Dr Siam Bhayro
Publications
Books
with BM Outhwaite, “From a Sacred Source”: Genizah Studies in Honour of Professor Stefan C. Reif, Leiden, Brill, 2010.
with DJA Clines, DM Stec, The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew - Vol. VI: s-p, Sheffield, Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007.
The Shemihazah and Asael Narrative of 1 Enoch 6-11: Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary with reference to Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Antecedents, Münster, Ugarit-Verlag, 2005.
with DJA Clines, DM Stec, The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew – Vol. V: m-n, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.
Chapters
Ancient Near Eastern and Early Jewish Lyre Traditions, in Finkel I,Dumbrill R (eds) ICONEA 2008: Proceedings of the International Conference of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology held at the British Museum December 4, 5 and 6, 2008, London: ICONEA Publications, 2010, 77-82
A Leaf from a Medieval Hebrew Book of Tobit: Jacques Mosseri Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library, Mosseri I.38 (with a Note on the Dating of T-S A45.25), in Dobos KD,Koszeghy M (eds) With Wisdom as a Robe: Qumran and Other Jewish Studies in Honour of Ida Fröhlich, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009, 163-173
Bardaisan of Edessa (174-222 CE), Book of the Signs of the Zodiac (after ca 200 CE?), Sergius of Reš'Aina (500-536 CE), Severus Sebokht of Nisibis (630-667 CE), Theodore, pupil of Sergius (525-545 CE), in Keyser P,Irby-Massie GL (eds) The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek Tradition and its Many Heirs, London: Routledge, 2008
On the Etymology of Hebrew b?rît, in Moriggi M (eds) XII Incontro Italiano di Linguistica Camito-semitica (Afroasiatica), Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2007, 117-125
‘… and you know everything before it happens …’: A Complaint against the Inaction of the Most High in 1 Enoch 9, in Hayward R,Embry B (eds) Studies in Jewish Prayer, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 33-54
Matthew 5:17-18 in the light of Qumran Scribal Practice, in Hollander AAD,Schmid UB,Smelik WF (eds) Paratext and Megatext as Channels of Jewish and Christian Traditions: The Textual Markers of Contextualization, Leiden: Brill, 2003, 37-48
A Karshuni (Christian Arabic) Account of the Descent of the Watchers, in Rapoport-Albert A,Greenberg G (eds) Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Texts: Essays in Memory of Michael P. Weitzman, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001, 365-374
Daniel’s ‘Watchers’ in Enochic Exegesis of Genesis 6:1-4, in Brooke GJ (eds) Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 58-66
Journal articles
Review of John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow (eds), The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, Eerdmans, Review of Biblical Literature, 2011
Review of John F. Healey, Aramaic Inscriptions & Documents of the Roman Period (Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions, Volume IV), Oxford University Press, BAJS Bulletin, 2011, 62-63
Review of Julian V. Hills, The Epistle of the Apostles, Polebridge, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, vol. 73, 2011, 865-866
Review of Michaël Langlois, Le premier manuscrit du Livre d'Hénoch. Étude épigraphique et philologique des fragments araméens de 4Q201 à Qumrân, Les Éditions du Cerf, Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 61, 2010, 147-149
Review of Charles Burnett (ed.), Ibn Baklarish's Book of Simples: medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain, The Arcadian Library in association with Oxford University Press, Medical History, vol. 54, 2010, 269-271
Review of Michael Sokoloff, A Syriac Lexicon. A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann’s Lexicon Syriacum, Eisenbrauns & Gorgias Press, Hugoye, vol. 13, 2010, 339-342
Review of Andrew D. Gross, Continuity and Innovation in the Aramaic Legal Tradition, Brill, BAJS Bulletin, 2009, 56-58
Review of E. Lev, Z. Amar, Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah, Brill, Medical History, vol. 53, 2009, 455-456
A Third/Ninth Century Kufic Funerary Inscription in Aberdeen, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, 2009, 147-148
The Use of Jubilees in Medieval Chronicles to Supplement Enoch: The Case for the "Shorter" Reading, Henoch, vol. 31, no. 1, 2009, 10-17
Review of Carol Bakhos (ed.), Current Trends in the Study of Midrash, Brill, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008
Review of Simon Swain (ed.), Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam, Oxford University Press, Transcendent Philosophy, vol. 9, 2008, 365-370
The Aramaic 'Fugitive' Decree: A New Interpretation, Aramaic Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2008, 1-15
Review of Annette Yoshiko Reed, Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature, Cambridge University Press, Review of Biblical Literature, 2007, 228-231
with D Levene, ‘Bring to the Gates… upon a good smell and upon good fragrances:’ An Aramaic Incantation Bowl for Success in Business, Archiv für Orientforschung, vol. 51, 2006, 242-246
Noah’s Library: Sources for 1 Enoch 6-11, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, vol. 15, no. 3, 2006, 163-177
Review of Stefan C. Reif (ed.), The Cambridge Genizah Collections: Their Contents and Significance, Cambridge University Press, Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 56, 2005, 157-160
Syriac Medical Terminology: Sergius and Galen’s Pharmacopia, Aramaic Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2005, 147-165
Review of Jacob Neusner, The Halakhah: An Encyclopedia of the Law of Judaism: I, Between Israel and God Part A, Brill, Review of Biblical Literature, 2004
Review of Heinrich W. Guggenheimer, Talmud Yerushalmi. First Order: Zeraïm. Part 3: Tractates Kilaim and S?eviït, de Gruyter, Review of Biblical Literature, 2004
Review of John Van Seters, A Law Book for the Diaspora: Revision in the Study of the Covenant Code, Oxford University Press, Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 55, 2004, 363-365
Review of Mark S. Smith, The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (second edition), Eerdmans/Dove, Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 55, 2004, 166-167
A Syriac Fragment from the Cairo Genizah, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. 94, 2004, 39-51
Review of Judah B. Segal, Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum, British Museum Press, Bibliotheca Orientalis, vol. LXI, no. 3-4, 2004, 390-393
Review of Maria Michela Sassi, The Science of Man in Ancient Greece, University of Chicago Press, Isis, vol. 95, no. 3, 2004, 483-484
Review of Michael Sokoloff, A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period (second edition), Bar Ilan University Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, Journal of Biblical Literature, vol. 123, no. 2, 2004, 382-385
The Madness of King Saul, Archiv für Orientforschung, vol. 50, 2004, 285-292
The Status of Non-Jews in the Eschaton: An Enochic Debate, Jewish Culture and History, vol. 6, no. 2, 2003, 1-10
Preface, Aramaic Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 2003, 163-164
Review of Eugen J. Pentiuc, West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar, Eisenbrauns, Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 53, 2002, 380-381
Review of Philippe Gignoux (ed.), Ressembler au monde: nouveaux documents sur la théorie du macro-microcosme dans l’antiquité orientale, Brepols Publishers, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 65, 2002, 561-562
Review of E. C. Hostetter, An Elementary Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, Sheffield Academic Press, Vetus Testamentum, vol. 51, 2001, 563-564
Review of C. Müller-Kessler and M. Sokoloff, A Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic – V: The Catechism of Cyril of Jerusalem in the Christian Palestinian Aramaic Version, Styx, Journal for the Aramaic Bible, vol. 2, 2000, 265-268
Others
Magic as the basis for social cohesion in pre-Islamic Mesopotamia, Societas Magica Newsletter, vol. 25, 2011, 1-5
with BM Outhwaite, Preface in “From a Sacred Source”, , 2010, xi-xiii
