Publications

Dissertation

  • “Negotiating Paternal Authority and Filial Agency: Fathers and Sons in Early Rabbinic Parables.” PhD diss., Utrecht University, 2021.

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

  • The Ethics of Aging in Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Present-Day Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Co-edited with Ruben Zimmermann. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. Under contract.
  • Mashal, Fable, Parable: Genre Construction of Miniature Narratives in Early Christian, Jewish, and Graeco-Roman Traditions. Co-edited with Ruben Zimmermann and Lukas Spielhofer. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. Under contract.
  • Conceptualizing Old Age in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Contexts: Senescence and Its Significations. Co-edited with Seth Bledsoe. London: Routledge, 2026.
  • “Understanding Rabbinic Judaism: A Special Issue about The Literature of the Sages: A Re-visioning (Christine Hayes, ed., CRINT 16, Leiden: Brill, 2022).” Co-edited with Eric Ottenheijm. Special issue of NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 78 (2024).
  • Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World. Co-edited with Jonathan Pater and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 483. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022 (open access).

Journal Articles

  • “Agist criticism: Eine intersektionale Hermeneutik des Alterns und die Analyse vom alten Petrus (Joh 21,18–19).” Zeitschrift für Neues Testament. Accepted.
  • “Fearful and Joyous Old Men: Old Age, Masculinity, and Emotions in Luke’s Account of Zechariah (Lk. 1) and the Fables of Babrios (Fab. 98, 136).” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 48 (2025): 90–118.
  • “Preface: A Special Issue about Christine Hayes, ed., The Literature of the Sages: A Re-visioning.” Co-author with Eric Ottenheijm. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion. Special issue: “Understanding Rabbinic Judaism: A Special Issue about The Literature of the Sages: A Re-visioning (Christine Hayes, ed., CRINT 16, Leiden: Brill, 2022).” NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 78 (2024): 135–138.
  • “What Are These Sons Doing? Filial Agency in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Writings.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 113 (2022): 261–283.
  • “Kinder als handelnde Subjekte in neutestamentlichen und rabbinischen Gleichnissen.” Co-author with Annette Merz. Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 48 (2021): 27–43.
  • “‘De zoon smeekte bij zijn vader’: De agency van gestrafte kinderen in vroegrabbijnse parabels” [“‘The Son Begged His Father’: The Agency of Punished Children in Early Rabbinic Parables”]. Ex tempore 38 (2019): 82–96.
  • “Alleen bruiden, slavinnen en weduwen? De rol van vrouwen in vroegrabbijnse en vroegchristelijke gelijkenissen” [“Just Brides, Slaves, and Widows? The Role of Women in Early Rabbinic and Early Christian Parables”]. Co-author with Jonathan Pater and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 71 (2017): 130–150.

Book Chapters

  • “So Grandfather, So Father, So Son: Intergenerational Dynamics in the Fables of Babrios (Fab. 81) and Early Rabbinic Parables (Mekh. R. Shim. Yoh. 20:5; Sifre Deut. 312//Mekh. Deut. 32:9).” In Grandparents in the Ancient Mediterranean: Depictions, Roles, and Status. Edited by Lisa Brunet. London: Routledge. Accepted.
  • “Old Age, Gender, and Authority: An Intersectional Analysis of Zechariah and Elisabeth.” In Aging, Old Age, and Constructions of Old Age in the Ancient Near East. Edited by Alison Acker Gruseke and Carol Meyers. Kasion. Münster: Zaphon. Accepted.
  • “The Legacy of Yehuda Aschkenasy and His Students: Studying Rabbinic Literature in Dialogue with the New Testament in the Low Countries.” In Contexts of the New Testament. Edited by Bart Koet and Myriam Klinker-De Klerck. Leiden: Brill. Accepted.
  • “Fact in Fiction: Named Characters in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19–31) and the Ancient Parable and Fable Tradition.” In Mashal, Fable, Parable: Genre Construction of Miniature Narratives in Early Christian, Jewish, and Graeco-Roman Traditions. Edited by Ruben Zimmermann, Albertina Oegema,and Lukas Spielhofer. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. Accepted.
  • “From Subordinate Men to Men-in-the-Making: The Construction and Reception of Filial Masculinities in Early Rabbinic Parables.” In Parables and Their Reception. Edited by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, Anders Martinsen, and Ellen Aasland Reinertsen. Berlin: De Gruyter. In print.
  • “‘Wearing the Clothes of a Young Woman’: The Agency of Elderly Women in Tannaitic Literature.” Pages 87–108 in Old Age in Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, and Their Contexts: Senescence and Its Significations. Edited by Albertina Oegema and Seth Bledsoe. London: Routledge, 2026.
  • “Introduction.” Co-author with Seth Bledsoe. Pages 1–7 in Old Age in Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, and Their Contexts: Senescence and Its Significations. Edited by Albertina Oegema and Seth Bledsoe. London: Routledge, 2026.
  • “The Ethics of Fatherly Happiness: A Narrative Ethical Analysis of the Parables in Luke 15:11–32 and Sifre Deut. 343.” Pages 257–272 in Parables as Persuasive Devices: Towards a New Era in Parable Research. Edited by Lauri Thurén, Antti Kyytsönen, and Katri Antin. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2/633. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025.
  • “Das jüdische Raumverständnis von Synagogen und der virtuelle Synagogenraum.” Co-author with Esther Graf. Pages 125–143 in Digitale Sakralraumpädagogik. Edited by Ulrich Riegel and Mirjam Zimmermann. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2024.
  • “Honouring Human Agency and Autonomy: Children as Agents in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Parables.” Co-author with Annette Merz. Pages 223–248 in The Power of Parables: Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish and Christian Parables. Edited by Annette Merz, Eric Ottenheijm, and Marcel Poorthuis. Jewish and Christian Perspectives 39. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
  •  “Beyond the Parable-Fable Dichotomy: An Introduction to the Volume.” Co-author with Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Pages 1–11 in Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World. Edited by Albertina Oegema, Jonathan Pater, and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 483. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022.
  • “It Is like a Woman Who …? Women in Early Rabbinic and Early Christian Parables.” Co-author with Jonathan Pater and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Pages 236–264 in Parables in Changing Contexts: Essays on the Study of Parables in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Marcel Poorthuis. Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 35. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
  • “The Reception of Isa 40:15 in Liber antiquitatum biblicarum, 2 Baruch, and 4 Ezra.” Pages 94–111 in Authoritative Texts and Reception History: Aspects and Approaches. Edited by Dan Batovici and Kristin De Troyer. Biblical Interpretation Series 151. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Popular Articles

