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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Priestly Warfare and the Battle of Jericho2
Identifying Alphabetic Compositions in the Hebrew Bible2
The Profit of a Land and the Purpose of a King: The Translation and Interpretation of Ecclesiastes 5:82
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
2 Kings 14:28—A Proposal for Solution1
A (Somewhat) New Way to See and Understand the Diverse and Strategic Use of the Interrogatives in Isa 40:12–311
Scribal Composition: Malachi as a Test Case, written by Sheree Lear1
A New Look at Abigail’s Wisdom1
Understanding Imitatio Dei in the Holiness Source1
Ringen mit Gott1
The Wheat Exported from Israel to Tyre1
China Is in the Bible1
A Hidden God: Isaiah 45’s Amun Polemic and Message to Egypt1
God, the Feminine, and Other Struggles1
The Major Additions in the Samaritan Pentateuch Tradition1
People and Botanical Metaphors in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira1
Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26, written by Julia Rhyder0
The Beatitude אַשְׁרֵי and the Confession of Sins in Psalms 32–410
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Substituting Vorlagen0
Confused Language in Ezra 10:440
The First Rainfall in History0
The Aqedah (Gen 22:1–19) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis0
Shaking Up the People0
In the Garden of Xerxes’ Palace0
“The Yoke Before the Oil” (Isa 10:27d) in the Light of Neo-Assyrian Covenant-Making Rituals0
When Life is Endangered0
The Significance of the Omission of Leaven and Honey from Grain Offerings0
Thinking about Thinking: Recent Research on the “Mind” in Ancient Israel0
United in Exile, Reunited in Restoration: The Chronicler’s Agenda, written by Jordan Guy0
Divine Election in the Hebrew Bible, written by Hallvard Hagelia0
The Festival Legislation in Numbers 28–290
Wise and Foolish Love in the Song of Songs, written by Jennifer L. Andruska0
A Whirling Tempest0
Siding with the Jews: מתיהדים in Esth 8:170
Plotting Antiochus’s Death0
Das Amt des Jerusalemer Hohepriesters im Licht biblischer und außerbiblischer Quellen der hellenistischen Zeit0
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“Have You Called Us Here to Dispossess Us?” (Judg 14:15)0
“Bel Crouches; Nebo Travails”: Reading Birth Imagery in Isaiah 46:1–40
Ezekiel 10:2—Sprinkle Not Scatter0
Pinocchio in the Vulgate0
A Note on Proverbs 22:160
A Legal Allusion: The Correlation of Law and History in Ezekiel 200
Zion’s Taunt (37:22) and Tirade (49:14) in Isaiah0
Changes in Biblical Orthography Reflecting the Development of the Language0
Die masoretische Akzentuation in den poetischen Büchern (ספרי אמ״ת)0
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Sheshbazzar and Nehemiah0
A TEL of No City0
Hezekiah’s “Showing” and the Babylonian Ambassadors’ “Seeing” of the Royal Treasures0
On the Origins of Evil in the Priestly Primeval History0
Jeremiah 10:1–16 MT and LXX0
The Meaning of Psalm 73:24b: Revisiting an Old Crux from the Perspective of Verbal Valency0
Of Dowries and Daughters0
Speaking “Mouth to Mouth” (Num 12:8)0
Strange Textiles: Materiality, Wealth, and Wisdom in Proverbs 70
1 Kings 19 and Its Emotional Repertoires0
ומבין חידות in Daniel 8:23 as Part of a Literary Contrast0
Song of Songs 1:1—Text and Paratext0
Die Vetus Latina der Klagelieder als Zeugin für den Bedeutungswandel hebräischer Lexeme im Licht ihrer aramäischen Umwelt0
On Emphasis and Exegesis0
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The Provisions Regarding the Rape and Seduction of an Unbetrothed Girl0
The Enigma of Deuteronomy 20:19–200
Histories of Ancient Israel: Present State and Future Potential0
Pollution in the Bible and in Cognitive Science: A Review of Recent Works by Thomas Kazen and Yitzhaq Feder0
Joshua Fragment from Codex Climaci Rescriptus: A New Edition Based on the Multispectral Images0
The Stripping of the Bulls: A Reexamination of the Role of Ahaz in Deuteronomistic Historiography0
The Language of the Doxologies in Daniel0
Spätbronzezeit, neuassyrische Zeit oder babylonisches Exil0
Substituting Anthropomorphisms?0
The Supposedly Irrevocable Laws in Esther and Dan 6 in Light of the Motif of the King’s Inability to Undo an Execution0
Nation and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel?0
On the Restoration of Job: Poetics and Meaning in Job 420
“On Wings like Eagles!” (Isa 40:31)0
“I Have Made an Engraving of You …” (Isa 49:16a): An Echo of an ANE Adoption Practice in Deutero-Isaiah0
From Pre-Masoretic Idiolect to Pre-LXX Attestations0
The Booty Call0
Subversion through Allusion in Samuel’s Call to Prophecy (1 Sam 3)0
Measuring Conceptual Complexification in the Pentateuch0
« Bénissez YHWH ! » : Le verbe bénir (ברך) entre la philologie biblique et l’autorité des massorètes0
What’s in a Name: The Fulfillment Metaphor in Biblical Hebrew0
Alternative Readings in the Septuagint as “Snapshots” of Textual Development0
Isaiah 2:6b and the Bible of Justin Martyr0
The Judean Problem in Nahum 1:90
Masoretic Forensics and Scribal Fingerprints0
Qualified Continuity0
The Phoenicians, written by Vadim S. Jigoulov0
Interpreting the Ehud Narrative through Grotesque Realism and Menippean Satire0
Votive Offerings, Graffiti, or Scribal Exercises?0
“She Gazed Through the Window”: Gender and Grammatical Voice in Ancient Hebrew0
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Benjamin and the Anonymous Ten Tribes of Israel: A Holistic Approach to Tribal Confusions0
