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A. Books:
(1) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, God in Times of Destruction and Exiles: Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) Theology (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2009); 660 pages.
דלית רום-שילוני, אלהים בעידן של חורבן וגלויות: תאולוגיה תנ"כית (ירושלים: מאגנס, תש"ע)
(2) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Exclusive Inclusivity: Identity Conflicts between the Exiles and the People who Remained (6th–5th Centuries BCE) (LHB/OTS 543; New York-London: T&T Clark, 2013); 316 pages.
* Book Review: Micahel A. Lyons, Simpson University, Journal of Hebrew Scripture 14 (2014)
http://www.jhsonline.org/reviews/reviews_new/review720.html
* Review Session held at the SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego 2014, was recently published in a separate
issue of the Journal of Hebrew Scripture Volume 18, Article 1
https://jhsonline.org/index.php/jhs/article/view/29383
(3) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Jeremiah,” in Jewish Study Bible (second edition; ed. A. Berlin and M. Z. Brettler, Oxford: Oxford Press, 2014), 901–1032; 131 pages.
(4) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible (Grand Rapid MI: Eerdmans, 2021); 580 pgs.
https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/7860/voices-from-the-ruins.aspx
Podcast by Mike Delgado, “Ancient Hebrew Literature & Judean Conceptions of God – Dr. Dalit Rom-Shiloni http://www.mikedelgado.org/podcast/dalit-rom-shiloni/
Co-Edited Books:
(1) Moshe Bar Asher, Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Emanuel Tov, Nili Wazana, Shai: Studies in the Bible, Its Exegesis and Language Presented to Sara Japhet, Jerusalem: Bialik Press, 2007 [Hebrew and English]; about 1000 pgs. (Hebrew)
(2) Paul Joyce and Dalit Rom-Shiloni, The God Ezekiel Creates, LHB/OTS 607 (New York-London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014); 217 pgs.
(3) Dalit Rom-Shiloni and Corrine L. Carvalho, The Book of Ezekiel in Its Babylonian Context a thematic volume in the peer reviewed journal Die Welt des Orients 45, 1 (2015); 110 pgs.
(4) Jan C. Gerz, Bernard Levinson, Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Konrad Schmid, The Formation of the Pentateuch: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Europe, Israel, and North America, FAT 111 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016); 1162 pgs.
(5) Beate Ego, Ute Gause, Ron Margolin, and Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Theodicy and Protest: Jewish and Christian Perspectives, Kirche und Israel 13 (Tübingen: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2018); 268 pgs.
(6) Mark Boda and Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Crossing Borders between the Domestic and the Wild: Space, Fauna and Flora,DNI Bible Supplements 1 (New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2024); 192 pgs.
(7) Beate Ego, Joachim Krause, and Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Prayer in Jewish and Christian Traditions: Identity, Ritual, and Cross-cultural Contacts, Studien zu Kirche und Israel. Neue Folge 22 (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2026); circa 250 pgs.
B. Refereed Articles in Journals:
(1) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “The Prophecy for ‘Everlasting Covenant’ (Jeremiah 32:36—41): An Exilic Addition or a Deuteronomistic Redaction?,” Vetus Testamentum 53,2 (2003): 201—223.
(2) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Facing Destruction and Exile: Inner-Biblical Exegesis in Jeremiah and Ezekiel,” Zeitschrift für Altentestamentlische Wissenschaft 117/2 (2005): 189—205. Dalit Rom-Shiloni.ZAW 117,2 (2005)
(3) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Ezekiel as the Voice of the Exiles and Constructor of Exilic Ideology” Hebrew Union College Annual 76 (2005): 1—45. Dalit Rom-Shiloni.HUCA76 (2005)
(4) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Between Protest and Theodicy: The Dialogue between Communal Laments and Penitential Prayers in Biblical Prayer,” Shnaton: An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 16 (2006): 71—96.
דלית רום-שילוני, ״בין התרסה להצדקת האלהים: רב שיח בין קינות העם לתפילות הוידוי בתפילה המקראית״, שנתון לחקר המקרא והמזרח הקדום טז (תשס"ו), 71—96.
