John C. Reeves
John C. Reeves
Blumenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Religious Studies

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  • Course Materials
    • LBST 2212 Literature and Culture
      • Course Syllabus
    • RELS 1120: Bible and its Interpreters
      • Course Syllabus
    • RELS 2000: Topics Courses in Religious Studies
      • Bible and Qur’an
        • Course Syllabus: Bible and Qur’an
      • Building Bible
        • Course Syllabus for Building Bible
      • Course Syllabus: Elementary Biblical Hebrew I (Fall 2019)
      • Course Syllabus: Elementary Biblical Hebrew II (Spring 2019)
      • Out of This World
        • Course Syllabus: Out of This World
      • The Biblical Dark Arts
        • Biblical Dark Arts Course Syllabus
    • RELS 2104: Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament
      • General Principles For Interpretation Of The Tanakh
      • RELS 2104: Syllabus
      • Sennacherib’s Third Campaign: The Siege of Jerusalem
      • Translation Of 1Q Genesis Apocryphon II-XXII
      • Bereshit Rabbati on Shemhazai & Azael
      • Eutychius (Sa’id b. al-Bitriq) on Genesis 6:1-4
      • Moabite Stone (KAI 181)
    • RELS 2600 Orientation to the Study of Religion
      • Course syllabus for RELS 2600
    • RELS 3000: Special Topics Courses
      • Angels and Demons in Biblical Folklore
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        • Some Adam/Satan/Iblīs materials
      • Bible and Its Monsters
        • Course syllabus
      • Bible to Qur’ān
        • Course Syllabus: Bible to Qur’an
      • Pentateuch/Torah
        • Course Syllabus: Pentateuch/Torah
      • Rewriting the Book of Genesis
        • Course Syllabus: Rewriting the Book of Genesis
      • The Biblical Black Arts
        • Course Syllabus
    • RELS 3090: Readings in Primary Texts
      • After One Year of Classical Hebrew …
      • Course Syllabi: Advanced Biblical Hebrew I
        • Syllabus Fall 2006
        • Syllabus Fall 2008
        • Syllabus Fall 2010
      • Course Syllabi: Advanced Biblical Hebrew II
        • Syllabus Spring 2007
        • Syllabus Spring 2009
        • Syllabus Spring 2011
      • Course Syllabus: Elementary Biblical Hebrew I
      • Course Syllabus: Elementary Biblical Hebrew II
    • RELS 3104: Prophecy and Prophetic Literature in Ancient Israel
      • RELS 3104: Course Syllabus
    • RELS 3107: Psalms and Wisdom Literature of Israel
      • RELS 3107: Course Syllabus
    • RELS 3122 Esoteric Traditions: Gnosis and Gnosticism
      • Course Syllabus for Gnosis and Gnosticism
    • RELS 3122 Esoteric Traditions: Thinking About Angels and Demons
      • Course syllabus for Thinking About Angels and Demons
    • RELS 4000/5000 Advanced Biblical Hebrew
    • RELS 4000/5000 Contextualizing the Qur’an
      • Course Syllabus
    • RELS 4000/5000 Early Mythologies of Evil
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    • RELS 4000/5000 Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
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    • RELS 4000/5000 Jewish Fantasy Literature
      • Course syllabus for Jewish Fantasy
    • RELS 4000/5000 Jewish Mystical Literature
