• Harvard University, Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 1984
• University of Toronto, M.A. in Near Eastern Studies, 1973
• University of Alberta, B.A (Honours) in Classics, 1970

Courses

 Undergraduate

• RS 3DD3   The Jewish World in New Testament
• RS 2EE3    The Prophets 
• RS 2B03    Women in the Biblical Tradition 
• RS 3R03    Death and Afterlife in Early Judaism and Christianity
• RS 4I03     Topics in Biblical Studies: Honours Seminar

Graduate

• RS 742    The Dead Sea Scrolls
• RS 709    Poetry and Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls 
• RS 709    Aramaic Texts from the Bible and Qumran
• RS 709    The Book of Enoch
• RS 747    Topics in Early Jewish Literature: Women in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

Monographs

• The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned 50 Years On? London: SCM Press, 2006.

• The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned? Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.
  • (reprinted Sept. 2007; translated into Arabic 2010)

• Post-Exilic Prophets. The Message of Biblical Spirituality Series. Michael Glazier Press, 1988.

• Non-Canonical Psalms from Qumran: A Pseudepigraphic Collection. Harvard Semitic Studies 27. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986.

Edited Volumes

• Early Jewish Writings / Frühjüdische Schriften. Edited with Marie-Theres Wacker. The Bible and Women: An Encyclopaedia of Exegesis and Cultural History Series. Atlanta/Stuttgart: SBL Press/Kohlhammer, 2017.

• Purity, Holiness and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber. Edited with Carl Ehrlich and Anders Runesson. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 305. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.

• The Dead Sea Scrolls: Transmission of Traditions and Production of Texts. Edited with Sarianna Metso and Hindy Najman. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 92. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

• Sapiential, Liturgical and Poetical Texts from Qumran: Proceedings of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Oslo 1998. Edited with Daniel Falk and Florentino García Martínez. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 35. Leiden: Brill, 2000.

• The Dead Sea Scrolls at Fifty: Proceedings of the 1997 Society of Biblical Literature Qumran Section Meetings. Edited with Robert A. Kugler. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.

Editions of Texts

• The Hodayot (Thanksgiving Psalms): A Study Edition of 1QH^a, with Carol A. Newsom. Early Judaism and its Literature Series 36. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012.

• 1QHodayot^a with Incorporation of 1QHodayot^b and 4QHodayot^a-f, Qumran Cave 1.III, with Hartmut Stegemann. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 40. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009.

• “4Q371-373, Narrative and Poetic Texts,” with Moshe Bernstein, in Qumran Cave 4.XXVI: Miscellaneous Texts, Part 2. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXXVIII. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001: 151-99.

• “4QHodayot and 4QHodayot-Like, 4Q427-432, 433, 433a, 440,” in Qumran Cave 4.XX: Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 2. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXIX. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999: 68-254.

• “4Q380 and 4Q38l, Non-Canonical Psalms A and B,” in Qumran Cave 4.V1: Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 1. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XI. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998: 75-172.

Journal Articles

• “Recent Scholarship on the Hodayot 1993-2010.” Currents in Biblical Research 10 (2011): 119-62.
• “Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Some Observations from a Dictionary.” Revue de Qumran 93 (2009): 49–59.
• “George Brooke and the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 86 (2004) [publication and copyright date: 2008]: 175–96.
• “Prayers and Psalms from the pre-Maccabean Period.” Dead Sea Discoveries 13 (2006): 306–18.
• “Some Contributions of the Cave Four Manuscripts (4Q427-432) to the Study of the Hodayot.” Dead Sea Discoveries 8 (2001): 278-287.
• "A Bibliography of the Hodayot, 1948-1996." (with Lorenzo Ditommaso) Dead Sea Discoveries 4 (1997): 55-101.
• “A Thanksgiving Hymn from 4QHodayotb (4Q428 7).” Revue de Qumran 16 (1995): 517-32.
• “The Cave Four Hodayot Manuscripts: A Preliminary Description.” Jewish Quarterly Review 85 (1994): 137-50.
• “A Hymn from a Cave Four Hodayot Manuscript: 4Q427 7 i + ii.” Journal of Biblical Literature 112 (1993): 651-74.
• “The Psalm of Joseph Within the Context of Second Temple Prayer.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 54 (1992): 67-79.
• "4Q372 l: A Text about Joseph." Revue de Qumran 14 (1990): 349-76.
• "The Fortieth Anniversary of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Canadian Contribution." Studies in Religion 18 (1989): 61-65.

