Vetus Testamentum

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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The Profit of a Land and the Purpose of a King: The Translation and Interpretation of Ecclesiastes 5:83
Identifying Alphabetic Compositions in the Hebrew Bible2
China Is in the Bible2
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
A Hidden God: Isaiah 45’s Amun Polemic and Message to Egypt1
Ringen mit Gott1
A (Somewhat) New Way to See and Understand the Diverse and Strategic Use of the Interrogatives in Isa 40:12–311
A New Look at Abigail’s Wisdom1
2 Kings 14:28—A Proposal for Solution1
People and Botanical Metaphors in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira1
Scribal Composition: Malachi as a Test Case, written by Sheree Lear1
Priestly Warfare and the Battle of Jericho1
Understanding Imitatio Dei in the Holiness Source1
The Major Additions in the Samaritan Pentateuch Tradition1
God, the Feminine, and Other Struggles1
What’s in a Name: The Fulfillment Metaphor in Biblical Hebrew0
Tora in der Chronik: Studien zur Rezeption des Pentateuchs in den Chronikbüchern, written by Lars Maskow0
Nochmals zur Frühdatierung von Ri 19*0
Quenching Tears: A Note on 2 Kings 22:17 and 190
Masoretic Forensics and Scribal Fingerprints0
Slavery and Exile in the Book of Baruch0
The Booty Call0
Substituting Anthropomorphisms?0
Lot’s Struggle for “Masculinity”: Use, Function, and Ideology of Masculinity in the Lot Stories0
Siding with the Jews: מתיהדים in Esth 8:170
“Bel Crouches; Nebo Travails”: Reading Birth Imagery in Isaiah 46:1–40
The Beatitude אַשְׁרֵי and the Confession of Sins in Psalms 32–410
A Whirling Tempest0
A Legal Allusion: The Correlation of Law and History in Ezekiel 200
“Remember!”0
The Enigma of Deuteronomy 20:19–200
Qohelet as Divine Hedonist0
Subversion through Allusion in Samuel’s Call to Prophecy (1 Sam 3)0
Sheshbazzar and Nehemiah0
An Intersectional Perspective on Female Mobility in the Hebrew Bible0
Justice, Righteousness, and the Davidic Dispute in Jeremiah and Ezekiel0
The Hebrew Bible and the Theory of Anachronism0
The Story of Adoram the Taskmaster over the Forced Labor and the Traditions Regarding the Kingdom’s Division0
The Gatekeeper0
The Cup or Qôs? Lost Prayer and Wordplay in Lamentations 4:21–220
Falsehood and False Prophets in Jeremiah0
Speaking “Mouth to Mouth” (Num 12:8)0
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The Stripping of the Bulls: A Reexamination of the Role of Ahaz in Deuteronomistic Historiography0
Substituting Vorlagen0
The Judgments of the Israelite and Judahite Kings in Diachronic and Historical Perspective0
Samson’s Lion Encounter (Judges 14:5–6) and Persian Period Leonine Iconography0
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Exodus 21, the Sale of Daughters, and the Cuneiform Sources of Nuzi0
The Identity, Etymology, and Material Context of סֹחֶרֶת in Esther 1:60
Killing Goliath? Elhanan the Bethlehemite and the Text of 2 Samuel 21:190
On the Disparity of Penalties in Deuteronomy 22:13–21*0
Why Susa?0
Confused Language in Ezra 10:440
The Buried Abimelech Tradition in Judges 10:10
“She Gazed Through the Window”: Gender and Grammatical Voice in Ancient Hebrew0
Moabite Ethnicity and Territorial Claims in the Mesha Stele (and the Hebrew Bible)0
Luxuriant and Well-Fatted: The Meaning of מעדנת in 1 Sam 15:320
Living to Serve: The Cupbearer’s Dream (Gen 40)0
A Further Note on the Alleged Egyptian Etymology of Sabaoth0
Reconsidering Textual Coherence: Complexity, Unity, and the Historical-Critical Task0
“Midianite Men, Merchants” (Gen 37:28): Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Perspectives0
“On Wings like Eagles!” (Isa 40:31)0
Qualified Continuity0
The Puzzling Portrait of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles 32:24–310
Qoheleth as a Realist0
Satire and Subversion in the Oracles of Ezekiel0
Town and Country: Jephthah, Gilead, and the Preservation of Late Bronze Age Politics0
