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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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What did Eve say? A study of Genesis 4.1b5
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20243
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples3
One or many? The grammatical number of suffixed nouns as a text-critical problem2
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy2
Moses, the Lifter of the Sky: A Novel Reading of Exodus 17:8–16 in Light of the Heliopolitan Cosmogony2
Index of Reviewers1
Moral and ethical values in structural patterns of coercive acts in Hebrew Bible narrative1
The poetics of YHWH: Establishing criteria for identifying intentional allusions to the divine name in YHWH-acronyms1
On the Threshold: Liminality in the Stories of the Concubine of Gibeah and Ruth1
9. Apocryphaand Postbiblical Studies1
The centrality of individual petitions in temple rituals: Hannah, Solomon, and first-person psalms1
3. History, Geography and Sociology1
“Die Empörten Weiber”: Gender, Authority and Protestant Modernism in Jeremiah 441
Does the Hebrew Bible construct a social trauma? Three case studies1
The Most High God vs. Nabû: A God of Letters, Wisdom, and Fate Who Can(not) Read, Understand, or Foretell1
Index of Authors1
Index of Publishers1
Justice for whom? A dynamic interpretation of Isaiah 51.1–81
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
Comical moments and comical characterisations in Tobit: The undermining of self-righteous piety, simplistic retribution, and limited Yahwism0
‘Other laws’: Haman’s accusation against the Jews in the book of Esther0
The Aqedah as ‘template’? Genesis 22 and 1 Kings 17–180
Books Also Received0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
To what extent is the Moses story modelled on other biblical stories?0
A new Perspective on Jonathan – his covenant with David and his ultimate choice0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
The Solomonic Temple of Josephus’ Antiquities0
Endangered or Dangerous? YHWH’s Presence and Impurity in Levitical Perspective0
5. Specific Books. IV. Psalms and Wisdom IV. Psalms and Wisdom (Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs)0
A pre-biblical version of the Cain and Abel story: A subtle condemnation of a dysfunctional social structure0
The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel0
Ezekiel 29.6b–7 and metaphorical uses of canes in the Hebrew Bible0
The golden calf of Bethel and Judah’s mimetic desire of Israel0
King Solomon and the ‘Anatomy’ of Wisdom0
Transitive Analogies and the Meaning of Balaam’s Origin: A Literary Analysis0
Stillness and salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in its context0
Index of Authors0
Index of Publishers0
5. Specific Books. V. Other Writings V. Other Writings (Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Daniel, Chronicles, Ezra–Nehemiah)0
Hiding in plain sight: Identifying implicit markers of בושׁ‎ in Hebrew narrative0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
Father-daughter relationships as an organizing theme in the book of Judges0
Marginal characters: A strategy of persuasion in 1–2 Samuel0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Abraham’s circumcision: An ironic mnemonic device0
Did God curse humanity? A pragmatic reexamination of Genesis 3.14–190
11. Philology and Grammar0
Index of Publishers0
Narratological implications of the differences between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint: 1 Samuel 10.5 and 13.1–4 as a case study0
The Aesthetics of Biblical Acrostics0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
Genocide in Esther: A response to a recent attempt to defend Haman0
The diachrony of the Hebrew verb בָּעַל‎0
Who was Nahum? A wild but informed guess0
Worship as Social Creativity: Social Identity and the Form of Psalm 790
Eglon’s Fat and Ehud’s Oracle: A Reconsideration of Humour in Judges 3.12–300
On the tedious and monotonous repetitions in the Tabernacle accounts: a reassessment0
11. Philology and Grammar0
Offerings Matter: Revisiting the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-Called Sabbath Reform0
“Restructuring the Symbolic Universe”: Resilience through Literary and Ideological Reframing in Isaiah 2.2–4(5)0
Index of Reviewers0
Did the Shapira manuscript betray an unambiguously Pentateuchal perspective? A rejoinder to Stackert0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Remembering the lost ark: The ark narrative in its contexts0
Simul justus et peccator : The literary strategy of Solomon’s narrative and its redactional issues (1 Kings 3–11)0
A new approach to Jephthah’s vow: Antanaclasis (Judges 10–11)0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
A cannibal reading of the Hebrew prophets0
Wisdom and the fear of YHWH: Rethinking their relationship in Proverbs 1–90
Rebuke between Abraham and Abimelech: A model of conflict resolution0
Society for Old Testament Study: Book List 20250
Backlighting Jeroboam: Form, Content, and Paronomasia in 1 Kings0
‘Let your name be …’: The change of the names of Israel’s ancestors in light of the Atra-ḫasīs myth0
‘Jacob, my father’: The character of Judah in the Joseph Novella (Gen. 37–50)0
An Object-Relations Analysis of Psalm 1310
Sequentialized Samson: Five postwar (1949–1956) comic retellings of the Judges’’ tale0
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
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
Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine from the Temple: Joel’s Interpretation of the Epilogue of Amos0
‘We became refuse and rubbish’: Violence, filth, and rehumanization after exile0
Why Did YHWH Seek to Bring Disaster to Absalom? (2 Sam. 17.14b)0
7. Law, Religionand Theology0
Of monsters and men: Reading Daniel with the Liber de Morte (Metz Epitome)0
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20230
True and False Worship in the Prophecy of Zephaniah0
