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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-385
Economics and Urdeuteronomium: A response to Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Philippe Guillaume, and Benedetta Rossi4
5. Studies on Specific Books3
Index of Series3
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy3
Worship as Social Creativity: Social Identity and the Form of Psalm 792
Keep in touch, stay in sight: locally-interpreted overt subjects in 1QIsaa2
Index of Authors2
7. Law, Religion and Theology2
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch(Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)2
Moses, the Lifter of the Sky: A Novel Reading of Exodus 17:8–16 in Light of the Heliopolitan Cosmogony1
The ancestors’ masculinities in Genesis1
Comical moments and comical characterisations in Tobit: The undermining of self-righteous piety, simplistic retribution, and limited Yahwism1
The ironic syllogism: A rhetorical use of unmarked questions1
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation1
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 Protagonist1
The Masoretic Text of Haggai 2.7b in light of verbal valency patterns1
Index of Series1
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)1
Index of Publishers1
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy1
The Place and the Stone: Reassessing the Priestly Writing’s relationship to Bethel1
Index of Series1
7. Law, Religion and Theology1
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls1
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy1
One or many? The grammatical number of suffixed nouns as a text-critical problem1
The Ram of Ordination and Qualifying the Priests to Eat Sacrifices0
7. Law, Religionand Theology0
David as primary model of repentance in Chronicles: How the Chronicler’s inclusion of David’s illicit census sin impacts David’s legacy0
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
The Prevalence and Purpose of the ‘Assyria-Egypt’ Motif in the Book of Hosea0
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20230
The poetics of YHWH: Establishing criteria for identifying intentional allusions to the divine name in YHWH-acronyms0
The Battle with Amalek (Exod. 17.8–16): When God Trusts in Man0
Narratological implications of the differences between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint: 1 Samuel 10.5 and 13.1–4 as a case study0
Royally Enticing, Royally Forgetting: The Contribution of Psalm 45 within Its Canonical Context0
The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel0
Enjambment as a syntactic phenomenon and poetic technique in the Psalms of Ascent0
‘Other laws’: Haman’s accusation against the Jews in the book of Esther0
The anticipatory structure of Isaiah 1-120
“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
4. Texts and Versions0
Editorial fatigue and the relationship between 2 Kings 18–20 and Isaiah 36–390
Stillness and salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in its context0
4. Texts and Versions0
(More) On the Precative Qatal in Lamentations 3.56-61: Updating the Argument0
Cumulative Part-Whole Relations as a Verbal and Visual Rhetorical Strategy: Song of Songs 7 and Composite Beings of the Southern Levant0
11. Philology and Grammar0
The diachrony of the Hebrew verb בָּעַל‎0
Index of Reviewers0
Index of Series0
Vision signals and the language of vision descriptions in the prophets0
Goliath among the Giants: Monster Decapitation and Capital Display in 1 Samuel 17 and Beyond0
Is Eliphaz a false prophet? The vision in Job 4.12-210
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 Song of Moses as a model for Isa. 10.5–190
Wisdom and the fear of YHWH: Rethinking their relationship in Proverbs 1–90
11. Philology and Grammar0
Going Vertical with Love Thy Neighbor: Exegetical Use of Scripture in Leviticus 19.18b0
Index of Reviewers0
Law and Emotion in Moral Repair: Circumscribing Infringement0
Index of Reviewers0
The Aesthetics of Biblical Acrostics0
Dreaming big: On expanding dreams, hubris, and the character of the biblical Joseph0
Ezekiel’s God in pursuit of recognition: A catalyst for self-transformation0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
5. Studies on Specific Books0
“Naomi the Nurse: Obed’s Ambiguous Identity Transmission”0
‘For a Man Is Born to Suffer’: Intertextuality between Job 4–5 and Gen. 2.4b–3.240
Cultic Images of Jerusalem in Lamentations 2:1–80
Index of Publishers0
Jeremiah as the model city: ‘Iron pillar’ as temple language in Jeremiah 1.180
“Restructuring the Symbolic Universe”: Resilience through Literary and Ideological Reframing in Isaiah 2.2–4(5)0
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20240
Does the Hebrew Bible construct a social trauma? Three case studies0
The Biblical Nesher as the Griffon Vulture, Gyps fulvus: Ornithological character traits0
On the Threshold: Liminality in the Stories of the Concubine of Gibeah and Ruth0
Parallel Structures in Judges and the Formation of the Book0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Backlighting Jeroboam: Form, Content, and Paronomasia in 1 Kings0
On the tedious and monotonous repetitions in the Tabernacle accounts: a reassessment0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
Books Also Received0
David, Once and Future King? A Closer Look at the Postscript of Psalm 72.200
Let There Be Cain: A Clash of Imaginations in Genesis 40
The Most High God vs. Nabû: A God of Letters, Wisdom, and Fate Who Can(not) Read, Understand, or Foretell0
