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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy5
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 20243
One or many? The grammatical number of suffixed nouns as a text-critical problem3
Justice for whom? A dynamic interpretation of Isaiah 51.1–82
What did Eve say? A study of Genesis 4.1b2
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples2
The Most High God vs. Nabû: A God of Letters, Wisdom, and Fate Who Can(not) Read, Understand, or Foretell1
On the Threshold: Liminality in the Stories of the Concubine of Gibeah and Ruth1
“Die Empörten Weiber”: Gender, Authority and Protestant Modernism in Jeremiah 441
The Aqedah as ‘template’? Genesis 22 and 1 Kings 17–181
The centrality of individual petitions in temple rituals: Hannah, Solomon, and first-person psalms1
3. History, Geography and Sociology1
Index of Reviewers1
Jeremiah as the model city: ‘Iron pillar’ as temple language in Jeremiah 1.181
Index of Authors1
Royally Enticing, Royally Forgetting: The Contribution of Psalm 45 within Its Canonical Context1
Index of Publishers1
Index of Authors1
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
9. Apocryphaand Postbiblical Studies1
Index of Publishers1
Does the Hebrew Bible construct a social trauma? Three case studies1
The poetics of YHWH: Establishing criteria for identifying intentional allusions to the divine name in YHWH-acronyms1
Moral and ethical values in structural patterns of coercive acts in Hebrew Bible narrative1
Offerings Matter: Revisiting the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-Called Sabbath Reform0
Hiding in plain sight: Identifying implicit markers of בושׁ‎ in Hebrew narrative0
The Battle with Amalek (Exod. 17.8–16): When God Trusts in Man0
An Uprooted, Withered Cedar: A New Reading of Ezekiel’s Depiction of Jehoiachin’s Exile0
Worship as Social Creativity: Social Identity and the Form of Psalm 790
Psalm 74 and social identity0
The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel0
Index of Publishers0
Wisdom and the fear of YHWH: Rethinking their relationship in Proverbs 1–90
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
The anticipatory structure of Isaiah 1-120
Marginal characters: A strategy of persuasion in 1–2 Samuel0
Engaging Westermann and the Assumptive World0
Endangered or Dangerous? YHWH’s Presence and Impurity in Levitical Perspective0
Who was Nahum? A wild but informed guess0
Society for Old Testament Study: Book List 20250
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Honor in the Cult: Leviticus 10 in Socio-Rhetorical Perspective0
The shift from lament to praise in the psalms: A psychodynamic phenomenon0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
‘Jacob, my father’: The character of Judah in the Joseph Novella (Gen. 37–50)0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
A cannibal reading of the Hebrew prophets0
Ceremonial Celebrations Outside the Temple Compound in Ezra-Nehemiah in Babylonian Ritual Context0
“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
Semitic * ʾilāh - and Hebrew אלהים‎: From plural ‘gods’ to singular ‘God’0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
4. Texts and Versions0
Remembering the lost ark: The ark narrative in its contexts0
Economics and Urdeuteronomium: A response to Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Philippe Guillaume, and Benedetta Rossi0
Backlighting Jeroboam: Form, Content, and Paronomasia in 1 Kings0
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation0
Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-380
Enjambment as a syntactic phenomenon and poetic technique in the Psalms of Ascent0
Sequentialized Samson: Five postwar (1949–1956) comic retellings of the Judges’’ tale0
A Blameworthy Burial: A Methodology for Inner-Biblical Allusion with a Case Study from Chronicles0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Ezekiel’s God in pursuit of recognition: A catalyst for self-transformation0
Dreaming big: On expanding dreams, hubris, and the character of the biblical Joseph0
Rejection Realized: Saul, the Evil Spirit and the Loss of Kingship0
Ezekiel 29.6b–7 and metaphorical uses of canes in the Hebrew Bible0
The Main Character of the Book of Esther: The Contribution of the Textual Divisions and the Assigned Titles of the Book of Esther to Uncovering Its Protagonist0
A pre-biblical version of the Cain and Abel story: A subtle condemnation of a dysfunctional social structure0
Let There Be Cain: A Clash of Imaginations in Genesis 40
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Books Also Received0
Simul justus et peccator : The literary strategy of Solomon’s narrative and its redactional issues (1 Kings 3–11)0
Index of Series0
Keep in touch, stay in sight: locally-interpreted overt subjects in 1QIsaa0
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
Naming Jerusalem: Poetry and the Identity of the Personified City in Lamentations 1-20
A new Perspective on Jonathan – his covenant with David and his ultimate choice0
5. Specific Books. III. Latter Prophets III. Latter Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea–Malachi)0
Editorial fatigue and the relationship between 2 Kings 18–20 and Isaiah 36–390
An attempt to identify the birds of Leviticus 11.13–19 using onomatopoeia0
Of monsters and men: Reading Daniel with the Liber de Morte (Metz Epitome)0
Cumulative Part-Whole Relations as a Verbal and Visual Rhetorical Strategy: Song of Songs 7 and Composite Beings of the Southern Levant0
Transitive Analogies and the Meaning of Balaam’s Origin: A Literary Analysis0
David as primary model of repentance in Chronicles: How the Chronicler’s inclusion of David’s illicit census sin impacts David’s legacy0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
The Masoretic Text of Haggai 2.7b in light of verbal valency patterns0
5. Specific Books. I. Pentateuch I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
5. Specific Books. II. Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings)0
