Publications


The Structure of Disciplines and Methods in the Study of Ancient Literature
Tooman, W. A. 2025, in The Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biblical Studies, ed. by Shively, E. and de Sousa, R., New York: Routledge

Rereading
Tooman, W. A. 2025, in Congress Volume, 24th meeting of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Zürich (7–12 August), VTSup, Leiden: Brill

Genesis 34 and the Law 
Tooman, W. A. 2024, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 86/2: 211–229

The Reading Habits of Isaiah’s Implied Reader: What Text Structure Reveals About Text Processing in Antiquity
Stromberg, J. 2024, in The Function of the ‘Reader’ in the Formation and Reception of the Book of Isaiah, ed. by Jang, S., and van Wieringen, A. L. H. M., Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible 11; Leiden: Brill | Schöningh, 35–53.

The Remnants of a Figural Past: Symmetry, Analogy, and the Search for a Holy Seed in the Book of Isaiah
Stromberg, J. 2024, in Unity in the Book of Isaiah, ed. by Irudayaraj, D. S., Hens-Piazza, G., and Rossi, B., LHBOTS 732; London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 94–125.  

(Re)reading Ruth
Tooman, W. A. 2022, with Kelsey, M., Eugene, OR: Cascade Press

Biblical Symmetry and its Modern Detractors
Teeter, D. A. 2022, in IOSOT Congress Volume: Aberdeen, ed. by Macaskill, G., Maier, C., and Schaper, J., VTSup; Leiden: Brill, 435–73

Jeremiah, Joseph, and the Dynamics of Analogy: On the Relationship between Jer 37–44 and the Joseph Story
Teeter, D. A. 2021, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 10/4: 443–487

The One and the Many, the Past and the Future, and the Dynamics of Prospective Analogy: The Servant(s) as the Vindication of Moses and the Prophets
Lyons, M. A. and Teeter, D. A. 2021, in Isaiah’s Servants and the Exegetical Origins of Early Jewish and Christian Identity, ed. by Lyons, M. A. and Stromberg, J., WUNT II; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 15–43

Standards of (In)coherence in Ancient Jewish Literature
Ed. by Teeter, D. A. and Tooman, W. A. 2020, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 9/2

Scriptural Reuse in Ancient Jewish Literature: Methodological Reflections on the State of the Art
Tooman, W. A. 2019, in Methodology in the Use of the Old Testament in the New, ed. by Allen, D. and Smith, S., London and New York: T & T Clark, 22–38

Authenticating Oral and Memory Variants in Ancient Hebrew Literature
Tooman, W. A. 2019, Journal of Semitic Studies 64/1, 91–114

Literary Unity, Empirical Models, and the Compatibility of Synchronic and Diachronic Reading
Tooman, W. A. 2017, in Ezekiel: Current Debates and Future Directions. Forschungen zum Alten Testament I. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 497–512

Metaphor and the Poetics of Scriptural Rewriting in Jubilees
Teeter, D. A. 2015, in The Metaphorical Use of Language in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, ed. by M. and Behnke, S., Berlin: De Gruyter, 411–426

Scribal Laws: Exegetical Variation in the Textual Transmission of Biblical Law in the Late Second Temple Period
Teeter, D. A. 2014, FAT 92, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 

On ‘Exegetical Function’ in Rewritten Scripture: Inner-Biblical Exegesis and the Abram/Ravens Narrative in Jubilees
Teeter, D. A. 2013, Harvard Theological Review, 106/4, 373–402

Torah, Wisdom, and the Composition of Rewritten Scripture: Jubilees and 11QPsa in Comparative Perspective
Teeter, D. A. 2013, in Wisdom and Torah: The Reception of ‘Torah’ in the Wisdom Literature of the Second Temple Period, ed. by Schipper, B. U. and Teeter, D. A., Leiden: Brill, 233–72

Isaiah and the King of As/Syria in Daniel’s Final Vision: On the Rhetoric of Inner-scriptural Allusion and the Hermeneutics of ‘Mantological Exegesis’
Teeter, D. A. 2012, in A Teacher for All Generations: Essays in Honor of James C. VanderKam, ed. by Mason, E., Leiden: Brill, 1:169–99

Scribes and Scribalism
Teeter, D. A. 2010, in The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, ed. by in Collins, J. J. and Harlow, D. C., Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1201–1204

Texture Dissertation Series (Peeters Publishers, Leuven)


Vol. 1 Forthcoming 2025

In Preparation


The Art of Inner-biblical Allusion
Lyons, M. A. and Tooman, W. A.

Crafting Complexity: Character Comparison in Hebrew Bible and in Classical and Mesopotamian Literature
Tooman, W. A.

Prophetic Figuration: History, Analogy, and Compositional Strategy in Jeremiah
Teeter, D. A.

A Rule of Thirds: Recursive Symmetry and Compositional Poetics in the Words of the Wise (Proverbs 22:17–24:22)
Teeter, D. A.

Texture: A Historical Poetics of Ancient Jewish Literature
Teeter, D. A. and Tooman, W. A.