David Nelson Bibliography
Rosalyn and Manny Rosenthal Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Brite Divinity School
Books
Nelson, W. David. The Mekhilta of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2006.
Articles and essays
Nelson, W. David. “Oral Orthography: Early Rabbinic Oral and Written Transmission of Parallel Midrashic Tradition in the Mekhilta of Rabbi Shimon b. Yohai and the Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael.” AJS Review 29.1 (2005): 1-32.
———. “Criticizing a Critical Edition: Challenges Utilizing the Mekhilta of Rabbi Shimon b. Yohai.” In Recent Developments in Midrash Research: Proceedings of the 2002 and 2003 SBL Consultation on Midrash, edited by Lieve M. Teugels and Rivka Ulmer, 97-115. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2004.
———. “The Mekhilta Attributed to Rabbi Simeon b. Yohai” In Encyclopaedia of Midrash: Biblical Interpretation in Formative Judaism, edited by Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery Peck, I: 493-510. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004.
———. "The Reconstruction of the Mekhilta of Rabbi Shimon B. Yohai: A Reexamination." Hebrew Union College Annual 70-71 (1999-2000): 261-302.
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