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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Priestly Warfare and the Battle of Jericho2
A New Look at Abigail’s Wisdom2
The Truncated Oath of Innocence and the Adjudicatory Challenge to God: Three Examples (Job 31:5–6; Ps 44:21–22; Josh 22:23)2
Identifying Alphabetic Compositions in the Hebrew Bible2
Understanding Imitatio Dei in the Holiness Source1
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
Tora in der Chronik: Studien zur Rezeption des Pentateuchs in den Chronikbüchern, written by Lars Maskow1
God, the Feminine, and Other Struggles1
The Major Additions in the Samaritan Pentateuch Tradition1
Manasseh, not Moses1
People and Botanical Metaphors in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira1
China Is in the Bible1
Ringen mit Gott1
Stretch Out Your Ear1
Das erinnerte Heiligtum: Tradition und Geschichte der Kultstätte in Schilo, written by Ann-Kathrin Knittel1
The Festival Legislation in Numbers 28–290
The Hebrew Bible and the Theory of Anachronism0
Moabite Ethnicity and Territorial Claims in the Mesha Stele (and the Hebrew Bible)0
Pinocchio in the Vulgate0
The Language of the Doxologies in Daniel0
The Background of Malachi’s Final Prophecy (Mal 3:13–21)0
תבנית—the Semantic Development of a Loanword in the Persian Period0
Is the Sin of Jehu the Fault of the Deuteronomist?0
On the Root גאל II, “To Diminish”0
Back matter0
Thinking about Thinking: Recent Research on the “Mind” in Ancient Israel0
The Puzzling Portrait of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles 32:24–310
Two Unnoticed Telestics in Psalm 1450
The Gatekeeper0
Personal Names and Naming in Israel’s Household Religion0
Jewish Identity, Exclusion of Foreigners, and Group Survival0
Pferde und Raubvögel im Hebräischen und Ägyptischen0
Divine Election in the Hebrew Bible, written by Hallvard Hagelia0
“Remember!”0
Decontextualized Instruction or Disembodied Reading?0
Back matter0
Back matter0
The Judean Problem in Nahum 1:90
Daniel 4 and the Cultural Schema of the Akītu-Festival0
The Etymology of Šadday0
Benjamin and the Anonymous Ten Tribes of Israel: A Holistic Approach to Tribal Confusions0
The Booty Call0
Eli’s “Heavy Eyes” in LXX 1 Kingdoms 3:2 and Euripides’ Alcestis0
Race and Ethnicity at Genesis 10 and the Idea of “Semites”0
Substituting Vorlagen0
Front matter0
From the Jordan to Mt. Ebal and Back0
Zion’s Taunt (37:22) and Tirade (49:14) in Isaiah0
Isaiah 2:6b and the Bible of Justin Martyr0
µετέχω παιδείας in Sir 51:280
Models of Word Order in Biblical Hebrew0
Mûsār in Prov 19:27 and Sir 6:220
Back matter0
The Buried Abimelech Tradition in Judges 10:10
Proverbs: A Shorter Commentary, written by Bruce K. Waltke and Ivan D. V. de Silva0
The Power to Act0
Announcement Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. 2025–20280
Black Color and Emotions in Sirach0
A Solution to the Subject(s) of Psalm 7:13–140
Front matter0
Luxuriant and Well-Fatted: The Meaning of מעדנת in 1 Sam 15:320
On Emphasis and Exegesis0
The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, written by Thomas Renz0
The Provisions Regarding the Rape and Seduction of an Unbetrothed Girl0
Sheshbazzar and Nehemiah0
Tithes and Imperial Taxes0
Changes in Biblical Orthography Reflecting the Development of the Language0
Nation and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel?0
An Intertextual Reading of Amos 3:70
Living to Serve: The Cupbearer’s Dream (Gen 40)0
Levites, Priests, and Temple: Was the Chronicler Influenced by Ezekiel 40–48?0
The First Rainfall in History0
Falsehood and False Prophets in Jeremiah0
Shaking Up the People0
The Core Meaning of נער and Its Semantic Extension0
Nebuchadnezzar, Nabonidus, and the Tradition of the “Mad King”0
New Directions for Thinking about the Bible and Nonhuman Animals: A Review of Works by Peter Atkins, Dong Hyeon Jeong, and Saul Olyan0
Alternative Readings in the Septuagint as “Snapshots” of Textual Development0
The “Wisdom Poem” in Job 28 and its Role in Job’s Final Discourse (Job 27–31)0
Ezekiel 10:2—Sprinkle Not Scatter0
From Pre-Masoretic Idiolect to Pre-LXX Attestations0
Joshua Fragment from Codex Climaci Rescriptus: A New Edition Based on the Multispectral Images0
The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת0
On the Restoration of Job: Poetics and Meaning in Job 420
Pharaoh’s Forceful Refusal0
A Legal Allusion: The Correlation of Law and History in Ezekiel 200
The Census “Crisis Episode” and the Chronicler’s Mythic Agenda in 1 Chronicles 210
