Books

1.   The Tale of Aqhat (Introduction, Translation, Commentary).  Menard Press, London, 1981.

2.   Paradoxes of Paradise:  Identity and Difference in the Song of Songs.  Almond Press:  Sheffield, 1983

3.   Hosea   Readings.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. 1995.

4.   Beauty and the Enigma and Other Essays in the Hebrew Bible (JSOT Sup. 312; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001).

Articles

1.  "The Song of Songs and the Garden of Eden" JBL 98 (1979) 513-528.

2.   "Beauty and the Enigma:  An Inquiry into Some Interrelated Episodes in the Song of Songs"  JSOT 17 (1980) 53-106.

3.   "The Name of God and the Image of God and Man"  Theology 84 (1981) 164-170.

4.   "Irony and Catharsis in Biblical Poetry:  David's Lament over Saul and Jonathan" European Judaism 15/1 (1981) 3-13.

5.   "Structure and Mythology in the Song of Songs" Prospice 11 (1981) 97-117.

6.   "The Serpent in the Garden of Eden" Harvest 27 (1981) 38-44.

7.   "Two Versions of Paradise:  The Metaphor of the Garden in the Song of Songs and the Garden of Eden" Harvest 28 (1982) 112-129.

8.   "The Case of Kugel:  Do we Find ourselves when we Lose ourselves in the Text?"  Comparative Criticism 5 (1983) 305-316.

9.   "Eros and Hieros in the Song of Songs"  The Heythrop Journal 24 (1983) 301-307.

10.  "Poetics and Parallelism:  Some Comments on James Kugel's 'The Idea of Biblical Poetry'" JSOT 28 (1984) 61-87.

11.  "Are we in the Place of Averroes?" Semeia 32 (1985) 131-148.

12.  "A Possible Trace of the Theme of the Centaur in the Midrash" Synkresis D 156-161, E 121-130 (1986).

13.  "Gilead and the Fatal Word" Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies (1986) 39-44.

14.  "Recent Developments in Biblical Poetics" Prooftexts 7 (1987) 163-178.

15.   "The Song of Songs" The Literary Guide to the Bible ed. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode (Harvard U.P.:  Cambridge and Collins: London, 1987) 305-319.  Paperback edition 1990.

16.   "Lamentations" The Literary Guide to the Bible, pp. 329-334.

17.  "Vision and Poetic Speech in Amos"  HAR 11 (1987) 223-246.

18.  "Between the Bible and Torah" in Approaches to the Hebrew Bible in Translation ed. Barry N. Olshen and Yael S. Feldman (New York:  Modern Language Association of America, 1989) pp. 83-86.

19.  "Narrative Techniques and Symbolic Transactions in the Akedah" in Signs and Wonders:  Biblical Texts in Literary Focus ed. J. Cheryl Exum (Scholars Press: 1989) 1-40.

20.  "Literariness and the Bible" Jewish Quarterly 135 (Autumn, 1989), 53-57.

21.  "Shibboleth:  The Password" Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies (1990) 91-99.

22.  "On the Gender of God and the Feminist Enterprise:  A Response to Shannon Clarkson" Studies in Religion 19 (1990) 485-487.

23.  "Humour as a Tool in Biblical Exegesis" in On Humour and the Comic in the Hebrew Bible ed. A. Brenner and Y.T. Radday (Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield, 1990) 101-117.  Reprint of "Humour in the Bible" Jewish Quarterly 29/1 (1980) 13-19.

24.  Preface to Jan Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis:  Specimens of Stylistic and Structural Analysis (JSOT Press:  The Biblical Seminar 12: Sheffield, 1991) xi-xvi.

25.  "Jouissance and Poetics."  Union Seminary Quarterly Review 45 (1991) 51-64.

26.  "In Defense of Jakobson" in JBL III(1992) 105-13.

27.  "Mishneh Torah:  A Response to Myself and Phyllis Trible" in A Feminist Companion to the Song of Songs ed. A Brenner (Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield 1993) pp. 260-265.

28.  "Tracing the Voice of the Other:  Isaiah 28 and the Covenant with Death."  For The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible ed. David J. Clines and J. Cheryl Exum (Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield, 1993) 140-162.

29.  "The Construction of the Subject and the Symbolic Order:  A Reading of the Last Three Suffering Servant Songs."  Among the Prophets:  Language, Image  and Structure in the Prophetic Writings ed. Philip Davies  (Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield,  1993) pp. 60-71.

