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 1502 Comparative Mythology
      • Course syllabus
    • RELS 2000: Topics Courses in Religious Studies
      • Alternative Messiahs
        • Course syllabus for Alternative Messiahs
      • 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
      • Rewriting the Book of Genesis
        • 2000 Syllabus
      • 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
        • Course Syllabus
        • 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
      • Wrestling with Angels & Demons
        • Course syllabus for Wrestling with Angels & Demons
    • 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: Jewish Secret Traditions
      • Course syllabus
    • 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 Blood, Guts, and Gore
    • RELS 4000/5000 Contextualizing the Qur’an
      • Course Syllabus
    • RELS 4000/5000 Early Mythologies of Evil
      • Course Syllabus
    • RELS 4000/5000 Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
      • Course Syllabus
    • RELS 4000/5000 Jewish Fantasy Literature
      • Course syllabus for Jewish Fantasy
    • RELS 4000/5000 Jewish Mystical Literature
      • Course Syllabus
    • 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
  • Links
  • Cuneiform Studies Laboratory
    • Law Code for the Scribal Archive
Publications » Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Review of Khaleel Mohammed, David in the Muslim Tradition: The Bathsheba Affair (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), in Journal of the American Oriental Society 137 (2017): 663.

Review of Anathea Portier-Young, Apocalypse Against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2011), in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences (Jan 2013).  Access at https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=32941.

Review of Nathaniel Deutsch, Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity (Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies 22; Leiden: Brill, 1999), in Jewish Quarterly Review 92 (2001-02), 628-31.

Review of Yair Amit, Judges: Introduction and Commentary (Hebrew) (Mikra LeYisrael; Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Am Oved Publishers and the Magnes Press, 1999), in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 63 (2001), 709-10.

Review of Loren T. Stuckenbruck, The Book of Giants from Qumran: Texts, Translation, and Commentary (TSAJ 63; Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1997), in Jewish Quarterly Review 90 (1999-2000), 223-26.

Review of Samuel N. C. Lieu, Manichaeism in Central Asia and China (NHMS 45; Leiden: Brill, 1998), in Church History 69 (2000), 155-57.

Review of Guy G. Stroumsa, Hidden Wisdom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (Studies in the History of Religions 70; Leiden: Brill, 1996), in Journal of the American Oriental Society 119 (1999), 548.

Review of Daniel J. Lasker and Sarah Stroumsa, The Polemic of Nestor the Priest. Qissat Mujadalat al-Usquf and Sefer Nestor Ha-Komer: Introduction, Annotated Translations and Commentary (2 vols.; Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1996), in Journal of the American Oriental Society 119 (1999), 346-347.

Review of James H. Charlesworth (ed.), Qumran Questions (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), in Religious Studies Review 24.2 (1998), 206.

Review of James C. VanderKam, Enoch: A Man for all Generations (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), in Religious Studies Review 23.2 (1997), 193.

Review of Baudouin Decharneux, L’ange, le devin et le prophete: Chemins de la parole dans l’oeuvre de Philon d’Alexandrie dit “le Juif” (Bruxelles: Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 1994), in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 58 (1996), 704-705.

Review of Richard G. Marks, The Image of Bar Kokhba in Traditional Jewish Literature (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994), in Religious Studies Review 22 (1996), 172.

Review of Saul M. Olyan, A Thousand Thousands Served Him: Exegesis and the Naming of Angels in Ancient Judaism (TSAJ 36; Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1993), in Association for Jewish Studies Review 21 (1996), 384-386.

Review of Robert H. Eisenman and Michael Wise, The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (Rockport, Mass.: Element Books, 1992), in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 14 (1996), 178-181.

Review of Lawrence H. Schiffman, The Eschatological Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls  (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989), in Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 13 (1995), 107-108.

Review of Marc Brettler and Michael Fishbane, eds., Minhah le-Nahum: Biblical and Other Studies Presented to Nahum M. Sarna in Honour of his 70th Birthday(Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993), in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 57 (1995), 203-205.

Review of Jeremy Cohen, “Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It”: The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989), in Bible Review 9:5 (1993), 61.

Review of Hans-Joachim Klimkeit, Hymnen und Gebete der Religion des Lichtes: Iranische und türkische liturgische Texte der Manichäer Zentralasiens (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1989), in Journal of the American Oriental Society 112 (1992), 690-691.

Review of Arthur Everett Sekki, The Meaning of Ruah at Qumran (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989), in Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 9 (1991), 117-118.

Review of Jack Finegan, Myth and Mystery: An Introduction to the Pagan Religions of the Biblical World (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1989), in Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 (1991), 828-829.

 

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