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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Surfing with Jonah: Reading Jonah as a Postcolonial Trauma Narrative5
Behemoth’s Penis, Yahweh’s Might: Competing Bodies in the Book of Job4
Deuteronomy 14.3–21: An Early Exemplar of Rewritten Scripture?3
Together in Guilt: David, Jonadab, and the Rape of Tamar3
The Resilience of the Captive Girl Child in 2 Kings 52
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 Protagonist2
Israelite or Moabite? Ethnicity in the book of Ruth2
‘Other laws’: Haman’s accusation against the Jews in the book of Esther2
Internal Focalization in 1 Samuel – a new perspective on Jonathan’s love for David2
Naming Jerusalem: Poetry and the Identity of the Personified City in Lamentations 1-21
Is Eliphaz a false prophet? The vision in Job 4.12-211
Moses, the Lifter of the Sky: A Novel Reading of Exodus 17:8–16 in Light of the Heliopolitan Cosmogony1
‘Like the snail that dissolves’: Construction of Identity of Psalmist and Enemy in the Lament Psalms of the Individual1
David, Once and Future King? A Closer Look at the Postscript of Psalm 72.201
bĕ-rēʾšît, “With ‘Wisdom,’” in Genesis 1.1 (MT)1
Goliath among the Giants: Monster Decapitation and Capital Display in 1 Samuel 17 and Beyond1
Vision signals and the language of vision descriptions in the prophets1
Cultic Images of Jerusalem in Lamentations 2:1–81
(More) On the Precative Qatal in Lamentations 3.56-61: Updating the Argument1
Does the Hebrew Bible construct a social trauma? Three case studies1
On the Threshold: Liminality in the Stories of the Concubine of Gibeah and Ruth1
YHWH in a Suit: bôd YHWH as the Regalia of the Priestly God1
The ancestors’ masculinities in Genesis1
Parallel Structures in Judges and the Formation of the Book1
Let There Be Cain: A Clash of Imaginations in Genesis 41
Eglon’s Fat and Ehud’s Oracle: A Reconsideration of Humour in Judges 3.12–301
The Anti-Levite of Judges 17-180
“Restructuring the Symbolic Universe”: Resilience through Literary and Ideological Reframing in Isaiah 2.2–4(5)0
Index of Series0
11. Philology and Grammar0
Remembering the lost ark: The ark narrative in its contexts0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Index of Authors0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
Justice for whom? A dynamic interpretation of Isaiah 51.1–80
The Battle with Amalek (Exod. 17.8–16): When God Trusts in Man0
Keep in touch, stay in sight: locally-interpreted overt subjects in 1QIsaa0
The House That Built Me: The ‘House of God’ and Its Role in the Construction of Fear in Nehemiah 6.1–150
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
Blood Manipulation in Hezekiah’s Re-inauguration of the Temple in Chronicles0
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
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Are God’s ‘Good Plans’ not Good Enough? The Place and Significance of Jer 29.15 in Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles0
The anticipatory structure of Isaiah 1-120
The Ram of Ordination and Qualifying the Priests to Eat Sacrifices0
Why Did YHWH Seek to Bring Disaster to Absalom? (2 Sam. 17.14b)0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
The centrality of individual petitions in temple rituals: Hannah, Solomon, and first-person psalms0
The Aqedah as ‘template’? Genesis 22 and 1 Kings 17–180
Jeremiah as the model city: ‘Iron pillar’ as temple language in Jeremiah 1.180
A Time to Throw Away Stones: Qohelet’s Enigmatic Reference to Stones as a Hinge for the Themes of War and Peace in the Time Poem0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Law and Emotion in Moral Repair: Circumscribing Infringement0
Rejection Realized: Saul, the Evil Spirit and the Loss of Kingship0
Index of Authors0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
5. Studies on Specific Books0
Books Also Received0
A new approach to Jephthah’s vow: Antanaclasis (Judges 10–11)0
The Place and the Stone: Reassessing the Priestly Writing’s relationship to Bethel0
4. Texts and Versions0
The Biblical Nesher as the Griffon Vulture, Gyps fulvus: Ornithological character traits0
5. Studies on Specific Books0
The Solomonic Temple of Josephus’ Antiquities0
The golden calf of Bethel and Judah’s mimetic desire of Israel0
11. Philology and Grammar0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
A new Perspective on Jonathan – his covenant with David and his ultimate choice0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
Index of Reviewers0
Offerings Matter: Revisiting the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-Called Sabbath Reform0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch(Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
Books Also Received0
Children of the night: The portrayal of children in the book of Lamentations0
Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine from the Temple: Joel’s Interpretation of the Epilogue of Amos0
Transitive Analogies and the Meaning of Balaam’s Origin: A Literary Analysis0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Editorial fatigue and the relationship between 2 Kings 18–20 and Isaiah 36–390
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20240
9. Apocryphaand Postbiblical Studies0
The Song of Moses as a model for Isa. 10.5–190