  • “Welke vader geeft zijn zoon een slang te eten? Over de parabel van de voedsel vragende zoon (Matteüs 7:9–11//Lukas 11:11–13)” [“What Sort of Father Feeds His Son a Snake? On the Parable of the Food Requesting Son (Matthew 7:9–11//Luke 11:11–13)”]. In Parabels: Een universeel genre [Parables: A Universal Genre]. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2024.
  • “Ruim het veld voor ons! Over de parabel van de kinderen op het veld (Ev. Thom. 21)” [“Leave Our Field! On the Parable of the Children in the Field (Gos. Thom. 21)”]. In Parabels: Een universeel genre [Parables: A Universal Genre]. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2024.
  • “Ouderdom in de Hebreeuwse Bijbel” [“Old Age in the Hebrew Bible”]. PThUnie 16, no. 3 (2022): 11–13.
  • “Boze vaders in vroegrabbijnse parabels” [“Angry Fathers in Early Rabbinic Parables”]. Alef Beet 31, no. 1 (2022): 3–13.
  • “Ruimte om te ruziën: De parabel van de kinderen op de markt (Lucas 7:31–35//Matteüs 11:16–19)” [“Room to Argue: The Parable of the Children at the Market (Luke 7:31–35//Matthew 11:16–19)”]. Pages 133–136 in Parabels: Onderricht van Jezus en de rabbijnen [Parables: Teachings of Jesus and the Rabbis]. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2020.
  • “Vaders wil is wet? De parabel van de twee zonen (Matteüs 21:28–32)” [“Father’s Word Is Law? The Parable of the Two Sons (Matthew 21:28–32)”]. Pages 97–100 in Parabels: Onderricht van Jezus en de rabbijnen [Parables: Teachings of Jesus and the Rabbis]. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2020.
  • “Parabels en de scheiding der wegen: De parabel van de pachters van de wijngaard (Marcus 12:1–11//Matteüs 21:33–44//Lucas 20:9–18//Evangelie van Thomas 65–66)” [“Parables and the Partings of the Ways: The Parable of the Tenants of the Vineyard (Mark 12:1–11//Matthew 21:33–44//Luke 20:9–18//Gospel of Thomas 65–66)”]. Pages 127–131 in Parabels: Onderricht van Jezus en de rabbijnen [Parables: Teachings of Jesus and the Rabbis]. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2020.
  • “Een blik op het lijden van de zoon: De parabel van de verloren zoon en zijn boze broer (Lukas 15:11–32)” [“Watching the Son’s Suffering: The Parable of the Prodigal Son and His Angry Brother (Luke 15:11–32)”]. Pages 169–172 in Parabels: Onderricht van Jezus en de rabbijnen [Parables: Teachings of Jesus and the Rabbis]. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2020.
  • “Broodje gezond op zijn rabbijns: Goede voeding in een laatantieke joodse parabel” [“A Salad Roll, Rabbinic Style: Good Food in a Late Ancient Jewish Parable”]. Pages 203–210 in Wie is er bang voor religie? Waarom kennis van religie belangrijk is [Who Is Afraid of Religion? Why Knowledge of Religion Is Important]. Edited by Joas Wagemakers and Lucien van Liere. Almere: Uitgeverij Parthenon, 2019.

Reviews

  • Review of Kristine Henriksen Garroway and John W. Martens, eds., Children and Methods: Listening to and Learning from Children in the Biblical World. Co-author with Lieve Teugels. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 76 (2022): 83–84.
  • Review of Joshua Schwartz and Peter J. Tomson, eds., Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: The Interbellum 70‒132 CE. Journal for the Study of Judaism 51 (2020): 433–441.
  • Review of Hagith Sivan, Jewish Childhood in the Roman World. Journal for the Study of Judaism 49 (2018): 591–594.
  • Review of Herbert W. Basser and Marsha B. Cohen, The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions: A Relevance-Based Commentary. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 70 (2016): 79–80.
  • Review of Tobias Nicklas et al., eds., Other Worlds and Their Relation to This World: Early Jewish and Ancient Christian Traditions. Journal for the Study of Judaism 43 (2012): 421–423.
  • Review of Mary Anna Bader, Tracing the Evidence: Dinah in Post-Hebrew Bible Literature. Journal for the Study of Judaism 42 (2011): 87–88.
  • Review of Hanan Eshel, Masada: An Epic Story. Journal for the Study of Judaism 42 (2011): 395.
  • Review of Hanan Eshel, Qumran: Scrolls • Caves • History. Journal for the Study of Judaism 42 (2011): 396.

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