The Census “Crisis Episode” and the Chronicler’s Mythic Agenda in 1 Chronicles 210
“Midianite Men, Merchants” (Gen 37:28): Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Perspectives0
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Rethinking the Origins and Textual History of Ancient Jewish Literature: A Review of Recent Works by Emanuel Tov, James Nati, and Nathan Mastnjak0
Water and Water-Related Phenomena in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature: An Eco-Theological Exploration, written by Kivatsi Jonathan Kavusa0
Race and Ethnicity at Genesis 10 and the Idea of “Semites”0
Gates and Entrances in Ezekiel 40–48: The Social Utopia of the Temple Vision0
A Solution to the Subject(s) of Psalm 7:13–140
Saul and David, Israel and Judah: The Book of Samuel as Paradigmatic History0
Toward a Reading of Proverbs 30:1b: Tracing the Life of the Text in the Versions0
The Meaning(lessness) of qubbâ and the Original Text of Numbers 25:80
Why Susa?0
The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, written by Thomas Renz0
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
Daniel 4 and the Cultural Schema of the Akītu-Festival0
Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. (and of Congress Location) 2028–20310
Tithes and Imperial Taxes0
An Intersectional Perspective on Female Mobility in the Hebrew Bible0
Reconsidering Textual Coherence: Complexity, Unity, and the Historical-Critical Task0
Nochmals zur Frühdatierung von Ri 19*0
“Remember!”0
A Time to Mourn, and a Time to Menstruate?0
Sedurot in orientalischen Bibelhandschriften0
Joel, Obadiah, Habakkuk, Zephaniah: An Introduction and Study Guide, written by Tchavdar S. Hadjiev0
New Directions for Thinking about the Bible and Nonhuman Animals: A Review of Works by Peter Atkins, Dong Hyeon Jeong, and Saul Olyan0
Decentering Exile0
Centaurs and the Sacred Tree0
Tora in der Chronik: Studien zur Rezeption des Pentateuchs in den Chronikbüchern, written by Lars Maskow0
Announcement Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. 2025–20280
Luxuriant and Well-Fatted: The Meaning of מעדנת in 1 Sam 15:320
From the Jordan to Mt. Ebal and Back0
The “Wisdom Poem” in Job 28 and its Role in Job’s Final Discourse (Job 27–31)0
Living to Serve: The Cupbearer’s Dream (Gen 40)0
The Judgments of the Israelite and Judahite Kings in Diachronic and Historical Perspective0
Qohelet as Divine Hedonist0
Is the Sin of Jehu the Fault of the Deuteronomist?0
תבנית—the Semantic Development of a Loanword in the Persian Period0
A Further Note on the Alleged Egyptian Etymology of Sabaoth0
Justice, Righteousness, and the Davidic Dispute in Jeremiah and Ezekiel0
Levites, Priests, and Temple: Was the Chronicler Influenced by Ezekiel 40–48?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
Nomina Sacra in Libro Iob: Theological Exegesis in Verses of Job LXX Containing ὁ θεός and ὁ κύριος without Any Counterpart in MT?0
The Gatekeeper0
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Jewish Identity, Exclusion of Foreigners, and Group Survival0
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The Identity, Etymology, and Material Context of סֹחֶרֶת in Esther 1:60
Models of Word Order in Biblical Hebrew0
The Etymology of Šadday0
The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת0
Town and Country: Jephthah, Gilead, and the Preservation of Late Bronze Age Politics0
Eli’s “Heavy Eyes” in LXX 1 Kingdoms 3:2 and Euripides’ Alcestis0
Proverbs: A Shorter Commentary, written by Bruce K. Waltke and Ivan D. V. de Silva0
Moabite Ethnicity and Territorial Claims in the Mesha Stele (and the Hebrew Bible)0
Decontextualized Instruction or Disembodied Reading?0
Psalm 40 and the “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31?0
From Military Coup to Temple Coronation0
µετέχω παιδείας in Sir 51:280
The Rendering of Unclean Birds in an Arabic Translation of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 140
Artemidorus Interprets the Dream of Mordecai (Additions to Esther A and F)0
Mûsār in Prov 19:27 and Sir 6:220
The Story of Adoram the Taskmaster over the Forced Labor and the Traditions Regarding the Kingdom’s Division0
The Buried Abimelech Tradition in Judges 10:10
Satire and Subversion in the Oracles of Ezekiel0
The Hebrew Bible and the Theory of Anachronism0
Les Psaumes: Livre 1. Psaumes 1–40 (41 TM), written by Gilles Dorival with the collaboration of Claudine Cavalier and Didier Pralon0
Divine Blueprints0
Judean Reception of the Elisha Narratives0
The Poor Man’s Ewe Lamb (2 Sam 12:1–4) in Intersectional, Interspecies Perspective0
Falsehood and False Prophets in Jeremiah0
Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread as a Single Ritual Complex0
Seshat and Lady Wisdom0
Qoheleth as a Realist0
More Corrections to Kenyon’s Text of Papyrus 963 (Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
An Intertextual Reading of Amos 3:70
Slavery and Exile in the Book of Baruch0
Pferde und Raubvögel im Hebräischen und Ägyptischen0
An Army Like Goats: A Semantic and Zoological Reconsideration of 1 Kings 20:270
On the Disparity of Penalties in Deuteronomy 22:13–21*0
Two Unnoticed Telestics in Psalm 1450
Seen from Afar: Genesis 22:4 in Comparative Perspective0
The Puzzling Portrait of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles 32:24–310
Das erinnerte Heiligtum: Tradition und Geschichte der Kultstätte in Schilo, written by Ann-Kathrin Knittel0
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