Published Research

My recent research on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers, visions, and interpretation goes beyond traditional historical-criticism to explore the insights that can be gained by using emerging integrative approaches from the fields of cognitive literary theory and cross-cultural anthropology. I have published a number of articles and essays on all areas of the Bible (Hebrew Bible, deuterocanon, and New Testament), as well as non-biblical ancient Jewish pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the early Christian Apostolic Fathers. On this page, I have consolidated these studies under general headings.

For a complete list of publications and abstracts, please go to the below link. 

Complete Publications List 

Apocalypses and Apocalyptic Literature

“Immersing Oneself in the Narrative World of Second Temple Apocalyptic Visions.” Pages 297-328 in Reimagining Apocalypticism: Apocalyptic Literature  in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Writings. Edited by Lorenzo DiTommaso and Matthew Goff. EJL 57. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2023.

“Entering into the Possible Narrative World of Hermas’s Visions.”  Pages 117-36 in Experiencing the Shepherd of Hermas. Edited by Angela Kim Harkins and Harry O. Maier. Ekstasis 10. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.

“Looking at the Shepherd of Hermas through the Experience of Lived Religion.” Pages 49-70 in Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics. Edited by Valentino Gasparini, Maik Patzelt, Rubina Raja, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Jörg Rüpke, Emiliano Urciuoli. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020 (open access).  

“5.2.3 Syriac [Enoch > The Book of the Watchers].” Pages 327-29 in Textual History of the Bible. General Editor Armin Lange. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 

“Daniel.” Pages 772-794 in Paulist Biblical Commentary. Edited by José Enrique Aguilar et al. Paulist Press, 2018. 

“Elements of the Fallen Angels Traditions in the Qumran Hodayot.” Pages 8-24 in The Fallen Angels Traditions: Second Temple Developments and Reception History. Edited with Kelley Coblentz Bautch, and John C. Endres, S. J. CBQMS 53. Washington, D.C.: CBA, 2014.  

“Reading the Qumran Hodayot in Light of the Traditions Associated with Enoch.” The Journal Henoch: Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Late Antiquity 32.2 (2010): 359-400. 

Ancient Jewish and Christian Prayers

“Retelling Foundational Events in Psalm 106: Experiencing and Remembering the Past.” Pages 83-104 in The Power of Psalms in Post-Biblical Judaism: Ritual, Liturgy and Community. Edited by Claudia Bergmann, Tessa Rajak, Benedikt Kranemann, and Rebecca Ullrich. Leiden: Brill, 2023. 

“Ritual Mourning in Daniel’s Interpretation of Jeremiah’s Prophecy.” Pages 173-92 in Studying the Religious Mind: Methodology in the Cognitive Science of Religion. Edited by Armin Geertz with Leonardo Ambasciano, Esther Eidinow, Luther H. Martin, Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Nickolas P. Roubekas, Valerie van Mulukom, Dimitris Xygalatas. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2022. Revised and updated from the original publication in the Journal of Cognitive Historiography (2015).

“Sticky Emotions from Second Temple Prayers: A Study of Paul’s Grief in 2 Corinthians.” Pages 159-83 in Experiencing Presence in the Second Temple Period: Revised and Updated Essays by Angela Kim Harkins. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology 111. Leuven: Peeters Press, 2022.

“Early Jewish Prayer.” Co-authored with Daniel Falk. Pages 461-486 in Early Judaism and its Modern Interpreters. Edited by Matthias Henze and Rodney Werline. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2020.  

“Emotion and Law in the Book of Baruch.” Pages 49-69 in The Early Reception of the Torah. Edited by Barbara Schmitz and Kristin De Troyer. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies. Berlin: De Gruyter Press, 2020.

“Hymns and Psalmody.” Angela Kim Harkins and Brian P. Dunkle, S.J. Pp 610-626 in The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual. Edited by Risto Uro, Juliette J. Day, Richard E. DeMaris, and Rikard Roitto. Oxford University Press, 2019. 

“Ritualizing Jesus’ Grief at Gethsemane.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 41.2 (2018): 177-203. 

“The Function of Prayers of Ritual Mourning in the Second Temple Period.” Pages 80-101 in Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period. Conference proceedings for Copenhagen meeting. Edited by Mika S. Pajunen and Jeremy Penner. BZAW 486. Berlin: De Gruyter Press, 2017. 

“The Pro-social Role of Grief in Ezra’s Penitential Prayer.” Biblical Interpretation vol. 24.4-5 (2016): 466-491.

“Ritual Mourning in Daniel’s Interpretation of Jeremiah’s Prophecy.” The Journal of Cognitive Historiography 2.1 (2015): 14-33. 

“Religious Experience through the Lens of Critical Spatiality: A Look at Embodiment Language in Prayers and Hymns.” Pages 223-242 in Experientia, Volume 2: Moving from Text to Experience. Edited by Colleen Shantz and Rodney Werline. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2012.  

“Prayers and Hymns.” (6000 words). Pages 175-83 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible. Edited by Michael D. Coogan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

“Hymns, Prayers, and Psalms” (4000 words). Pages 753-757 in Dictionary of Early Judaism. Edited by J. J. Collins and D. Harlow. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010.   

Second Temple Judaism, Pseudepigrapha, and Later Writings

“The Imaginative Experiencing of Psalm of Solomon 8.” Pages 203-220 in Psalms of Solomon: Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts. SBLEJL 54. Edited by Patrick Pouchelle, G. Anthony Keddie, and Kenneth Atkinson. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021.

“Mourning in Second Temple/ Hellenistic Judaism.” Columns 1312-1314 in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Volume 19. Edited by Benjamin Wright et al. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. 