30.  "On Metaphor, Play and Nonsense."  Semeia  61 (1993) 219-237.

31.  "Sacred Space and Public Pleasure."  Muse  II (1993) 22-27.

32.  "Ruth and the Romance of Realism, or Deconstructing History" JAAR 62 (1994) pp.285-317.

33.  "In the Wilderness of Speech:  Problems of Metaphor in Hosea."  Biblical Interpretation 3 (1995) pp.35-59.

34. "Fantasy and the Displacement of Desire in Hosea 2.4-17" in Athalya Brenner (ed.) A Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets (The Feminist Companion to the Bible 8; Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield), 1995 pp.145-160.

35. "Sex and Sadism in Hosea" in J. Magonet (ed.) Jewish Explorations of Sexuality London: Duckworth, Providence: Berghahn, 1995, pp. 17-26.

36.      “Do We Want our Children to Read this Book?” Semeia 77 (Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips (eds) The Bible and the Ethics of Reading, 1997) pp.155-175

35.        “Flood and Fludd” in J.Cheryl Exum and Stephen D. Moore (eds). _Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies: The Third Sheffield Colloquium_(Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) pp.117-159.

38     “Strategies of Concentration and Diffusion  in Isaiah 6” Biblical Interpretation 6 (1999) pp.58-86.

39.      "Leviticus, Deconstruction and the Body."  Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 2 (1999)

  40.       “Seraphim and Poetic Process.”  In Fiona C.Black and Erin Runions (eds) The Labour of Reading: Essays in Honour of Robert C. Culley at the Time of His Retirement  ( Semeia Studies; Atlanta: ScholarsPress, 2000), pp.15-34

41.  “The Song of Songs.”  For David N. Freedman (ed.). Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000) pp.1242-44

42.    "Vision and Voice in Isaiah."  Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.88 (2000) pp.19-36.

43.   "The Covenant With Death."  In Tod Linafelt (ed) Strange Fire: The Hebrew Scriptures After the Holocaust. (The Biblical Seminar 71; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000) pp.220-232.

44. "Récits d'amour dans la Bible hébraique" Le Monde du Bible 128 (2000) pp.53-55.

45. "Ghostwriting Isaiah." In Philip  R. Davies (ed.) First Person: Essays in Biblical Autobiography (London and New York: Continuum, 2002) pp.93-114

46.    “Perversity, Truth and the Readerly Experience” in Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger (ed) Autobiographical Biblical Criticism (Leiden: Deo, 2002).  Pp.60-78.

47.   “Prophetic Intercourse” in Alastair Hunter and Philip R Davies (eds), Sense and Sensitivity: Essays on Reading the Bible in Memory of Robert Carroll  (JSOTS 348, Sheffield: SAP, 2002) pp,.261-279.

48.   “Between David and David: Psalm 24 and David Clines” in J.Cheryl Exum and Hugh G. M. Williamson (eds) Reading from Right to Left: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of David J. A. Clines (London: Continuum, 2004), pp.275-289.

49.   “Torah and Anti-Torah: Isaiah 2:2-4 and 1:10-26” Biblical Interpretation 11 (2003) pp,317-34.

50.   “The End of the World: Qohelet 12.1-7 and Lamentations Rabbah” in Yvonne Sherwood (ed) Derrida’s Bible (New York: Palgrave, 2004), pp.231-46.

51.   “A Rejoinder to A. Brenner, ‘Regulating “Sons” and “Daughters” in the Torah and in Proverbs: Some Preliminary Insights” Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5 (2005) (on-line)

52.   “The Parable of the Vineyard (Isaiah 5.1-7) or What is a Love Song doing among the Prophets?” Studies in Religion 34 (2005) pp. 147-164.

53.   “The Ghostly Prelude to Deutero-Isaiah” Biblical Interpretation (forthcoming)

54.   “Isaiah 2: Torah and Terror.”  For Duncan Burns (ed)  Philip Davies Festschrift.  (London and New York: T & T Clark, forthcoming, July 2007).

55.    “The Temple in the Akedah” in Isaac Kalimi and Peter J. Haas (eds) Biblical Interpretation in Judaism and Christianity (eds) (London: T & T Clark, forthcoming).

56.   “Judges 1: The City of Writing, the Sacred, and the Fragmentation of the Body”

57.   “Shibboleth.” For the New Interpreters’ Dictionary of the Bible (Nashville: Abingdon, forthcoming).

58.   “Song of Songs.” For Yudit Greenberg (ed) Encyclopaedia of Love in World Religions (ABC Clio, forthcoming).