Publications by James W. Watts

“Poetry, Inset,” in the Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books, ed. Bill T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, forthcoming.  “Biblical Psalms Outside the Psalter,” in The Book of Psalms: Composition and Reception, ed. Peter W. Flint and Patrick D. Miller, Vetus Testamentum Supplement Series, Leiden: Brill, forthcoming. “The Rhetoric of Ritual Instruction in Leviticus 1-7,” in The Book of Leviticus: Composition and Reception, ed. Rolf Rendtorff and Robert Kugler, Vetus Testamentum Supplement Series, Leiden: Brill, forthcoming. “Story, List, Sanction: A Cross-Cultural Strategy of Ancient Persuasion,” in Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks, ed. Carol Lipson and Roberta Binkley, Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming.

(Editor, with Corrine Patton and Steven Cook) The Whirlwind: Essays on Job, Hermeneutics and Theology in Memory of Jane Morse, JSOTSup Series 336, London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. “The Unreliable Narrator of Job,” in The Whirlwind (see above), pp. 168-80. (Editor) Persia and Torah: The Theory of Imperial Authorization of the Pentateuch, SBL Symposium Series, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001. (Translator)  “Persian Imperial Authorization: A Summary” by Peter Frei, in Persia and Torah (see above), pp. 5-40.

.Reading Law: The Rhetorical Shaping of the Pentateuch, Biblical Seminar 59, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.  (Online RBL review).  "Reader Identification and Alienation in the Legal Rhetoric of the Pentateuch," Biblical Interpretation 7/1 (1999) 101-12. "The Legal Characterization of Moses in the Rhetoric of the Pentateuch," Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (1998) 415-26. "The Legal Characterization of God in the Pentateuch," Hebrew Union College Annual 67 (1996) 1-14.  (Editor, with Paul R. House) Forming Prophetic Literature: Essays on Isaiah and the Twelve in Honor of John D. W. Watts, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 235, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.

"Psalmody in Prophecy: Habakkuk 3 in Context," Forming Prophetic Literature (see above), pp. 209-223. "Public Readings and Pentateuchal Law," Vetus Testamentum 45/4 (1995) 540-57. "Rhetorical Strategy in the Composition of the Pentateuch," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 68 (1995) 3-22. "Song and the Ancient Reader," Perspectives in Religious Studies 22/2 (1995) 135-47. "Leviticus," Mercer Commentary on the Bible, ed. Watson E. Mills et al, Macon: Mercer University Press, 1994, pp. 157-74.  Reprinted in Mercer Commentary on the Bible, Vol. 1: Pentateuch/Torah, ed. Watson E. Mills et al, Macon: Mercer University Press, 1998. "`This Song': Conspicuous Poetry in Hebrew Prose,"Verse in Ancient Near Eastern Prose, ed. Johannes C. de Moor and Wilfred G. E. Watson, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 42, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1993, pp. 345-58.

Psalm and Story: Inset Hymns in Hebrew Narrative, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 139, Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992. "Text and Redaction in Jeremiah's Oracles Against the Nations," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 54 (1992) 432-47. "Psalm 2 in the Context of Biblical Theology," Horizons in Biblical Theology 12/1 (1990) 73-91. "HNT: An Ugaritic Formula of Intercession," Ugarit-Forschungen 21 (1989) 443-49. "The Remnant Theme: A Survey of New Testament Research, 1921-1987," Perspectives in Religious Studies 15/2 (1988) 109-129. "Narrative Time in Luke's Gospel," Paradigms 1/2 (1985) 65-80

Reviews of various books in biblical studies appeared in the Journal of Biblical Literature 120 (2001) 348 [=RBL 2000 online], 118 (1999) 128-28 [=RBL 1999 online], 116 (1997) 541-43 [=RBL 1997 online], Review of Biblical Literature online (1999), Jewish Quarterly Review 91/3-4 (2001) 526-29, Theology Today 55 (1999) 586-88, Hebrew Studies 39 (1998) 236-38, 37 (1996) 166-68, Perspectives in Religious Studies 23 (1996) 75-86, 22 (1995) 87-91, Religious Studies Review 23 (1997) 388, 24 (1998) 59, 283-284, 405, 25 (1999) 71, and Paradigms 1 (1985) 50-52, 118-20, 2 (1986) 136-37, 5 (1989) 68-69, 156-57.