Dr. Davis Hankins

Books

The Book of Job and the Immanent Genesis of Transcendence. Diaeresis. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press (2015).

Under contract: Ecclesiastes: A Commentary. Coauthored with Brennan W. Breed. For the Illuminations series. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Under contract: The Meaning(s) of Walter Brueggemann: Testimonies, Disputes, Advocacies. Coauthored with Brent A. Strawn, with contributions from Ellen Davis, John Goldingay, Tim Beal, and Walter Brueggemann. Winona Lake, IN.: Eisenbrauns.

Edited Volumes

Editor, Walter Brueggemann, Tenacious Solidarity: Biblical Provocations on Race, Religion, Climate, and the Economy. Minneapolis: Fortress Press (2018).

Co-Editor, Writing the Moral Self: Essays in Honor of Carol A. Newsom; special issue of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 40:1 (2015). Coedited with Robert Williamson, Jr. and Brennan Breed.

Editor, Walter Brueggemann, Ice Axes for Frozen Seas: A Biblical Theology of Provocation. Waco: Baylor University Press (2014).

Journal Articles

“‘Much Madness is divinest Sense’: The Economic Consequences of Yahweh’s Parasocial Identity,” The Bible & Critical Theory 14 (2018): 17-41.

“4QInstruction’s Mystery and Mastery of Wisdom,” Dead Sea Discoveries 23 (2016): 183-205.

“The Internal Infinite: Deleuze, Subjectivity, and Moral Agency in Ecclesiastes,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 40 (2015): 43-59.

“Writing the Moral Self: Essays in Honor of Carol A. Newsom.” Coauthored with Robert Williamson Jr. and Brennan Breed. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 40 (2015): 3-6.

“The Affirmation of Prophetic Power and Deconstruction of Royal Authority in the Elisha Narratives,” coauthored with Walter Brueggemann, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 76 (2014): 58-76.

“Wisdom as an Immanent Event in Job 28, Not a Transcendent Ideal,” Vetus Testamentum 63 (2013): 210-235.

“The Invention and Persistence of Wellhausen’s World,” coauthored with Walter Brueggemann, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 75 (2013): 15-31.

Book Chapters

“Job,” in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature. Edited by Samuel L. Adams and Matthew Goff. Malden, Mass.: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (2020). Pages 30-48.

“Foreword.” In Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination: 40th Anniversary Edition. Minneapolis: Fortress (2018). Pages xii-xix.

“Tenacious Solidarity against Rapacious Totalisms.” In Walter Brueggemann, Tenacious Solidarity: Biblical Provocations on Race, Religion, Climate, and the Economy. Edited by Davis Hankins. Minneapolis: Fortress Press (2018). Pages ix-xvii.

Annotations for the book of Ecclesiastes in the forthcoming New Oxford Annotated Bible, 5th edition. Coauthored with Brennan W. Breed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, due January 2016.

“Woman and the Plasticity of Wisdom: Reconsidering Wisdom Literature and Feminism” in Imagination, Ideology, and Inspiration: Echoes of Brueggemann in a New Generation. Edited by Jonathan Kaplan and Robert Williamson, Jr. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix (2015). Pages 156-173.

“Desire and Ideology in Wisdom’s Inaugural Address: Proverbs 1:22-33.” Coauthored with David C. Knauert. In Imagination, Ideology, and Inspiration: Echoes of Brueggemann in a New Generation. Edited by Jonathan Kaplan and Robert Williamson, Jr. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix (2015). Pages 137-155.

“Introduction,” in Ice Axes for Frozen Seas: A Biblical Theology of Provocation, by Walter Brueggemann. Edited by Davis Hankins. Waco: Baylor University Press (2014). Pages 1-19.

“The Book of Job,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible. Coauthored with Brennan W. Breed. Edited by Michael D. Coogan. New York: Oxford University Press (2011). Pages 434-450.

Dictionary, Reference, or Pedagogical Entries

“Legal Language in Job,” for the Society of Biblical Literature’s Bible Odyssey project (2016): https://www.bibleodyssey.org:443/en/people/related-articles/legal-language-in-job

“John 1:43-51,” “John 2:1-12,” and “John 2:13-25.” Exegesis Entries in Feasting on the Gospels: John, Volume 1, Chapters 1-9. Edited by Cynthia A. Jarvis and E. Elizabeth Johnson. Louisville: Westminster John Knox (2015).

“Firstborn of Death” and “Fodder,” in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Volume 9: Field–Gennesaret. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter (2014).

“Fate,” in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Volume 8: Essenes–Fideism. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter (2014).

“Luke 21:29-38,” “Luke 22:1-6,” and “Luke 22:7-13.” Exegesis Entries in Feasting on the Gospels: Luke, Volume 2, Chapters 12-24. Edited by Cynthia A. Jarvis and E. Elizabeth Johnson. Louisville: Westminster John Knox (2014).

כחשׂ in Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten, vol. 2, 383-386 (2013).

“Job and Theodicy.” Oxford Biblical Studies Online, available to subscribers at http://www.oxfordbiblicalstudies.com/resource/LessonPlans.xhtml (2011).

“Genesis 50:15-21,” “Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32,” and “Jonah 3:10-4:11.” Exegesis Entries in Feasting on the Word: Year A, Volume 4. Edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor. Louisville: Westminster John Knox (2011).

Reviews and Review Essays

“Review of Marshall H. Lewis, Victor Frankl and the Book of Job: A Search for Meaning (foreword by Alexander Batthyány; Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019).” In Review of Biblical Literature (2020) (https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=13107).

“Review of Samuel E. Balentine, Wisdom Literature (Core Biblical Studies; Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2018) and John L. McLaughlin, An Introduction to Israel’s Wisdom Traditions (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2014).” In Catholic Biblical Quarterly 82 (2020): 102–6.

“Review of Julie Ann Duncan, Ecclesiastes (AOTC; Nashville: Abingdon, 2017)." In Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 73 (2019): 205-206.

“Review of Adam Y. Wells, ed., Phenomenologies of Scripture (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy; New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).” In Review of Biblical Literature (2018) (https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11693).

“Review of Amy Plantinga Pauw, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes: A Theological Commentary on the Bible (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2015).” In Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 71 (2017): 226.

“Review of Brian R. Doak, Consider Leviathan: Narratives of Nature and the Self in Job (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014).” In Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 71 (2017): 101-102.

“Review of Thomas Römer, The Invention of God (trans. Raymond Geuss; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015).” In Journal of the American Academy of Religion 84 (2016): 556-560.

“Review of Mark Larrimore, The Book of Job: A Biography (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013).” In Theology Today 72 (2015): 345-346.

Responses to book event on Davis Hankins, The Book of Job and the Immanent Genesis of Transcendence. March-April 2015. Available online at https://contemporarymaterialism.wordpress.com/ (~4500 words)

“Review of Élisabeth Roudinesco, Lacan: In Spite of Everything.” In the Marginalia Review of Books, 25 November 2014. Available online at http://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/jacques-lacan-unarchived-life/.

“Review of C. L. Seow, Job 1-21: Interpretation and Commentary.” In the Marginalia Review of Books, 27 January 2014. Available online at http://themarginaliareview.com/archives/5311.

“Review of Aaron W. Hughes, Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of History.” H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews. August, 2013. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=37982.