Carol A. Newsom

Life

Books

Books written

• Daniel: A Commentary. Westminster John Knox Press, 2014
• 1QHodayot with Incorporation of 1QHodayot^b and 4QHodayot^a-f. Hartmut Stegemann with Eileen Schuller; translation of texts by Carol Newsom. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009
• The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations. Oxford University Press, 2003
• Angelic Liturgy: Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice. With J. Charlesworth. The Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck and Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1999
• Qumran Cave 4: VI; Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 1. With E. Eshel et al. Discoveries in the Judean Desert XI. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998
• Job. New Interpreters Bible. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996
• Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice: A Critical Edition. Scholars Press, 1985

  Books edited

• Harper’s Bible Commentary. With J. Mays et al. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988. Revised edition, 2000
• The Women’s Bible Commentary. With Sharon H. Ringe. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1992
• Women’s Bible Commentary: Expanded Edition with Apocrypha. With Sharon H. Ringe. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998
• Oxford Annotated Bible. With M. Coogan, et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001

  Articles, book chapters, and shorter critical text editions and translations

• "The Development of 1 Enoch 6-19: Cosmology and Judgment." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 42 : 310–329.
• "A Maker of Metaphors: Ezekiel’s Oracles Against Tyre." Interpretation 38 : 151–164. Reprinted in Interpreting the Prophets. Edited by J. Mays and P. Achtemeier. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987. Reprinted in This Place Is Too Small for Us: The Israelite Prophets in Recent Scholarship. Edited by R. Gordon. Winona Lake, In.: Eisenbrauns, 1995.
• "The Past as Revelation: History in Apocalyptic Literature." Quarterly Review 4 : 40–53.
• "The Masada Fragment of the Qumran Sabbath Shirot." Israel Exploration Journal 34 : 77–78.
• "Merkabah Exegesis in the Qumran Sabbath Shirot." Journal of Jewish Studies 38 : 11–30.
• "Retelling the Story of the Exodus." Quarterly Review 7 : 71–100.
• "The Psalms of Joshua from Qumran Cave 4: A Preliminary Edition." Journal of Jewish Studies 39 : 56-73
• "4Q370: An Admonition Based on the Flood." Études Qumrâniennes: Mémorial Jean Carmiqnac. Edited by F. García Martínez and E. Puech. Revue de Qumrân 13 : 23–43
• "Woman in the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom: A Study of Proverbs 1-9." Pp. 142–60 in Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel. Edited by P. Day. Philadelphia: Augsburg Fortress Press, 1989. Reprinted in T. K. Beal and D. Gunn, eds., Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies: Identity and The Book : 116–31.
• "'He Has Established for Himself Priests': Human and Angelic Priesthood in the Qumran Sabbath Shirot." Pp. 101–20 in Archaeology and History in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Edited by L. H. Schiffman. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1990.
• "Apocalyptic and the Discourse of a Sectarian Community." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 49 :135-44.
• "'Sectually Explicit' Literature from Qumran." Pp. 167–87 in The Bible and Its Interpreters. Edited by W. Propp and B. Halpern. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1990.
• "The Sage in the Literature of Qumran: The Functions of the Maskil." Pp. 373–82 in The Sage in Ancient Israel. Edited by J. Gammie and L. Perdue. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1990.
• "Kenneth Burke Meets the Teacher of Righteousness: Rhetorical Strategies in the Hodayot and the Serek ha-Yahad." Pp. 121–31 in Of Scribes and Scrolls: Studies on the Hebrew Bible, Intertestamental Judaism, and Christian Origins. Strugnell Festschrift. Edited by H. Attridge, J. Collins, T. Tobin, S.J. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1990.
• "Job." Pp. 130–36 in The Women’s Bible Commentary. Edited by C. Newsom and S. Ringe. Louisville: Westminster, 1992.
• "The Case of the Blinking I: Discourse of the Self at Qumran." Pp. 13–23 in Discursive Formations, Ascetic Piety and the Interpretation of Early Christian Literature, Part 1. Edited by V. Wimbush. Semeia 57, 1992.
• "4Q374: A Discourse on the Exodus/Conquest Traditions." Pp. 40–52 in The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research. Edited by D. Dimant and U Rappaport. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992.
• "Knowing as Doing: The Social Symbolics of Knowledge at Qumran." Pp. 139–53 in Ideological Criticism of Biblical Texts. Edited by D. Jobling and T. Pippin. Semeia 59, 1993
• "Response to Norman Gottwald’s 'Social Class and Ideology in Isaiah 40-55: An Eagletonian Reading.'” Pp. 73–78 in Ideological Criticism of Biblical Texts. Edited. by D. Jobling and T. Pippin. Semeia 59, 1993.
• "Cultural Politics in the Reading of Job." Biblical Interpretation 2 : 119–34.
• "Considering Job." Currents in Research: Biblical Studies 1 : 97–131
• "The Moral Sense of Nature: Ethics in the Light of God’s Speech to Job." Princeton Seminary Bulletin 15 : 9–27
