Books:

The Fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke: A New Foundation for the Study of Parables. Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible 5. Paderborn: Brill, 2021. xxii + 629 pages.

Winner of the 2022 Manfred Lautenschläger Award

Professional reviews: Peter J. Tomson (University of Leuven, Belgium), Review of Biblical Literature 01/2022; Margaret Froelich (Claremont School of Theology) in Religious Studies Review 48.4 (2022): 571–72; Dieter T. Roth, (Boston College, USA), Biblica, forthcoming 2023; Sean A. Adams, (University of Glasgow, UK), Journal for the Study of the New Testament, forthcoming 2023; Eric Fields (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Neotestamentica, forthcoming 2023; assigned, Novum Testamentum, forthcoming.

Peer–Reviewed Articles:

“AIs Pondering Jesus’s ‘Parables’: What It Tells Us about the Process of Reception in the Past, the Present, and the Future.” In The Parables and Their Reception.Edited by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, Anders Martinsen, and Ellen Aasland Reinertsen. Accepted for publication. (working titles)

“From Ahiqar and Aesop to the Bible and the Rabbis.” In The Fable between East and West. Edited by Caterina Mordeglia. Florence, IT: Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, accepted for publication.

“Embedding Fables into the Gospels: Compositional Techniques and Rhetorical Functions.” In “Et in cothurnis prodit Aesopus nouis:” On the Interaction between Ancient Fable and Literary Genres. Edited by Ursula Gaertner and Lukas Spielhofer. Trends in Classics. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming 2023.

“The Rabbinic Mashal and the Ancient Fable: Prospects for a Changing Perspective.” In The Power of Parables: Narrating Religion in Late Antiquity. Edited by Eric Ottenheim and Marcel Poorthuis. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2023.

“Mythos: The Markan ‘Parables’ and Ancient Rhetorical Theories of Fable and Comparison.” Pages 37–61 in Genres of Mark—Reading Mark’s Gospel from Micro and Macro Perspectives. Edited by Jacob P. B. Mortensen. Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022.

“How to Interpret Parables in Light of the Fable: The Promythium and Epimythium.” Pages 327–52 in Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World. Edited by Jonathan Pater, Martijn Stoutjesdijk, and Albertina Oegema. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022.

“Lazarus and the Dogs: The Diagnosis and Treatment.” New Testament Studies 64.2 (2018): 178–193.

“Aristotle and Hippocrates in the Book of Jubilees.” Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 48.3 (2017): 309–330.

 “Candida: An Ante-Nicene Martyr in Persia.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 23.3 (2015): 389–412.

Articles without Peer Review:

“Aesop.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Forthcoming 2023.

“Dogs in the World of the Bible.” Biblical Archaeological Review 45.2 (2019): 46–50.

“Chronology,” “Copper Scroll,” “Hammurapi,” “Proverb.” In The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Edited by John D. Berry and Lazarus Wentz. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2013.