| The invention of Hebrew SL Sanders University of Illinois Press, 2011 | 296 | 2011 |
| Cuneiform in Canaan W Horowitz, T Oshima, SL Sanders Eisenbrauns, 2018 | 258* | 2018 |
| Cuneiform in Canaan: cuneiform sources from the land of Israel in ancient times W Horowitz, T Oshima, SL Sanders Israel Exploration Society, 2006 | 194 | 2006 |
| From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylonia SL Sanders Mohr Siebeck, 2017 | 97 | 2017 |
| The Appetites of the Dead: West Semitic Linguistic and Ritual Aspects of the Katumuwa Stele SL Sanders Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 35-55, 2013 | 60 | 2013 |
| What was the alphabet for? The rise of written vernaculars and the making of Israelite national literature SL Sanders Maarav 11, 25-56, 2004 | 57 | 2004 |
| Old light on Moses' shining face SL Sanders Vetus Testamentum 52 (3), 400-406, 2002 | 56 | 2002 |
| Margins of writing, origins of cultures SL Sanders, J Kelly Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006 | 54 | 2006 |
| Performative utterances and divine language in Ugaritic SL Sanders Journal of Near Eastern Studies 63 (3), 161-181, 2004 | 50 | 2004 |
| Writing and Early Iron Age Israel: before national scripts, beyond nations and states SL Sanders Literate Culture and Tenth-Century Canaan: The Tel Zayit Abecedary in …, 2008 | 43 | 2008 |
| A bibliographical list of cuneiform inscriptions from Canaan, Palestine/Philistia, and the Land of Israel W Horowitz, T Oshima, S Sanders Journal of the American Oriental Society, 753-766, 2002 | 38 | 2002 |
| The First Tour of Hell: From Neo-Assyrian Propaganda to Early Jewish Revelation SL Sanders Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 9 (2), 151-169, 2009 | 36 | 2009 |
| What If There Aren’t Any Empirical Models for Pentateuchal Criticism? SL Sanders Contextualizing Israel’s Sacred Writings: Ancient Literacy, Orality, and …, 2015 | 33 | 2015 |
| A historiography of demons: Preterit-thema, para-myth, and historiola in the morphology of genres SL Sanders, T Abusch, PA Beaulieu, J Huehnergard, P Machinist, ... Historiography in the cuneiform world, 429-440, 2001 | 29 | 2001 |
| When the Personal Became Political: An Onomastic Perspective on the Rise of Yahwism SL Sanders Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 4 (1), 78-105, 2015 | 28 | 2015 |
| Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature SL Sanders NYU Press, 2014 | 28 | 2014 |
| Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature J Ben-Dov, SL Sanders NYU Press, 2013 | 28 | 2013 |
| Naming the dead: Funerary writing and historical change in the Iron Age Levant SL Sanders Maarav 19 (1-2), 11-36, 2012 | 28 | 2012 |
| Performative Exegesis SL Sanders Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticis, 57-79, 2006 | 18 | 2006 |
| From People to Public in the Iron Age Levant S Sanders Age 449, 80, 2012 | 12 | 2012 |
