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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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The Profit of a Land and the Purpose of a King: The Translation and Interpretation of Ecclesiastes 5:82
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
God, the Feminine, and Other Struggles1
People and Botanical Metaphors in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira1
A (Somewhat) New Way to See and Understand the Diverse and Strategic Use of the Interrogatives in Isa 40:12–311
Priestly Warfare and the Battle of Jericho1
Beiträge zum Wortschatz des Alten Testaments: Das Hapax legomenon פְּתִיגִיל in Jesaja 3,241
Understanding Imitatio Dei in the Holiness Source1
The Major Additions in the Samaritan Pentateuch Tradition1
A New Look at Abigail’s Wisdom1
A Hidden God: Isaiah 45’s Amun Polemic and Message to Egypt1
Scribal Composition: Malachi as a Test Case, written by Sheree Lear1
2 Kings 14:28—A Proposal for Solution1
Proverbs: A Shorter Commentary, written by Bruce K. Waltke and Ivan D. V. de Silva0
The Festival Legislation in Numbers 28–290
Plotting Antiochus’s Death0
Joshua Fragment from Codex Climaci Rescriptus: A New Edition Based on the Multispectral Images0
Subversion through Allusion in Samuel’s Call to Prophecy (1 Sam 3)0
From the Jordan to Mt. Ebal and Back0
Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26, written by Julia Rhyder0
Thinking about Thinking: Recent Research on the “Mind” in Ancient Israel0
A Further Note on the Alleged Egyptian Etymology of Sabaoth0
Eli’s “Heavy Eyes” in LXX 1 Kingdoms 3:2 and Euripides’ Alcestis0
The Etymology of Šadday0
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The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת0
The Puzzling Portrait of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles 32:24–310
Of Dowries and Daughters: a Law and Literature Approach to the Achsah Story in Joshua and Judges0
The Census “Crisis Episode” and the Chronicler’s Mythic Agenda in 1 Chronicles 210
Substituting Vorlagen0
“They Whored in Egypt” (Ezek 23:3)—When?0
Killing Goliath? Elhanan the Bethlehemite and the Text of 2 Samuel 21:190
Pferde und Raubvögel im Hebräischen und Ägyptischen0
Mûsār in Prov 19:27 and Sir 6:220
Siding with the Jews: מתיהדים in Esth 8:170
Saul and David, Israel and Judah: The Book of Samuel as Paradigmatic History0
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A Note on Proverbs 22:160
Genesis 49:4—The Route of Facile Textual Emendation vs. Appreciation for Literary Brilliance0
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Exodus 21, the Sale of Daughters, and the Cuneiform Sources of Nuzi0
Decontextualized Instruction or Disembodied Reading?0
Qualified Continuity0
What’s in a Name: The Fulfillment Metaphor in Biblical Hebrew0
The Beatitude אַשְׁרֵי and the Confession of Sins in Psalms 32–410
Daniel 4 and the Cultural Schema of the Akītu-Festival0
Histories of Ancient Israel: Present State and Future Potential0
The Enigma of Deuteronomy 20:19–200
Nochmals zur Frühdatierung von Ri 19*0
Toward a Reading of Proverbs 30:1b: Tracing the Life of the Text in the Versions0
Sheshbazzar and Nehemiah0
Substituting Anthropomorphisms?0
Masoretic Forensics and Scribal Fingerprints0
Lot’s Struggle for “Masculinity”: Use, Function, and Ideology of Masculinity in the Lot Stories0
A Time to Mourn, and a Time to Menstruate?0
On Emphasis and Exegesis0
Changes in Biblical Orthography Reflecting the Development of the Language0
1 Kings 19 and Its Emotional Repertoires0
Seen from Afar: Genesis 22:4 in Comparative Perspective0
Artemidorus Interprets the Dream of Mordecai (Additions to Esther A and F)0
The Meaning of Psalm 73:24b: Revisiting an Old Crux from the Perspective of Verbal Valency0
Pinocchio in the Vulgate0
In the Garden of Xerxes’ Palace0
From Pre-Masoretic Idiolect to Pre-LXX Attestations0
The Stripping of the Bulls: A Reexamination of the Role of Ahaz in Deuteronomistic Historiography0
The Judgments of the Israelite and Judahite Kings in Diachronic and Historical Perspective0
µετέχω παιδείας in Sir 51:280
