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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cultural memory in Deuteronomy 4 and 324
Moses, the Lifter of the Sky: A Novel Reading of Exodus 17:8–16 in Light of the Heliopolitan Cosmogony3
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20242
One or many? The grammatical number of suffixed nouns as a text-critical problem2
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy2
3. History, Geography and Sociology1
Justice for whom? A dynamic interpretation of Isaiah 51.1–81
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples1
The centrality of individual petitions in temple rituals: Hannah, Solomon, and first-person psalms1
Index of Publishers1
Backlighting Jeroboam: Form, Content, and Paronomasia in 1 Kings1
“Restructuring the Symbolic Universe”: Resilience through Literary and Ideological Reframing in Isaiah 2.2–4(5)1
Ezekiel 29.6b–7 and metaphorical uses of canes in the Hebrew Bible1
Index of Authors1
Moral and ethical values in structural patterns of coercive acts in Hebrew Bible narrative1
The poetics of YHWH: Establishing criteria for identifying intentional allusions to the divine name in YHWH-acronyms1
The Most High God vs. Nabû: A God of Letters, Wisdom, and Fate Who Can(not) Read, Understand, or Foretell1
Does the Hebrew Bible construct a social trauma? Three case studies1
Semitic * ʾilāh - and Hebrew אלהים‎: From plural ‘gods’ to singular ‘God’1
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples1
Jeremiah as the model city: ‘Iron pillar’ as temple language in Jeremiah 1.181
Ritual spaces in the home in two biblical narratives: The house of Micah (Judg. 17) and the house of the medium at Ein Dor (1 Sam. 28)1
Index of Publishers1
Index of Reviewers1
What did Eve say? A study of Genesis 4.1b1
The Solomonic Temple of Josephus’ Antiquities1
A new approach to Jephthah’s vow: Antanaclasis (Judges 10–11)1
Royally Enticing, Royally Forgetting: The Contribution of Psalm 45 within Its Canonical Context1
Empowering the powerless: Wisdom in the twin tales of Esther and Job1
The anticipatory structure of Isaiah 1-120
An Object-Relations Analysis of Psalm 1310
“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
An Uprooted, Withered Cedar: A New Reading of Ezekiel’s Depiction of Jehoiachin’s Exile0
4. Texts and Versions0
Index of Authors0
An Analysis of Concluding Verbs in the Priestly Code: A Contextual Grammatical Approach0
‘We became refuse and rubbish’: Violence, filth, and rehumanization after exile0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Simul justus et peccator : The literary strategy of Solomon’s narrative and its redactional issues (1 Kings 3–11)0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
True and False Worship in the Prophecy of Zephaniah0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation0
The literary profile of the Priestly strand: A new perspective0
Index of Authors0
East after Eden: The qedem motif in the primeval and patriarchal narrative(s) of Genesis0
Index of Reviewers0
Society for Old Testament Study0
The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel0
On the tedious and monotonous repetitions in the Tabernacle accounts: a reassessment0
Books Also Received0
An asexual aromantic reading of Song of Songs 5.2–6: Queering the tradition0
5. Specific Books. II. Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings)0
Amos amongst the nōqdīm : Navigating agrarian class conflict in the book of Amos0
YHWH in a Suit: b ô d YHWH 0
Dreaming big: On expanding dreams, hubris, and the character of the biblical Joseph0
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation0
Society for Old Testament Study: Book List 20250
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Society for Old Testament Study: Book List 20260
The Place and the Stone: Reassessing the Priestly Writing’s relationship to Bethel0
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation0
Transitive Analogies and the Meaning of Balaam’s Origin: A Literary Analysis0
Cultic Images of Jerusalem in Lamentations 2:1–80
Index of Reviewers0
The golden calf of Bethel and Judah’s mimetic desire of Israel0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
10. Philology and Grammar0
Masoretic accents, recital rhythm, and vowel length: Observations on the prosody of Masoretic Text0
The diachrony of the Hebrew verb בָּעַל‎0
5. Specific Books. III. Latter Prophets III. Latter Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea–Malachi)0
Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-380
5. Specific Books. V. Other Writings V. Other Writings (Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Daniel, Chronicles, Ezra–Nehemiah)0
The tragedy of Abiathar of Nob: Identifying character-systems as an avenue to authorial intent0
Enjambment as a syntactic phenomenon and poetic technique in the Psalms of Ascent0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Messianism and universalism in Psalm 22: An intertextual journey according to Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
Index of Series0
Qohelet’s satire of the chores: Ecclesiastes 10.8–11, the Teaching of Khety, and the limits of wisdom0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
Narratological implications of the differences between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint: 1 Samuel 10.5 and 13.1–4 as a case study0
Abraham’s circumcision: An ironic mnemonic device0
Clinging in love: Attachment indicators and implications in Deuteronomy 10.12–11.10
Index of Publishers0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
Provisioning the Persians and the prophetic imagination: Reconceiving subversion and sovereignty in 2 Kings 6.8–230
The shift from lament to praise in the psalms: A psychodynamic phenomenon0
4. Texts and Versions0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
Epiphany and epilepsy: The Epitomator’s approach to history and disease in 2 Maccabees 3.22–280
‘Let your name be …’: The change of the names of Israel’s ancestors in light of the Atra-ḫasīs myth0
אם שׁלמים‎ or משׁל מים‎ in Nah. 1.12: A study of the ancient translations0
Elisha—predatory prophet?0
