Books
Articles and Essays
“Liturgical Letters: Jewish and Christian Calligraphic Art and Comparative Theology.” Journal of Interreligious Studies, special issue “The Art of Interfaith: A Festschrift in Honor of Lucinda Mosher on Interreligious Engagement and the Arts,” 41 (2024): 90–112.
“Unrolling the Scroll, Revealing God: Esther Scrolls as Symbols and Ritual Objects.” Hebrew Studies, symposium on “Reading, Writing, and Ritual: Jewish Books and Manuscripts in Late Antiquity,” ed. Laura Lieber, 64.1 (2023): 57–81.
“‘Right on, Vashti!’: Minor Characters and Performance Choices in the Synagogal Megillah Reading.” Religions, special issue “Narrative and Performance Criticisms—A Difference of Degree or Kind?”, ed. Christopher W. Skinner and Zechariah P. Eberhart, 14.9 (2023): 1095.
“‘Then Queen Esther Daughter of Abihail Wrote’: Gendered Agency and Ritualized Writing in Jewish Scriptural Practice.” Postscripts, special issue “Gender and Sacred Text(ure)s,” ed. Marianne Schleicher, 14.1 (2023): 128–61. Reprint forthcoming in Gender and Sacred Textures: Entanglements of Materiality, Embodiment, and Sacred Texts in Religious Identities, ed. Marianne Schleicher. Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts. Equinox, 2025.
“A Pilgrimage of Words: Shaping Psalm 121 in Calligraphy.” Postscripts 13.2 (2022): 141–67.
“Forgetting the Forgetter: The Cupbearer in the Joseph Saga (Genesis 40–41).” Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies 4.2 (2022): 47–65.
“Decorated, Illuminated, and Illustrated Bibles.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (2022).
“The Black Cross, Donald Jackson.” MAVCOR Journal 6 (2022).
“Martin Wenham, Praise.” For “On Art” section, The Christian Century, Jan. 26, 2022.
“‘I Sought Him Who My Soul Loves’: Symbol, Ornament, and Visual Exegesis of the Song of Songs in The Saint John’s Bible.” In The Art of Biblical Interpretation: Visual Portrayals of Scriptural Narratives. SBL Press, 2021.
“Touching Sacred Texts, Touching History: Using Manuscripts to Teach Scribal Practices and Material Scripture in the Biblical Studies Survey Course.” Teaching Theology and Religion 23.4 (2020): 276–85.
“Esther 5:1–2 / Greek Esther D: Esther’s Pivotal Moment.” Visual Commentary on Scripture (2020).
“Letters, Music, Flesh: Calligraphy as Sacred Art among Christians and Jews.” Image Journal 105 (July 2020).
“Psalm 93: The Waters Rise Up.” Visual Commentary on Scripture (2019).
“The Jewish Jesus in the California Desert: A Report from the Tabernacle Experience.” The Interfaith Observer, Oct. 15, 2016.
“Spiritually Bilingual: Buddhist-Christians and the Process of Dual Religious Belonging.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 35 (2015): 57–69.
“When Herakles Followed the Buddha: Power, Protection, and Patronage in Gandharan Art.” The Silk Road 13 (2015): 26–35.
Articles for Scripsit
“Locality, Originality, and Graffiti: An Interview with Christian Acker.” Scripsit 46.1, Spring 2024, 8–13.
“The Broad-Edge Nib, the Ball-Point Pen, and the Spray Can: A Conversation with François Chastanet.” Scripsit 46.1, Spring 2024, 20–25.
“Exile and Verse: An Interview with Lubna Zahid.” Scripsit 45.2, Spring 2023, 23–26.
“Mohamed Zakariya: Places, Pieces, People, and Projects.” Scripsit 45.2, Spring 2023, 5–10.