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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Identifying Alphabetic Compositions in the Hebrew Bible2
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
The Wheat Exported from Israel to Tyre1
China Is in the Bible1
Understanding Imitatio Dei in the Holiness Source1
The Major Additions in the Samaritan Pentateuch Tradition1
Manasseh, not Moses1
A Hidden God: Isaiah 45’s Amun Polemic and Message to Egypt1
God, the Feminine, and Other Struggles1
People and Botanical Metaphors in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira1
A (Somewhat) New Way to See and Understand the Diverse and Strategic Use of the Interrogatives in Isa 40:12–311
2 Kings 14:28—A Proposal for Solution1
Ringen mit Gott1
Scholars and Scholarship during the Third Reich0
Das erinnerte Heiligtum: Tradition und Geschichte der Kultstätte in Schilo, written by Ann-Kathrin Knittel0
The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, written by Thomas Renz0
Satire and Subversion in the Oracles of Ezekiel0
Becoming Jews?0
A Whirling Tempest0
Jeremiah 10:1–16 MT and LXX0
From the Jordan to Mt. Ebal and Back0
The Polemical Cosmogony in the Doxologies of Amos (4:13; 5:8; 9:5–6)0
Pinocchio in the Vulgate0
Qohelet as Divine Hedonist0
The Hebrew Bible and the Theory of Anachronism0
Subversion through Allusion in Samuel’s Call to Prophecy (1 Sam 3)0
The Enigma of Deuteronomy 20:19–200
Two Unnoticed Telestics in Psalm 1450
Nebuchadnezzar, Nabonidus, and the Tradition of the “Mad King”0
Race and Ethnicity at Genesis 10 and the Idea of “Semites”0
The Puzzling Portrait of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles 32:24–310
The Judean Problem in Nahum 1:90
Song of Songs 1:1—Text and Paratext0
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The Buried Abimelech Tradition in Judges 10:10
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“She Gazed Through the Window”: Gender and Grammatical Voice in Ancient Hebrew0
A Legal Allusion: The Correlation of Law and History in Ezekiel 200
Tithes and Imperial Taxes0
Personal Names and Naming in Israel’s Household Religion0
“Have You Called Us Here to Dispossess Us?” (Judg 14:15)0
“Midianite Men, Merchants” (Gen 37:28): Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Perspectives0
The Poor Man’s Ewe Lamb (2 Sam 12:1–4) in Intersectional, Interspecies Perspective0
Rethinking the Origins and Textual History of Ancient Jewish Literature: A Review of Recent Works by Emanuel Tov, James Nati, and Nathan Mastnjak0
Decontextualized Instruction or Disembodied Reading?0
Benjamin and the Anonymous Ten Tribes of Israel: A Holistic Approach to Tribal Confusions0
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Zion’s Taunt (37:22) and Tirade (49:14) in Isaiah0
The Supposedly Irrevocable Laws in Esther and Dan 6 in Light of the Motif of the King’s Inability to Undo an Execution0
Saul and David, Israel and Judah: The Book of Samuel as Paradigmatic History0
Die Vetus Latina der Klagelieder als Zeugin für den Bedeutungswandel hebräischer Lexeme im Licht ihrer aramäischen Umwelt0
Seen from Afar: Genesis 22:4 in Comparative Perspective0
The Booty Call0
A TEL of No City0
The Census “Crisis Episode” and the Chronicler’s Mythic Agenda in 1 Chronicles 210
Substituting Vorlagen0
Models of Word Order in Biblical Hebrew0
“Remember!”0
The Etymology of Šadday0
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Qoheleth as a Realist0
From Military Coup to Temple Coronation0
Decentering Exile0
Announcement Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. 2025–20280
Histories of Ancient Israel: Present State and Future Potential0
The Story of Adoram the Taskmaster over the Forced Labor and the Traditions Regarding the Kingdom’s Division0
Luxuriant and Well-Fatted: The Meaning of מעדנת in 1 Sam 15:320
Black Color and Emotions in Sirach0
Divine Blueprints0
Slavery and Exile in the Book of Baruch0
Sheshbazzar and Nehemiah0
The Rendering of Unclean Birds in an Arabic Translation of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 140
A Solution to the Subject(s) of Psalm 7:13–140
Nation and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel?0
Jewish Identity, Exclusion of Foreigners, and Group Survival0
Sedurot in orientalischen Bibelhandschriften0
From Pre-Masoretic Idiolect to Pre-LXX Attestations0
An Intertextual Reading of Amos 3:70
Thinking about Thinking: Recent Research on the “Mind” in Ancient Israel0
Is the Sin of Jehu the Fault of the Deuteronomist?0
Divine Election in the Hebrew Bible, written by Hallvard Hagelia0
When Life is Endangered0
Falsehood and False Prophets in Jeremiah0
Spätbronzezeit, neuassyrische Zeit oder babylonisches Exil0
The Identity, Etymology, and Material Context of סֹחֶרֶת in Esther 1:60
The First Rainfall in History0
