Vetus Testamentum

Article	Citations
China Is in the Bible	2
The Profit of a Land and the Purpose of a King: The Translation and Interpretation of Ecclesiastes 5:8	2
Identifying Alphabetic Compositions in the Hebrew Bible	2
Priestly Warfare and the Battle of Jericho	1
Beiträge zum Wortschatz des Alten Testaments: Das Hapax legomenon פְּתִיגִיל in Jesaja 3,24	1
Understanding Imitatio Dei in the Holiness Source	1
The Major Additions in the Samaritan Pentateuch Tradition	1
A New Look at Abigail’s Wisdom	1
A Hidden God: Isaiah 45’s Amun Polemic and Message to Egypt	1
Scribal Composition: Malachi as a Test Case, written by Sheree Lear	1
2 Kings 14:28—A Proposal for Solution	1
The Truncated Oath of Innocence and the Adjudicatory Challenge to God: Three Examples (Job 31:5–6; Ps 44:21–22; Josh 22:23)	1
God, the Feminine, and Other Struggles	1
People and Botanical Metaphors in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira	1
A (Somewhat) New Way to See and Understand the Diverse and Strategic Use of the Interrogatives in Isa 40:12–31	1
Pollution in the Bible and in Cognitive Science: A Review of Recent Works by Thomas Kazen and Yitzhaq Feder	0
The Supposedly Irrevocable Laws in Esther and Dan 6 in Light of the Motif of the King’s Inability to Undo an Execution	0
Decentering Exile	0
Is the Sin of Jehu the Fault of the Deuteronomist?	0
Das erinnerte Heiligtum: Tradition und Geschichte der Kultstätte in Schilo, written by Ann-Kathrin Knittel	0
Plotting Antiochus’s Death	0
“Bel Crouches; Nebo Travails”: Reading Birth Imagery in Isaiah 46:1–4	0
Clothing, Conformity, and Power: Garment Imagery in the Book of Esther	0
Centaurs and the Sacred Tree	0
An Army Like Goats: A Semantic and Zoological Reconsideration of 1 Kings 20:27	0

Incidental Loaning and the Babylonian Context of Second Isaiah	0
Sedurot in orientalischen Bibelhandschriften	0
The “Spirit of Yhwh” and Samson’s Martial Rage: A Leitmotif of the Biblical Warrior Tradition	0
Front matter	0
Living to Serve: The Cupbearer’s Dream (Gen 40)	0
United in Exile, Reunited in Restoration: The Chronicler’s Agenda, written by Jordan Guy	0
The Poor Man’s Ewe Lamb (2 Sam 12:1–4) in Intersectional, Interspecies Perspective	0
Die Vetus Latina der Klagelieder als Zeugin für den Bedeutungswandel hebräischer Lexeme im Licht ihrer aramäischen Umwelt	0
“After such knowledge, what forgiveness?”	0
The Phoenicians, written by Vadim S. Jigoulov	0
תבנית—the Semantic Development of a Loanword in the Persian Period	0
Votive Offerings, Graffiti, or Scribal Exercises?	0
Models of Word Order in Biblical Hebrew	0
The Festival Legislation in Numbers 28–29	0
Levites, Priests, and Temple: Was the Chronicler Influenced by Ezekiel 40–48?	0
Subversion through Allusion in Samuel’s Call to Prophecy (1 Sam 3)	0
“I Have Made an Engraving of You …” (Isa 49:16a): An Echo of an ANE Adoption Practice in Deutero-Isaiah	0
From the Jordan to Mt. Ebal and Back	0
Thinking about Thinking: Recent Research on the “Mind” in Ancient Israel	0
A Legal Allusion: The Correlation of Law and History in Ezekiel 20	0
“Who Knows?”: A Bakhtinian Reading of Carnivalesque Motifs in Jonah	0
The Etymology of Šadday	0
The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת	0
The Meaning(lessness) of qubbâ and the Original Text of Numbers 25:8	0
Eli’s “Heavy Eyes” in LXX 1 Kingdoms 3:2 and Euripides’ Alcestis	0
From Military Coup to Temple Coronation	0
Killing Goliath? Elhanan the Bethlehemite and the Text of 2 Samuel 21:19	0
ומבין חידות in Daniel 8:23 as Part of a Literary Contrast	0
Of Dowries and Daughters: a Law and Literature Approach to the Achsah Story in Joshua and Judges	0
An Intersectional Perspective on Female Mobility in the Hebrew Bible	0
Substituting Vorlagen	0
Artemidorus Interprets the Dream of Mordecai (Additions to Esther A and F)	0
A Note on Proverbs 22:16	0
Race and Ethnicity at Genesis 10 and the Idea of “Semites”	0
Mûsār in Prov 19:27 and Sir 6:22	0
Macht und Weisheit: Untersuchungen zur politischen Anthropologie in den Erzählungen vom Absalomaufstand, written by Friederike Schücking-Jungblut	0
Saul and David, Israel and Judah: The Book of Samuel as Paradigmatic History	0
Qualified Continuity	0
