Full Description
This volume contains the Proceedings of the 18th Joint Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study (SOTS) and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland en België (OTW) in the summer of 2022 in Nottingham. The ten contributions are prefaced by an editorial Introduction (Hempel, Ausloos) followed by studies on Hebrew Semantics (Raymond de Hoop, Paul Sanders, Ellen van Wolde), the Pentateuch (Gert Kwakkel, Jan-Wim Wesselius, Philip Yoo), exilic and post-exilic historiography (Carly Crouch, Michaël van der Meer) and two chapters that draw on Sumerian poetry and gender-based violence in contemporary South Africa, respectively, to illuminate biblical narratives in Judges and 1-2 Samuel (Ekaterina E. Kozlova, Nozipho Princess S. Dlodlo).
Contents
Contributors
1 Introduction
Charlotte Hempel and Hans Ausloos
Part 1 Semantics
2 "Gnawing Bones" or "Lacking Backbone"? *גָּרַם (qal) in Zephaniah 3:3b and the Semantics of Ancient Hebrew
Raymond de Hoop
3 The Urim and Thummim in Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database
Paul Sanders
4 yhwh the Terminator: A Study of Amos 4:13, Including an Analysis of the Polysemous Structure of the Verb ברא
Ellen van Wolde
Part 2 The Pentateuch
5 "A Kingdom of Priests": An Enigmatic Element in God's Promises to Israel in Exodus 19:5-6
Gert Kwakkel
6 Contradiction, Imitation and Emulation as Essential Literary Aspects of the Hebrew Bible's Primary History
Jan-Wim Wesselius
7 Rethinking Pentateuch and Hexateuch: The "Post-Mosaic Period" in Joshua 3-4
Philip Y. Yoo
Part 3 Identity, Ideology, and Historiography
8 Identity, Displaced: Israel and Judah in the Aftermath of Empire
Carly L. Crough
9 The Ideological Background of the Books of Chronicles
Michael N. van der Meer
10 Human-Divine Commensality and Transformation in Judges 6-8 and the Aratta Cycle
Ekaterina E. Kozlova
11 Narrative Analysis and Coming of Age: A Masculinist Reading of David in 1 and 2 Samuel
Nozipho Princess S. Dlodlo
Index
