Congress Volume Zurich 2022
Proceedings of the 24th Congress of the IOSOT
Published on 6. November 2025
Book
Hardback
616 pages
978-90-04-74046-4 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
French
German
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1025 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-74046-4 (9789004740464)
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Persons
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 Hebraeischen und Aramaeischen 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. (2002), 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).
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. (2002), 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).
Content
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 Dubovsky
3 "Unsere Vorfahren haben uns erzaehlt ..." (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 fruehjuedischer 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 fuer 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 Prudky
13 Incertitude et indecidabilite en critique textuelle de la Bible hebraique
Trois problemes epistemologiques
?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
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 Dubovsky
3 "Unsere Vorfahren haben uns erzaehlt ..." (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 fruehjuedischer 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 fuer 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 Prudky
13 Incertitude et indecidabilite en critique textuelle de la Bible hebraique
Trois problemes epistemologiques
?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