Benjamin Noonan

Books

• Hebrew Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, forthcoming)
• Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew & Aramaic: New Insights for Reading the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2020)
• Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicon of Language Contact, Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 14 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2019)
• “Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?” A Grammatical Tribute to Professor Stephen A. Kaufman, co-edited with Hélène M. Dallaire and Jennifer E. Noonan (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2017)

Book Chapters

• “An Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: The Style and Symbolism of Joseph’s Garment in Genesis 37,” in The Body: Adorned, Cultured, and Embodied, eds. Kristine Henriksen Garroway, Christine E. Palmer, and Angela Roskop Erisman (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2022), 319–360
• “The Patriarchs’ Altar-Building as Anticipation of the Israelite Conquest,” For Us, But Not to Us: Essays on Creation, Covenant, and Context in Honor of John H. Walton, eds. Adam E. Miglio, Caryn A. Reeder, Joshua T. Walton, and Kenneth C. Way (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2020), 254–275
• “Egyptian Loanwords as Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus and Wilderness Traditions,” in “Did I Not Bring Israel Out of Egypt?” Biblical, Archaeological, and Egyptological Perspectives on the Exodus Narratives, eds. James K. Hoffmeier, Alan R. Millard, and Gary A. Rendsburg, Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement 13 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016), 49–67

Journal Articles

• “On the Efficacy of the Atoning Sacrifices: A Levitical Biblical Theology of Sacrifice,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 31 (2021): 285–318
• “High-Handed Sin and the Promised Land: The Rhetorical Relationship between Law and Narrative in Numbers 15,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 45.1 (2020): 79–92
• “Can Loanwords Be Used to Date Biblical Texts, and If So, How?” Journal for Semitics 29.2 (2020): 1-19
• “Daniel’s Greek Loanwords in Dialectal Perspective,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 28 (2018): 575–603
• “Unraveling Hebrew שַׁעַטְנֵז,” Journal of Biblical Literature 135 (2016): 95–101
• “There and Back Again: ‘Tin’ or ‘Lead’ in Amos 7:7–9?” Vetus Testamentum 63 (2013): 299–307
• “Did Nehemiah Own Tyrian Goods? Trade between Judea and Phoenicia during the Achaemenid Period,” Journal of Biblical Literature 130 (2011): 281-298
• “Abraham, Blessing, and the Nations: A Reexamination of the Niphal and Hitpael ofברך  in the Patriarchal Narratives,” Hebrew Studies 51 (2010): 73–93

Blogs and Podcasts

• “How to Read Weird Old Testament Laws,” Bible Savvy Podcast, video podcast hosted by Clayton Keenon, February 19, 2025
• “Celebrating Three Years of Daily Dose of Aramaic: An Interview with Benjamin Noonan,” Daily Dose of Aramaic, video podcast hosted by Scott Callaham, September 26, 2024
• “Biblical Loanwords” Bible Odyssey (June 2024)
• “Advancing in Biblical Hebrew: An Interview with Dr. Benjamin Noonan (Part 1),” Studying the Biblical Languages, video podcast hosted by Doug Smith, April 8, 2024
• “Advancing in Biblical Hebrew: An Interview with Dr. Benjamin Noonan (Part 2),” Studying the Biblical Languages, video podcast hosted by Doug Smith, April 15, 2024
• “What Do Rituals ‘Do,’ and What Makes a Ritual Sacred?” The Biblical Mind Podcast, audio podcast hosted by Dru Johnson, March 18, 2022
• “Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicon of Language Contact,” The Ancient Near East Today: Current News about the Ancient Past (June 2020)
• “Benjamin Noonan — Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic,” The Shaun Tabatt Show, audio podcast hosted by Shaun Tabatt, March 8, 2020