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Smoak, Jeremy

Jeremy Smoak

Affiliate Professor of Old Testament

BA, Azusa Pacific University

Graduate Study, Jerusalem University College

MA, Wheaton College Graduate School

MA, University of California, Los Angeles

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Publications

“Kinship Terms” (co-authored with Gary Rendsburg),” in Geoffrey Khan, ed., Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (vol. 4; 2013), 470–477. “May Yahweh Bless You and Keep You from Evil: The Rhetorical Form of Ketef Hinnom Amulet I and the Background of the Prayers for Deliverance in the Psalms,” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 12 (2012), 202–236. “Prayers of Petition in the Psalms and West Semitic Inscribed Amulets,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 36/1 (2011), 75–92. “Amuletic Inscriptions and the Background of YHWH as Guardian and Protector in Psalm 12,” Vetus Testamentum 60/3 (2010), 1–12. “Assyrian Siege Warfare Imagery and the Background of a Biblical Curse,” in Brad E. Kelle and Frank Ritchel Ames (eds.), Writing and Reading Warfare: Gender, Rhetoric, and Interpretation in Ancient and Modern Contexts (Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series 42; 2009), 83–91. “Building Houses and Planting Vineyards: The Early Inner-biblical Discourse on an Ancient Israelite Curse,” Journal of Biblical Literature 127/1 (2008), 19–35. May the LORD Bless You and Keep You: The History and Ritual Background of the Priestly Blessing in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism (Oxford: Oxford University Press), forthcoming “New Light on the Priestly Blessing from Ketef Hinnom” Journal of Jewish Studies, forthcoming. “Biblical Hebrew Kinship Terminology,” Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (Leiden: Brill), forthcoming. “May the LORD Bless You and Guard You from Evil: The Rhetorical Structure and Content of Ketef Hinnom Amulet I and the Prayers for Deliverance from Evil in the Psalms,” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 12 (2012) 202–236. “Prayers of Petition in the Psalms and West Semitic In¬scribed Amulets,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 36.1 (2011) 75–92. “The Background of Yahweh as Guardian and Protector in Psalm 12,” Vetus Testamentum 60/3 (2010) 1–12. “Assyrian Siege Warfare Imagery and the Background of a Biblical Curse,” in Writing and Reading Warfare: Gender, Rhetoric, and Interpretation in Ancient and Modern Contexts (eds. F.R. Ames and B. Kelle; (2009) 33–45.