Empowering the powerless: Wisdom in the twin tales of Esther and Job0
Going Vertical with Love Thy Neighbor: Exegetical Use of Scripture in Leviticus 19.18b0
7. Law, Religionand Theology0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
Index of Authors0
Cultic Images of Jerusalem in Lamentations 2:1–80
The Society for Old Testament Study0
Genocide in Esther: A response to a recent attempt to defend Haman0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
11. Philology and Grammar0
Resilience through Disclosure and Meaning Making in Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy0
Epiphany and epilepsy: The Epitomator’s approach to history and disease in 2 Maccabees 3.22–280
Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine from the Temple: Joel’s Interpretation of the Epilogue of Amos0
Eglon’s Fat and Ehud’s Oracle: A Reconsideration of Humour in Judges 3.12–300
“Naomi the Nurse: Obed’s Ambiguous Identity Transmission”0
The Aesthetics of Biblical Acrostics0
Did God curse humanity? A pragmatic reexamination of Genesis 3.14–190
A new approach to Jephthah’s vow: Antanaclasis (Judges 10–11)0
Index of Reviewers0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Behemoth’s Penis, Yahweh’s Might: Competing Bodies in the Book of Job0
Comical moments and comical characterisations in Tobit: The undermining of self-righteous piety, simplistic retribution, and limited Yahwism0
Index of Series0
King Solomon and the ‘Anatomy’ of Wisdom0
4. Texts and Versions0
The Anti-Levite of Judges 17-180
Index of Series0
“Restructuring the Symbolic Universe”: Resilience through Literary and Ideological Reframing in Isaiah 2.2–4(5)0
The Prevalence and Purpose of the ‘Assyria-Egypt’ Motif in the Book of Hosea0
To what extent is the Moses story modelled on other biblical stories?0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Narratological implications of the differences between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint: 1 Samuel 10.5 and 13.1–4 as a case study0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch(Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
5. Specific Books. V. Other Writings V. Other Writings (Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Daniel, Chronicles, Ezra–Nehemiah)0
Stillness and salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in its context0
Index of Publishers0
The House That Built Me: The ‘House of God’ and Its Role in the Construction of Fear in Nehemiah 6.1–150
Father-daughter relationships as an organizing theme in the book of Judges0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Index of Reviewers0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
Clinging in love: Attachment indicators and implications in Deuteronomy 10.12–11.10
An Analysis of Concluding Verbs in the Priestly Code: A Contextual Grammatical Approach0
Jeremiah’s Laments as Effective Speech0
Children of the night: The portrayal of children in the book of Lamentations0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
The golden calf of Bethel and Judah’s mimetic desire of Israel0
5. Studies on Specific Books0
11. Philology and Grammar0
11. Philology and Grammar0
Did the Shapira manuscript betray an unambiguously Pentateuchal perspective? A rejoinder to Stackert0
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20230
Priestly Disability and Centralization of the Cult in the Holiness Code0
Index of Reviewers0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
On the tedious and monotonous repetitions in the Tabernacle accounts: a reassessment0
‘Like the snail that dissolves’: Construction of Identity of Psalmist and Enemy in the Lament Psalms of the Individual0
Index of Authors0
The ancestors’ masculinities in Genesis0
Books Also Received0
bĕ-rēʾšît, “With ‘Wisdom,’” in Genesis 1.1 (MT)0
4. Texts and Versions0
The diachrony of the Hebrew verb בָּעַל‎0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
Parallel Structures in Judges and the Formation of the Book0
Blood Manipulation in Hezekiah’s Re-inauguration of the Temple in Chronicles0
11. Philology and Grammar0
YHWH in a Suit: Kəbôd YHWH as the Regalia of the Priestly God0
4. Texts and Versions0
The Place and the Stone: Reassessing the Priestly Writing’s relationship to Bethel0
David, Once and Future King? A Closer Look at the Postscript of Psalm 72.200
5. Specific Books. IV. Psalms and Wisdom IV. Psalms and Wisdom (Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs)0
Internal Focalization in 1 Samuel – a new perspective on Jonathan’s love for David0
Is Eliphaz a false prophet? The vision in Job 4.12-210
The ironic syllogism: A rhetorical use of unmarked questions0
The Solomonic Temple of Josephus’ Antiquities0
The Song of Moses as a model for Isa. 10.5–190
‘Let your name be …’: The change of the names of Israel’s ancestors in light of the Atra-ḫasīs myth0
An Object-Relations Analysis of Psalm 1310
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
‘For a Man Is Born to Suffer’: Intertextuality between Job 4–5 and Gen. 2.4b–3.240
Abraham’s circumcision: An ironic mnemonic device0
Why Did YHWH Seek to Bring Disaster to Absalom? (2 Sam. 17.14b)0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Index of Series0
Purposeful parallels: Revision-through-introduction in Leviticus 18 and 200
The Biblical Nesher as the Griffon Vulture, Gyps fulvus: Ornithological character traits0
Israelite or Moabite? Ethnicity in the book of Ruth0
‘Other laws’: Haman’s accusation against the Jews in the book of Esther0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
The Passover as inauguration of Israel’s departure from Sinai: interpretive potential of analysing narrative technique for discerning literary structure in Numbers 1–100
When seeing becomes hearing: Isaiah 40.1–8 as an exegetical product of Isaiah 6.1–8 and prelude to Isaiah 40–480
True and False Worship in the Prophecy of Zephaniah0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
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