Das Amt des Jerusalemer Hohepriesters im Licht biblischer und außerbiblischer Quellen der hellenistischen Zeit0
The Language of the Doxologies in Daniel0
The Literary History of 2 Sam 8:1b–14 and the Old Sabaic Royal Summary Inscription RES 3945/39460
New Directions for Thinking about the Bible and Nonhuman Animals: A Review of Works by Peter Atkins, Dong Hyeon Jeong, and Saul Olyan0
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Confused Language in Ezra 10:440
The Gatekeeper0
Song of Songs 1:1—Text and Paratext0
Luxuriant and Well-Fatted: The Meaning of מעדנת in 1 Sam 15:320
The Polemical Cosmogony in the Doxologies of Amos (4:13; 5:8; 9:5–6)0
Jeremiah 10:1–16 MT and LXX0
The Supposedly Irrevocable Laws in Esther and Dan 6 in Light of the Motif of the King’s Inability to Undo an Execution0
Masoretic Accents and Phrasing in the Hebrew Bible Recitation: New Reflections0
Is the Sin of Jehu the Fault of the Deuteronomist?0
A TEL of No City0
Rethinking the Origins and Textual History of Ancient Jewish Literature: A Review of Recent Works by Emanuel Tov, James Nati, and Nathan Mastnjak0
“Bel Crouches; Nebo Travails”: Reading Birth Imagery in Isaiah 46:1–40
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Centaurs and the Sacred Tree0
Gates and Entrances in Ezekiel 40–48: The Social Utopia of the Temple Vision0
United in Exile, Reunited in Restoration: The Chronicler’s Agenda, written by Jordan Guy0
A Whirling Tempest0
Sedurot in orientalischen Bibelhandschriften0
Benjamin and the Anonymous Ten Tribes of Israel: A Holistic Approach to Tribal Confusions0
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Votive Offerings, Graffiti, or Scribal Exercises?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 Mariottini0
Die Vetus Latina der Klagelieder als Zeugin für den Bedeutungswandel hebräischer Lexeme im Licht ihrer aramäischen Umwelt0
“On Wings like Eagles!” (Isa 40:31)0
The Phoenicians, written by Vadim S. Jigoulov0
“She Gazed Through the Window”: Gender and Grammatical Voice in Ancient Hebrew0
“I Have Made an Engraving of You …” (Isa 49:16a): An Echo of an ANE Adoption Practice in Deutero-Isaiah0
Judean Reception of the Elisha Narratives0
Models of Word Order in Biblical Hebrew0
Satire and Subversion in the Oracles of Ezekiel0
Levites, Priests, and Temple: Was the Chronicler Influenced by Ezekiel 40–48?0
« Bénissez YHWH ! » : Le verbe bénir (ברך) entre la philologie biblique et l’autorité des massorètes0
A Legal Allusion: The Correlation of Law and History in Ezekiel 200
Tora in der Chronik: Studien zur Rezeption des Pentateuchs in den Chronikbüchern, written by Lars Maskow0
“Who Knows?”: A Bakhtinian Reading of Carnivalesque Motifs in Jonah0
More Corrections to Kenyon’s Text of Papyrus 963 (Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
Speaking “Mouth to Mouth” (Num 12:8)0
Joel, Obadiah, Habakkuk, Zephaniah: An Introduction and Study Guide, written by Tchavdar S. Hadjiev0
From Military Coup to Temple Coronation0
Announcement Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. 2025–20280
The Provisions Regarding the Rape and Seduction of an Unbetrothed Girl0
The Meaning(lessness) of qubbâ and the Original Text of Numbers 25:80
On the Origins of Evil in the Priestly Primeval History0
An Intersectional Perspective on Female Mobility in the Hebrew Bible0
Times as Task, Not Timing: Reconsidering Qoheleth’s Catalogue of the Times0
Nebuchadnezzar and Narrative Repair in the Court Tales of Daniel0
Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread as a Single Ritual Complex0
ומבין חידות in Daniel 8:23 as Part of a Literary Contrast0
Macht und Weisheit: Untersuchungen zur politischen Anthropologie in den Erzählungen vom Absalomaufstand, written by Friederike Schücking-Jungblut0
Quenching Tears: A Note on 2 Kings 22:17 and 190
Justice, Righteousness, and the Davidic Dispute in Jeremiah and Ezekiel0
Nomina Sacra in Libro Iob: Theological Exegesis in Verses of Job LXX Containing ὁ θεός and ὁ κύριος without Any Counterpart in MT?0
Race and Ethnicity at Genesis 10 and the Idea of “Semites”0
