Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 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
Cultural memory in Deuteronomy 4 and 324
Moses, the Lifter of the Sky: A Novel Reading of Exodus 17:8–16 in Light of the Heliopolitan Cosmogony3
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20242
One or many? The grammatical number of suffixed nouns as a text-critical problem2
Jeremiah as the model city: ‘Iron pillar’ as temple language in Jeremiah 1.181
9. Apocryphaand Postbiblical Studies1
Semitic * ʾilāh - and Hebrew אלהים‎: From plural ‘gods’ to singular ‘God’1
Index of Publishers1
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples1
3. History, Geography and Sociology1
A new approach to Jephthah’s vow: Antanaclasis (Judges 10–11)1
Index of Publishers1
Does the Hebrew Bible construct a social trauma? Three case studies1
A Blameworthy Burial: A Methodology for Inner-Biblical Allusion with a Case Study from Chronicles1
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy1
Justice for whom? A dynamic interpretation of Isaiah 51.1–81
Index of Reviewers1
Moral and ethical values in structural patterns of coercive acts in Hebrew Bible narrative1
The Most High God vs. Nabû: A God of Letters, Wisdom, and Fate Who Can(not) Read, Understand, or Foretell1
Index of Authors1
Backlighting Jeroboam: Form, Content, and Paronomasia in 1 Kings1
The poetics of YHWH: Establishing criteria for identifying intentional allusions to the divine name in YHWH-acronyms1
Index of Authors1
The centrality of individual petitions in temple rituals: Hannah, Solomon, and first-person psalms1
What did Eve say? A study of Genesis 4.1b1
Ritual spaces in the home in two biblical narratives: The house of Micah (Judg. 17) and the house of the medium at Ein Dor (1 Sam. 28)1
Economics and Urdeuteronomium : A response to Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Philippe Guillaume, and Benedetta Rossi0
Masoretic accents, recital rhythm, and vowel length: Observations on the prosody of Masoretic Text0
11. Philology and Grammar0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Purposeful parallels: Revision-through-introduction in Leviticus 18 and 200
Provisioning the Persians and the prophetic imagination: Reconceiving subversion and sovereignty in 2 Kings 6.8–230
Marginal characters: A strategy of persuasion in 1–2 Samuel0
Elisha’s servant as successor: Interpreting Gehazi’s narrative through the lens of prophetic succession0
Sequentialized Samson: Five postwar (1949–1956) comic retellings of the Judges’’ tale0
Stillness and salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in its context0
Eglon’s Fat and Ehud’s Oracle: A Reconsideration of Humour in Judges 3.12–300
The diachrony of the Hebrew verb בָּעַל‎0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
Cultic Images of Jerusalem in Lamentations 2:1–80
Index of Reviewers0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
Enjambment as a syntactic phenomenon and poetic technique in the Psalms of Ascent0
Rejection Realized: Saul, the Evil Spirit and the Loss of Kingship0
Going Vertical with Love Thy Neighbor: Exegetical Use of Scripture in Leviticus 19.18b0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine from the Temple: Joel’s Interpretation of the Epilogue of Amos0
Honor in the Cult: Leviticus 10 in Socio-Rhetorical Perspective0
Qohelet’s satire of the chores: Ecclesiastes 10.8–11, the Teaching of Khety, and the limits of wisdom0
Index of Publishers0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
Did the Shapira manuscript betray an unambiguously Pentateuchal perspective? A rejoinder to Stackert0
To what extent is the Moses story modelled on other biblical stories?0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
The anticipatory structure of Isaiah 1-120
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
‘Let your name be …’: The change of the names of Israel’s ancestors in light of the Atra-ḫasīs myth0
The Biblical Nesher as the Griffon Vulture, Gyps fulvus : Ornithological character traits0
Rebuke between Abraham and Abimelech: A model of conflict resolution0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Cain and the book of Jonah0
Abraham’s circumcision: An ironic mnemonic device0
Wisdom and the fear of YHWH: Rethinking their relationship in Proverbs 1–90
Royally Enticing, Royally Forgetting: The Contribution of Psalm 45 within Its Canonical Context0
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation0
Index of Reviewers0
Society for Old Testament Study: Book List 20250
Ezekiel 29.6b–7 and metaphorical uses of canes in the Hebrew Bible0
4. Texts and Versions0
Editorial fatigue and the relationship between 2 Kings 18–20 and Isaiah 36–390
Remember like a man: Memory and masculinity in the Gideon and Jephthah cycles0
A pre-biblical version of the Cain and Abel story: A subtle condemnation of a dysfunctional social structure0
Psalm 74 and social identity0
Jeremiah’s Laments as Effective Speech0
Index of Series0
The golden calf of Bethel and Judah’s mimetic desire of Israel0
A new Perspective on Jonathan – his covenant with David and his ultimate choice0
Of monsters and men: Reading Daniel with the Liber de Morte (Metz Epitome)0
Amos amongst the nōqdīm : Navigating agrarian class conflict in the book of Amos0
Index of Publishers0
Books Also Received0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
Houses full of owls: Oracular owls in Isaiah0
The Song of Moses as a model for Isa. 10.5–190
An Object-Relations Analysis of Psalm 1310
When seeing becomes hearing: Isaiah 40.1–8 as an exegetical product of Isaiah 6.1–8 and prelude to Isaiah 40–480
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Index of Reviewers0
Children of the night: The portrayal of children in the book of Lamentations0
5. Specific Books. III. Latter Prophets III. Latter Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea–Malachi)0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
11. Philology and Grammar0
Simul justus et peccator : The literary strategy of Solomon’s narrative and its redactional issues (1 Kings 3–11)0