On the Restoration of Job: Poetics and Meaning in Job 420
An Army Like Goats: A Semantic and Zoological Reconsideration of 1 Kings 20:270
The Poor Man’s Ewe Lamb (2 Sam 12:1–4) in Intersectional, Interspecies Perspective0
Divine Blueprints0
Seshat and Lady Wisdom0
The Provisions Regarding the Rape and Seduction of an Unbetrothed Girl0
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Das erinnerte Heiligtum: Tradition und Geschichte der Kultstätte in Schilo, written by Ann-Kathrin Knittel0
More Corrections to Kenyon’s Text of Papyrus 963 (Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
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Models of Word Order in Biblical Hebrew0
The Language of the Doxologies in Daniel0
Levites, Priests, and Temple: Was the Chronicler Influenced by Ezekiel 40–48?0
תבנית—the Semantic Development of a Loanword in the Persian Period0
Announcement Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. 2025–20280
In the Garden of Xerxes’ Palace0
Die Vetus Latina der Klagelieder als Zeugin für den Bedeutungswandel hebräischer Lexeme im Licht ihrer aramäischen Umwelt0
Nation and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel?0
Shaking Up the People0
Times as Task, Not Timing: Reconsidering Qoheleth’s Catalogue of the Times0
The Supposedly Irrevocable Laws in Esther and Dan 6 in Light of the Motif of the King’s Inability to Undo an Execution0
“Who Knows?”: A Bakhtinian Reading of Carnivalesque Motifs in Jonah0
The First Rainfall in History0
The Meaning(lessness) of qubbâ and the Original Text of Numbers 25:80
Changes in Biblical Orthography Reflecting the Development of the Language0
When Life is Endangered0
Thinking about Thinking: Recent Research on the “Mind” in Ancient Israel0
The Meaning of Psalm 73:24b: Revisiting an Old Crux from the Perspective of Verbal Valency0
Hezekiah’s “Showing” and the Babylonian Ambassadors’ “Seeing” of the Royal Treasures0
The Festival Legislation in Numbers 28–290
Masoretic Accents and Phrasing in the Hebrew Bible Recitation: New Reflections0
Race and Ethnicity at Genesis 10 and the Idea of “Semites”0
Pinocchio in the Vulgate0
The Etymology of Šadday0
Nomina Sacra in Libro Iob: Theological Exegesis in Verses of Job LXX Containing ὁ θεός and ὁ κύριος without Any Counterpart in MT?0
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Mûsār in Prov 19:27 and Sir 6:220
The Significance of the Omission of Leaven and Honey from Grain Offerings0
Die masoretische Akzentuation in den poetischen Büchern (ספרי אמ״ת)0
The Judean Problem in Nahum 1:90
A Note on Proverbs 22:160
Does God Command and Punish in the Garden of Eden?0
Les Psaumes: Livre 1. Psaumes 1–40 (41 TM), written by Gilles Dorival with the collaboration of Claudine Cavalier and Didier Pralon0
Wise and Foolish Love in the Song of Songs, written by Jennifer L. Andruska0
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
Eli’s “Heavy Eyes” in LXX 1 Kingdoms 3:2 and Euripides’ Alcestis0
Water and Water-Related Phenomena in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature: An Eco-Theological Exploration, written by Kivatsi Jonathan Kavusa0
Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread as a Single Ritual Complex0
Is the Sin of Jehu the Fault of the Deuteronomist?0
Rethinking the Origins and Textual History of Ancient Jewish Literature: A Review of Recent Works by Emanuel Tov, James Nati, and Nathan Mastnjak0
Psalm 40 and the “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31?0
The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת0
Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26, written by Julia Rhyder0
A Time to Mourn, and a Time to Menstruate?0
The “Wisdom Poem” in Job 28 and its Role in Job’s Final Discourse (Job 27–31)0
On Emphasis and Exegesis0
Jeremiah 10:1–16 MT and LXX0
United in Exile, Reunited in Restoration: The Chronicler’s Agenda, written by Jordan Guy0
