Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Papers
(The TQCC 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
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
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
Stillness and salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in its context0
When Moses is not enough: A comparative study of referral narratives in the Torah0
Cultic Images of Jerusalem in Lamentations 2:1–80
Index of Reviewers0
True and False Worship in the Prophecy of Zephaniah0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
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
Going Vertical with Love Thy Neighbor: Exegetical Use of Scripture in Leviticus 19.18b0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel0
Honor in the Cult: Leviticus 10 in Socio-Rhetorical Perspective0
An Uprooted, Withered Cedar: A New Reading of Ezekiel’s Depiction of Jehoiachin’s Exile0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
Transitive Analogies and the Meaning of Balaam’s Origin: A Literary Analysis0
Did the Shapira manuscript betray an unambiguously Pentateuchal perspective? A rejoinder to Stackert0
Elisha—predatory prophet?0
The anticipatory structure of Isaiah 1-120
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
11. Philology and Grammar0
The Biblical Nesher as the Griffon Vulture, Gyps fulvus : Ornithological character traits0
Purposeful parallels: Revision-through-introduction in Leviticus 18 and 200
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Cain and the book of Jonah0
Marginal characters: A strategy of persuasion in 1–2 Samuel0
Wisdom and the fear of YHWH: Rethinking their relationship in Proverbs 1–90
Elisha’s servant as successor: Interpreting Gehazi’s narrative through the lens of prophetic succession0
Royally Enticing, Royally Forgetting: The Contribution of Psalm 45 within Its Canonical Context0
Index of Reviewers0
Eglon’s Fat and Ehud’s Oracle: A Reconsideration of Humour in Judges 3.12–300
Society for Old Testament Study: Book List 20250
The diachrony of the Hebrew verb בָּעַל‎0
Ezekiel 29.6b–7 and metaphorical uses of canes in the Hebrew Bible0
Editorial fatigue and the relationship between 2 Kings 18–20 and Isaiah 36–390
A pre-biblical version of the Cain and Abel story: A subtle condemnation of a dysfunctional social structure0
Enjambment as a syntactic phenomenon and poetic technique in the Psalms of Ascent0
Psalm 74 and social identity0
Index of Series0
Simul justus et peccator : The literary strategy of Solomon’s narrative and its redactional issues (1 Kings 3–11)0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
A new Perspective on Jonathan – his covenant with David and his ultimate choice0
Qohelet’s satire of the chores: Ecclesiastes 10.8–11, the Teaching of Khety, and the limits of wisdom0
Of monsters and men: Reading Daniel with the Liber de Morte (Metz Epitome)0
Index of Publishers0
The Passover as inauguration of Israel’s departure from Sinai: interpretive potential of analysing narrative technique for discerning literary structure in Numbers 1–100
Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine from the Temple: Joel’s Interpretation of the Epilogue of Amos0
To what extent is the Moses story modelled on other biblical stories?0
Houses full of owls: Oracular owls in Isaiah0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
Rebuke between Abraham and Abimelech: A model of conflict resolution0
When seeing becomes hearing: Isaiah 40.1–8 as an exegetical product of Isaiah 6.1–8 and prelude to Isaiah 40–480
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
‘Let your name be …’: The change of the names of Israel’s ancestors in light of the Atra-ḫasīs myth0
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
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation0
Abraham’s circumcision: An ironic mnemonic device0
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
4. Texts and Versions0
On the tedious and monotonous repetitions in the Tabernacle accounts: a reassessment0
Remember like a man: Memory and masculinity in the Gideon and Jephthah cycles0
11. Philology and Grammar0
An attempt to identify the birds of Leviticus 11.13–19 using onomatopoeia0
Jeremiah’s Laments as Effective Speech0
A cannibal reading of the Hebrew prophets0
The golden calf of Bethel and Judah’s mimetic desire of Israel0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Amos amongst the nōqdīm : Navigating agrarian class conflict in the book of Amos0
“Naomi the Nurse: Obed’s Ambiguous Identity Transmission”0
Books Also Received0
Worship as Social Creativity: Social Identity and the Form of Psalm 790
7. Law, Religionand Theology0
The Song of Moses as a model for Isa. 10.5–190
The Israelite Imago Mundi : A hypothetical reconstruction0
An Object-Relations Analysis of Psalm 1310
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
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Books Also Received0
