BOOKS

Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election. Nashville: Abingdon, 2007.

Jews, Christians, and the Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures. Co-edited by Alice Bellis and Joel S. Kaminsky. SBL Symposium Series, 20; Atlanta: SBL, 2000. A volume of essays by Jewish and Christian Biblical scholars on the theology and interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Corporate Responsibility in the Hebrew Bible. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 196; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

ARTICLES

 

"Loving One's Israelite Neighbor: Election and Commandment in Leviticus 19," Interpretation 62.2 (April 2008): 123-32.

6000 word Encyclopedia Article on Chosenness in the Bible. CHOSEN in the New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, Volume 1 (Abingdon, 2006), 594-600.

Co-authored with Anne W. Stewart “God of all the World: Universalism and Developing Monotheism in Isaiah 40-66,” Harvard Theological Review 99.2 (April 2006): 139-63.

“New Testament and Rabbinic Views of Election.” Forthcoming in Jewish Bible Theology: Perspectives and Case Studies (ed. Isaac Kalimi; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2006).

“Attempting the Impossible: Eliminating Election from the Jewish Liturgy,” Midstream (Jan.-Feb. 2005): 23-27.

“Reclaiming a Theology of Election: Favoritism and the Joseph Story.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 31.2 (Summer 2004): 135-152.

"Did Election Imply the Mistreatment of Non-Israelites,?" Harvard Theological Review 96.4 (October 2003): 397-425.

"Violence in the Bible," Religious Studies News/SBL edition (June 2003): http://www.sbl-site.org/Newsletter/06_2003/Kaminsky.html.

"The Concept of Election and Second Isaiah: Recent Literature." Biblical Theology Bulletin 31.4 (Winter 2001): 135-144.

"Paradise Regained: Rabbinic Reflections on Israel at Sinai." In Jews, Christians, and the Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures edited by Bellis and Kaminsky, 15-43. SBL Symposium Series, 20; Atlanta: SBL, 2000.

"Humor and the Theology of Hope in Genesis: Isaac as a Humorous Figure." Interpretation 54.4 (October 2000): 363-375.