WRITING — Brian R. Doak, PhD

Brian R. Doak, PhD

Rooted in tradition & creating new things

See below for links to my books and selected academic essays; here is my Amazon author page, and some of my publications can be downloaded for free at my Academia.edu page. For a complete list of my publications, see my CV here.

“Shocking Discoveries of Giants You Will Not Believe!!!: Conspiracy Belief and Archaeological Interest in YouTube Videos about Biblical and Other Giants,” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (2025)

“Two Mountains” (short fiction). Hard Pack. Issue 04, Winter 2024. — “Two Mountains” (short fiction). Hard Pack. Issue 04, Winter 2024.

Co-edited with Carolina López-Ruiz, The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) — Co-edited with Carolina López-Ruiz, The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Co-authored with Kathleen Birney, “Funerary Iconography on an Infant Burial Jar from Ashkelon,” Israel Exploration Journal 61.1 (2011): 32–53. — Co-authored with Kathleen Birney, “Funerary Iconography on an Infant Burial Jar from Ashkelon,” Israel Exploration Journal (2011)

Phoenician Aniconism in its Mediterranean and Ancient Near Eastern Contexts (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2015) — Phoenician Aniconism in its Mediterranean and Ancient Near Eastern Contexts (Society of Biblical Literature, 2015)

Consider Leviathan: Narratives of Nature and the Self in the Book of Job (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014) — Consider Leviathan: Narratives of Nature and the Self in the Book of Job (Fortress Press, 2014)

Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) — Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel (Oxford University Press, 2019)

The Last of the Rephaim: Conquest and Cataclysm in the Heroic Ages of Ancient Israel (Boston and Washington D.C.: Ilex Foundation and the Center for Hellenic Studies, via HUP, 2012) — The Last of the Rephaim: Conquest and Cataclysm in the Heroic Ages of Ancient Israel (Ilex Foundation and the Center for Hellenic Studies, via HUP, 2012)

Ancient Israel’s Neighbors, Essentials of Biblical Studies series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 or 2020) — Ancient Israel’s Neighbors, Essentials of Biblical Studies series (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Genesis 1-11: A Selective Commentary for Meditation and Sermon Preparation — Genesis 1–11: A Selective Commentary for Meditation and Sermon Preparation (Hendrickson, 2023)

“Remembering the Future, Predicting the Past: Vaticinia ex Eventu in the Historiographic Traditions of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East,” in Splendide Mendax: Rethinking Fakes & Forgeries in Classical, Late Antique, & Early Christi… — “Remembering the Future, Predicting the Past: Vaticinia ex Eventu in the Historiographic Traditions of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East,” in Splendide Mendax: Rethinking Fakes & Forgeries in Classical, Late Antique, & Early Christian Literature, ed. Javier Martínez and Edmund Paul Cueva (2016)

“Monster Violence in the Book of Job,” Journal of Religion and Violence 3.2 (2015): 269–87. — “Monster Violence in the Book of Job,” Journal of Religion and Violence (2015)

“The Fate and Power of Heroic Bones and the Politics of Bone Transfer in Ancient Israel and Greece,” Harvard Theological Review 106.2 (2013): 201–16. — “The Fate and Power of Heroic Bones and the Politics of Bone Transfer in Ancient Israel and Greece,” Harvard Theological Review (2013)

“The Giant in a Thousand Years: Tracing Narratives of Gigantism in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond,” in Ancient Tales of Giants from Qumran and Turfan: Contexts, Traditions, and Influences, ed. Matthew Goff, Loren Stuckenbruck, and Enrico Morano (Tübing… — “The Giant in a Thousand Years: Tracing Narratives of Gigantism in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond,” in Ancient Tales of Giants from Qumran and Turfan: Contexts, Traditions, and Influences, ed. Matthew Goff, Loren Stuckenbruck, and Enrico Morano (Mohr Siebeck, 2016)