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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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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
Identifying Alphabetic Compositions in the Hebrew Bible2
Priestly Warfare and the Battle of Jericho2
A New Look at Abigail’s Wisdom2
God, the Feminine, and Other Struggles1
The Major Additions in the Samaritan Pentateuch Tradition1
Manasseh, not Moses1
People and Botanical Metaphors in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira1
China Is in the Bible1
Ringen mit Gott1
Stretch Out Your Ear1
Das erinnerte Heiligtum: Tradition und Geschichte der Kultstätte in Schilo, written by Ann-Kathrin Knittel1
Understanding Imitatio Dei in the Holiness Source1
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
Tora in der Chronik: Studien zur Rezeption des Pentateuchs in den Chronikbüchern, written by Lars Maskow1
Spätbronzezeit, neuassyrische Zeit oder babylonisches Exil0
Moabite Ethnicity and Territorial Claims in the Mesha Stele (and the Hebrew Bible)0
Pollution in the Bible and in Cognitive Science: A Review of Recent Works by Thomas Kazen and Yitzhaq Feder0
Die Vetus Latina der Klagelieder als Zeugin für den Bedeutungswandel hebräischer Lexeme im Licht ihrer aramäischen Umwelt0
The Festival Legislation in Numbers 28–290
United in Exile, Reunited in Restoration: The Chronicler’s Agenda, written by Jordan Guy0
Das Amt des Jerusalemer Hohepriesters im Licht biblischer und außerbiblischer Quellen der hellenistischen Zeit0
The Language of the Doxologies in Daniel0
תבנית—the Semantic Development of a Loanword in the Persian Period0
The Messianic Servant of Old Greek Isaiah 31:9b–32:20
Two Unnoticed Telestics in Psalm 1450
Seshat and Lady Wisdom0
On the Root גאל II, “To Diminish”0
Thinking about Thinking: Recent Research on the “Mind” in Ancient Israel0
“Bel Crouches; Nebo Travails”: Reading Birth Imagery in Isaiah 46:1–40
Divine Election in the Hebrew Bible, written by Hallvard Hagelia0
The Story of Adoram the Taskmaster over the Forced Labor and the Traditions Regarding the Kingdom’s Division0
The Gatekeeper0
Jewish Identity, Exclusion of Foreigners, and Group Survival0
Artemidorus Interprets the Dream of Mordecai (Additions to Esther A and F)0
The Judean Problem in Nahum 1:90
Divine Blueprints0
The Etymology of Šadday0
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The Meaning(lessness) of qubbâ and the Original Text of Numbers 25:80
Eli’s “Heavy Eyes” in LXX 1 Kingdoms 3:2 and Euripides’ Alcestis0
The Enigma of Deuteronomy 20:19–200
Substituting Vorlagen0
Benjamin and the Anonymous Ten Tribes of Israel: A Holistic Approach to Tribal Confusions0
Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. (and of Congress Location) 2028–20310
Zion’s Taunt (37:22) and Tirade (49:14) in Isaiah0
Sedurot in orientalischen Bibelhandschriften0
µετέχω παιδείας in Sir 51:280
From the Jordan to Mt. Ebal and Back0
Mûsār in Prov 19:27 and Sir 6:220
Centaurs and the Sacred Tree0
The Buried Abimelech Tradition in Judges 10:10
The Judgments of the Israelite and Judahite Kings in Diachronic and Historical Perspective0
Front matter0
Black Color and Emotions in Sirach0
On the Disparity of Penalties in Deuteronomy 22:13–21*0
The Power to Act0
What’s in a Name: The Fulfillment Metaphor in Biblical Hebrew0
On Emphasis and Exegesis0
Measuring Conceptual Complexification in the Pentateuch0
ומבין חידות in Daniel 8:23 as Part of a Literary Contrast0
Front matter0
The Aqedah (Gen 22:1–19) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis0
Tithes and Imperial Taxes0
Nochmals zur Frühdatierung von Ri 19*0
A Further Note on the Alleged Egyptian Etymology of Sabaoth0
The Provisions Regarding the Rape and Seduction of an Unbetrothed Girl0
Living to Serve: The Cupbearer’s Dream (Gen 40)0
In the Garden of Xerxes’ Palace0
Masoretic Forensics and Scribal Fingerprints0
Nation and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel?0
“I Have Made an Engraving of You …” (Isa 49:16a): An Echo of an ANE Adoption Practice in Deutero-Isaiah0
“The Yoke Before the Oil” (Isa 10:27d) in the Light of Neo-Assyrian Covenant-Making Rituals0
The First Rainfall in History0
Shaking Up the People0
Town and Country: Jephthah, Gilead, and the Preservation of Late Bronze Age Politics0
Ezekiel 10:2—Sprinkle Not Scatter0
From Military Coup to Temple Coronation0
Nebuchadnezzar, Nabonidus, and the Tradition of the “Mad King”0
Alternative Readings in the Septuagint as “Snapshots” of Textual Development0
Scholars and Scholarship during the Third Reich0
Pharaoh’s Forceful Refusal0
Hezekiah’s “Showing” and the Babylonian Ambassadors’ “Seeing” of the Royal Treasures0