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    • RELS 4010/5010: James G. Frazer and William Robertson Smith
    • RELS 4107: Early Judaism
      • A Brief Introduction to Rabbinic Exegesis of the Bible
      • Bavli Menahot 109b
      • Midrash Tanhuma, Noah §3
      • RELS 4107: Course Syllabus
      • The Essene Hypothesis
      • Types of Midrashic Texts
      • Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?
    • RELS 4108: Medieval Judaism
      • RELS 4108: Course Syllabus
    • RELS 6000: Pluriform Multilingual Zechariah
      • Various Zechariah Legends
        • Bordeaux Pilgrim (333 CE) on the Temple Mount
        • Cave of Treasures 47.12-17
        • Mas’udi, Muruj al-dhahab
        • Protevangelium Jacobi (Syriac) 22-24
    • RELS 6000: Readings in Jewish Aramaic
      • Course syllabus for Jewish Aramaic
    • RELS 6000: Readings in Rabbinic Hebrew
      • Course Syllabus (2006-07)
      • Course Syllabus (2009-10)
    • RELS 6000: Readings in Syriac
    • RELS 6000: Readings in Ugaritic
    • RELS 6602: Seminar in the Religion of Ancient Israel
      • Course Syllabus (Spring 2009)
    • RELS 6603 Seminar in Early Judaism
      • Course Syllabus (Fall 2005)
      • Course Syllabus (Spring 2006)
      • Course Syllabus (Spring 2008)
    • RELS 6611: Qumran and its Literature
    • RELS 6615: Seminar in the Religions of Late Antiquity
      • Course Syllabus (2008)
      • Course syllabus (Spring 2015)
    • RELS 6631: Seminar in Islamic Studies
    • RELS 6651: Seminar in the History of Religions
  • Publications
    • Books
    • Articles
    • Book Reviews
    • Unpublished Lectures and Fragmenta
      • Assorted Near Eastern Apocalypses
      • Shahrastānī on Mani and Manichaeism
      • Theodore bar Konai on Mani and Manichaeism
      • Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?
      • Ya`qūbī, Ta’rīkh
  • Research Projects
    • Cave of Treasures: A New Translation and Commentary
    • Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
    • Illuminating the Afterlife of Ancient Apocryphal Jewish Literature
    • Medieval Jewish Pseudepigrapha
      • Jellinek’s Sefer Noah
      • Son of Samael
      • The Chronicles of Moses Our Teacher
    • Sefer ‘Uzza wa-‘Aza(z)el: Exploring Early Jewish Mythologies of Evil
    • Shades of Light and Darkness: Chaldean Dualism, Gnosis, and the Islamicate Milieu
    • Shahrastani’s Kitab al-Milal wa’l-Nihal On the Dualists
    • Trajectories in Near Eastern Apocalyptic
      • ’Otot ha-Mašiah (Signs of the Messiah)
      • ’Otot of R. Shimon b. Yohai
      • Aggadat ha-Mašiah
      • Aggadat R. Ishmael
      • Eldad ha-Dani beney Mosheh texts
      • Midrash Wa-yosha` (end)
      • Nistarot (Secrets of) R. Shimon b. Yohai
      • Pirqe de-R. Eliezer §30 (end)
      • Pirqe Mašiah
      • Prophecy of Zardusht
      • Pseudo-Ephrem (Syriac)
      • Responsum of Hai Gaon on Redemption
      • Sefer Elijah
      • Sefer Zerubbabel
      • Tefillat (Prayer of) R. Shimon b. Yohai
      • Ten Further Things About the Messianic Days
      • Ten Signs
      • Testament of Adam
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Publications » Articles

