Solomon and the Ant: Qur’an and Bible in Dialogue. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2021.
“Hosea.” New Revised Jerome Biblical Commentary. Edited by John Collins. Sheffield: Bloomsbury, 2021.
Understanding Wisdom Literature: Conflict and Dissonance in the Hebrew Text. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012.
Twilight of the Gods: Polytheism in the Hebrew Bible. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2005.
What Rough Beast?: Images of God in the Hebrew Bible. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1999.
The Politics of Biblical Theology, in "Studies in American Biblical Hermeneutics." Macon: Mercer Press, 1995.
The Betrayal of God. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1990.
Edited Book
Co-editor, with Paul Reddit. Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do What is Right?: Studies on the Nature of God in Tribute to James L. Crenshaw. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2000.
Articles
“A Qur’anic Theodicy: Moses in the Surat al-Kahf (Q 18). In New Trends in Qur’anic Studies. Edited by Mun’im Sirry. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2019. Review of: Norman C. Habel, Finding Wisdom in Nature: An Eco-Wisdom Reading of the Book of Job (Earth Bible Commentary 4; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2014); H. H. Shugart, Foundations of the Earth: Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014); Brian Doak, Consider Leviathan: Narratives of Nature and the Self in Job (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014), in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 78:1 (January 2016). (This is a special, “long-form” review.)
“Polytheism.” In Vocabulary for the Study of Religion Editors: Robert Segal & Kocku von Stuckrad. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
“Good and Evil.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology. Samuel E. Balentine, Editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
“Wisdom.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology. Samuel E. Balentine, Editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
“Deconstruction.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation. Edited by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon. New York: Oxford Press, 2013.
“Beauty, Power and Attraction: Aesthetics and the Hebrew Bible.” In Beauty and the Bible: Toward a Hermeneutics of Biblical Aesthetics. Edited by Richard J. Bautch and Jean-François Racine. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013.
“The Conservatism of Pseudo-Solomon.” In Focusing Biblical Studies: the Crucial Nature of the Persian and Hellenistic Periods : Essays in Honor of Douglas A. Knight. Edited by Jon L. Berquist, Alice Hunt. London, New York: T & T Clark, 2012.
“Four Vignettes From the Life of David: Recollections of the Royal Court,” in The Fate of King David: the Past and Present of a Biblical Icon. Edited by Todd Linafelt. New York ; London: T & T Clark, 2010.
“Divine Retribution.” In The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. Edited by Katharine Doob Sakenfeld. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009.
“The Bible as a Polytheistic Book.” The Fourth R March-April 2008.
[online publication] The Interpretation of Wisdom Literature of the Bible, Part I Teaching the Bible (Feb 2010) http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/media/TBv2_i2.htm
[online publication] The Interpretation of Wisdom Literature of the Bible, Part II Teaching the Bible (March 2010) http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/media/TBv2_i3.htm