| Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel SM Olyan Scholars Press, 1988 | 343 | 1988 |
| Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting mental and physical differences SM Olyan New York, 2008 | 303 | 2008 |
| Rites and rank: hierarchy in biblical representations of cult SM Olyan Princeton University Press, 2000 | 279 | 2000 |
| Honor, shame, and covenant relations in Ancient Israel and its environment SM Olyan Journal of Biblical Literature 115 (2), 201-218, 1996 | 251 | 1996 |
| Biblical Mourning: ritual and social dimensions SM Olyan OUP Oxford, 2004 | 222 | 2004 |
| " And with a male you shall not lie the lying down of a woman": On the meaning and significance of Leviticus 18: 22 and 20: 13 SM Olyan Journal of the History of Sexuality 5 (2), 179-206, 1994 | 186 | 1994 |
| Household and family religion in antiquity J Bodel, SM Olyan John Wiley & Sons, 2012 | 182 | 2012 |
| A Thousand Thousands Served Him: Exegesis and the Naming of Angels in Ancient Judaism SM Olyan Texts and studies in ancient Judaism 36, 1993 | 134 | 1993 |
| Ben Sira's Relationship to the Priesthood SM Olyan Harvard Theological Review 80 (3), 261-286, 1987 | 125 | 1987 |
| Purity ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah as a tool to reconstitute the community S Olyan Journal for the Study of Judaism 35 (1), 1-16, 2004 | 119 | 2004 |
| The spectrum of priestly impurity DP Wright Priesthood and cult in ancient Israel, 150-181, 1991 | 93 | 1991 |
| Parabiblical Texts, Part 1 HW Attridge, JC VanderKam (No Title), 1994 | 82 | 1994 |
| The Prohibitions Concerning the'Eating'of Blood in Leviticus 17 BY Shṿarts, GA Anderson, SM Olyan Priesthood and cult in Ancient Israel, 34-66, 1991 | 72 | 1991 |
| What do shaving rites accomplish and what do they signal in biblical ritual contexts? SM Olyan Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (4), 611-622, 1998 | 70 | 1998 |
| Zadok's origins and the tribal politics of David S Olyan Journal of Biblical Literature 101 (2), 177-193, 1982 | 63 | 1982 |
| Sexual orientation and human rights in American religious discourse SM Olyan, MC Nussbaum Oxford University Press, 1998 | 61 | 1998 |
| Some neglected aspects of Israelite interment ideology SM Olyan Journal of Biblical literature 124 (4), 601-616, 2005 | 59 | 2005 |
| Friendship in the Hebrew Bible SM Olyan Yale University Press, 2017 | 56 | 2017 |
| Priesthood and cult in ancient Israel GA Anderson, SM Olyan Priesthood and Cult in Ancient Israel, 1-217, 1991 | 49 | 1991 |
| " Anyone Blind or Lame Shall Not Enter the House": On the Interpretation of Second Samuel 5: 8b SM Olyan The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 60 (2), 218-227, 1998 | 48 | 1998 |
