BOOKS
Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach. Harvard University
Press, 1992.
The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible, University of California Press, 2000.
Melville’s Bibles. University of California Press, 2008.
EDITED VOLUME
New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Co-Editor (with Ruth Ginsburg), Niemeyer, 2006.
ARTICLES (selected list)
“Beyond Genesis 3,” Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts. 17 (1989): 37-50.
“Yocheved Bat-Miriam: The Poetic Strength of a Matronym,” Gender and Text: Feminist Criticism and Modern Jewish Literature, eds. Naomi B. Sokoloff, Anne Lapidus Lerner, Anita Norich, The Jewish Theologial Seminary of America, 1992,
39-63.
“Beyond Genesis 3: The Politics of Maternal Naming,” in Feminist Companion to Genesis, ed. Athalya Brenner, Sheffield Academic Press.
Rachel’s Dream of Grandeur,” Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible, eds., Christina Buchmann and Celina Spiegel, Fawcett Columbine, 1994, 27-40.
“Imagining the Promised Land: The Spies in the Land of the Giants,” History and Memory 6 (Fall/Winter 1994): 5-23.
“The Biography of Ancient Israel: Imagining the Birth of a Nation,” Comparative Literature 49 (Winter 1997): 24-41.
“Job’s Wife,” Job’s Daughters,” “Job’s Mother,” in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament, eds. Carol Meyers, Toni Craven, Ross Kraemer, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
“The Belly of the Underworld: The Book of Jonah as Travel Narrative” (in Hebrew). In Wool From the Loom: The Development of Literary Genres in Ancient Literature (Chutim Nitvim), ed. Nathan Wasserman, The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2002, 13-22.
“Imagining the Birth of Ancient Israel: National Metaphors in the Bible,” in Cultures of the Jews: A New History, ed. David Biale, Schocken Book, 2002, 9-42.
“The Daughters of Zelophehad,” in The Jewish Political Tradition, Vol. II, eds. Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam Zohar, Yale University Press, 2003, 169-173.
“Remapping Jonah’s Voyage: Melville’s Moby-Dick and Kitto’s Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature,” Comparative Literature 57 (Spring 2005): 135-157.
"Freud, Zipporah, and the Bridegroom of Blood: National Imagination in the Bible." New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism, eds. Ruth Ginsburg and Ilana Pardes. Niemeyer, 2006, 149-164.
"Job's Leviathan: Between Melville and Alter," Prooftexts (forthcoming).