Essays

• “Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period.” Pages 5–23 in Functions of Prayers and Psalms in the Late Second Temple Period. Edited by Mika Pajunen and Jeremy Penner, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 486; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017.
• “A Reconsideration of 1QHb (1Q35).” Pages 483–500 in Reading the Bible in Ancient Traditions and Modern Editions: Studies in Textual and Reception History in Honour of Peter W. Flint. Edited by Andrew Perrin. Kyung Baek and Daniel Falk, Studies in Early Judaism and Its Literature; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2017.
• “Prose Prayers in Pseudo-Philo’s Biblical Antiquities.” Pages 135–50 in Opportunities for No Little Instruction: Festschrift for Daniel Harrington and Richard Clifford. Edited by Thomas Stegeman and Christopher Frechette. Paulist Press, 2014.
• “Biblical Texts about Purity in Contemporary Christian Lectionaries.” Pages 283–300 in Purity, Holiness and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber. Edited by C. Erhlich, A. Runesson, E. Schuller. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 305. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.
• “Introduction to the Apocrypha,” “First Esdras,” “Tobit.” Pages 365–69 and 376–82 in Women’s Bible Commentary: Third Edition. Edited by Carol Newsom, S. Ringe, J. Lapsley. Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox, 2012.
• “Research on the Sectarian Scrolls in North America,” and “Canadian Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Pages 31-48 and 217-233 in The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research. Edited by Devorah Dimant. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 99. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
• “The Dead Sea Scrolls and Canon and Canonicity.” Pages 293-314 in Kanon in Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion. Edited by E-M Becker and S. Scholz. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011.
• “Canadian Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Pages 3–20 in Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Canadian Collection. Edited by P. Flint, J. Duhaime, K. Baek. Early Judaism and Its Literature 30. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.
• “The Past Decade of Qumran Studies: 1997–2007.” Pages 3–14 in John, Qumran, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Sixty Years of Discovery and Debate. Edited by M. Coloe and T. Thatcher. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010.
• “Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Research in the Past Decade and Future Directions.” Pages 571–88 in The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture: Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (July 6–8, 2008). Edited by A. D. Roitman, L. H. Schiffman and S. Tzoref. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 93. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
• “The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish-Christian Dialogue.” Pages 48–58 in From Judaism to Christianity: Tradition and Transition: A Festschrift for Thomas H. Tobin. Edited by P. Walters. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
• “The Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot).” Pages 261–75 in The Qumran Scrolls and their World [In Hebrew, Scrolls of Qumran)]. Edited by M. Kister. Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2009.
• “Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism: A Research Survey,” and “Afterword” in Seeking the Favor of God, Vol. II: The Development of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism, ed. Mark Boda, Daniel Falk, Rodney Werline. SBLEJL. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature; Leiden: Brill (2007), 1–15, 227–37.
• “Prayer in Qumran Literature,” in Prayer from Tobit to Qumran, ed. Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (2004), 411-28.
• “Reflections on the Function and Use of Poetical Texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Proceedings of the Fifth Orion International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. A. Pinnock and E. G. Chazon. Leiden: Brill (2003), 173-89.
• “Patriarchs Who Worry about Their Wives: A Haggadic Perspective in the Genesis Apocryphon,” in George Nickelsburg in Perspective: An Ongoing Dialogue of Learning, ed. J. Neusner and A. J. Avery-Peck. Leiden: Brill (2003), 200-212.
• "Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls," in Into God's Presence: Prayer in the New Testament, ed. R. Longenecker. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2001), 66-88.
• "Prayer in the Religion of Qumran, " in Judaism in Late Antiquity; Part Five: Judaism at Qumran, ed. A. Avery-Peck and J Neusner. Leiden: Brill (2001), 125-141.
• "Petitionary Prayer and the Religion of Qumran," in Aspects of Religion in the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. J. J. Collins and R. Kugler. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2000), 29-45.
• "The Classification of Hodayot and Hodayot-like Texts (with particular attention to 4Q433, 433a and 440)," in Sapiential, Liturgical and Poetical Texts from Qumran: Proceedings of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Oslo 1998, ed. D. Falk, F. García Martínez, E. Schuller. Leiden: Brill (2000), 182-93.
• "Women at Qumran," in The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment, ed. P. W. Flint and J. C. Vanderkam. Leiden: E. J. Brill (1999), Vol. II, 117-44.      
• "Further Hodayot Manuscripts from Qumran?" co-authored with J. Strugnell, Antikes Judentum und frühes Christentum. Festschrift für Hartmut Stegemann, ed. B.Kollman et al; Gottingen: Walter de Gruyter (1998), 51-72.
• "The Use of Biblical Terms as Designations for Non-Biblical Hymnic and Prayer Compositions," in Biblical Perspectives: Proceedings of the First Orion Center Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. M. E. Stone and Esther G. Chazon. Leiden: E. J. Brill (1997) 205-220.
• "Evidence for Women in the Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls," Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World, ed. J. S. Kloppenborg and S. G. Wilson. London: Routledge (1996), 262-285.
• “The Cave Four Hodayot Manuscripts: A Preliminary Description,” Qumranstudien: Vortrage und Beitrage der Teilnehmer des Qumranseminars auf dem internationalen Treffen der Society of Biblical Literature, Munster, 25-26.Juli 1993, ed. H-J. Fabry, A. Lange, H. Lichtenberger. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (1996), 87-102.
• “Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics: Genesis l-3 as a Test Case,” in Gender, Genre and Religion: Feminist Reflections, ed. M. Joy and E. Neumgier- Dargyay. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press (l995), 31-46.
• “Prayers, Hymns & Liturgical Texts from Qumran, a State-of-the-Art Review and Questions for the Future,” in Community of the Renewed Covenant, Notre Dame Symposium Volume, ed. E. Ulrich and J. VanderKam. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press (l994), 153-17l.
• "Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls," in Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site, ed. M. O. Wise, N. Golb, J. J. Collins, Dennis Pardee. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 722 (l994), ll5-132.
• "A Preliminary Study of 4Q373 and Some Related (?) Fragments," The Madrid Qumran Congress: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Madrid 1991, ed. J. Trebolle Barrera and L. Vegas Montaner; Madrid and Leiden: Universidad Complutenseia/ E. J. Brill (1992), 516-530.
• "4Q380 and 4Q38l: Non-Canonical Psalms from Qumran," in The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research, ed. D. Dimant and U. Rappaport; Leiden: E.J. Brill (1992), 90-99.
• "Some Observations on Blessings of God in Texts from Qumran," in Of Scribes and Scrolls: Festschrift for John Strugnell, ed. H. Attridge, J. J. Collins, T. Tobin. College Theological Society, Lanham: Catholic University Press (1990), 133-143. 
• “Women of the Bible in Biblical Retellings of the Second Temple Period,” Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel, ed. P. Day. Minneapolis: Fortress Press (l989, [revised 2007]), 178-94.