(5) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “The Torah in Jeremiah: The Interpretive Techniques and the Ideological Perspectives,” Shnaton: An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 17 (2007): 43—87 Rom-shiloni.Shnaton 17 (2007)
דלית רום-שילוני, ״התורה בספר ירמיה: הטכניקות הפרשניות והמגמות האידאולוגיות״, שנתון לחקר המקרא והמזרח הקדום יז (תשס״ח), 43—87
(6) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Psalms 44: The Powers of Protest,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 70,4 (2008): 683—698 Dalit Rom-Shiloni.Psalm 44.CBQ 70 (2008)
(7) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Actualization of Pentateuchal Legal Traditions in Jeremiah: More on the Riddle of Authorship,” Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 15 (2009): 254—281. ZAR 15_Rom-Shiloni
(8) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Between Sender and Courier: Theological Perspectives in ‘The Valley of Slaughter’ by Bialik,” Mo'ed 20 (2010): 251—267.
דלית רום-שילוני, ״בין השולח לשליחו: היבטים תאולוגיים ב׳בעיר ההרגה׳ לביאליק״, מועד כ (תשע"א), 251—267. דלית רום-שילוני.בין השולח לשליחו.מועד כ (תשע)
(9) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Ezekiel and Jeremiah: What Might Stand Behind the Silence?” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 2 (2012): 203–230. Rom-Shiloni.HeBAI 2 (2012),203-30
[This paper is accompanied with an Appendix - Ezekiel and Jeremiah.Appendix.30.10.2012 (1)]
(10) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled’” (Jer 2:20–25): Allusions to Priestly Legal Traditions in the Poetry of Jeremiah,” Journal for Biblical Literature 133,4 (2014): 757–775.
(11) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “On the Day I Freed Them from the Land of Egypt”: A Non-Deuteronomic Phrase within Jeremiah’s Covenant Conception” Vetus Testamentum 65,4 (2015): 621–647.
(12) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Hebrew Bible Theology: A Jewish Descriptive Approach,” Journal of Religion 96,2 (2016): 165–184.
(13) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “The Untold Stories: Al-Yahudu and or versus Hebrew Bible Babylonian Compositions,” Welt des Orients (2017): 124–134; 15 pgs.
(14) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Prophets in Jeremiah in Struggle over Leadership, Or Rather over Prophetic Authority?” Biblica 99,3 (2018): 351–372; 22 pgs.
(15) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Forced/Involuntary Migration, Diaspora Studies, and More: Notes on Methodologies,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 7,3 (2019): 376–398; 23 pgs.
(16) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “From Prophetic Words to Prophetic Literature: Challenging Paradigms that Control Our Academic Thought,” Journal of Biblical Literature 138,3 (2019): 565–586, 21 pgs.
(17) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Are the Figs Good? – Between the Known and the Assumed on the Fate of the Judean Exiles in Babylonia (/Babylon), A Continued Conversation with Yair Hoffman,” Beit Mikra 65,2 (2020): 314–359 (Hebrew) 48 pgs. (Hebrew)
(18) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Challenging the Notion of ‘Spiritual Metamorphosis’: Conceptions of Divine Presence and Anthropomorphic Language in Jeremiah,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 10,4 (2021): 353–386.
(19) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “’Aśśərtu Qālāt – Oral and Written Beta Israel Traditions of The Decalogue,” Israel Oriental Studies Annual 25 (2025): 150–241; 91 pgs., with a digital Appendix.
