Publications - ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

Jonathan L.

“People on road to caves of Qumran where Dead Sea scrolls were found.”

Nicolas-André Monsiau, Aspasia Conversing with Socrates and Alcibiades (1801), Musée Pouchkine [Wikimedia].

Susan Niditch, Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond.

Henri Matisse, La Danse I.

The Orator, 110-90 BCE.

Hannah’s Prayer, by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld.

Kuttamuwa’s Grave Stele, Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons This essay was part of a 2025 SBL Conference Book Review Panel devoted to Body Language: Voice, Embodiment, and Textuality in the Hebrew Bible, by Jacqueline Vayntrub.

Archaeological stratification in the Athens Metro, Dafni Station.

Fragment of a Head of a Queen, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Image citation: Roman goblet, Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J.

Limewood panel bearing encaustic portrait of woman excavated in Saqqara (100-120 CE), British Museum Collection [Image from Wikimedia Commons].

The TLibrary of the Institute of Science at the University of Bologna [Image: Doug Davey at Flickr] This essay was part of a 2026 NAPS Conference Book Review Panel devoted to Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World by Ellen

Relief of an orator, scribes, and an audience, late fourth century CE.

This essay was part of a 2026 NAPS Conference Book Review Panel devoted to Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World by Ellen Muehlberger.

Known Knowns and Known Unknowns: Ellen Muehlberger’s Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World by Bradley K.

Charles Lewis Griffin and Charles Clyde Adams, Machine Drawing (1914), The Library of Congress [Wikimedia].

In many ways, this book project began a number of years ago when I first read Judith Plaskow’s Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective as an undergraduate at Brown University.

Most of my students will not be biblical scholars.

AJR is honored to host this review panel for Christine Luckritz Marquis’s Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt’s Golden Age (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022).

Remnants of the kellia (“cells”) in Egypt [Image Source: Wikimedia Commons] AJR is honored to host this review panel for Christine Luckritz Marquis’s Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt’s Golden Age (Philadelphia: University of Penn…

This AJR Forum, organized and guest edited by Candace Buckner, features responses from Ellen Muehlberger, Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, and Ciara Mulcahy to Christine Luckritz Marquis’s book, Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt's Go…

Monastery of Saint Bishoy, Wadi Natrun [Image Source: Wikimedia Commons].