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).
Contributors
1 Introduction
Charlotte Hempel and Hans Ausloos
Part 1 Semantics
2 Gnawing Bones or Lacking Backbone? * (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
Ellen van Wolde
Part 2 The Pentateuch
5 A Kingdom of Priests: An Enigmatic Element in Gods Promises to Israel in
Exodus 19:56
Gert Kwakkel
6 Contradiction, Imitation and Emulation as Essential Literary Aspects of the
Hebrew Bibles Primary History
Jan-Wim Wesselius
7 Rethinking Pentateuch and Hexateuch: The Post-Mosaic Period in Joshua
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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 68 and the Aratta
Cycle
Ekaterina E. Kozlova
11 Narrative Analysis and Coming of Age: A Masculinist Reading of David in 1
and 2Samuel
Nozipho Princess S. Dlodlo
Index
Charlotte Hempel, University of Birmingham, UK, is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria. She has published extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible, including The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary (Mohr Siebeck, 2020) and with George Brooke, T&T Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Hans Ausloos, F.R.S.-FNRS / Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, is Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS). He is Director of the Louvain Centre for Septuagint Studies and Textual criticism, and has published mainly on the so-called Deuteronomistic redaction of the Pentateuch, on textual criticism and on the Septuagints translation technique.
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