C. Refereed Chapters in Books:
(1) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Socio-Ideological Setting or Settings for Penitential Prayers?” in Seeking the Favor of God: Volume I, The Origins of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism (ed. M. Boda, D. K. Falk, and R. A. Werline; SBLEJL 21; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006), 51–68. Dalit Rom-Shiloni.Seeking the Favor of God 2006
(2) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Deuteronomic Concepts of Exile Interpreted in Jeremiah and Ezekiel,” in Birkat Shalom: Studies In the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Literature and Post-biblical Judaism Presented to Shalom M. Paul on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (ed. H. Cohen, V. A. Hurwitz, B. J. Schwarts, J. H. Tigay, and Y. Muffs; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2008), 101–123 Dalit Rom-Shiloni.PaulFs
(3) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Group-Identities in Jeremiah: Is It the Persian Period Conflict?” in A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Stylistics, and Language in Biblical Texts from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods (ed. E. Ben-Zvi, D. Edelman and F. Polak; PHSC 5; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2009), 11–46. Group-Identities. Jeremiah.Dalit Rom-Shiloni.2009
(4) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Jerusalem and Israel, Synonyms or Antonyms? Jewish Exegesis of Ezekiel’s Prophecies against Jerusalem,” in After Ezekiel: Essays on the Reception of a Difficult Prophet (ed. A. Mein and P. Joyce; LHB/OTS 535; London & New York: T&T Clark, 2010), 89–114.
(5) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “From Ezekiel to Ezra-Nehemiah: Shifts of Group-Identities within Babylonian Exilic Ideology,” in Judeans in the Achaemenid Age: Negotiating Identity in an International Context (ed. G. Knoppers, O. Lipschitz, and M. Oeming; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011), 127–151. From Ezekiel to Ezra-Nehemiah.Rom-Shiloni.2011
(6) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “The Covenant in the Book of Jeremiah: On the Employment of Marital and Political Metaphors,” in Covenant in the Persian Period: From Genesis to Chronicles (ed. R. Bautchand G. Knoppers; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015), 153–174.
(7) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Compositional Harmonization: Priestly and Deuteronomic References in Jeremiah—An Earlier Stage of a Recognized Interpretive Technique,” in The Formation of the Pentateuch: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Europe, Israel, and North America (ed. J. C. Gertz, B. M. Levinson, D. Rom-Shiloni, and K. Schmid; FAT 111; Mohr Siebeck, 2016), 913–942.
(8) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “What is ‘Persian’ in Late Sixth Century BCE Prophetic Literature? Case-Studies and Criteria,” in Discerning Criteria for Dating Persian Period Texts, edited by R.J. Bautch and M. Lackowski, FAT 101 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019), 31–53; 23 pgs.
(9) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Introduction: Rethinking the Relationship between the Law and the Prophets” in The Formation of the Pentateuch: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Europe, Israel, and North America, edited by J. C. Gertz, B. M. Levinson, D. Rom-Shiloni, and K. Schmid, FAT 11 (Mohr Siebeck, 2016), 831–840; 10 pgs.
(10) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “The Forest and the Trees: The Place of Pentateuchal Materials in Prophecy as of the Late Seventh / Early Sixth Centuries BCE,” in Congress Volume Stellenbosch 2016, edited by L. C. Jonker, G. R. Kotze and C. M. Maier; Vetus Testamentum Supplement 177 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 56–92; 36 pgs.
(11) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Nature Imagery within Images of Exile: General Survey and Metaphoric Functions,” in Images of Exile in the Prophetic Literature: Copenhagen Conference Proceedings 7–10 May 2017, edited by J. Høgenhaven, F. Poulsen and C. Powers, FAT II, 103 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019), 189–215; 26 pgs.
(12) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “The Decalogue,” in Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law, edited by P. Barmash (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), 135–155; 21 pgs.
(13) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Nature Imagery in the Interplay between Different Metaphors in the Book of Ezekiel,” in Networks of Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible, edited by D. Verde and A. Labahn, Bibliotheca Ephmeridaum Theologicarum Lovaniensium (Louvan: Brill, 2020), 93–109; 17 pgs.
(14) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Exile in the Book of Isaiah,” in Oxford Handbook of the Book of Isaiah (Edited by L-S. Tiemeyer; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), 1–28; 28 pgs.