Articles

“Some Remarks on the Convergence of Art and Magic,” in Erik Waterkotte, ed., Pacts and Invocations, Ritual and Magic in Contemporary Art: Catalog of an Exhibition (Spartanburg, S.C.: Spartanburg Museum of Art, in press).

“Alleged Jewish Pseudepigrapha Cited in the Cologne Mani Codex: A New Translation and Introduction,” in Richard Bauckham, James R. Davila, and Alexander Panayotov, eds., Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Volume 2 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, in press).

“Future Trends for the Study of Jewish Pseudepigrapha: Two Recommendations,” in Matthias Henze and Liv Ingeborg Lied, eds., The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Fifty Years of the Pseudepigrapha Section at the SBL (SBL Early Judaism and its Literature 50; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2019), 415-421.

“Islamic,” in Alexander Kulik, et al., eds., A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 481-496.

“Manichaean,” in Alexander Kulik, et al., eds., A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 469-480.

“Christian Arabic,” in Alexander Kulik, et al., eds., A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 195-210.

“Moses at the Margins of Space and Time,” in Philip Rousseau and Janet A. Timbie, eds., The Christian Moses: From Philo to the Qur’ān (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2019), 264-284.

“Questions of Gnostic Influence on Early Islam,” in Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, and Jay Johnston, eds., The Gnostic World (London & New York: Routledge, 2019), 307-320.

“Jacob of Edessa and the Manichaean Book of Giants?” in Matthew Goff, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, and Enrico Morano, eds., Ancient Tales of Giants from Qumran and Turfan: Contexts, Traditions, and Influences (WUNT 360; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016), 199-211.

“Some Parascriptural Dimensions of the Muslim ‘Tale of Hārūt wa-Mārūt’,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 135 (2015): 817-842.

“Con-‘text’-ualizing Bible in/and/with Qur’an,” Mizan (December 2015).  Available online at http://www.mizanproject.org/con-text-ualizing-bible-inandwith-quran/.

“Further Textual Evidence Pertaining to the Enigmatic ‘Mani-Citations’ of Severus of Antioch,” Open Theology 1 (2015): 436-444.  Available online at http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opth.2014.1.issue-1/opth-2015-0026/opth-2015-0026.xml?format=INT.

“Megillat Antiochus (annotated English translation),” in Aharon Varady, ed., Megillat Antiokhus: The Scroll of Antiokhus in the Original Aramaic with Translations in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English as well as Other Writing Concerning the Festival of Ḥanukah (Cincinnati: Dimus Parrhesia Press, 2014), 3-24. Also available online at http://opensiddur.org.

“Jewish Apocalyptic Lore in Early Islam: Reconsidering the Figure of Ka‘b al-Aḥbār,” in John Ashton, ed., Revealed Wisdom: Studies in Apocalyptic in Honour of Christopher Rowland (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 200-216.

“Resurgent Myth: On the Vitality of the Watchers Traditions in the Near East in Late Antiquity,” in Angela Kim Harkins, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, and John C. Endres, S.J., eds., The Fallen Angels Traditions: Second Temple Developments and Reception History (Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series 53; Washington, D.C.: Catholic Biblical Association, 2014), 94-115.

“Sefer Zerubbabel: The Prophetic Vision of Zerubbabel ben Shealtiel,” in Richard Bauckham, James R. Davila, and Alexander Panayotov, eds., Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Volume 1 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2013), 448-466.

“The Muslim Appropriation of a Biblical Text: The Messianic Dimensions of Isaiah 21:6-7,” in Kenneth G. Holum and Hayim Lapin, eds., Shaping the Middle East: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in an Age of Transition 400-800 C.E. (Bethesda, Md.: University Press of Maryland, 2011), 211-222.

“Manichaeans as Ahl al-Kitāb: A Study in Manichaean Scripturalism,” in Armin Lange, Eric M. Meyers, Bennie H. Reynolds III, and Randall G. Styers, eds., Light Against Darkness: Dualism in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and the Contemporary World (Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplement Series 2; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011), 249-265.

“Enosh,” “Giants,” “Gnosticism,” “Seth,” in John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow, eds., The Dictionary of Early Judaism (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2010), 590-591; 676-677; 678-681; 1221-1222.

“Problematizing the Bible … Then and Now,” Jewish Quarterly Review 100 (2010-11): 139-152.

“Mani,” “Manichaeism,” in Katherine Doob Sakenfeld, ed., The New Interpreters’ Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols.; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006-09), 3:788; 3:788-790.

“Complicating the Notion of an Enochic Judaism,” in Gabriele Boccaccini, ed., Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2005), 373-383.

“A Manichaean Blood-Libel?” Aram 16 (2004): 217-232.

