Peter Machinist - Selected Publications#

1. “How Gods Die, Biblically and Otherwise. A Problem of Cosmic Restructuring,” in Beate Pongratz-Leisten, ed., Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011), pp. 187-239.

2. “Kingship and Divinity in Imperial Assyria,” in Johannes Renger, ed., Assur-Gott, Stadt und Land (Colloquien der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, Bd. 5; Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011), pp. 405-430.

3. "Ah, Assyria...(Isaiah 10:5 ff.). Isaiah's Assyrian Polemic Revisited," In G. Bartoloni and M.G. Biga, with A. Bramanti, eds., Not Only History. Proceedings of the Conference in Honor of Mario Liverani Held in Sapienza-Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, 20-21 April 2009 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016), pp. 183-217.

4. "The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: Revisiting a Classic." In Kurt Raaflaub, ed., The Adventure of the Human Intellect: Self, Society, and the Divine in Ancient World Cultures (Chichester, UK/Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), pp. 29-72.

5. "Royal Inscriptions in the Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia: Some Reflections on Presence, Function, and Self-Critique," in Scott Jones and Christine Yoder, eds., "When the Morning Stars Sang": Essays in Honor of Choon Leong Seow on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 500; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018), pp. 331-363.

6. "Nahum as Prophet and as Prophetic Book: Some Reconsiderations," in Heinz-Josef Fabry, ed., The Book of the Twelve Prophets: Minor Prophets, Major Theologies (Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense 65; Leuven: Peeters, 2018), pp. 113-142.

7. "Achaemenid Persia as Spectacle. Reactions from Two Peripheral Voices: Aeschylus, The Persians and the Biblical Book of Esther," in Amnon Ben-Tor, Ephraim Stern, and Jodi Magness, eds., Eretz-Israel 33 (Lawrence E. Stager Volume) (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2018), pp. 109*-123*.

8. “Periodization in Biblical Historiography,” in John Baines, Henriette van der Blom, Yi Samuel Chen, and Tim Rood, eds., Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World (Sheffield/Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2019), pp. 215-237.

9. "Reflections on the Epic of Gilgamesh," in Uri Gabbay and Jean-Jacques Pérennès, eds., Des Polythéismes aux Monothéismes. Mélanges d'Assyriologie offerts à Marcel Sigrist (Études Bibliques N.S. 82; Leuven: Peeters, 2020), pp. 323-334.‎

10. "Manasseh of Judah: A Case Study in Biblical Historiography," in Peter Dubovs‎k‎‎‎y‎ and Frederico Giuntoli, eds., Stones, Tablets and Scrolls. Periods of the Formation of the Bible (Archaeology and Bible 3: Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020), pp. 183-226.