Does God Command and Punish in the Garden of Eden?	0
The Beatitude אַשְׁרֵי and the Confession of Sins in Psalms 32–41	0
The Significance of the Omission of Leaven and Honey from Grain Offerings	0
Exodus 21, the Sale of Daughters, and the Cuneiform Sources of Nuzi	0
The Stripping of the Bulls: A Reexamination of the Role of Ahaz in Deuteronomistic Historiography	0
Nochmals zur Frühdatierung von Ri 19*	0
On the Disparity of Penalties in Deuteronomy 22:13–21*	0
Toward a Reading of Proverbs 30:1b: Tracing the Life of the Text in the Versions	0
Burn the Witch! A Comparison between the Portrayal of Sorceress Babylon in Isaiah 47 and the Figure of the Witch in Maqlû	0
Histories of Ancient Israel: Present State and Future Potential	0
The Literary History of 2 Sam 8:1b–14 and the Old Sabaic Royal Summary Inscription RES 3945/3946	0
Lot’s Struggle for “Masculinity”: Use, Function, and Ideology of Masculinity in the Lot Stories	0

“Remember!”	0
A Time to Mourn, and a Time to Menstruate?	0
Getting Steamy in Amnon’s Chamber: Philological and Metaphorical Observations on 2 Samuel 13	0
Substituting Anthropomorphisms?	0
Song of Songs 1:1—Text and Paratext	0
Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch: A Systematic and Comparative Approach, edited by Christophe Nihan and Julia Rhyder	0
Seen from Afar: Genesis 22:4 in Comparative Perspective	0
Do Not be Ashamed of Rendering Judgment to Acquit the Wicked? On Sirach 42:2	0
On Emphasis and Exegesis	0
1 Kings 19 and Its Emotional Repertoires	0
Wise and Foolish Love in the Song of Songs, written by Jennifer L. Andruska	0
From Pre-Masoretic Idiolect to Pre-LXX Attestations	0
The “Wisdom Poem” in Job 28 and its Role in Job’s Final Discourse (Job 27–31)	0
µετέχω παιδείας in Sir 51:28	0
Hezekiah’s “Showing” and the Babylonian Ambassadors’ “Seeing” of the Royal Treasures	0
In the Garden of Xerxes’ Palace	0
“The Yoke Before the Oil” (Isa 10:27d) in the Light of Neo-Assyrian Covenant-Making Rituals	0
The Language of the Doxologies in Daniel	0
The Aqedah (Gen 22:1–19) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis	0
Front matter	0
The Verb שָׁאַף in Biblical Hebrew	0
The Gatekeeper	0
On the Restoration of Job: Poetics and Meaning in Job 42	0
The Polemical Cosmogony in the Doxologies of Amos (4:13; 5:8; 9:5–6)	0
Town and Country: Jephthah, Gilead, and the Preservation of Late Bronze Age Politics	0
וילך שם (Ezra 10:6): “Wandering About” as a Sign of Mourning	0
Jeremiah 10:1–16 MT and LXX	0
Masoretic Accents and Phrasing in the Hebrew Bible Recitation: New Reflections	0
Two Unnoticed Telestics in Psalm 145	0
Front matter	0
Rethinking the Origins and Textual History of Ancient Jewish Literature: A Review of Recent Works by Emanuel Tov, James Nati, and Nathan Mastnjak	0
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A Doe’s Call Grows into Lament: The Comparison with the Doe in Psalm 42:1 and its Meaning for the Description of the Næpæš	0
A TEL of No City	0
The Story of Adoram the Taskmaster over the Forced Labor and the Traditions Regarding the Kingdom’s Division	0
Benjamin and the Anonymous Ten Tribes of Israel: A Holistic Approach to Tribal Confusions	0
Falsehood and False Prophets in Jeremiah	0
Gates and Entrances in Ezekiel 40–48: The Social Utopia of the Temple Vision	0
A Solution to the Subject(s) of Psalm 7:13–14	0
A Whirling Tempest	0
“On Wings like Eagles!” (Isa 40:31)	0
An Intertextual Reading of Amos 3:7	0
“She Gazed Through the Window”: Gender and Grammatical Voice in Ancient Hebrew	0
Seshat and Lady Wisdom	0
Violence in the Hebrew Bible: A Review of Works by Amy C. Cottrill, Erasmus Gaß, Jacques van Ruiten and Koert van Bekkum, and Claude Mariottini	0
Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread as a Single Ritual Complex	0
Satire and Subversion in the Oracles of Ezekiel	0
Joshua Fragment from Codex Climaci Rescriptus: A New Edition Based on the Multispectral Images	0
« Bénissez YHWH ! » : Le verbe bénir (ברך) entre la philologie biblique et l’autorité des massorètes	0
Proverbs: A Shorter Commentary, written by Bruce K. Waltke and Ivan D. V. de Silva	0
Judean Reception of the Elisha Narratives	0
