Congress Volume Zurich 2022

Proceedings of the 24th Congress of the Iosot
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74046-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 201, 588 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements

This volume presents the main lectures of the 24th Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) held in Zurich, Switzerland, in August 2022. It is written by nineteen established international scholars, whose combined research reflects the broad spectrum of contemporary biblical scholarship. The volume includes articles ranging from the study of the ancient Near East, the archaeology of ancient Israel and Judah, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, via thematic investigations and ideological readings of key texts, to studies exploring the formation, ideology, and reception of biblical books.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Arnet, Samuel

Schmid, Konrad

Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Tables and Figures

Abbreviations

Contributors

1 Imperial Desires

Constructions and Maintenance of Race in Biblical Interpretation Steed Vernyl Davidson

2 Neo-Assyrian Administrative Texts and the Bible Peter Dubovský

3 „Unsere Vorfahren haben uns erzählt …“ (Ps 78,3)

Geschichtserinnerungen der Psalmen im Spiegel ihrer Rezeptionsgeschichte Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher

4 Kosmisierung des Chaos

Neue Erkenntnisse zu einer zentralen Denkfigur alttestamentlicher und frühjüdischer Weisheitstraditionen Friedhelm Hartenstein

5 Past, Present and Future

The Redaction History of 2?Kings 17 Shuichi Hasegawa

6 The Lure and Relief of Ritualised Behaviour

Cognitive and Cultural Readings of Scrolls and Covenant Ritualisation Jutta Jokiranta

7 Since When and for How Long Was Azekah Part of the Kingdom of Judah? Oded Lipschits and Sabine Kleiman

8 Turbulent Priests?

Rethinking the History of the Israelite Priesthood Nathan MacDonald

9 The Disavowing and Devaluing of Women and Women’s Labor

A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of the Book of Numbers Dora Rudo Mbuwayesango

10 Rethinking Historical Methods

Time, Text, and Ancestors in the Memories of Israel Judith Newman

11 Die Bedeutung der Numismatik für das Studium des Alten Testaments Manfred Oeming

12 YHWH, a God Who Speaks

Remarks on the Rhetoric of Direct Speeches by God in Biblical Narratives Martin Prudký

13 Incertitude et indécidabilité en critique textuelle de la Bible hébraïque

Trois problèmes épistémologiques Matthieu Richelle

14 From Empirical Knowledge to Critical Wisdom

The Composition and Intention of the Book of Proverbs Bernd U. Schipper

15 The Composition of the Pentateuch as a Historical and a Hermeneutical Problem Konrad Schmid

16 Why Do People Have a Problem with the Cursing Psalms?

Scripture, Genre, and the Ethics of Prayer Benjamin D. Sommer

17 Rereading William A. Tooman

18 Travel and Divination Inquiries in the Hebrew Bible and Epigraphic Sources

An Overview David S. Vanderhooft

19 The Biblical “Special Traits List”

A Subversive Reaction to Imperial Power Nili Wazana

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Samuel Arnet, Ph.D. (2020), is a Hebrew Bible scholar at the University of Zurich and served as the IOSOT Congress Secretary in 2022. He co-edited the Konzise und aktualisierte Ausgabe des Hebräischen und Aramäischen Lexikons zum Alten Testament (KAHAL) (Brill, 2019).

Konrad Schmid, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at the University of Zurich. He has published widely on subjects of the Hebrew Bible, including The Making of the Bible (Harvard University Press, 2021).
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Ph.D. (2001), is Professor in Old Testament Exegesis at ALT School of Theology, Sweden. She has published widely on the Hebrew Bible, including In Search of Jonathan (Oxford University Press, 2023).