(15) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Ezekiel among the Exiles,” in Oxford Handbook of the Book of Ezekiel, edited by C. Carvalho (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 1–35; 35 pgs.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190634513.013.20
(16) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Jeremiah and Inner-Biblical Exegesis,” in Oxford Handbook of the Book of Jeremiah, edited by L. Stulman and E. Silver (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 282–308; 26 pgs.
(17) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Theopolitics in a Foreign Land: Approaches to Babylon(ia) in Ezekiel,” in Political Theologies in the Hebrew Bible, edited by Mark Brett and Rachelle Gilmour, Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplement Series (Paderborn: Brill, 2023), 164–179; 23 pgs.
(18) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Spatial Language of the Wild: Ya‘ar, Midbar, and Sadeh” in Crossing Borders between the Domestic and the Wild: Space, Fauna and Flora, edited by M. Boda and D. Rom-Shiloni, DNI Bible Supplements 1 (New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2024), 121–146; 27 pgs.
(19) Martti Nisinnen and Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Methodological Challenges in the Study of Prophecy and Prophetic Books: A Conversation,” in Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions: Methodological Encounters and Debates, edited by M. Nissinen & J. Jokiranta, SBL series Resources for Biblical Studies (Atlanta, GA: SBL, 2024), 103–154; 45 pgs.
(20) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “The Exodus in Psalms and in the Prayers of Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) – Prayer and Identity Formation among Ethiopian Jewry,” in Prayer in Jewish and Christian Traditions –Identity, Ritual, and Cross-Cultural Contacts, edited by B. Ego, J. Krause, and D. Rom-Shiloni, Studien zu Kirche und Israel. Neue Folge 22 (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2026), 203–230; 27 pgs.
D. Chapters in Books
(1) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Exiles and Those Who Remained: Strategies of Exclusivity in the Early Sixth Century BCE,” in Shai: Studies in the Bible, Its Exegesis and Language Presented to Sara Japhet (ed. M. Bar Asher, D. Rom-Shiloni, E. Tov, N. Wazana; Jerusalem: Bialik, 2007), 119–138.
דלית רום-שילוני, ״גולים ונשארים: אסטרטגיות של בדלנות פנימית בראשית המאה השישית לפנה״ס״, ש״י לשרה יפת: מחקרים במקרא בפרשנותו ובלשונו (עורכים: מ. בר-אשר, נ. ואזנה, ע. טוב, ד. רום-שילוני; ירושלים: ביאליק, תשס"ח), 119—138.
(2) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “God and Man in War: Theological Reflections on the Destruction,” War and Peace (ed. S. Avineri; Jerusalem: Shazar, 2010), 59—72.
דלית רום-שילוני, ״אלהים ואדם במלחמה: תגובות תאולוגיות לחורבן הבית הראשון״, מלחמה ושלום (עורך: ש. אבינרי; ירושלים: שז״ר, תש״ע), 59—72. אלהים ואדם במלחמה. דלית רום שילוני
(3) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “When an Explicit Polemic Initiates a Hidden One: Jacob’s Aramaic Identity,” in Words, Ideas, Worlds in the Hebrew Bible: Festschrift Yairah Amit (ed. A. Brenner and F. Polak; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012), 206–235. Rom-Shiloni. Jacob Aramaean.Yairah Amit FS.2012
(4) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “‘An Aramaen Fugitive Was My Father’ - Is It So? Inner-biblical Deliberation on the Myth of the Common Ancestor,” in Myth, Mysticism, and Ritual: Studies in Honor of Professor Ithamar Gruenwald (Teudah 26; ed. R. Margolin and Y. Rozen-Zvi; Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 2014), 85–135.
דלית רום-שילוני, ״׳ארמי אבד אבי׳ – האמנם? על מחלוקת פנים-מקראית בשאלת מיתוס האב המשותף״, מיתוס, מיסטיקה וריטואל: מחקרים לכבוד פרופסור איתמר גרינולד (תעודה כו; עורכים: ג. בוהק, ר. מרגולין וי. רוזן-צבי; תל אביב: אוניברסיטת תל אביב, תשע״ד), 85—135
(5) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Theodical Discourse: Theodicy & Protest in Sixth Century BCE Hebrew Bible Theology,” in Theodicy and Protest: Jewish and Christian Perspectives, edited by B. Ego, U. Gause, R. Margolin, and D. Rom-Shiloni, Kirche und Israel 13 (Tübingen: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2018), 55–73; 19 pgs.
