Presentations, Publications, and Other News

“In Defense of Centralization versus So-Called Nucleation.” Book of Deuteronomy Consultation, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego

Seminar on “The Torah in the Greek World: Tragedy, Rhetoric, and Philosophy in the Wilderness Narrative.” University of Cambridge and Oriel College, Oxford
Participant in the Annual University College London/Kings College London Biblical Studies Workshop on Assyriology and the Bible

“Burials, Children, and the Prohibition Against Passing a Child Through Fire: A Hot Take.” American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Diego

“What about the Children? Job’s Sons and Daughter and the Sins of Their Father.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego

“Antisemitism and Sectarianism in Matthew.” Hellenistic Judaism Section, SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego

Roundtable session, “Kabbalah Visualized, Ritualized, and Experienced: Lurianic Scrolls, Arboreal Diagrams, and Apotropaic Amulets,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, San Francisco
“An Early-Modern Kabbalist Dabbles with Wine: Enoic Practices in Hayyim Vital’s Sefer ha-Peulot and Beyond,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago
Roundtable session, “Holy Waters: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Religion and Alcohol”, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego

“Purity, Exorcisms, and the Pneumatic Protection of Jerusalem in the Synoptic Gospels.” Conference on “Jesus Within Judaism: The Law of Moses in Early Judaism and the Gospels” at Houston Christian University; Synoptic Gospels Section, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego

The Politics of Deuteronomy. Edited by Bill T. Arnold. Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, [February 2025].
“Deuteronomy’s Justice Manifesto: The Significance of ‘Correct Sentence(s)’ in Deut 16:18.” In The Politics of Deuteronomy. Edited by Bill T. Arnold. Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming February, 2025.
“Deuteronomy.” The SBL Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition, including the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books. Edited by Steven L. McKenzie, Kristin De Troyer, and F. Scott Spencer. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2023.

The Wilderness Narratives in the Hebrew Bible: Religion, Politics, and Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming fall 2024.
“Introduction to the Book of Numbers.” In The SBL Study Bible (HarperOne, 2023).
Entry on the Book of Numbers. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (2023).

“The Hexapla in the Church According to Jerome,” Pages 267–304 in The Forerunners and Heirs of Origen’s Hexapla: The Proceedings of the Inaugural Colloquium of the Text & Canon Institute. Edited by John D. Meade. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024.
“Suddenly and then Gradually: The Growth of the Septuagint and Its Canon,” Journal of Biblical Literature 143 (2024): 303–22.

“Claiming the Unclaimed: The Role of Feet in Adoptions and Levirate Marriages.” Pages 75–95 in Adoption in the Hebrew Bible. Edited by Cat Quine and Ekaterina Kozlova. Library of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 732. Bloomsbury: T&T Clark. (Release Date Nov 2024)
Violence Against Women and Children in the Hebrew Bible: Between Trauma and Resilience. Edited by Kristine Garroway, John Martens, and Paul Kim. Library of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies. T&T Clark, Fall 2024.

“Nelson Glueck, Rabbi, and Archaeologist: A Student’s Personal Reflections,” Pages 747–757 in Durch den Zeitlen: Through the Ages Essays in Honour of Dieter Vieweger, Herausgegeben von K. Soennecken, P. Leiverkus, J. Zimni und K. Schmid, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh, in der Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH: München, 2023.

“ʽThe Fear of the Lord is Wisdom’? A Consideration of Job 28 as a Sarcastic Response to the Wisdom Tradition,” HUCA 94 (2024): 21–47.

“Deuteronomy 6:4 in the Syriac Peshitta,” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 50 (2024): 139-152.

“Ki-tovim dodeika mi-yayin: A proposito di una peculiare esegesi di Ct. 1,2 nella qabbalah spagnola medievale,” Materia Giudaica 27 (2022): 493-500.
“Cultural Enology: What Wine Can Teach Us about Religion (and about Jewish Kabbalah and Hasidism in Particular),” Pages 58-76 in Holy Waters: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Religion and Alcohol. Edited by Ryan Lemasters and Steven Covell. Milton Park, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2024.
This volume will be presented in the roundtable session titled “Holy Waters: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Religion and Alcohol” (A23-116) at the upcoming AAR/SBL conference in San Diego on November 23.

Portrait of an American Rabbi: In His Own Words (2023)
Portrait of a Reform Rabbi: Continuity and Change (2024)
Portrait of a Rabbi-Historian: How Did We Get Here (scheduled for 2025)
“From Golden Medina to Gold Star Father: The Georgia ‘Jew Store,’” Southern Jewish History Journal 2023
with Lynda Barness, “Transcending Race, Religion, and Class: Select Huntsville Memoirs by Margaret Anne Goldsmith,” Southern Jewish History Journal 2024
“When Freedom Began to Ring,” Jewish Review of Books, July 3, 2023, with Paul Finkelman

William Evan Vossman, MAJS ’22; Ph.D. student

Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D. ’87

I retired from the pulpit in 2022 and have continued speaking, publishing, and engaging in historical research. I am serving as a Memoir Editor for the Journal of Southern Jewish History. I truly enjoy being able to do my academic work without other professional responsibilities!
The American Jewish Archives Journal published a Festschrift in my honor, 2024.