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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Truncated Oath of Innocence and the Adjudicatory Challenge to God: Three Examples (Job 31:5–6; Ps 44:21–22; Josh 22:23)3
Priestly Warfare and the Battle of Jericho3
A New Look at Abigail’s Wisdom2
Identifying Alphabetic Compositions in the Hebrew Bible1
The Meaning of the Verb דאה in Biblical Hebrew1
Qoheleth as a Realist1
Histories of Ancient Israel: Present State and Future Potential1
Substituting Anthropomorphisms?1
China Is in the Bible1
God, the Feminine, and Other Struggles1
A (Somewhat) New Way to See and Understand the Diverse and Strategic Use of the Interrogatives in Isa 40:12–311
The Wheat Exported from Israel to Tyre1
Black Color and Emotions in Sirach1
Stretch Out Your Ear1
The Major Additions in the Samaritan Pentateuch Tradition1
Ringen mit Gott1
People and Botanical Metaphors in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira1
Manasseh, not Moses1
On Emphasis and Exegesis1
At Sea with Moses’s Staff0
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Nation and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel?0
Daniel 4 and the Cultural Schema of the Akītu-Festival0
A Unique Type of Inclusio in Psalms0
The Provisions Regarding the Rape and Seduction of an Unbetrothed Girl0
Announcement Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. 2025–20280
Subversion through Allusion in Samuel’s Call to Prophecy (1 Sam 3)0
Levites, Priests, and Temple: Was the Chronicler Influenced by Ezekiel 40–48?0
Ezekiel 10:2—Sprinkle Not Scatter0
Mûsār in Prov 19:27 and Sir 6:220
The Census “Crisis Episode” and the Chronicler’s Mythic Agenda in 1 Chronicles 210
Jewish Identity, Exclusion of Foreigners, and Group Survival0
“The Yoke Before the Oil” (Isa 10:27d) in the Light of Neo-Assyrian Covenant-Making Rituals0
On the Root גאל II, “To Diminish”0
Moabite Ethnicity and Territorial Claims in the Mesha Stele (and the Hebrew Bible)0
Luxuriant and Well-Fatted: The Meaning of מעדנת in 1 Sam 15:320
Qualified Continuity0
Changes in Biblical Orthography Reflecting the Development of the Language0
Plotting Antiochus’s Death0
Saul and David, Israel and Judah: The Book of Samuel as Paradigmatic History0
Becoming Jews?0
Race and Ethnicity at Genesis 10 and the Idea of “Semites”0
The Booty Call0
Why Susa?0
Substituting Vorlagen0
The Hebrew Bible and the Theory of Anachronism0
Girdles of Fig Foliage0
Zion’s Taunt (37:22) and Tirade (49:14) in Isaiah0
Keeping the King Off the Hook0
Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. (and of Congress Location) 2028–20310
A Further Note on the Alleged Egyptian Etymology of Sabaoth0
Reconsidering Textual Coherence: Complexity, Unity, and the Historical-Critical Task0
The Judgments of the Israelite and Judahite Kings in Diachronic and Historical Perspective0
The Puzzling Portrait of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles 32:24–310
Speaking “Mouth to Mouth” (Num 12:8)0
The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת0
On the Disparity of Penalties in Deuteronomy 22:13–21*0
The “Wisdom Poem” in Job 28 and its Role in Job’s Final Discourse (Job 27–31)0
Satire and Subversion in the Oracles of Ezekiel0
The Etymology of Šadday0
1 Kings 19 and Its Emotional Repertoires0
The Aqedah (Gen 22:1–19) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis0
Nebuchadnezzar, Nabonidus, and the Tradition of the “Mad King”0
“Remember!”0
תבנית—the Semantic Development of a Loanword in the Persian Period0
The Enigma of Deuteronomy 20:19–200
The Festival Legislation in Numbers 28–290
The Oracles of Moses, Prophet of Yahweh0
Living to Serve: The Cupbearer’s Dream (Gen 40)0
The Potential Babylonian Background of Nebuchadnezzar’s Image of Gold in Daniel 30
Two Unnoticed Telestics in Psalm 1450
The Language of the Doxologies in Daniel0
Nochmals zur Frühdatierung von Ri 19*0
The Beatitude אַשְׁרֵי and the Confession of Sins in Psalms 32–410
Divine Blueprints0
Contract Allies0
Thinking about Thinking: Recent Research on the “Mind” in Ancient Israel0
Models of Word Order in Biblical Hebrew0
The Stripping of the Bulls: A Reexamination of the Role of Ahaz in Deuteronomistic Historiography0
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Hezekiah’s “Showing” and the Babylonian Ambassadors’ “Seeing” of the Royal Treasures0
The Polemical Cosmogony in the Doxologies of Amos (4:13; 5:8; 9:5–6)0
