Vetus Testamentum

Papers
(The median citation count of Vetus Testamentum is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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The Truncated Oath of Innocence and the Adjudicatory Challenge to God: Three Examples (Job 31:5–6; Ps 44:21–22; Josh 22:23)3
Priestly Warfare and the Battle of Jericho3
A New Look at Abigail’s Wisdom2
Ringen mit Gott1
People and Botanical Metaphors in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira1
Manasseh, not Moses1
On Emphasis and Exegesis1
Identifying Alphabetic Compositions in the Hebrew Bible1
The Meaning of the Verb דאה in Biblical Hebrew1
Qoheleth as a Realist1
Histories of Ancient Israel: Present State and Future Potential1
Substituting Anthropomorphisms?1
China Is in the Bible1
God, the Feminine, and Other Struggles1
A (Somewhat) New Way to See and Understand the Diverse and Strategic Use of the Interrogatives in Isa 40:12–311
The Wheat Exported from Israel to Tyre1
Black Color and Emotions in Sirach1
Stretch Out Your Ear1
The Major Additions in the Samaritan Pentateuch Tradition1
Saul and David, Israel and Judah: The Book of Samuel as Paradigmatic History0
Race and Ethnicity at Genesis 10 and the Idea of “Semites”0
Pollution in the Bible and in Cognitive Science: A Review of Recent Works by Thomas Kazen and Yitzhaq Feder0
Plotting Antiochus’s Death0
Masoretic Forensics and Scribal Fingerprints0
Substituting Vorlagen0
In the Garden of Xerxes’ Palace0
Why Susa?0
Die Vetus Latina der Klagelieder als Zeugin für den Bedeutungswandel hebräischer Lexeme im Licht ihrer aramäischen Umwelt0
Did an Ephraimite Woman Build Cities?0
Zion’s Taunt (37:22) and Tirade (49:14) in Isaiah0
Pinocchio in the Vulgate0
Keeping the King Off the Hook0
Artemidorus Interprets the Dream of Mordecai (Additions to Esther A and F)0
Speaking “Mouth to Mouth” (Num 12:8)0
The Messianic Servant of Old Greek Isaiah 31:9b–32:20
Reconsidering Textual Coherence: Complexity, Unity, and the Historical-Critical Task0
The Meaning(lessness) of qubbâ and the Original Text of Numbers 25:80
Satire and Subversion in the Oracles of Ezekiel0
Back matter0
The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת0
Joshua Fragment from Codex Climaci Rescriptus: A New Edition Based on the Multispectral Images0
Nebuchadnezzar, Nabonidus, and the Tradition of the “Mad King”0
Pferde und Raubvögel im Hebräischen und Ägyptischen0
The Etymology of Šadday0
ומבין חידות in Daniel 8:23 as Part of a Literary Contrast0
The Festival Legislation in Numbers 28–290
Centaurs and the Sacred Tree0
תבנית—the Semantic Development of a Loanword in the Persian Period0
Two Unnoticed Telestics in Psalm 1450
New Directions for Thinking about the Bible and Nonhuman Animals: A Review of Works by Peter Atkins, Dong Hyeon Jeong, and Saul Olyan0
The Language of the Doxologies in Daniel0
Spätbronzezeit, neuassyrische Zeit oder babylonisches Exil0
Living to Serve: The Cupbearer’s Dream (Gen 40)0
Back matter0
Divine Blueprints0
On the Restoration of Job: Poetics and Meaning in Job 420
Thinking about Thinking: Recent Research on the “Mind” in Ancient Israel0
The Background of Malachi’s Final Prophecy (Mal 3:13–21)0
The Beatitude אַשְׁרֵי and the Confession of Sins in Psalms 32–410
Sedurot in orientalischen Bibelhandschriften0
Back matter0
“Crossing Over in Death”0
The Polemical Cosmogony in the Doxologies of Amos (4:13; 5:8; 9:5–6)0
Measuring Conceptual Complexification in the Pentateuch0
The Stripping of the Bulls: A Reexamination of the Role of Ahaz in Deuteronomistic Historiography0
A Note on Proverbs 22:160
Slavery and Exile in the Book of Baruch0
Daniel 4 and the Cultural Schema of the Akītu-Festival0
Pharaoh’s Forceful Refusal0
Front matter0
A Whirling Tempest0
Announcement Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. 2025–20280
Eli’s “Heavy Eyes” in LXX 1 Kingdoms 3:2 and Euripides’ Alcestis0
Levites, Priests, and Temple: Was the Chronicler Influenced by Ezekiel 40–48?0
The Census “Crisis Episode” and the Chronicler’s Mythic Agenda in 1 Chronicles 210
Psalm 40 and the “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31?0
“The Yoke Before the Oil” (Isa 10:27d) in the Light of Neo-Assyrian Covenant-Making Rituals0
Rethinking the Origins and Textual History of Ancient Jewish Literature: A Review of Recent Works by Emanuel Tov, James Nati, and Nathan Mastnjak0
Luxuriant and Well-Fatted: The Meaning of מעדנת in 1 Sam 15:320
When Life is Endangered0