From Pre-Masoretic Idiolect to Pre-LXX Attestations0
The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת0
Becoming Jews?0
Plotting Antiochus’s Death0
Speaking “Mouth to Mouth” (Num 12:8)0
The Latin Translation of Hebrew Idiomatic Expressions in Jerome’s Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos0
“Have You Called Us Here to Dispossess Us?” (Judg 14:15)0
The Hebrew Bible and the Theory of Anachronism0
Why Susa?0
Pinocchio in the Vulgate0
Strange Textiles: Materiality, Wealth, and Wisdom in Proverbs 70
The Polemical Cosmogony in the Doxologies of Amos (4:13; 5:8; 9:5–6)0
The Background of Malachi’s Final Prophecy (Mal 3:13–21)0
Gates and Entrances in Ezekiel 40–48: The Social Utopia of the Temple Vision0
Is the Sin of Jehu the Fault of the Deuteronomist?0
Die masoretische Akzentuation in den poetischen Büchern (ספרי אמ״ת)0
Jeremiah 10:1–16 MT and LXX0
The Puzzling Portrait of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles 32:24–310
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
Back matter0
A TEL of No City0
Pferde und Raubvögel im Hebräischen und Ägyptischen0
Substituting Anthropomorphisms?0
“Remember!”0
Personal Names and Naming in Israel’s Household Religion0
The Beatitude אַשְׁרֵי and the Confession of Sins in Psalms 32–410
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Histories of Ancient Israel: Present State and Future Potential0
Daniel 4 and the Cultural Schema of the Akītu-Festival0
Decontextualized Instruction or Disembodied Reading?0
Satire and Subversion in the Oracles of Ezekiel0
The Booty Call0
Saul and David, Israel and Judah: The Book of Samuel as Paradigmatic History0
Race and Ethnicity at Genesis 10 and the Idea of “Semites”0
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Decentering Exile0
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Isaiah 2:6b and the Bible of Justin Martyr0
Models of Word Order in Biblical Hebrew0
Song of Songs 1:1—Text and Paratext0
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Proverbs: A Shorter Commentary, written by Bruce K. Waltke and Ivan D. V. de Silva0
Qohelet as Divine Hedonist0
Subversion through Allusion in Samuel’s Call to Prophecy (1 Sam 3)0
Announcement Nomination to the Presidency of the I.O.S.O.T. 2025–20280
The Stripping of the Bulls: A Reexamination of the Role of Ahaz in Deuteronomistic Historiography0
A Solution to the Subject(s) of Psalm 7:13–140
When Life is Endangered0
A Note on Proverbs 22:160
Luxuriant and Well-Fatted: The Meaning of מעדנת in 1 Sam 15:320
The Identity, Etymology, and Material Context of סֹחֶרֶת in Esther 1:60
The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, written by Thomas Renz0
Seen from Afar: Genesis 22:4 in Comparative Perspective0
Interpreting the Ehud Narrative through Grotesque Realism and Menippean Satire0
Sheshbazzar and Nehemiah0
Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread as a Single Ritual Complex0
Changes in Biblical Orthography Reflecting the Development of the Language0
A Whirling Tempest0
“On Wings like Eagles!” (Isa 40:31)0
An Intertextual Reading of Amos 3:70
Psalm 40 and the “New Covenant” of Jeremiah 31?0
Levites, Priests, and Temple: Was the Chronicler Influenced by Ezekiel 40–48?0
Rethinking the Origins and Textual History of Ancient Jewish Literature: A Review of Recent Works by Emanuel Tov, James Nati, and Nathan Mastnjak0
Qualified Continuity0
Of Dowries and Daughters0
The Core Meaning of נער and Its Semantic Extension0
Keeping the King Off the Hook0
The Supposedly Irrevocable Laws in Esther and Dan 6 in Light of the Motif of the King’s Inability to Undo an Execution0
Falsehood and False Prophets in Jeremiah0
The “Wisdom Poem” in Job 28 and its Role in Job’s Final Discourse (Job 27–31)0
Reconsidering Textual Coherence: Complexity, Unity, and the Historical-Critical Task0
New Directions for Thinking about the Bible and Nonhuman Animals: A Review of Works by Peter Atkins, Dong Hyeon Jeong, and Saul Olyan0
“Midianite Men, Merchants” (Gen 37:28): Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Perspectives0
On the Restoration of Job: Poetics and Meaning in Job 420
Qoheleth as a Realist0
A Legal Allusion: The Correlation of Law and History in Ezekiel 200
Joshua Fragment from Codex Climaci Rescriptus: A New Edition Based on the Multispectral Images0
A Unique Type of Inclusio in Psalms0
Girdles of Fig Foliage0
Judean Reception of the Elisha Narratives0
1 Kings 19 and Its Emotional Repertoires0
The Census “Crisis Episode” and the Chronicler’s Mythic Agenda in 1 Chronicles 210
Slavery and Exile in the Book of Baruch0
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