(6) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Two Prophecies in Ezekiel (14:1–11; 24:6–8) and One Source Text (Leviticus 17): Notes on Intertextuality and Creative Interactions,” in Historical Settings, Intertextuality, and Biblical Theology: Essays in Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney, edited by P. Kim, T. Mayfield, and H. K. Park, FAT 160 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022), 195–212; 18 pgs.
(7) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “In the Service of Biography: Nature Imagery in Jeremiah,” in Cultic Kisses: Fruitful Encounters Between Deities and Humans. Festschrift for Angelika Berlejung on the Occasion of Her 65th Birthday, edited by J. Dietrich and J. E. Filitz, Vetus Testamentumetus Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus 3 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2026), 568–590; 23 pgs.
Accepted
(1) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “כי גאה גאה”: The Praise in Ethiopic Bible Translations and in Beta Israel Prayers of the Salvation on the Sea,” in Mattat LeMoshe: Essays in Honor of Moshe Florentin, edited by Moshe Bar-Asher and Chayim Cohen (Jerusalem: Academy of Hebrew Language, 2026); 23 pgs.
דלית רום-שילוני, ״כי גאה גאה״: הנוסחה ותרגומה בתרגומי התנ״ך האתיופי ובתפילות הישועה על הים של ביתא ישראל״, מתת למשה: מחקרי לשון מוגשים למשה פלורנטין (אסופות ומבואות בלשון, מד), בעריכת משה בר־אשר וחיים א' כהן, הוצאת האקדמיה ללשון העברית, ירושלים תשפ"ו, 186—208.
(2) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Avian Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible: Nesting upon the Ground,” in Essays in Honor of Mark Boda, edited by D.J. Fuller, B.M. Stovell, C.M. Toffelmire, and L.W. Beal (submission date May 30, 2024); 38 pgs.
E. Miscellaneous: Other Publications
(1) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Central commentaries on Parashiot Eikev and Nitzavim (Deuteronomy), Women’s Tanakh Commentary (Editor in Chief Prof. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi; Project of the Women of Reform Judaism, 2007); 37 pgs.
(2) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Birds in the Bible,” Blackbird Project: Educational Cooperation between Arab and Jewish Students in Birding (ed. Yossi Leshem and Anat Levi; Tel Aviv, 2009), 72–83; 12 pgs.
דלית רום-שילוני, ״הציפורים בתנ״ך״, מיזם שחרור: שיתוף פעולה חינוכי בין תלמידים ערבים ויהודים בנושא צפרות (עורכים: י. לשם וע. לוי; תל אביב, תשס"ט), 72--83.
(3) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, DNI Bible Project (Dictionary of Nature Imagery of the Bible) http://dni.tau.ac.il/; writing and initiating the website; writing the entries: “Stork, חסידה, ciconia,” 42 pgs; Biblical Data (and at times also the History of Identification) for “Bear, דב, Ursus arctos syriacus,” 5 pgs.; “Leopard, נמר, Panthera pardus,” 3, 2 pgs.; “Forest, יער, Forest/Chaparral,” 27 pgs.; “Thickets of the Jordan, גאון הירדן,” pgs. 7, 3; “Chukar / Sand Partridge, קרא, Alectoris chukar / Ammoperdix heyi,” 6 pgs.
(4) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Lentil,” “Leaf,” “Locust” and “Lizard” entries on nature for EBR (Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online), De Gruyter, edited by Christine Helmer et.al. (2017–2018).
(5) Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Naturbilder und Bibleauslegung: Die DNI Bibel,” Jerusalem: Gemeindebrief – Stiftungsjournal 2 (2018): 23–26.