“Some Explorations of the Intertwining of Bible and Qurān,” in John C. Reeves, ed., Bible and Qurān: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality (Leiden and Atlanta: Brill/Society of Biblical Literature, 2003), 43-60.

“Rethinking the Concept of Bible: Some Theses and Proposals,” (with James E. Bowley) Henoch 25 (2003): 3-18.

“The Flowing Stream: Qurānic Interpretations and the Bible,” Religious Studies News–SBL Edition 2.9 (December 2001).

“Adam Meets the Evil Archon: The Biblical Roots of a Persian Religion,” Bible Review 17.4 (August 2001): 34-41, 51-52.

“Enoch,” “Giants, Book of the,” “Manichaeans,” “Noah,” in Lawrence H. Schiffman and James C. VanderKam, eds., Encyclopaedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2 vols.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 1:249; 1:309-311; 1:505-507; 2:612-613.

“Reconsidering the ‘Prophecy of Zardūšt,” in Benjamin G. Wright, ed., A Multiform Heritage: Studies on Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Robert A. Kraft (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999), 167-182.

“Manichaica Aramaica: Adam and the Magical Deliverance of Seth,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 119 (1999): 432-439.

“Scriptural Authority in Early Judaism,” in James E. Bowley, ed., Living Traditions of the Bible: Scripture in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Practice (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1999), 63-84.

“Ezra, Book of,” in Ehsan Yarshater, ed., Encyclopaedia Iranica (New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 1999), IX.2: 130-131.

“Exploring the Afterlife of Jewish Pseudepigrapha in Medieval Near Eastern Religious Traditions: Some Initial Soundings,” Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 30 (1999): 148-177.

“Enoch, Books of,” in Ehsan Yarshater, ed., Encyclopaedia Iranica (Costa Mesa, Calif.:  Mazda Publishers, 1998), VIII.5: 453-455.

“Manichaean Citations in the Prose Refutations of Ephrem Syrus,” in Paul Mirecki and Jason BeDuhn, eds., Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources (NHMS 43; Leiden:  E. J. Brill, 1997), 217-288.

“An Enochic Citation in Barnabas 4:3 and the Oracles of Hystaspes,” in John C. Reeves and John Kampen, eds., Pursuing the Text: Studies in Honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (JSOT Supplement Series 184; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994), 260-277.

“Jewish Pseudepigrapha in Manichaean Literature:  The Influence of the Enochic Library,” in John C. Reeves, ed., Tracing the Threads: Studies in the Vitality of Jewish Pseudepigrapha (SBL Early Judaism and its Literature 6; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994), 173-203.

“Utnapishtim in the Book of Giants?” Journal of Biblical Literature 112 (1993): 110-115.

“The Feast of the First Fruits of Wine and the Ancient Canaanite Calendar,” Vetus Testamentum 42 (1992): 350-361.

“An Enochic Motif in Manichaean Tradition,” in Alois van Tongerloo and Søren Giversen, eds., Manichaica Selecta: Studies Presented to Professor Julien Ries on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday  (Louvain: International Association of Manichaean Studies, 1991), 295-298.

“The Elchasaite Sanhedrin of the Cologne Mani Codex in Light of Second Temple Jewish Sectarian Sources,” Journal of Jewish Studies 42 (1991): 68-91.

“An Illustration from the Apocrypha in an Eighteenth Century Passover Haggadah,” (with Lu Waggoner) Hebrew Union College Annual  59 (1988): 253-268.

“Sky,” in Watson E. Mills, ed., Mercer Dictionary of the Bible (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1990), 830.

“The Meaning of Moreh Sedeq in Light of 11Q Torah,” in Émile Puech & Florentino García Martínez, eds., Études Qumrâniennes: Mémorial Jean Carmignac  (Paris: Gabalda, 1988), 287-298.

“What Does Noah Offer in 1QapGen X,15?” Revue de Qumrân 12 (1986): 415-419.

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