Index of Series0
5. Studies on Specific Books: IV. Psalms and Wisdom IV. Psalms and Wisdom (Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs)0
‘Jacob, my father’: The character of Judah in the Joseph Novella (Gen. 37–50)0
An attempt to identify the birds of Leviticus 11.13–19 using onomatopoeia0
David as primary model of repentance in Chronicles: How the Chronicler’s inclusion of David’s illicit census sin impacts David’s legacy0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
The Israelite Imago Mundi : A hypothetical reconstruction0
Jeremiah’s Laments as Effective Speech0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Purposeful parallels: Revision-through-introduction in Leviticus 18 and 200
Index of Series0
A new Perspective on Jonathan – his covenant with David and his ultimate choice0
Sintflut and Sinai: Genesis 6–8’s allusion to Exodus 24–400
“Naomi the Nurse: Obed’s Ambiguous Identity Transmission”0
When Moses is not enough: A comparative study of referral narratives in the Torah0
Keep in touch, stay in sight: locally-interpreted overt subjects in 1QIsa a0
A pre-biblical version of the Cain and Abel story: A subtle condemnation of a dysfunctional social structure0
Index of Reviewers0
Who was Nahum? A wild but informed guess0
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
Index of Series0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20230
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
5. Studies on Specific Books: I. Pentateuch I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
The honor of Jabez and the acquisition of land in the book of Chronicles0
Of monsters and men: Reading Daniel with the Liber de Morte (Metz Epitome)0
11. Philology and Grammar0
Hiding in plain sight: Identifying implicit markers of בושׁ‎ in Hebrew narrative0
Editorial fatigue and the relationship between 2 Kings 18–20 and Isaiah 36–390
Rejection Realized: Saul, the Evil Spirit and the Loss of Kingship0
Stillness and salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in its context0
4. Texts and Versions0
Cumulative Part-Whole Relations as a Verbal and Visual Rhetorical Strategy: Song of Songs 7 and Composite Beings of the Southern Levant0
Rebuke between Abraham and Abimelech: A model of conflict resolution0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
Resilience through Disclosure and Meaning Making in Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Index of Publishers0
4. Texts and Versions0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch(Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
Remember like a man: Memory and masculinity in the Gideon and Jephthah cycles0
Did the Shapira manuscript betray an unambiguously Pentateuchal perspective? A rejoinder to Stackert0
5. Specific Books. I. Pentateuch I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
The Anti-Levite of Judges 17-180
The Song of Moses as a model for Isa. 10.5–190
Economics and Urdeuteronomium : A response to Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Philippe Guillaume, and Benedetta Rossi0
The Masoretic Text of Haggai 2.7b in light of verbal valency patterns0
Ezekiel’s God in pursuit of recognition: A catalyst for self-transformation0
Cain and the book of Jonah0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Genocide in Esther: A response to a recent attempt to defend Haman0
Children of the night: The portrayal of children in the book of Lamentations0
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
Going Vertical with Love Thy Neighbor: Exegetical Use of Scripture in Leviticus 19.18b0
Epistemological barrier or divine gift: A reinterpretation of Ecclesiastes 3.110
Why Did YHWH Seek to Bring Disaster to Absalom? (2 Sam. 17.14b)0
The Battle with Amalek (Exod. 17.8–16): When God Trusts in Man0
When seeing becomes hearing: Isaiah 40.1–8 as an exegetical product of Isaiah 6.1–8 and prelude to Isaiah 40–480
The feminine rewriting in Wu Shutian’s translation of Song of Songs0
5. Specific Books. IV. Psalms and Wisdom IV. Psalms and Wisdom (Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs)0
Did God curse humanity? A pragmatic reexamination of Genesis 3.14–190
11. Philology and Grammar0
5. Studies on Specific Books: III. Latter Prophets III. Latter Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea–Malachi)0
9. Early Jewish Texts (Including the Dead Sea Scrolls)0
Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine from the Temple: Joel’s Interpretation of the Epilogue of Amos0
Sequentialized Samson: Five postwar (1949–1956) comic retellings of the Judges’’ tale0
11. Philology and Grammar0
Index of Authors0
‘Other laws’: Haman’s accusation against the Jews in the book of Esther0
Wisdom and the fear of YHWH: Rethinking their relationship in Proverbs 1–90
Marginal characters: A strategy of persuasion in 1–2 Samuel0
5. Studies on Specific Books: V. Other Writings V. Other Writings (Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Daniel, Chronicles, Ezra–Nehemiah)0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Internal Focalization in 1 Samuel – a new perspective on Jonathan’s love for David0
A cannibal reading of the Hebrew prophets0
5. Studies on Specific Books: II. Former Prophets II. Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings)0
The Biblical Nesher as the Griffon Vulture, Gyps fulvus : Ornithological character traits0
Offerings Matter: Revisiting the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-Called Sabbath Reform0
Elisha’s servant as successor: Interpreting Gehazi’s narrative through the lens of prophetic succession0
Psalm 74 and social identity0
Divine attributes and powers as messianic titles in Isaiah 51.4–8 and cognate passages: A comparison of 1QIsa a and the Old Greek of Isaiah0
Father-daughter relationships as an organizing theme in the book of Judges0
Houses full of owls: Oracular owls in Isaiah0
Remembering the lost ark: The ark narrative in its contexts0
The Passover as inauguration of Israel’s departure from Sinai: interpretive potential of analysing narrative technique for discerning literary structure in Numbers 1–100
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