Articles in Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Commentaries

• Entry on “Second Temple Judaism. History II,” in Paulist Biblical Commentary (at press for August 2018)
• Entry on “Barki Napshi” for T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, ed. Daniel Gurtner and Loren Stuckenbruck, T & T Clark, forthcoming Nov. 2017
• Entry on “Psalm 151” for The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Old Testament Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha, ed. Randall Chesnutt, Wiley-Blackwell Press (forthcoming)
• Articles on “shir, shira, rinna” in Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten, Vol. III, ed. H-J Fabry. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2016, 907-911.
• “Hymns in Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism,” for Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Vol. 12, 2015, 648-50.
• “Introduction to the Apocrypha,” for The Old Testament and Apocrypha: Fortress Commentary on the Bible, ed. G. Yee, H. Page, M. Coomber, Fortress Press, 2014, 942–952.
• “Apocryphal Psalms of 11QPs^a,” and “Non-Canonical Psalms, 4Q380–381” in Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Not Included in Scripture, ed. L. Feldman, J. Kugel, L. Schiffman. Jewish Publication Society/University of Nebraska Press (2013), 2095–2110.
• “Thank, Confess (yadah)” in Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten, Vol. II, ed. H-J Fabry. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer (2013), 70–78.
• “Psalm 151,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible, ed. M. Coogan. New York: Oxford University Press (2011).
• “Woman (’issah)” in Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten, Vol. I, ed. H-J Fabry. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer (2011) 309-317.
• “Hodayot (1QH) and Related Texts” and “Psalms, Apocryphal” in Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, ed. J. J. Collins and D. Harlow. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2010), 747-749, 1104-05.
• “Canon in the Old Testament,” in The New Interpreter’s Bible One Volume Commentary. Nashville: Abingdon Press (2010), 944–948.
• Ten articles in the Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late Antiquity, ed. J. Neusner and A. J. Avery-Peck. Leiden: Brill (2007).
• “Prayers and Hymns, Curses and Imprecations” in Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, ed. S. Iles Johnston. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2004).
• "Women" (with Cecilia Wassen) in Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. L. Schiffman and J. VanderKam. New York: Oxford Press (2000).
• "Tobit" and "l Esdras" in Women's Bible Commentary: Revised, ed. S. Ringe and C. Newsom. Nashville: Abingdon (1998), 263-266, 272-278.
• “4Q380-381, Qumran Pseudepigraphic Psalms,” in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek Texts with English Translations, Vol. 4A Pseudepigraphic and Non-Masoretic Psalms and Prayers, ed. J. H. Charlesworth. Tübingen/Louisville: Mohr Siebeck/Westminster John Knox (1997), 1-39.
• Commentary on Malachi in The New Interpreter’s Bible, Volume VII, ed. L. Keck, D. Petersen, et al. Nashville: Abingdon Press (1996), 843-877.
• "Confession," "Doxology," "Glorify," "Laments," "Liturgy," "Poetry," "Prayer," Psalms," in Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period, ed. J. Neusner and W. Scott Green. New York: MacMillan (1996).
• “Biblical Translation,” in Dictionary of Feminist Theologies, ed. L. Russell & J. Shannon. Clarkson, Westminster/John Knox Press (1996).
• “Prayer,” “Lectionaries, Christian,” in Oxford Companion to the Bible, ed. B. M. Metzger and M. D. Coogan. Oxford: Oxford University Press (l993).
• “The Apocrypha,” in The Women’s Bible Commentary, ed. C. Newsom and S. Ringe. Philadelphia: Westminster/John Knox Press (l992), 235-243.
• “The Bible in the Lectionary,” in The Catholic Study Bible. New York: Oxford University Press (1990), 440-451.