methods of biblical interpretation

Biblia Hebraica quinta editio funditus renovata: Deuteronomy. Co-edited with Yohanan Goldman, Arie van der Kooij, Gerard Norton, Stephen Pisano, Adrian Schenker, and Jan de Waard. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, forthcoming in 2007.

“Biblia Hebraica Quinta, a Collative, Prescriptive Critical Edition.” In A Guide to Hebrew Bible Editions, edited by Peter Flint and Russell Fuller. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, forthcoming.

Biblia Hebraica Quinta editio funditus renovata: Ezra and Nehemiah. Co-edited with Yohanan Goldman, Arie van der Kooij, Gerard Norton, Stephen Pisano, Adrian Schenker, and Jan de Waard. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2006.

Sôfer Mahîr: Essays in honour of Adrian Schenker offered by editors of Biblia Hebraica Quinta. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 110. Co-edited with Yohanan Goldman and Arie van der Kooij. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2006.

“The Textual Situation for the Book of Jeremiah.” Pages 269-293 in Sôfer Mahîr: Essays in honour of Adrian Schenker offered by editors of Biblia Hebraica Quinta.

Biblia Hebraica quinta editio funditus renovata: General Introduction and Megilloth. Co-edited with Yohanan Goldman, Arie van der Kooij, Gerard Norton, Stephen Pisano, Adrian Schenker, and Jan de Waard. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2004.

“Biblia Hebraica Quinta and the Making of Critical Editions of the Hebrew Bible.” TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 7 (2002). No pages. Online: http://purl.org/TC/vol07/vol07/Weis2002.html

“A Conflicted Book for a Marginal People: Thematic Oppositions in MT Jeremiah.” Pages 253-273 in Reading the Hebrew Bible for a New Millennium, Volume 2, Form, Concept, and Theological Perspective, edited by Deborah Ellens, Michael Floyd, Wonil Kim, and Marvin Sweeney . Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 2000.

Biblia Hebraica Quinta editio funditus renovata: Fasciculus extra seriem, Librum Ruth. Co-edited with Yohanan Goldman, Arie van der Kooij, Gerard Norton, Stephen Pisano, Adrian Schenker, and Jan de Waard. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1998.

“The Hebrew Bible Has a Word for ‘Welfare.’” Church and Society 88, no. 4 (March/April 1998): 142-146.

“Some Not So Innocent Questions for Theological Educators and Students.” In Voices of United (Fall 1998): 4-8.

Are We Our Neighbors’ Keepers? Five One-Hour Bible Studies on Economic Life. Trenton, NJ: Presbytery of New Brunswick, 1997.

“Stained Glass Window, Kaleidoscope, or Catalyst: The Implications of Difference in Readings of the Hagar and Sarah Stories.” Pages 253-273 in A Gift in God in Due Season: Essays on Scripture and Community Presented to James A. Sanders, co-edited with David M. Carr. JSOTSup, 225 (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1996).

“In my teaching I seek to assist students to employ the Hebrew Scriptures to trace the presence and activity of God in a rapidly changing world so that they are able to lead their communities in joining God in the work of healing the world’s brokenness.”

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“God labors ceaselessly to restore this world and all its inhabitants to the wholeness God intends for them. God calls on the human race in all its wondrous diversity to join in that work of healing the world. God calls the church to be in the forefront of that work, as the agent of the world’s healing and as the community within which people can experience that first hand. I entered the ministry of Word and Sacrament in response to a call to lead the church to take its place in the forefront of God’s restorative work. I entered seminary teaching in response to a call to enable the church’s future leaders to empower the church to claim that calling. I entered the deanship in response to a call to enable this school and its teachers of the church’s leaders to become all that God is calling it and them to be, to the end that human society, and indeed the whole world, might live in the shalom of God.”