Changes in Biblical Orthography Reflecting the Development of the Language0
Violence in the Hebrew Bible: A Review of Works by Amy C. Cottrill, Erasmus Gaß, Jacques van Ruiten and Koert van Bekkum, and Claude Mariottini0
Becoming Jews?0
Jeremiah 10:1–16 MT and LXX0
The Booty Call0
Strange Textiles: Materiality, Wealth, and Wisdom in Proverbs 70
The Hebrew Bible and the Theory of Anachronism0
Decentering Exile0
Girdles of Fig Foliage0
“Have You Called Us Here to Dispossess Us?” (Judg 14:15)0
Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. (and of Congress Location) 2028–20310
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A Further Note on the Alleged Egyptian Etymology of Sabaoth0
Tithes and Imperial Taxes0
The Judgments of the Israelite and Judahite Kings in Diachronic and Historical Perspective0
From the Jordan to Mt. Ebal and Back0
The Puzzling Portrait of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles 32:24–310
The Latin Translation of Hebrew Idiomatic Expressions in Jerome’s Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos0
The Gatekeeper0
On the Disparity of Penalties in Deuteronomy 22:13–21*0
From Pre-Masoretic Idiolect to Pre-LXX Attestations0
The “Wisdom Poem” in Job 28 and its Role in Job’s Final Discourse (Job 27–31)0
Shaking Up the People0
1 Kings 19 and Its Emotional Repertoires0
Gates and Entrances in Ezekiel 40–48: The Social Utopia of the Temple Vision0
The Aqedah (Gen 22:1–19) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis0
Alternative Readings in the Septuagint as “Snapshots” of Textual Development0
“Remember!”0
Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread as a Single Ritual Complex0
The Enigma of Deuteronomy 20:19–200
“On Wings like Eagles!” (Isa 40:31)0
Front matter0
The Oracles of Moses, Prophet of Yahweh0
Divine Election in the Hebrew Bible, written by Hallvard Hagelia0
The Buried Abimelech Tradition in Judges 10:10
The Story of Adoram the Taskmaster over the Forced Labor and the Traditions Regarding the Kingdom’s Division0
Nochmals zur Frühdatierung von Ri 19*0
The Judean Problem in Nahum 1:90
The Potential Babylonian Background of Nebuchadnezzar’s Image of Gold in Daniel 30
Interpreting the Ehud Narrative through Grotesque Realism and Menippean Satire0
Contract Allies0
A TEL of No City0
Models of Word Order in Biblical Hebrew0
Hezekiah’s “Showing” and the Babylonian Ambassadors’ “Seeing” of the Royal Treasures0
The Identity, Etymology, and Material Context of סֹחֶרֶת in Esther 1:60
From Military Coup to Temple Coronation0
µετέχω παιδείας in Sir 51:280
Personal Names and Naming in Israel’s Household Religion0
The First Rainfall in History0
A Solution to the Subject(s) of Psalm 7:13–140
Judean Reception of the Elisha Narratives0
Sheshbazzar and Nehemiah0
Isaiah 2:6b and the Bible of Justin Martyr0
Das Amt des Jerusalemer Hohepriesters im Licht biblischer und außerbiblischer Quellen der hellenistischen Zeit0
Of Dowries and Daughters0
An Intertextual Reading of Amos 3:70
Seen from Afar: Genesis 22:4 in Comparative Perspective0
Decontextualized Instruction or Disembodied Reading?0
To Bleat or Not to Bleat0
A Second Look at the Second Gathering0
Qohelet as Divine Hedonist0
Is the Sin of Jehu the Fault of the Deuteronomist?0
The Power to Act0
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Nation and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel?0
The Core Meaning of נער and Its Semantic Extension0
At Sea with Moses’s Staff0
Falsehood and False Prophets in Jeremiah0
The Provisions Regarding the Rape and Seduction of an Unbetrothed Girl0
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Subversion through Allusion in Samuel’s Call to Prophecy (1 Sam 3)0
The Supposedly Irrevocable Laws in Esther and Dan 6 in Light of the Motif of the King’s Inability to Undo an Execution0
A Unique Type of Inclusio in Psalms0
Town and Country: Jephthah, Gilead, and the Preservation of Late Bronze Age Politics0
Mûsār in Prov 19:27 and Sir 6:220
What’s in a Name: The Fulfillment Metaphor in Biblical Hebrew0
Jewish Identity, Exclusion of Foreigners, and Group Survival0
The Case for Dropsy as Punishment for the Proven Adulteress (Numbers 5:11–31)0
Ezekiel 10:2—Sprinkle Not Scatter0
Seshat and Lady Wisdom0
Moabite Ethnicity and Territorial Claims in the Mesha Stele (and the Hebrew Bible)0
Qualified Continuity0
Scholars and Scholarship during the Third Reich0
On the Root גאל II, “To Diminish”0
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