The Battle with Amalek (Exod. 17.8–16): When God Trusts in Man0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Children of the night: The portrayal of children in the book of Lamentations0
Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-380
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Jeremiah’s Laments as Effective Speech0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
The Biblical Nesher as the Griffon Vulture, Gyps fulvus: Ornithological character traits0
Index of Reviewers0
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
“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
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation0
Amos amongst the nōqdīm : Navigating agrarian class conflict in the book of Amos0
Psalm 74 and social identity0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch(Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
Resilience through Disclosure and Meaning Making in Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
An Analysis of Concluding Verbs in the Priestly Code: A Contextual Grammatical Approach0
11. Philology and Grammar0
YHWH in a Suit: Kəbôd YHWH as the Regalia of the Priestly God0
The Masoretic Text of Haggai 2.7b in light of verbal valency patterns0
bĕ-rēʾšît, “With ‘Wisdom,’” in Genesis 1.1 (MT)0
Enjambment as a syntactic phenomenon and poetic technique in the Psalms of Ascent0
Index of Authors0
The ancestors’ masculinities in Genesis0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Honor in the Cult: Leviticus 10 in Socio-Rhetorical Perspective0
The anticipatory structure of Isaiah 1-120
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
Semitic * ʾilāh - and Hebrew אלהים‎: From plural ‘gods’ to singular ‘God’0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
Books Also Received0
Qohelet’s satire of the chores: Ecclesiastes 10.8–11, the Teaching of Khety, and the limits of wisdom0
The Passover as inauguration of Israel’s departure from Sinai: interpretive potential of analysing narrative technique for discerning literary structure in Numbers 1–100
Index of Series0
The shift from lament to praise in the psalms: A psychodynamic phenomenon0
“Naomi the Nurse: Obed’s Ambiguous Identity Transmission”0
The Song of Moses as a model for Isa. 10.5–190
Behemoth’s Penis, Yahweh’s Might: Competing Bodies in the Book of Job0
Economics and Urdeuteronomium: A response to Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Philippe Guillaume, and Benedetta Rossi0
Index of Series0
A Blameworthy Burial: A Methodology for Inner-Biblical Allusion with a Case Study from Chronicles0
Ezekiel’s God in pursuit of recognition: A catalyst for self-transformation0
Index of Reviewers0
Dreaming big: On expanding dreams, hubris, and the character of the biblical Joseph0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation0
Index of Authors0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Blood Manipulation in Hezekiah’s Re-inauguration of the Temple in Chronicles0
Rejection Realized: Saul, the Evil Spirit and the Loss of Kingship0
Editorial fatigue and the relationship between 2 Kings 18–20 and Isaiah 36–390
Epiphany and epilepsy: The Epitomator’s approach to history and disease in 2 Maccabees 3.22–280
An Uprooted, Withered Cedar: A New Reading of Ezekiel’s Depiction of Jehoiachin’s Exile0
Keep in touch, stay in sight: locally-interpreted overt subjects in 1QIsaa0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
When seeing becomes hearing: Isaiah 40.1–8 as an exegetical product of Isaiah 6.1–8 and prelude to Isaiah 40–480
An attempt to identify the birds of Leviticus 11.13–19 using onomatopoeia0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
The Place and the Stone: Reassessing the Priestly Writing’s relationship to Bethel0
5. Specific Books. III. Latter Prophets III. Latter Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea–Malachi)0
5. Specific Books. II. Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings)0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
David as primary model of repentance in Chronicles: How the Chronicler’s inclusion of David’s illicit census sin impacts David’s legacy0
Cumulative Part-Whole Relations as a Verbal and Visual Rhetorical Strategy: Song of Songs 7 and Composite Beings of the Southern Levant0
Purposeful parallels: Revision-through-introduction in Leviticus 18 and 200
Index of Series0
4. Texts and Versions0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
5. Specific Books. I. Pentateuch I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
Ceremonial Celebrations Outside the Temple Compound in Ezra-Nehemiah in Babylonian Ritual Context0
Index of Series0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
4. Texts and Versions0
Priestly Disability and Centralization of the Cult in the Holiness Code0
5. Studies on Specific Books0
11. Philology and Grammar0
Engaging Westermann and the Assumptive World0
Going Vertical with Love Thy Neighbor: Exegetical Use of Scripture in Leviticus 19.18b0
4. Texts and Versions0
Cultic Images of Jerusalem in Lamentations 2:1–80
Parallel Structures in Judges and the Formation of the Book0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
4. Texts and Versions0
Empowering the powerless: Wisdom in the twin tales of Esther and Job0
‘For a Man Is Born to Suffer’: Intertextuality between Job 4–5 and Gen. 2.4b–3.240
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Internal Focalization in 1 Samuel – a new perspective on Jonathan’s love for David0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
Messianism and universalism in Psalm 22: An intertextual journey according to Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism0
Clinging in love: Attachment indicators and implications in Deuteronomy 10.12–11.10
Royally Enticing, Royally Forgetting: The Contribution of Psalm 45 within Its Canonical Context0
The feminine rewriting in Wu Shutian’s translation of Song of Songs0
The literary profile of the Priestly strand: A new perspective0
The Anti-Levite of Judges 17-180
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