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Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Volume I: Sources from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).  Co-authored with Annette Yoshiko Reed.

Reviews of Enoch, Volume I:

prolegomena coverProlegomena to a History of Islamicate Manichaeism (Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2011).

Reviews of Prolegomena:

  • [Anon.], Journal of Ancient Judaism 4 (2013): 160-61.
  • Jean-Charles Ducène, Le Muséon 126 (2013): 487-90.
  • Abolghasem Esmailpour, Der Islam 90 (2013): 189-92.
  • Iain Gardner, Journal of Religious History 37 (2013): 146-48.
  • Étienne de la Vaissière, Journal Asiatique 302 (2014): 580-82.
  • Samuel Lieu, Journal of Semitic Studies 58 (2013): 425-26.
  • Johannes van Oort, Vigiliae Christianae 69 (2015): 227.
  • Nils Aarne Pedersen & John Møller Larsen, Numen 60 (2013): 357-60.
  • Zaroui Pogossian, Medieval Encounters 19 (2013): 373-77.
  • Dan Shapira, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 111 (2016): 265-67.

Trajectories in Near Eastern Apocalyptic: A Postrabbinic Jewish Apocalypse Reader (Resources for Biblical Study 45; Leiden/Atlanta: Brill/Society of Biblical Literature, 2005).

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Reviews of Trajectories:

  • [Anon.], International Review of Biblical Studies 52 (2005-6): 296.
  • Joseph Blenkinsopp, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 31 (2007): 253-54.
  • Thomas Scott Cason, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 69 (2010): 97-98
  • Lorenzo DiTommaso, Review of Biblical Literature 9 (2007): 269-71.
  • Lutz Greisiger, Judaica 63 (2007): 145-46.
  • Darrell Hannah, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 29 (2007): 130-31.
  • Martha Himmelfarb, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 68 (2006): 776-78.

Heralds of That Good Realm: Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 41; Leiden: Brill, 1996).

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Reviews of Heralds:

  • Herbert Basser, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 60 (1998): 128-29.
  • D. J. Bingham, Journal of Early Christian Studies 6 (1998): 142-43.
  • Jean-Daniel Dubois, Revue des études juives 159 (2000): 278-79.
  • David Frankfurter, Journal for the Study of Judaism 30 (1999): 106-108.
  • Samuel N. C. Lieu, Vigiliae Christianae 56 (2002): 310-13.
  • C. R. A. Morray-Jones, Religious Studies Review 24.2 (1998): 206.
  • Guy G. Stroumsa, Journal of Theological Studies 49 (1998): 320-22.
  • James C. VanderKam, Journal of the American Oriental Society 119 (1999): 159-60.

Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony: Studies in the Book of Giants Traditions(Monographs of the Hebrew Union College 14; Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992).

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Reviews of Jewish Lore:

  • William Adler, Journal of the American Oriental Society 114 (1994): 275-76.
  • Roland Bergmeier, Bibliotheca Orientalis 50 (1993): 445-47.
  • Alexander Böhlig, Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 144 (1994): 176-77.
  • André Caquot, Revue de l’histoire des religions 210 (1993): 358-59.
  • Manfred Hutter, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 88 (1993): 413-16.
  • Samuel N. C. Lieu, Journal of Semitic Studies 40 (1995): 161-63.
  • Simon C. Mimouni, Revue des études juives 153 (1994): 167-70.
  • Johannes van Oort, Vigiliae Christianae 48 (1994): 92-94.
  • Alan F. Segal, Critical Review of Books in Religion 7 (1994): 423-24.
  • Michael E. Stone, AJS Review 20 (1995): 396-99.
  • James C. VanderKam, Bible Review 8 (Oct. 1992): 15.
  • Steven M. Wasserstrom, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 57 (1998): 50-51.

Books Edited

Bible and Qurān: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality (Symposium Series; ed. John C. Reeves; Leiden and Atlanta: Brill/Society of Biblical Literature, 2003).

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Reviews of Bible and Qur’ān:

  • Robert Gleave, The Expository Times 116.9 (2005): 319-20.
  • John Jarick, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 29 (2005): 123.
  • J.K., Old Testament Abstracts 28 (2005): 225.
  • John Kaltner, Journal of Ecumenical Studies 44 (2009): 473-80.
  • John Kaltner, Review of Biblical Literature, August 2004.
  • Michael E. Lodahl, Religious Studies Review 31 (2005): 61.
  • Christine Mitchell, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5 (2004-05).
  • Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 4 (2007): 465-69.
  • Bernd U. Schipper, Numen 52 (2005): 406-409.
  • Roberto Tottoli, Oriente Moderno n.s. 25 (86) (2006): 396.

Table of Contents:

  • Reuven Firestone, “The Qur’ān and the Bible: Some Modern Studies of Their Relationship” (pp. 1-22).
  • Vernon K. Robbins and Gordon D. Newby, “A Prolegomenon to the Relation of the Qur’ān and the Bible” (pp. 23-42).
  • John C. Reeves, “Some Explorations of the Intertwining of Bible and Qur’ān” (pp. 43-60).
  • Brannon M. Wheeler, “Israel and the Torah of Muhammad” (pp. 61-85).
  • Brian M. Hauglid, “On the Early Life of Abraham: Biblical and Qur’ānic Intertextuality and the Anticipation of Muhammad” (pp. 87-105).
  • Jane Dammen McAuliffe, “The Prediction and Prefiguration of Muhammad” (pp. 107-131).
  • Sidney H. Griffith, “The Gospel, the Qur’ān, and the Presentation of Jesus in al-Ya’qūbī’s Ta’rīkh” (pp. 133-60).
  • Kathryn Kueny, “Abraham’s Test: Islamic Male Circumcision as Anti/Ante-Covenantal Practice” (pp. 161-82).
  • Fred Astren, “Depaganizing Death: Aspects of Mourning in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Islam” (pp. 183-99).

