Full Description
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.
Contents
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
