Compares cuneiform commentary texts from first millennium Mesopotamia with early Jewish pesharim from Qumran, arguing that textual difficulties in the pesharim can be explained through interpretive accretion practices documented in Mesopotamian commentaries.
Presented at the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Innsbruck, July 2018.
Uses manuscript remains of Mesopotamian commentaries from the first millennium BCE to construct a model for understanding how Qumran pesharim were composed, providing solutions to literary incongruities found in the pesharim.
NEJS 202b · Brandeis University · Spring 2016
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2015.
NEJS 202b · Brandeis University · Spring 2015
Presented at the New England/Eastern Canada Regional SBL Meeting, Andover-Newton Theological School, April 2014.
NEJS 200b · Brandeis University · Spring 2012
Presented at the Graduate Proseminar, Brandeis University, March 2011.