, 4 (2001), 39-44, 57.

“Iconoclasm: Who Defaced this Jewish Art?’” Bible Review, 16, no. 5 (2000), 32-43, 55.

"‘Their Faces Shine with the Brightness of the Firmament:’ Study Houses and Synagogues in the Targumim to
the Pentateuch,” Biblical Translation in Context, ed. F. W. Knobloch, Bethesda, Md.: University Press of
Maryland, 2002, 63-92.

“The Temple Menorah:--Where is It?” Biblical Archaeology Review, 31, no. 4 (2005), 18-25, 62-63.

“Arnold Brunner’s Henry S. Frank Memorial Synagogue and the Emergence of ‘Jewish Art’ in Early Twentieth-Century America,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 44, no. 2 (2004), 47-70.

“Introduction: E. L. Sukenik, Ancient Synagogues, and the Birth of ‘Jewish Archaeology,’” in the reprint of E. L. Sukenik, The Ancient Synagogue of Beth Alpha Synagogue. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003, v*-ix*.

“Archaeology and the Interpretation of Midrash.” How Should Late Antique Rabbinic Literature Be Read in the
Modern World? Hermeneutical Limits and Possibilities, ed. M. Kraus, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2006,
pp. 199-217.

“The Rehov Synagogue Inscriptions: The Earliest Preserved Text of Talmudic Literature,” in Printing the Talmud: From Bomberg to Schottenstein, eds. G. Goldstein, S. Mintz. New York: Yeshiva University Museum, 2005.

“Between Liturgy and Social History: Priestly Power in Late Antique Palestinian Synagogues?” Journal of Jewish Studies, 56, no. 1, (2005), 1-9. 

“Jewish Art and Biblical Exegesis in the Greco-Roman World,” in Picturing the Bible: the Earliest Christian Art, ed. J. Spier. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, 24-49. 

"Jewish Identity at the Limes: The Jews of Dura Europos between Rome and Persia," Cultural Identity and the Peoples of the Ancient Mediterranean, ed. E. Gruen, Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum Press, forthcoming.

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