Tracing the Threads: Studies in the Vitality of Jewish Pseudepigrapha (SBL Early Judaism and its Literature 6; ed. John C. Reeves; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994).

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Reviews of Threads:

  • Anon., Journal of Biblical Literature 115 (1996): 184-85.
  • Anon., Revue Biblique 102 (1995): 448-49.
  • Gary A. Anderson, Journal of Religion 75 (1995): 551-53.
  • Margaret Barker, Journal of Semitic Studies 41 (1996): 196.
  • Theodore A. Bergren, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 58 (1996): 190-92.
  • George J. Brooke, Society for Old Testament Study Booklist 166.
  • Jens Herzer, Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 107 (1995): 172-73.
  • Robert A. Kugler, Old Testament Abstracts 18 (1995): 436.

Table of Contents:

  • Menahem Kister, “Observations on Aspects of Exegesis, Tradition, and Theology in Midrash, Pseudepigrapha, and Other Jewish Writings” (pp. 1-34).
  • Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein, “Pseudepigraphic Support of Pseudepigraphical Sources: The Case of Pirqe de Rabbi Eliezer” (pp. 35-53).
  • Robert A. Kraft, “The Pseudepigrapha in Christianity” (pp. 55-86).
  • Steven M. Wasserstrom, “Jewish Pseudepigrapha in Muslim Literature: A Bibliographical and Methodological Sketch” (pp. 87-114.
  • Martha Himmelfarb, “Some Echoes of Jubilees in Medieval Hebrew Literature” (pp. 115-41).
  • William Adler, “Jacob of Edessa and the Jewish Pseudepigrapha in Syriac Chronography” (pp. 143-71).
  • John C. Reeves, “Jewish Pseudepigrapha in Manichaean Literature: The Influence of the Enochic Library” (pp. 173-203).
  • Burton L. Visotzky, “The Conversation of Palm Trees” (pp. 205-14).
  • James E. Bowley, “The Compositions of Abraham” (pp. 215-38).
  • Stephanie Dalley, “The Tale of Buluqiya and the Alexander Romance in Jewish and Sufi Mystical Circles” (pp. 239-69).

Pursuing the Text: Studies in Honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (JSOT Supplement Series 184; ed. John C. Reeves and John Kampen; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994).

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Reviews of Wacholder festschrift:

  • Matthias Köckert, Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 107 (1995): 538-39.
  • Robert A. Kugler, Religious Studies Review 22.2 (1996): 170.
  • Johan Lust, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 71 (1995): 194-95.
  • Dennis Pardee, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 57 (1998): 228.
  • Leo G. Perdue, Journal of Biblical Literature 115 (1996): 182.
  • J. W. Wright, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 58 (1996): 391-92.

Table of Contents:

  • Alan Cooper, “Creation, Philosophy and Spirituality: Aspects of Jewish Interpretation of Psalm 19” (pp. 15-33).
  • David B. Weisberg, “‘Break in the Middle of a Verse’: Some Observations on a Massoretic Feature” (pp. 34-45).
  • James C. VanderKam, “Putting Them in Their Place: Geography as an Evaluative Tool” (pp. 46-69).
  • Philip R. Davies, “The ‘Damascus’ Sect and Judaism” (pp. 70-84).
  • John Kampen, “The Eschatological Temple(s) of 11QT” (pp. 85-97).
  • Michael O. Wise, “Second Thoughts on דוק and the Qumran Synchronistic Calendars” (pp. 98-120).
  • George J. Brooke, “The Deuteronomic Character of 4Q252” (pp. 121-35).
  • Martin G. Abegg, Jr., “4Q471: A Case of Mistaken Identity?” (pp. 136-47).
  • Nikolaus Walter, “Kann man als Jude auch Grieche sein? Erwägungen zur jüdisch-hellenistischen Pseudepigraphie” (pp. 148-63).
  • Daniel J. Harrington, “Sirach Research Since 1965: Progress and Questions” (pp. 164-76).
  • Louis H. Feldman, “Josephus’s Portrait of Ehud” (pp. 177-201).
  • James E. Bowley, “Josephus’s Use of Greek Sources for Biblical History” (pp. 202-15).
  • Adam Kamesar, “Philo, Grammatike and the Narrative Aggada” (pp. 216-42).
  • Getzel M. Cohen, “The ‘Antiochenes in Jerusalem’ Again” (pp. 243-59).
  • John C. Reeves, “An Enochic Citation in Barnabas 4.3 and the Oracles of Hystaspes” (pp. 260-77).
  • Shaye J. D. Cohen, “Is ‘Proselyte Baptism’ Mentioned in the Mishnah? The Interpretation of m. Pesahim 8.8 (= m. Eduyot 5.2)” (pp. 278-92).
  • Robert Goldenberg, “Did the Amoraim See Christianity as Something New?” (pp. 293-302).
  • Jacob Neusner, “What ‘the Rabbis’ Thought: A Method and a Result. One Statement on Prophecy in Rabbinic Judaism” (pp. 303-20).
  • William Adler, “Ad Verbum or Ad Sensum: The Christianization of a Latin Translation Formula in the Fourth Century” (pp. 321-48).
  • Steven Bowman, “Dates in Sepher Yosippon” (pp. 349-59).
  • Mark Washofsky, “Responsa and Rhetoric: On Law, Literature, and the Rabbinic Decision” (pp. 360-409).
  • Ida Cohen Selavan and Laurel S. Wolfson, “Bibliography of Works by Ben Zion Wacholder” (pp. 410-1