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‘The Bible: The Basics’, London: Routledge, 2010.
‘Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel’, London: T & T Clark International, 2010 (ed. with Francesca Stavrakopoulou)
‘Imitation of God in the Old Testament’, The God of Israel, ed. R. P. Gordon, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 35-46
‘Reading Texts Holistically: The Foundation of Biblical Criticism’, Congress Volume Ljubljana 2007, VTSUp 133, ed. A. Lemaire, pp. 367-80.
‘Reading the Prophets from an Environmental Perspective’, Ecological Hermeneutics: Biblical, Historical and Theological Perspectives, ed. D. G. Horrell and others, London: T & T Clark International, 2010, pp. 46-55.
‘The Theology of Amos’, Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel, ed. John Day, London: Continuum, 2010, pp. 188-201.
‘The Dark Side of God in the Old Testament’, Ethical and Unethical in the Old Testament: God and Humans in Dialogue, LHBOTS 528, London: T & T Clark International, 2010, pp. 122-34.