The Demotic Chronicle and the Qumran Pesharim: Purpose, Methods, and Genre
Presented at Egyptian Demotic Papyri and the Dead Sea Scrolls (DEMBIB), Berlin, May 2024.
Textual Criticism
Introduction to the Documentary Texts and Literary Interpretation Unit
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, online, November 2020.
The Transmission History of 2 Kings 21:13b
Examines the Masoretic tradition of 2 Kings 21:13b and the significant variants in other biblical versions that have received virtually no scholarly attention.
Reading SpBTU III 72 as Florilegium
Presented at the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Innsbruck, July 2018.
Textual Authority and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Then and Now
Presented at Brandeis University, September 2017.
In and Between the Lines of 1 Samuel 2:11-18
Presented at the International SBL/EABS Conference, Berlin, August 2017.
A Compositional History of Psalm 136
Presented at the Doktorandenkolloquium, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, December 2016.
Let's Read the Vulgate: Some Remarks on the Compositional History of 2 Kings 21:13 and Psalm 41:2
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, San Antonio, Texas, November 2016.
Déjà lu: Parallel Passages in the Hebrew Bible
NEJS 110b · Brandeis University · Fall 2015
4QEnc (4Q204) Column I: A New Reconstruction
Presented at the Fifth Enoch Graduate Seminar, Montreal, Canada, May 2014.
Theoretical Approaches to Reading the Hebrew Bible
Presented at the Graduate Proseminar, Brandeis University, April 2014.
Textual Development of the Qumran Pesharim
Presented at the Dead Sea Scrolls: Life in Ancient Times Graduate Symposium, Brandeis University, October 2013. Awarded best presentation.
Jude, Deuteronomy, and the Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon: Dealing with Treason when God Becomes King
Presented at the Graduate Proseminar, Brandeis University, March 2011.