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
        • 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
    • 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
      • 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
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Publications » Books

Books

Books Authored

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:

  • Josiah Bisbee, Ancient Jew Review (10/27/20) (https://www.ancientjewreview.com/articles/2020/10/27/book-note-enoch-from-antiquity-to-the-middle-ages).
  • Charles Burnett, Journal of Semitic Studies 65 (2020): 268-70.
  • Dylan Burns, Religious Studies Review 46 (2020): 548-49.
  • Sarah S. Eckart, Reading Religion (http://readingreligion.org/books/enoch-antiquity-middle-ages).
  • Christian Grappe, Revue d’histoire et de philosophie religieuses 99 (2019): 550-52.
  • Robin B. ten Hoopen, Journal for the Study of Judaism 50 (2019): 151-54.
  • Y. Tzvi Langermann, Speculum 95 (2020): 884-85.
  • Alexander McCarron, Journal of Jewish Studies 72 (2021): 198-202.
  • Theron Clay Mock III, Review of Biblical Literature (July 2020).  (https://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/12367_13788.pdf)
  • Joshua Scott, Journal of the American Oriental Society 141 (2021): 692-93.
  • Shai Secunda, “Rocketmen,” Jewish Review of Books 39 (Fall 2019): 9-11. (https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/5541/rocketmen/)
  • Arjan Sterken, Numen 67 (2020): 339-342.

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
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