Conference Presentations
1. “Religion and Scribal Practice at Kuntillet ‘Ajrud: Revisiting the Theophany Inscription (KA 4.2).” Jewish Scribes and Scribal Communities. John’s Hopkins University. February 2026.
2. “Ritual Change, War Commemoration, and Fasts in Zechariah 7–8.” SBL Annual Meeting. November 2025.
3. “Annual Festivals and War Commemoration in the Ancient Near East.” ASOR Annual Meeting. November 2024.
4. “Festivals and War Commemoration in the Hebrew Bible.” Representations of Cultural Trauma in the Hebrew Bible. European Association of Biblical Studies. July 2024.
5. “Leviticus 17 and the Boundaries of the Holiness Legislation.” Priestly Texts and Traditions: Thirty Years After Israel Knohl’s The Sanctuary of Silence. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. July 2024.
6. “Gender Diversity and Pentateuchal Scholarship: The State of the Field and Future Directions.” Deuteronomy, Genesis, and Pentateuch. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. November 2023.
7. “Leviticus and Discourse Analysis: Or, What the Priestly Traditions Can and Cannot Reveal About the Scribes Who Wrote Them.” Scribes and Scribal Groups in the Early Second Temple Period. European Association of Biblical Studies. July 2023.
8. “Introduction” (with Rotem Avneri Meir) and “Purity, Cult, and Empire: Antiochus III’s Proclamation Concerning the Temple and City in Jerusalem.” Antiochus III’s Edicts to Jerusalem: Between Imperial Stress and Local Agency (which I co-organized). Harvard University. April 2023.
9. “Transgressive Consumption during the Battle of Michmash (1 Sam 14:31–35).” Meals in the HB/OT and Its World. Society of Biblical Literature. November 2022.
10. “Standardization and Priestly Power in the Priestly Traditions of the Pentateuch.” Pentateuch/Literature and History of the Persian Period. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. November 2022.
11. “The ‘Theophany’ Inscription at Kuntillet ‘Ajrud (KA 4.2) and Biblical Poetry: Evidence of Yhwh’s Southern Origins?” Ancient Inscriptions. ASOR Annual Meeting. November 2022.
12. “The Origins of the Jewish Pig Taboo: Pig Consumption and Ethnicity from Leviticus to the Maccabees.” David Noel Freedman Prize Award Session. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. November 2021.
13. “Hellenizing Hanukkah: War Commemoration in 1 and 2 Maccabees.” Historical Narratives and Memorialization of Collective Violence in Antiquity (which I co-organized). University of Basel. November 2020.
14. “The Tent of Meeting as Monumental Space: Power and Centrality in the Construction of the Priestly Sanctuary.” New Perspectives on Monumentality and the Monumentalizing of Text in the Hebrew Bible. International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. July 2019.
15. “Purity Rituals and Concepts of Pollution in the Hebrew Bible in Light of Recent Research” (with Christophe Nihan). Reinheit im antiken Judentum und frühen Christentum/Purity in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. Katholische Akademie, Schwerte. February 2019.
16. “North and South in the Priestly Traditions.” Samaria and Diaspora in the Persian and Hellenistic Period. Institut Protestant de Théologie, Montpellier. December 2018.
17. “Lev 17 and Deut 12 in the Study of Centralization.” Book of Deuteronomy. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. November 2018.
18. “Divine Authorship in Pentateuchal Law.” What Follows la mort de l’auteur? Re-Evaluating the Concept of Authorship in Hebrew Bible Studies (which I co-organized). University of Basel. September 2018.
19. “Standardization and Centralization in the Festal Calendar of Lev 23.” Centralization and Cult. European Association of Biblical Studies. August 2018.
20. “Sang et centralisation cultuelle (Lév 17).” Le sang: discours, rites, pratiques. Collège de France. May 2018.
21. “The Sabbath in the Holiness Legislation of Lev 17–26: A Reassessment.” BaGöL Meeting. University of Basel. May 2018.
22. “The Prohibition of Local Butchery in Lev 17:3–4: Evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls.” The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Symposium in Honor of George Brooke. University of Lausanne. April 2017.
23. “Aaron’s Vestments in Exodus 28 and Priestly Leadership” (with Christophe Nihan). Concepts of Leadership in the Hebrew Bible. European Association of Biblical Studies. July 2016.
24. “The Reception of Ritual Laws in the Early Second Temple Period: The Evidence of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles.”Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch (which I co-organized). University of Lausanne. May 2016.
25. “Gates and Entrances in Ezekiel 40–48: The Mapping of Social Space.” Theological Perspectives on the Book of Ezekiel. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. November 2015.
26. “‘The Temple which You Will Build for me in the Land’: The Future Sanctuary in a Textual Tradition of Leviticus.” Graduate Student Meeting. European Association of Biblical Studies. March 2015.
27. “Space and Ritual in Ancient Israel.” Cultes aux Portes. University of Geneva. May 2014.
28. “Space and Memory in the Book of Leviticus.” Bible and Social Sciences. University of Manchester. April 2014.