• "Job and Ecclesiastes." Pp. 177–94 in Old Testament Interpretation: Past, Present, and Future. Edited by J. Mays, K. Richards, D. Petersen. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995. 3 70.
• "4Q Admonition on the Flood. Pp. 85-97 and Pl. XII in Qumran Cave 4: XIV. Parabiblical Texts, Part 2. Edited by J. VanderKam. Discoveries in the Judean Desert XIX. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. 374.
• "4Q Discourse on the Exodus/Conquest Tradition." Pp. 99–110 in Qumran Cave 4: XIV, Parabiblical Texts, Part 2. Edited by J. VanderKam. Discoveries in the Judean Desert XIX. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
• "4Q378 and 4Q379: An Apocryphon of Joshua." Pp. 35–85 in Qumranstudien. Edited by H.-J. Fabry, A. Lange, and H. Lichtenberger. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996.
• "Bakhtin, the Bible, and Dialogic Truth." Journal of Religion 76 : 290–306. 378–379.
• "4Q Apocryphon of Joshua." Pp. 241-88 and Pls. xvii-xx in Qumran Cave 4: XVII, Parabiblical Texts, Part 3. Edited by J. VanderKam. Discoveries in the Judean Desert XXII Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
• "Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice." Pp. 28–32 in M. Kiley et al., eds., Prayer from Alexander to Constantine: A Critical Anthology. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
• "Daniel and Psalm 151." Pp. 201-206 and 335–336 in C. Newsom and S. Ringe, eds. Women’s Bible Commentary: Expanded Edition with Apocrypha. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998.
• "Job and His Friends: A Conflict of Moral Imaginations." Interpretation 53 : 239–253
• "Common Ground: An Ecological Reading of Genesis 2-3." Pp. 60–72 in The Earth Story in Genesis. The Earth Bible, vol. 2. Edited by N. Habel and S. Wurst. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
• "Probing Scripture." Christian Century : 21–28.
• "Apocalyptic Subjects: The Social Construction of the Self at Qumran." Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 12 : 3–25.
• "The Book of Job as Polyphonic Text." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 97 : 87–108
• "The Consolations of God: Assessing Job’s Friends Across a Cultural Abyss." In C. Exum and H. Williamson, eds., Reading from Right to Left. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.
• "Elihu’s Sapiential Hymn : Genre, Rhetoric and Moral Imagination." Pp. 347–58 in C. Mandolfo and T. Sandoval, Relating to the Text: Interdisciplinary and Form-Critical Insights on the Bible. London: T&T Clark International, 2003
• "Spying out the Land: A Report from Genology." Pp. 437–50 in R. Troxel, K. Friebel, and D. Magary, eds. Seeking out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Winona lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2005.
• "Genesis 2-3 and 1 Enoch 6-16: Two Myths of Origin and Their Ethical Implications." Pp. 7–23 in C. R. Yoder, et al., eds., Shaking Heaven and Earth. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005.
• "Rhyme and Reason: The Historical Résumé in Israelite and Early Jewish Thought." Pp. 215–233 in A. Lemaire, ed., Congress Volume Leiden 2004. Supp. to Vetus Testamentum 109; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006.
• "Re-Considering Job." Currents in Biblical Research 5 : 155–82. Response to "How Are the Mighty Fallen? A Dialogical Study of King Saul in 1 Samuel," Horizons in Biblical Theology 29 : 29–39.
• "Dramaturgy and the Book of Job." Pp. 375–93 in T. Krüger et al., eds., Das Buch Hiob und seine Interpretationen. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2007
• "Constructing 'We, You, and the Others' Through Non-Polemical Discourse." Pp. 13–21 in Florentino García Martínez and Mladen Popovic, eds., Defining Identity: We, You, and the Others in the Dead Sea Scrolls. STDJ 70; Brill: Leiden, 2008
• "Daniel." Pp. 257–60 in Gail R. O’Day and David L. Petersen, eds. Theological Bible Commentary. Nashville: Abington Press, 2009.
• "Reflections on Ideological Criticism and Postcritical Perspectives." Pp. 541–60 in J. M. LeMon and K. H. Richards, eds., Method Matters: Essays on the Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David L. Petersen. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.
• "Rhetorical Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls." Forthcoming in M. Grossman, ed., Methods in the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
• "Rhetorical Criticsm and the Reading of the Qumran Scrolls." Forthcoming in J. Collins and T. Lim, eds., Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Oxford University Press.
• “God’s Other: The Intractable Problem of the Gentile King in Judean and Early Jewish Literature.” Forthcoming in John Collins Festschrift. Edited by Joel Kaminsky. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
• “Why Nabonidus: Excavating Traditions from Qumran, the Hebrew Bible, and Neo-Babylonian Sources.” Forthcoming in Hindy Najman, ed.
• “Pairing Research Questions and Theories of Genre: A Case Study of the Hodayot,” Dead Sea Discoveries
• “Positive Psychology and the Israelite Wisdom Tradition: Eudaimonic and Hedonic Aspects of Happiness.” Forthcoming in Brent Strawn, ed. The Bible and Happiness. New York: Oxford University Press.
• “Religious Experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Two Case Studies.” Forthcoming in R. Werline and C. Shantz, eds. SBL Symposium Series. Atlanta: SBL.