Index of Reviewers0
The Solomonic Temple of Josephus’ Antiquities0
Index of Authors0
David as primary model of repentance in Chronicles: How the Chronicler’s inclusion of David’s illicit census sin impacts David’s legacy0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Clinging in love: Attachment indicators and implications in Deuteronomy 10.12–11.10
11. Philology and Grammar0
Index of Authors0
5. Specific Books. IV. Psalms and Wisdom IV. Psalms and Wisdom (Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs)0
The Place and the Stone: Reassessing the Priestly Writing’s relationship to Bethel0
4. Texts and Versions0
The tragedy of Abiathar of Nob: Identifying character-systems as an avenue to authorial intent0
Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-380
“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
The Society for Old Testament Study0
Why Did YHWH Seek to Bring Disaster to Absalom? (2 Sam. 17.14b)0
Dreaming big: On expanding dreams, hubris, and the character of the biblical Joseph0
Offerings Matter: Revisiting the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-Called Sabbath Reform0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
‘Other laws’: Haman’s accusation against the Jews in the book of Esther0
Messianism and universalism in Psalm 22: An intertextual journey according to Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism0
Index of Series0
Father-daughter relationships as an organizing theme in the book of Judges0
Endangered or Dangerous? YHWH’s Presence and Impurity in Levitical Perspective0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Ezekiel’s God in pursuit of recognition: A catalyst for self-transformation0
Who was Nahum? A wild but informed guess0
Hiding in plain sight: Identifying implicit markers of בושׁ‎ in Hebrew narrative0
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
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
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
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
4. Texts and Versions0
אם שׁלמים‎ or משׁל מים‎ in Nah. 1.12: A study of the ancient translations0
The Masoretic Text of Haggai 2.7b in light of verbal valency patterns0
The Battle with Amalek (Exod. 17.8–16): When God Trusts in Man0
YHWH in a Suit: Kə b ô d YHWH 0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
5. Studies on Specific Books0
Index of Series0
Sintflut and Sinai: Genesis 6–8’s allusion to Exodus 24–400
The honor of Jabez and the acquisition of land in the book of Chronicles0
‘We became refuse and rubbish’: Violence, filth, and rehumanization after exile0
Empowering the powerless: Wisdom in the twin tales of Esther and Job0
Epistemological barrier or divine gift: A reinterpretation of Ecclesiastes 3.110
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation0
5. Specific Books. II. Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings)0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch(Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)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
11. Philology and Grammar0
Did God curse humanity? A pragmatic reexamination of Genesis 3.14–190
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20230
Index of Series0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Genocide in Esther: A response to a recent attempt to defend Haman0
5. Specific Books. V. Other Writings V. Other Writings (Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Daniel, Chronicles, Ezra–Nehemiah)0
4. Texts and Versions0
5. Specific Books. I. Pentateuch I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
Keep in touch, stay in sight: locally-interpreted overt subjects in 1QIsa a0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Internal Focalization in 1 Samuel – a new perspective on Jonathan’s love for David0
Resilience through Disclosure and Meaning Making in Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Rejection Realized: Saul, the Evil Spirit and the Loss of Kingship0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
The Anti-Levite of Judges 17-180
Masoretic accents, recital rhythm, and vowel length: Observations on the prosody of Masoretic Text0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Index of Publishers0
The shift from lament to praise in the psalms: A psychodynamic phenomenon0
Economics and Urdeuteronomium : A response to Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Philippe Guillaume, and Benedetta Rossi0
Remembering the lost ark: The ark narrative in its contexts0
Provisioning the Persians and the prophetic imagination: Reconceiving subversion and sovereignty in 2 Kings 6.8–230
The Society for Old Testament Study0
The feminine rewriting in Wu Shutian’s translation of Song of Songs0
Sequentialized Samson: Five postwar (1949–1956) comic retellings of the Judges’’ tale0
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