New Directions for Thinking about the Bible and Nonhuman Animals: A Review of Works by Peter Atkins, Dong Hyeon Jeong, and Saul Olyan0
The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת0
Pferde und Raubvögel im Hebräischen und Ägyptischen0
Eli’s “Heavy Eyes” in LXX 1 Kingdoms 3:2 and Euripides’ Alcestis0
Measuring Conceptual Complexification in the Pentateuch0
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Joshua Fragment from Codex Climaci Rescriptus: A New Edition Based on the Multispectral Images0
“On Wings like Eagles!” (Isa 40:31)0
Why Susa?0
1 Kings 19 and Its Emotional Repertoires0
µετέχω παιδείας in Sir 51:280
United in Exile, Reunited in Restoration: The Chronicler’s Agenda, written by Jordan Guy0
Moabite Ethnicity and Territorial Claims in the Mesha Stele (and the Hebrew Bible)0
Girdles of Fig Foliage0
Gates and Entrances in Ezekiel 40–48: The Social Utopia of the Temple Vision0
Pollution in the Bible and in Cognitive Science: A Review of Recent Works by Thomas Kazen and Yitzhaq Feder0
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
“The Yoke Before the Oil” (Isa 10:27d) in the Light of Neo-Assyrian Covenant-Making Rituals0
The Language of the Doxologies in Daniel0
Levites, Priests, and Temple: Was the Chronicler Influenced by Ezekiel 40–48?0
The Latin Translation of Hebrew Idiomatic Expressions in Jerome’s Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos0
Qualified Continuity0
Reconsidering Textual Coherence: Complexity, Unity, and the Historical-Critical Task0
Das Amt des Jerusalemer Hohepriesters im Licht biblischer und außerbiblischer Quellen der hellenistischen Zeit0
Ezekiel 10:2—Sprinkle Not Scatter0
The Messianic Servant of Old Greek Isaiah 31:9b–32:20
On Emphasis and Exegesis0
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“Bel Crouches; Nebo Travails”: Reading Birth Imagery in Isaiah 46:1–40
Tora in der Chronik: Studien zur Rezeption des Pentateuchs in den Chronikbüchern, written by Lars Maskow0
Hezekiah’s “Showing” and the Babylonian Ambassadors’ “Seeing” of the Royal Treasures0
The Provisions Regarding the Rape and Seduction of an Unbetrothed Girl0
Artemidorus Interprets the Dream of Mordecai (Additions to Esther A and F)0
Living to Serve: The Cupbearer’s Dream (Gen 40)0
Speaking “Mouth to Mouth” (Num 12:8)0
The Festival Legislation in Numbers 28–290
תבנית—the Semantic Development of a Loanword in the Persian Period0
Seshat and Lady Wisdom0
Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread as a Single Ritual Complex0
The Meaning(lessness) of qubbâ and the Original Text of Numbers 25:80
Shaking Up the People0
A Further Note on the Alleged Egyptian Etymology of Sabaoth0
On the Root גאל II, “To Diminish”0
Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. (and of Congress Location) 2028–20310
Alternative Readings in the Septuagint as “Snapshots” of Textual Development0
Centaurs and the Sacred Tree0
Pharaoh’s Forceful Refusal0
The Gatekeeper0
The Judgments of the Israelite and Judahite Kings in Diachronic and Historical Perspective0
The “Wisdom Poem” in Job 28 and its Role in Job’s Final Discourse (Job 27–31)0
Plotting Antiochus’s Death0
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On the Disparity of Penalties in Deuteronomy 22:13–21*0
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What’s in a Name: The Fulfillment Metaphor in Biblical Hebrew0
The Stripping of the Bulls: A Reexamination of the Role of Ahaz in Deuteronomistic Historiography0
Daniel 4 and the Cultural Schema of the Akītu-Festival0
Strange Textiles: Materiality, Wealth, and Wisdom in Proverbs 70
ומבין חידות in Daniel 8:23 as Part of a Literary Contrast0
A Note on Proverbs 22:160
Psalm 40 and the “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31?0
Nochmals zur Frühdatierung von Ri 19*0
Die masoretische Akzentuation in den poetischen Büchern (ספרי אמ״ת)0
Proverbs: A Shorter Commentary, written by Bruce K. Waltke and Ivan D. V. de Silva0
Interpreting the Ehud Narrative through Grotesque Realism and Menippean Satire0
The Aqedah (Gen 22:1–19) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis0
Mûsār in Prov 19:27 and Sir 6:220
In the Garden of Xerxes’ Palace0
Judean Reception of the Elisha Narratives0
Masoretic Forensics and Scribal Fingerprints0
Isaiah 2:6b and the Bible of Justin Martyr0
On the Restoration of Job: Poetics and Meaning in Job 420
Of Dowries and Daughters0
“I Have Made an Engraving of You …” (Isa 49:16a): An Echo of an ANE Adoption Practice in Deutero-Isaiah0
Substituting Anthropomorphisms?0
Confused Language in Ezra 10:440
The Beatitude אַשְׁרֵי and the Confession of Sins in Psalms 32–410
Town and Country: Jephthah, Gilead, and the Preservation of Late Bronze Age Politics0
An Army Like Goats: A Semantic and Zoological Reconsideration of 1 Kings 20:270
Changes in Biblical Orthography Reflecting the Development of the Language0
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