“Have You Called Us Here to Dispossess Us?” (Judg 14:15)0
Girdles of Fig Foliage0
Plotting Antiochus’s Death0
1 Kings 19 and Its Emotional Repertoires0
The Latin Translation of Hebrew Idiomatic Expressions in Jerome’s Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos0
The Polemical Cosmogony in the Doxologies of Amos (4:13; 5:8; 9:5–6)0
Spätbronzezeit, neuassyrische Zeit oder babylonisches Exil0
Why Susa?0
Pollution in the Bible and in Cognitive Science: A Review of Recent Works by Thomas Kazen and Yitzhaq Feder0
Strange Textiles: Materiality, Wealth, and Wisdom in Proverbs 70
Die Vetus Latina der Klagelieder als Zeugin für den Bedeutungswandel hebräischer Lexeme im Licht ihrer aramäischen Umwelt0
Jeremiah 10:1–16 MT and LXX0
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
Die masoretische Akzentuation in den poetischen Büchern (ספרי אמ״ת)0
Das Amt des Jerusalemer Hohepriesters im Licht biblischer und außerbiblischer Quellen der hellenistischen Zeit0
A TEL of No City0
The Messianic Servant of Old Greek Isaiah 31:9b–32:20
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
Seshat and Lady Wisdom0
The Beatitude אַשְׁרֵי and the Confession of Sins in Psalms 32–410
“Bel Crouches; Nebo Travails”: Reading Birth Imagery in Isaiah 46:1–40
Substituting Anthropomorphisms?0
The Story of Adoram the Taskmaster over the Forced Labor and the Traditions Regarding the Kingdom’s Division0
Satire and Subversion in the Oracles of Ezekiel0
Artemidorus Interprets the Dream of Mordecai (Additions to Esther A and F)0
Histories of Ancient Israel: Present State and Future Potential0
Divine Blueprints0
Decentering Exile0
The Meaning(lessness) of qubbâ and the Original Text of Numbers 25:80
Saul and David, Israel and Judah: The Book of Samuel as Paradigmatic History0
The Enigma of Deuteronomy 20:19–200
Song of Songs 1:1—Text and Paratext0
Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. (and of Congress Location) 2028–20310
Front matter0
Sedurot in orientalischen Bibelhandschriften0
Qohelet as Divine Hedonist0
The Judgments of the Israelite and Judahite Kings in Diachronic and Historical Perspective0
Subversion through Allusion in Samuel’s Call to Prophecy (1 Sam 3)0
Centaurs and the Sacred Tree0
When Life is Endangered0
On the Disparity of Penalties in Deuteronomy 22:13–21*0
A Note on Proverbs 22:160
Front matter0
The Stripping of the Bulls: A Reexamination of the Role of Ahaz in Deuteronomistic Historiography0
ומבין חידות in Daniel 8:23 as Part of a Literary Contrast0
Interpreting the Ehud Narrative through Grotesque Realism and Menippean Satire0
What’s in a Name: The Fulfillment Metaphor in Biblical Hebrew0
The Identity, Etymology, and Material Context of סֹחֶרֶת in Esther 1:60
Measuring Conceptual Complexification in the Pentateuch0
Seen from Afar: Genesis 22:4 in Comparative Perspective0
A Further Note on the Alleged Egyptian Etymology of Sabaoth0
“On Wings like Eagles!” (Isa 40:31)0
The Aqedah (Gen 22:1–19) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis0
Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread as a Single Ritual Complex0
Nochmals zur Frühdatierung von Ri 19*0
A Whirling Tempest0
Qualified Continuity0
Psalm 40 and the “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31?0
In the Garden of Xerxes’ Palace0
Rethinking the Origins and Textual History of Ancient Jewish Literature: A Review of Recent Works by Emanuel Tov, James Nati, and Nathan Mastnjak0
Masoretic Forensics and Scribal Fingerprints0
The Supposedly Irrevocable Laws in Esther and Dan 6 in Light of the Motif of the King’s Inability to Undo an Execution0
Of Dowries and Daughters0
“I Have Made an Engraving of You …” (Isa 49:16a): An Echo of an ANE Adoption Practice in Deutero-Isaiah0
Keeping the King Off the Hook0
“The Yoke Before the Oil” (Isa 10:27d) in the Light of Neo-Assyrian Covenant-Making Rituals0
“Midianite Men, Merchants” (Gen 37:28): Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Perspectives0
Town and Country: Jephthah, Gilead, and the Preservation of Late Bronze Age Politics0
Reconsidering Textual Coherence: Complexity, Unity, and the Historical-Critical Task0
From Military Coup to Temple Coronation0
A Unique Type of Inclusio in Psalms0
Scholars and Scholarship during the Third Reich0
Qoheleth as a Realist0
Hezekiah’s “Showing” and the Babylonian Ambassadors’ “Seeing” of the Royal Treasures0
Slavery and Exile in the Book of Baruch0
Becoming Jews?0
Judean Reception of the Elisha Narratives0
Speaking “Mouth to Mouth” (Num 12:8)0
0.16231298446655