‘Seeing You Have Not Withheld Your Son’: An Overlooked Motif in Genesis 22?0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
The Aqedah as ‘template’? Genesis 22 and 1 Kings 17–180
An Uprooted, Withered Cedar: A New Reading of Ezekiel’s Depiction of Jehoiachin’s Exile0
Index of Authors0
Endangered or Dangerous? YHWH’s Presence and Impurity in Levitical Perspective0
To what extent is the Moses story modelled on other biblical stories?0
Index of Publishers0
4. Texts and Versions0
The golden calf of Bethel and Judah’s mimetic desire of Israel0
Psalm 120 and the question of authorship of the songs of Ascents0
The centrality of individual petitions in temple rituals: Hannah, Solomon, and first-person psalms0
A Blameworthy Burial: A Methodology for Inner-Biblical Allusion with a Case Study from Chronicles0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
9. Apocryphaand Postbiblical Studies0
Moral and ethical values in structural patterns of coercive acts in Hebrew Bible narrative0
The Resilience of the Captive Girl Child in 2 Kings 50
Psalm 74 and social identity0
Priestly Disability and Centralization of the Cult in the Holiness Code0
bĕ-rēʾšît, “With ‘Wisdom,’” in Genesis 1.1 (MT)0
An Object-Relations Analysis of Psalm 1310
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
YHWH in a Suit: bôd YHWH as the Regalia of the Priestly God0
“Die Empörten Weiber”: Gender, Authority and Protestant Modernism in Jeremiah 440
4. Texts and Versions0
Books Also Received0
Internal Focalization in 1 Samuel – a new perspective on Jonathan’s love for David0
Hearing the ‘Voice’ of the Niphal: A Response to Ellen van Wolde0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Deuteronomy 14.3–21: An Early Exemplar of Rewritten Scripture?0
Justice for whom? A dynamic interpretation of Isaiah 51.1–80
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
True and False Worship in the Prophecy of Zephaniah0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
A pre-biblical version of the Cain and Abel story: A subtle condemnation of a dysfunctional social structure0
‘Like the snail that dissolves’: Construction of Identity of Psalmist and Enemy in the Lament Psalms of the Individual0
Naming Jerusalem: Poetry and the Identity of the Personified City in Lamentations 1-20
The Inheritance of (Wicked) Speech: A Reconsideration of Job 20.290
Sequentialized Samson: Five postwar (1949–1956) comic retellings of the Judges’’ tale0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Israelite or Moabite? Ethnicity in the book of Ruth0
Ceremonial Celebrations Outside the Temple Compound in Ezra-Nehemiah in Babylonian Ritual Context0
Offerings Matter: Revisiting the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-Called Sabbath Reform0
A new Perspective on Jonathan – his covenant with David and his ultimate choice0
Marginal characters: A strategy of persuasion in 1–2 Samuel0
A new approach to Jephthah’s vow: Antanaclasis (Judges 10–11)0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Jeremiah’s Laments as Effective Speech0
Index of Publishers0
Rejection Realized: Saul, the Evil Spirit and the Loss of Kingship0
Honor in the Cult: Leviticus 10 in Socio-Rhetorical Perspective0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
An Analysis of Concluding Verbs in the Priestly Code: A Contextual Grammatical Approach0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
Index of Reviewers0
Remembering the lost ark: The ark narrative in its contexts0
Surfing with Jonah: Reading Jonah as a Postcolonial Trauma Narrative0
Together in Guilt: David, Jonadab, and the Rape of Tamar0
The Solomonic Temple of Josephus’ Antiquities0
Engaging Westermann and the Assumptive World0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Who is the holy seed?: Purity and identity in the Restoration Community0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
The Anti-Levite of Judges 17-180
Are God’s ‘Good Plans’ not Good Enough? The Place and Significance of Jer 29.15 in Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles0
King Solomon and the ‘Anatomy’ of Wisdom0
Index of Authors0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
11. Philology and Grammar0
Eglon’s Fat and Ehud’s Oracle: A Reconsideration of Humour in Judges 3.12–300
11. Philology and Grammar0
Behemoth’s Penis, Yahweh’s Might: Competing Bodies in the Book of Job0
Blood Manipulation in Hezekiah’s Re-inauguration of the Temple in Chronicles0
The House That Built Me: The ‘House of God’ and Its Role in the Construction of Fear in Nehemiah 6.1–150
An attempt to identify the birds of Leviticus 11.13–19 using onomatopoeia0
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
Genocide in Esther: A response to a recent attempt to defend Haman0
Resilience through Disclosure and Meaning Making in Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
Of monsters and men: Reading Daniel with the Liber de Morte (Metz Epitome)0
Why Did YHWH Seek to Bring Disaster to Absalom? (2 Sam. 17.14b)0
An alliterative-typographical device in Psalm 37: Divine destruction of the wicked, enacted in real time0
Children of the night: The portrayal of children in the book of Lamentations0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Books Also Received0
The shift from lament to praise in the psalms: A psychodynamic phenomenon0
Index of Authors0
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
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
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