From Military Coup to Temple Coronation0
Pharaoh’s Forceful Refusal0
A Note on Proverbs 22:160
Personal Names and Naming in Israel’s Household Religion0
Slavery and Exile in the Book of Baruch0
A Solution to the Subject(s) of Psalm 7:13–140
Eli’s “Heavy Eyes” in LXX 1 Kingdoms 3:2 and Euripides’ Alcestis0
A Whirling Tempest0
Sheshbazzar and Nehemiah0
Das Amt des Jerusalemer Hohepriesters im Licht biblischer und außerbiblischer Quellen der hellenistischen Zeit0
Psalm 40 and the “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31?0
Rethinking the Origins and Textual History of Ancient Jewish Literature: A Review of Recent Works by Emanuel Tov, James Nati, and Nathan Mastnjak0
An Intertextual Reading of Amos 3:70
Decontextualized Instruction or Disembodied Reading?0
When Life is Endangered0
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
A Second Look at the Second Gathering0
Is the Sin of Jehu the Fault of the Deuteronomist?0
Strange Textiles: Materiality, Wealth, and Wisdom in Proverbs 70
Back matter0
The Core Meaning of נער and Its Semantic Extension0
Jeremiah 10:1–16 MT and LXX0
“Have You Called Us Here to Dispossess Us?” (Judg 14:15)0
Falsehood and False Prophets in Jeremiah0
Front matter0
Decentering Exile0
The Supposedly Irrevocable Laws in Esther and Dan 6 in Light of the Motif of the King’s Inability to Undo an Execution0
Tithes and Imperial Taxes0
Town and Country: Jephthah, Gilead, and the Preservation of Late Bronze Age Politics0
What’s in a Name: The Fulfillment Metaphor in Biblical Hebrew0
Front matter0
The Case for Dropsy as Punishment for the Proven Adulteress (Numbers 5:11–31)0
The Latin Translation of Hebrew Idiomatic Expressions in Jerome’s Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos0
Seshat and Lady Wisdom0
From the Jordan to Mt. Ebal and Back0
Scholars and Scholarship during the Third Reich0
Masoretic Forensics and Scribal Fingerprints0
The Gatekeeper0
From Pre-Masoretic Idiolect to Pre-LXX Attestations0
Pollution in the Bible and in Cognitive Science: A Review of Recent Works by Thomas Kazen and Yitzhaq Feder0
Shaking Up the People0
Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread as a Single Ritual Complex0
Gates and Entrances in Ezekiel 40–48: The Social Utopia of the Temple Vision0
In the Garden of Xerxes’ Palace0
Alternative Readings in the Septuagint as “Snapshots” of Textual Development0
Die Vetus Latina der Klagelieder als Zeugin für den Bedeutungswandel hebräischer Lexeme im Licht ihrer aramäischen Umwelt0
Divine Election in the Hebrew Bible, written by Hallvard Hagelia0
“On Wings like Eagles!” (Isa 40:31)0
Did an Ephraimite Woman Build Cities?0
Front matter0
Pinocchio in the Vulgate0
The Judean Problem in Nahum 1:90
The Buried Abimelech Tradition in Judges 10:10
Artemidorus Interprets the Dream of Mordecai (Additions to Esther A and F)0
The Story of Adoram the Taskmaster over the Forced Labor and the Traditions Regarding the Kingdom’s Division0
The Messianic Servant of Old Greek Isaiah 31:9b–32:20
A TEL of No City0
Interpreting the Ehud Narrative through Grotesque Realism and Menippean Satire0
The Meaning(lessness) of qubbâ and the Original Text of Numbers 25:80
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The Identity, Etymology, and Material Context of סֹחֶרֶת in Esther 1:60
µετέχω παιδείας in Sir 51:280
Joshua Fragment from Codex Climaci Rescriptus: A New Edition Based on the Multispectral Images0
Pferde und Raubvögel im Hebräischen und Ägyptischen0
Judean Reception of the Elisha Narratives0
ומבין חידות in Daniel 8:23 as Part of a Literary Contrast0
Centaurs and the Sacred Tree0
The First Rainfall in History0
Of Dowries and Daughters0
New Directions for Thinking about the Bible and Nonhuman Animals: A Review of Works by Peter Atkins, Dong Hyeon Jeong, and Saul Olyan0
Spätbronzezeit, neuassyrische Zeit oder babylonisches Exil0
Isaiah 2:6b and the Bible of Justin Martyr0
To Bleat or Not to Bleat0
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On the Restoration of Job: Poetics and Meaning in Job 420
Seen from Afar: Genesis 22:4 in Comparative Perspective0
The Background of Malachi’s Final Prophecy (Mal 3:13–21)0
The Power to Act0
Sedurot in orientalischen Bibelhandschriften0
“Crossing Over in Death”0
Qohelet as Divine Hedonist0
Measuring Conceptual Complexification in the Pentateuch0
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