  Selected encyclopedia and reference articles

• Harper’s Bible Dictionary. Edited by P. Achtemeier. New York: Harper & Row, 1985. “Habakkuk,” p. 364; “Scroll,” p. 915
• Dictionary of Pastoral Care. Edited by R. Hunter. Nashville: Abingdon, 1990. “Wisdom Tradition, Biblical,” p. 1326
• Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by N. Freedman. New York: Doubleday, 1992. “Angels,” vol. I, pp. 248–53; “Gabriel,” vol. II, p. 863; “Joshua, Psalms of” vol. III, p. 1015; “Raguel,” vol. V, p. 610; “Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice,” vol. VI, pp. 155–56; “Uriel,” Vol. VI, p. 769.
• The Oxford Study Bible. Edited by M. Jack Suggs, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, James R. Mueller. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. “The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Jewish Literature”.
• The HarperCollins Study Bible. Edited by W. Meeks, et al. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993. “Baruch, Introduction and Annotations”.
• Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation. Edited by John H. Hayes. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999. With S. E. Schreiner, “Job, Book of”.
• Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Edited by J. VanderKam et al. New York: Oxford University Press. “Job, Book of,” “Mysticism,” “Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice,” “Throne,”.
• Dictionary of New Testament Background. Edited by C. A. Evans and S. E. Porter. Downers Grove, Ind.: Intervarsity Press, 2002. “4Q374-377 Apocryphon of Moses”; “4Q378-379 Apocryphon of Joshua”; “4Q400-407 Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice.”
• Oxford Biblical Studies Online. “The Book of Daniel”
• Oxford Bibliographies Online. “The Book of Daniel,” “The Book of Job,” “Dead Sea Scrolls”

  Honors and awards

• 2006 Honorary doctorate D.D. Birmingham Southern College
• 2009 Honorary doctorate Th.D. from the University of Copenhagen
• 2016 Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Sciences