Narratological implications of the differences between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint: 1 Samuel 10.5 and 13.1–4 as a case study0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
On the tedious and monotonous repetitions in the Tabernacle accounts: a reassessment0
4. Texts and Versions0
The Passover as inauguration of Israel’s departure from Sinai: interpretive potential of analysing narrative technique for discerning literary structure in Numbers 1–100
11. Philology and Grammar0
An attempt to identify the birds of Leviticus 11.13–19 using onomatopoeia0
‘Other laws’: Haman’s accusation against the Jews in the book of Esther0
A cannibal reading of the Hebrew prophets0
Dreaming big: On expanding dreams, hubris, and the character of the biblical Joseph0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Endangered or Dangerous? YHWH’s Presence and Impurity in Levitical Perspective0
“Naomi the Nurse: Obed’s Ambiguous Identity Transmission”0
Messianism and universalism in Psalm 22: An intertextual journey according to Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
Worship as Social Creativity: Social Identity and the Form of Psalm 790
7. Law, Religionand Theology0
Ezekiel’s God in pursuit of recognition: A catalyst for self-transformation0
The Israelite Imago Mundi : A hypothetical reconstruction0
Epiphany and epilepsy: The Epitomator’s approach to history and disease in 2 Maccabees 3.22–280
The literary profile of the Priestly strand: A new perspective0
Books Also Received0
The Solomonic Temple of Josephus’ Antiquities0
Divine attributes and powers as messianic titles in Isaiah 51.4–8 and cognate passages: A comparison of 1QIsa a and the Old Greek of Isaiah0
Index of Authors0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Clinging in love: Attachment indicators and implications in Deuteronomy 10.12–11.10
Index of Authors0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
5. Specific Books. IV. Psalms and Wisdom IV. Psalms and Wisdom (Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs)0
אם שׁלמים‎ or משׁל מים‎ in Nah. 1.12: A study of the ancient translations0
The Place and the Stone: Reassessing the Priestly Writing’s relationship to Bethel0
The tragedy of Abiathar of Nob: Identifying character-systems as an avenue to authorial intent0
The Battle with Amalek (Exod. 17.8–16): When God Trusts in Man0
Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-380
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
Why Did YHWH Seek to Bring Disaster to Absalom? (2 Sam. 17.14b)0
Offerings Matter: Revisiting the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-Called Sabbath Reform0
Sintflut and Sinai: Genesis 6–8’s allusion to Exodus 24–400
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
‘We became refuse and rubbish’: Violence, filth, and rehumanization after exile0
Index of Series0
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch(Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
11. Philology and Grammar0
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20230
David as primary model of repentance in Chronicles: How the Chronicler’s inclusion of David’s illicit census sin impacts David’s legacy0
Who was Nahum? A wild but informed guess0
Hiding in plain sight: Identifying implicit markers of בושׁ‎ in Hebrew narrative0
Genocide in Esther: A response to a recent attempt to defend Haman0
4. Texts and Versions0
“Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more”: Understanding the image of the cup of God’s wrath in Jeremiah 25 in light of the Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft tradition0
An Analysis of Concluding Verbs in the Priestly Code: A Contextual Grammatical Approach0
Cumulative Part-Whole Relations as a Verbal and Visual Rhetorical Strategy: Song of Songs 7 and Composite Beings of the Southern Levant0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
4. Texts and Versions0
Internal Focalization in 1 Samuel – a new perspective on Jonathan’s love for David0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
The Masoretic Text of Haggai 2.7b in light of verbal valency patterns0
Index of Series0
The shift from lament to praise in the psalms: A psychodynamic phenomenon0
YHWH in a Suit: Kə b ô d YHWH 0
The Anti-Levite of Judges 17-180
Father-daughter relationships as an organizing theme in the book of Judges0
5. Studies on Specific Books0
The feminine rewriting in Wu Shutian’s translation of Song of Songs0
The honor of Jabez and the acquisition of land in the book of Chronicles0
Remembering the lost ark: The ark narrative in its contexts0
Empowering the powerless: Wisdom in the twin tales of Esther and Job0
Epistemological barrier or divine gift: A reinterpretation of Ecclesiastes 3.110
When Moses is not enough: A comparative study of referral narratives in the Torah0
5. Specific Books. II. Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings)0
“Restructuring the Symbolic Universe”: Resilience through Literary and Ideological Reframing in Isaiah 2.2–4(5)0
‘Jacob, my father’: The character of Judah in the Joseph Novella (Gen. 37–50)0
Did God curse humanity? A pragmatic reexamination of Genesis 3.14–190
Index of Series0
True and False Worship in the Prophecy of Zephaniah0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
The question of future hope in 2 Kgs 25.27–30 and the book’s dynastic framework in 1 Kgs 1.1–53 and 2 Kgs 11.1–200
5. Specific Books. V. Other Writings V. Other Writings (Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Daniel, Chronicles, Ezra–Nehemiah)0
5. Specific Books. I. Pentateuch I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel0
Keep in touch, stay in sight: locally-interpreted overt subjects in 1QIsa a0
An Uprooted, Withered Cedar: A New Reading of Ezekiel’s Depiction of Jehoiachin’s Exile0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Resilience through Disclosure and Meaning Making in Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy0
Transitive Analogies and the Meaning of Balaam’s Origin: A Literary Analysis0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Elisha—predatory prophet?0
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