Nomina Sacra in Libro Iob: Theological Exegesis in Verses of Job LXX Containing ὁ θεός and ὁ κύριος without Any Counterpart in MT?	0
More Corrections to Kenyon’s Text of Papyrus 963 (Numbers, Deuteronomy)	0
Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26, written by Julia Rhyder	0
Speaking “Mouth to Mouth” (Num 12:8)	0
A Further Note on the Alleged Egyptian Etymology of Sabaoth	0
Tora in der Chronik: Studien zur Rezeption des Pentateuchs in den Chronikbüchern, written by Lars Maskow	0
The Identity, Etymology, and Material Context of סֹחֶרֶת in Esther 1:6	0
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The Provisions Regarding the Rape and Seduction of an Unbetrothed Girl	0
The Puzzling Portrait of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles 32:24–31	0
Joel, Obadiah, Habakkuk, Zephaniah: An Introduction and Study Guide, written by Tchavdar S. Hadjiev	0
The Judean Problem in Nahum 1:9	0
Announcement Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. 2025–2028	0
“They Whored in Egypt” (Ezek 23:3)—When?	0
Nebuchadnezzar and Narrative Repair in the Court Tales of Daniel	0
Pferde und Raubvögel im Hebräischen und Ägyptischen	0
On the Origins of Evil in the Priestly Primeval History	0
The Census “Crisis Episode” and the Chronicler’s Mythic Agenda in 1 Chronicles 21	0
Times as Task, Not Timing: Reconsidering Qoheleth’s Catalogue of the Times	0
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Justice, Righteousness, and the Davidic Dispute in Jeremiah and Ezekiel	0
Genesis 49:4—The Route of Facile Textual Emendation vs. Appreciation for Literary Brilliance	0
Water and Water-Related Phenomena in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature: An Eco-Theological Exploration, written by Kivatsi Jonathan Kavusa	0
Siding with the Jews: מתיהדים in Esth 8:17	0
Quenching Tears: A Note on 2 Kings 22:17 and 19	0
Decontextualized Instruction or Disembodied Reading?	0
Qohelet as Divine Hedonist	0
What’s in a Name: The Fulfillment Metaphor in Biblical Hebrew	0
The Cup or Qôs? Lost Prayer and Wordplay in Lamentations 4:21–22	0

Back matter	0
When Life is Endangered	0
Shaking Up the People	0
Daniel 4 and the Cultural Schema of the Akītu-Festival	0
The Enigma of Deuteronomy 20:19–20	0
Les Psaumes: Livre 1. Psaumes 1–40 (41 TM), written by Gilles Dorival with the collaboration of Claudine Cavalier and Didier Pralon	0
The Rendering of Unclean Birds in an Arabic Translation of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14	0
Sheshbazzar and Nehemiah	0
“Midianite Men, Merchants” (Gen 37:28): Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Perspectives	0
Masoretic Forensics and Scribal Fingerprints	0
The Buried Abimelech Tradition in Judges 10:1	0
God and Humans in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond: A Festschrift for Lennart Boström on his 67th Birthday, edited by David Willgren	0
The Meaning of Psalm 73:24b: Revisiting an Old Crux from the Perspective of Verbal Valency	0
Why Susa?	0
Changes in Biblical Orthography Reflecting the Development of the Language	0
Moabite Ethnicity and Territorial Claims in the Mesha Stele (and the Hebrew Bible)	0
The Judgments of the Israelite and Judahite Kings in Diachronic and Historical Perspective	0
Samson’s Lion Encounter (Judges 14:5–6) and Persian Period Leonine Iconography	0
Pinocchio in the Vulgate	0
Die masoretische Akzentuation in den poetischen Büchern (ספרי אמ״ת)	0
“Have You Called Us Here to Dispossess Us?” (Judg 14:15)	0
New Directions for Thinking about the Bible and Nonhuman Animals: A Review of Works by Peter Atkins, Dong Hyeon Jeong, and Saul Olyan	0
Psalm 40 and the “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31?	0
Das Amt des Jerusalemer Hohepriesters im Licht biblischer und außerbiblischer Quellen der hellenistischen Zeit	0
Reconsidering Textual Coherence: Complexity, Unity, and the Historical-Critical Task	0
Ezekiel 10:2—Sprinkle Not Scatter	0
The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, written by Thomas Renz	0
Luxuriant and Well-Fatted: The Meaning of מעדנת in 1 Sam 15:32	0
Isaiah 2:6b and the Bible of Justin Martyr	0
Confused Language in Ezra 10:44	0
Qoheleth as a Realist	0
Divine Election in the Hebrew Bible, written by Hallvard Hagelia	0