Water and Water-Related Phenomena in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature: An Eco-Theological Exploration, written by Kivatsi Jonathan Kavusa0
The Significance of the Omission of Leaven and Honey from Grain Offerings0
Qohelet as Divine Hedonist0
The Identity, Etymology, and Material Context of סֹחֶרֶת in Esther 1:60
Does God Command and Punish in the Garden of Eden?0
The Cup or Qôs? Lost Prayer and Wordplay in Lamentations 4:21–220
Burn the Witch! A Comparison between the Portrayal of Sorceress Babylon in Isaiah 47 and the Figure of the Witch in Maqlû0
When Life is Endangered0
The Judean Problem in Nahum 1:90
On the Disparity of Penalties in Deuteronomy 22:13–21*0
Shaking Up the People0
“Midianite Men, Merchants” (Gen 37:28): Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Perspectives0
Les Psaumes: Livre 1. Psaumes 1–40 (41 TM), written by Gilles Dorival with the collaboration of Claudine Cavalier and Didier Pralon0
“Remember!”0
The Rendering of Unclean Birds in an Arabic Translation of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 140
Getting Steamy in Amnon’s Chamber: Philological and Metaphorical Observations on 2 Samuel 130
Why Susa?0
The Buried Abimelech Tradition in Judges 10:10
Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch: A Systematic and Comparative Approach, edited by Christophe Nihan and Julia Rhyder0
God and Humans in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond: A Festschrift for Lennart Boström on his 67th Birthday, edited by David Willgren0
Do Not be Ashamed of Rendering Judgment to Acquit the Wicked? On Sirach 42:20
Samson’s Lion Encounter (Judges 14:5–6) and Persian Period Leonine Iconography0
Hezekiah’s “Showing” and the Babylonian Ambassadors’ “Seeing” of the Royal Treasures0
Die masoretische Akzentuation in den poetischen Büchern (ספרי אמ״ת)0
Wise and Foolish Love in the Song of Songs, written by Jennifer L. Andruska0
Moabite Ethnicity and Territorial Claims in the Mesha Stele (and the Hebrew Bible)0
The “Wisdom Poem” in Job 28 and its Role in Job’s Final Discourse (Job 27–31)0
The Verb שָׁאַף in Biblical Hebrew0
Reconsidering Textual Coherence: Complexity, Unity, and the Historical-Critical Task0
“The Yoke Before the Oil” (Isa 10:27d) in the Light of Neo-Assyrian Covenant-Making Rituals0
“Have You Called Us Here to Dispossess Us?” (Judg 14:15)0
The Aqedah (Gen 22:1–19) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis0
Psalm 40 and the “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31?0
Town and Country: Jephthah, Gilead, and the Preservation of Late Bronze Age Politics0
Qoheleth as a Realist0
וילך שם (Ezra 10:6): “Wandering About” as a Sign of Mourning0
The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, written by Thomas Renz0
On the Restoration of Job: Poetics and Meaning in Job 420
Isaiah 2:6b and the Bible of Justin Martyr0
Two Unnoticed Telestics in Psalm 1450
Das erinnerte Heiligtum: Tradition und Geschichte der Kultstätte in Schilo, written by Ann-Kathrin Knittel0
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Pollution in the Bible and in Cognitive Science: A Review of Recent Works by Thomas Kazen and Yitzhaq Feder0
Decentering Exile0
An Army Like Goats: A Semantic and Zoological Reconsideration of 1 Kings 20:270
The Story of Adoram the Taskmaster over the Forced Labor and the Traditions Regarding the Kingdom’s Division0
Incidental Loaning and the Babylonian Context of Second Isaiah0
Clothing, Conformity, and Power: Garment Imagery in the Book of Esther0
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
Living to Serve: The Cupbearer’s Dream (Gen 40)0
A Solution to the Subject(s) of Psalm 7:13–140
The Poor Man’s Ewe Lamb (2 Sam 12:1–4) in Intersectional, Interspecies Perspective0
The “Spirit of Yhwh” and Samson’s Martial Rage: A Leitmotif of the Biblical Warrior Tradition0
Ezekiel 10:2—Sprinkle Not Scatter0
Falsehood and False Prophets in Jeremiah0
Seshat and Lady Wisdom0
“After such knowledge, what forgiveness?”0
Divine Election in the Hebrew Bible, written by Hallvard Hagelia0
An Intertextual Reading of Amos 3:70
תבנית—the Semantic Development of a Loanword in the Persian Period0
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