“Job in the Ancient Versions and the Pseudepigrapha.” Pages 13-33 in A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages. Edited by Franklin T. Harkins and Aaron Canty. Brill Companions to the Christian Tradition 73. Leiden: Brill, 2017.  

“The Holy Spirit and the New Testament in Light of Second Temple Judaism.” Pages 73-83 in The Holy Spirit. Edited by Richard Lennan and Nancy Pineda-Madrid. Paulist Press, 2017. 

“The Odes of Solomon as Solomonic Pseudepigrapha.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 25.4 (2016): 247-273.

“The Garden Space in Odes of Solomon 11 and the Reinvigoration of Memories about Paradise.” Pages 1- 33 in Biblical & Qur’ānic Traditions in the Middle East. Edited by Cornelia Horn and Sidney Griffith. Eastern Mediterranean Texts and Contexts Series 2. Warwick, R.I.: Abelian Academic Press, 2016. 

“A Fitting Inheritance for Job’s Daughters in the Testament of Job.” The Journal Henoch: Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Late Antiquity 36.1 (2014): 64-85. 

“Biblical and Historical Perspectives on ‘the People of God’.” Pages 319-339 in Transforming Relations: Essays on Jews and Christians throughout History in Honor of Michael A. Signer. Edited by Franklin T. Harkins. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.  

Angela Y. Kim (maiden name). “Cain and Abel in the Light of Envy: A Study in the History of the Interpretation of Envy in Genesis 4:1-16.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 12.1 (2001): 65-84. 

Angela Y. Kim (maiden name). “Signs of Exegetical Techniques in Ephrem’s Homily on Our Lord.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 3.1 (2000): 55-70. 

Dead Sea Scrolls and the Thanksgiving Hymns

“Changes in the Study of Religion, Theology, and Thought in the Second Temple Period and New Directions: Studies of the Teacher of Righteousness.” Pages 149-62 in Jewish Studies on Premodern Periods: A Handbook. Edited by Carl S. Ehrlich and Sara R. Horowitz. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.

“Experiencing the Solidity of Spaces in the Qumran Hodayot.” Pages 353-71 in The Dead Sea Scrolls, Revise and Repeat: New Methods and Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Edited by Andrew Krause, Carmen Palmer, Eileen M. Schuller, and John Screnock. SBLEJL. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2020.  

“Berekhot (4Q286-290),” pages 134-136, “Hodayot (1QHa +4QH manuscripts),” pages 240-243, and “Self- Glorification Hymn,” page 491, in the T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism. Edited by Daniel Gurtner and Loren Stuckenbruck. Bloomsbury-T&T Clark, 2019.

“Hodayot.” Pages 314-317 in T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Edited by George J. Brooke and Charlotte Hempel. London: T&T Clark, 2019. 

“Another Look at the Cave 1 Hodayot: Was CH I Materially Part of the Scroll 1QHodayota?” Dead Sea Discoveries 25.2 (2018): 185-216. 

“How Should We Feel about the Teacher of Righteousness?” Pages 493-514 in Is there a Text in this Cave? Studies in the Textuality of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Honour of George J. Brooke. STDJ 119. Edited by Ariel Feldman, Maria Cioată, and Charlotte Hempel. Leiden: Brill, 2017.  

“A Phenomenological Study of Penitential Elements and Their Strategic Arousal of Emotion in the Qumran Hodayot (1QH cols. 1[?]-8).” Pages 297-316 in Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions: A Study of the Emotions Associated with Prayer in the Jewish and Related Literature of the Second Temple Period. Edited by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Stefan C. Reif. DCLS 26. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016.   

“The Emotional Re-experiencing of the Hortatory Narratives found in the Admonition of the Damascus Document.” Dead Sea Discoveries 22 (2015): 285-307. 

Critical Introduction and notes to the Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot). Pages 2018-2094 in Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture. Edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman. The Jewish Publication Society/University of Nebraska Press, 2013. 

“Who is the Teacher of the Teacher Hymns? Re-examining the Teacher Hymns Hypothesis Fifty Years Later.” Pages 449-467 in A Teacher for All Generations: Essays in Honor of James C. VanderKam. General editor Eric Mason; Vol. 1 edited by Samuel Thomas and Alison Schofield, and Eugene C. Ulrich; Supplements of the Journal for the Study of Judaism 153. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

“The Performative Reading of the Hodayot: The Arousal of Emotions and the Exegetical Generation of Texts.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 21.1 (2011): 55-71.

“A New Proposal for Thinking about 1QHa Sixty Years after its Discovery.” Pages 101-134 in Qumran Cave 1 Revisited: Texts from Cave 1 Sixty Years after Their Discovery. Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the International Organization of Qumran Studies in Ljubljana. Edited by Daniel K. Falk, Sarianna Metso, Donald W. Parry and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar. STDJ 91. Leiden: Brill, 2010.  

“The Community Hymns Classification: A Proposal for Further Differentiation.” Dead Sea Discoveries 15 (2008): 121-54.

“Theological Attitudes towards the Scriptural Text: Lessons from the Syriac Exegetical Tradition and Qumran.” Theological Studies 67.3 (2006): 498-516. 

“Observations on the Editorial Shaping of the So-called Community Hymns in 1QHa and 4Q427 (4QHa).” Dead Sea Discoveries 12.3 (2005): 233-56.

Angela Y. Kim (maiden name). “Authorizing Interpretation in Poetic Compositions in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Later Jewish and Christian Traditions.” Dead Sea Discoveries 10.1 (2003): 26-58. 

Angela Y. Kim (maiden name). “A Study of the Textual Alignment of the Tabernacle Sections of 4Q365 (fragments 8a-b, 9a-b i, 9b ii, 12a i, 12b iii).” Textus: Studies of the Hebrew University Bible Project 21 (2002): 45-69.