Moral and ethical values in structural patterns of coercive acts in Hebrew Bible narrative0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
The Masoretic Text of Haggai 2.7b in light of verbal valency patterns0
The Aesthetics of Biblical Acrostics0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
To what extent is the Moses story modelled on other biblical stories?0
An alliterative-typographical device in Psalm 37: Divine destruction of the wicked, enacted in real time0
Worship as Social Creativity: Social Identity and the Form of Psalm 790
“Die Empörten Weiber”: Gender, Authority and Protestant Modernism in Jeremiah 440
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 Prevalence and Purpose of the ‘Assyria-Egypt’ Motif in the Book of Hosea0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Dreaming big: On expanding dreams, hubris, and the character of the biblical Joseph0
Index of Publishers0
Priestly Disability and Centralization of the Cult in the Holiness Code0
Marginal characters: A strategy of persuasion in 1–2 Samuel0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
Psalm 120 and the question of authorship of the songs of Ascents0
King Solomon and the ‘Anatomy’ of Wisdom0
A Blameworthy Burial: A Methodology for Inner-Biblical Allusion with a Case Study from Chronicles0
Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-380
Index of Reviewers0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
11. Philology and Grammar0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Sequentialized Samson: Five postwar (1949–1956) comic retellings of the Judges’’ tale0
True and False Worship in the Prophecy of Zephaniah0
Hearing the ‘Voice’ of the Niphal: A Response to Ellen van Wolde0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
Comical moments and comical characterisations in Tobit: The undermining of self-righteous piety, simplistic retribution, and limited Yahwism0
The Passover as inauguration of Israel’s departure from Sinai: interpretive potential of analysing narrative technique for discerning literary structure in Numbers 1–100
The Most High God vs. Nabû: A God of Letters, Wisdom, and Fate Who Can(not) Read, Understand, or Foretell0
An Analysis of Concluding Verbs in the Priestly Code: A Contextual Grammatical Approach0
The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Psalm 74 and social identity0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Endangered or Dangerous? YHWH’s Presence and Impurity in Levitical Perspective0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
4. Texts and Versions0
An attempt to identify the birds of Leviticus 11.13–19 using onomatopoeia0
Index of Series0
Index of Reviewers0
Cumulative Part-Whole Relations as a Verbal and Visual Rhetorical Strategy: Song of Songs 7 and Composite Beings of the Southern Levant0
Going Vertical with Love Thy Neighbor: Exegetical Use of Scripture in Leviticus 19.18b0
Resilience through Disclosure and Meaning Making in Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy0
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Index of Authors0
Wisdom and the fear of YHWH: Rethinking their relationship in Proverbs 1–90
Of monsters and men: Reading Daniel with the Liber de Morte (Metz Epitome)0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Genocide in Esther: A response to a recent attempt to defend Haman0
4. Texts and Versions0
Books Also Received0
‘Seeing You Have Not Withheld Your Son’: An Overlooked Motif in Genesis 22?0
One or many? The grammatical number of suffixed nouns as a text-critical problem0
Ceremonial Celebrations Outside the Temple Compound in Ezra-Nehemiah in Babylonian Ritual Context0
Index of Reviewers0
“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. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
11. Philology and Grammar0
Index of Publishers0
Index of Authors0
The Inheritance of (Wicked) Speech: A Reconsideration of Job 20.290
Who is the holy seed?: Purity and identity in the Restoration Community0
Royally Enticing, Royally Forgetting: The Contribution of Psalm 45 within Its Canonical Context0
Index of Series0
Engaging Westermann and the Assumptive World0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
4. Texts and Versions0
Index of Series0
The ironic syllogism: A rhetorical use of unmarked questions0
7. Law, Religionand Theology0
‘For a Man Is Born to Suffer’: Intertextuality between Job 4–5 and Gen. 2.4b–3.240
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20230
Honor in the Cult: Leviticus 10 in Socio-Rhetorical Perspective0
An Object-Relations Analysis of Psalm 1310
The shift from lament to praise in the psalms: A psychodynamic phenomenon0
Index of Publishers0
Stillness and salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in its context0
An Uprooted, Withered Cedar: A New Reading of Ezekiel’s Depiction of Jehoiachin’s Exile0
“Naomi the Nurse: Obed’s Ambiguous Identity Transmission”0
Jeremiah’s Laments as Effective Speech0
Economics and Urdeuteronomium: A response to Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Philippe Guillaume, and Benedetta Rossi0
Index of Publishers0
On the tedious and monotonous repetitions in the Tabernacle accounts: a reassessment0
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