The Phoenicians, written by Vadim S. Jigoulov0
Histories of Ancient Israel: Present State and Future Potential0
1 Kings 19 and Its Emotional Repertoires0
“I Have Made an Engraving of You …” (Isa 49:16a): An Echo of an ANE Adoption Practice in Deutero-Isaiah0
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Seen from Afar: Genesis 22:4 in Comparative Perspective0
The Aqedah (Gen 22:1–19) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis0
The Wheat Exported from Israel to Tyre0
Pollution in the Bible and in Cognitive Science: A Review of Recent Works by Thomas Kazen and Yitzhaq Feder0
The Verb שָׁאַף in Biblical Hebrew0
Das Amt des Jerusalemer Hohepriesters im Licht biblischer und außerbiblischer Quellen der hellenistischen Zeit0
From the Jordan to Mt. Ebal and Back0
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Strange Textiles: Materiality, Wealth, and Wisdom in Proverbs 70
Incidental Loaning and the Babylonian Context of Second Isaiah0
Votive Offerings, Graffiti, or Scribal Exercises?0
“The Yoke Before the Oil” (Isa 10:27d) in the Light of Neo-Assyrian Covenant-Making Rituals0
“After such knowledge, what forgiveness?”0
The Polemical Cosmogony in the Doxologies of Amos (4:13; 5:8; 9:5–6)0
Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch: A Systematic and Comparative Approach, edited by Christophe Nihan and Julia Rhyder0
Artemidorus Interprets the Dream of Mordecai (Additions to Esther A and F)0
From Military Coup to Temple Coronation0
From Pre-Masoretic Idiolect to Pre-LXX Attestations0
A Doe’s Call Grows into Lament: The Comparison with the Doe in Psalm 42:1 and its Meaning for the Description of the Næpæš0
A Solution to the Subject(s) of Psalm 7:13–140
« Bénissez YHWH ! » : Le verbe bénir (ברך) entre la philologie biblique et l’autorité des massorètes0
Alternative Readings in the Septuagint as “Snapshots” of Textual Development0
Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. (and of Congress Location) 2028–20310
The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, written by Thomas Renz0
Toward a Reading of Proverbs 30:1b: Tracing the Life of the Text in the Versions0
Two Unnoticed Telestics in Psalm 1450
Interpreting the Ehud Narrative through Grotesque Realism and Menippean Satire0
ומבין חידות in Daniel 8:23 as Part of a Literary Contrast0
Gates and Entrances in Ezekiel 40–48: The Social Utopia of the Temple Vision0
Sedurot in orientalischen Bibelhandschriften0
µετέχω παιδείας in Sir 51:280
Divine Election in the Hebrew Bible, written by Hallvard Hagelia0
“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 Olyan0
A TEL of No City0
“They Whored in Egypt” (Ezek 23:3)—When?0
Saul and David, Israel and Judah: The Book of Samuel as Paradigmatic History0
Plotting Antiochus’s Death0
Benjamin and the Anonymous Ten Tribes of Israel: A Holistic Approach to Tribal Confusions0
Joshua Fragment from Codex Climaci Rescriptus: A New Edition Based on the Multispectral Images0
Of Dowries and Daughters0
Pferde und Raubvögel im Hebräischen und Ägyptischen0
Judean Reception of the Elisha Narratives0
Ezekiel 10:2—Sprinkle Not Scatter0
The Rendering of Unclean Birds in an Arabic Translation of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 140
Song of Songs 1:1—Text and Paratext0
Centaurs and the Sacred Tree0
On the Origins of Evil in the Priestly Primeval History0
Zion’s Taunt (37:22) and Tirade (49:14) in Isaiah0
Isaiah 2:6b and the Bible of Justin Martyr0
An Intertextual Reading of Amos 3:70
Proverbs: A Shorter Commentary, written by Bruce K. Waltke and Ivan D. V. de Silva0
Joel, Obadiah, Habakkuk, Zephaniah: An Introduction and Study Guide, written by Tchavdar S. Hadjiev0
Daniel 4 and the Cultural Schema of the Akītu-Festival0
The Census “Crisis Episode” and the Chronicler’s Mythic Agenda in 1 Chronicles 210
Decontextualized Instruction or Disembodied Reading?0
Decentering Exile0
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