Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Hailing the divine: Inducement motifs in the psalms and Levantine inscriptions

The Niphal as middle voice and its consequence for meaning

On the relationship of Judah and Samaria in post-exilic times: A farewell to the conflict paradigm

The motif of Uzziah’s צרעת\u200e in the Deuteronomistic History, Chronicles, and beyond

Theodicy in an ironical sense: The Joban Wager and the portrait of folly

Reading Joshua with Augustine and Sommer: Two frameworks for interpreting theophany narratives

Chronicles and intertextuality in early rabbinic literature

Trito-Isaiah (Isaiah 56-66) and the gôlāh group of Ezra, Shecaniah, and Nehemiah (Ezra 7-Nehemiah 13): Is there a connection?

Davidic rule in the prophecy of Micah

David’s spiritual walls and conceptual blending in Psalm 51

Reading the Siloam inscription as narrative

Polemical propaganda of the Golah community against the Gibeonites: Historical background of Joshua 9 and 2 Samuel 21 in the early Persian Period

Abraham, our father, the father of all: A perspective from ancient Korean history

Why did God say no to David? (2 Samuel 7)

Ahab and Saul (1 Kgs 22.1-38)

Sensing ethnic difference: A kinesthetic reading of Proverbs 7.1-27

Genesis 49: The foundation of Israelite monarchy and priesthood

Abimelech the manly man? Judges 9.1-57 and the performance of hegemonic masculinity

Does Jeremiah dispel diaspora demons? How Septuagint Jeremiah and 4Q71 (4QJerb) rewrote their text structures around an Aramaic war taunt which mocks Zion’s idolatry

Neither male nor female: Poetic imagery and the nature of God in the Old Testament

The beginning of chaos for Genesis

‘Festive kinship’: Solidarity, responsibility, and identity formation in Deuteronomy

Meaning and context in Job and Tobit

Can anything good come from Sodom? A feminist and narrative critique of Lot’s daughters in Gen. 19.30-38

The death of a virtuous woman? Proverbs 31.10-31, gnomic qatal, and the role of translation in the analysis of the Hebrew verbal system

Posthumous interest in the גאל הדם\u200e legal tradition

Ezekiel’s immobility and the meaning of ‘the house of Judah’ in Ezekiel 4

Remembering the future: The Topheth as dystopia in Jeremiah 7 and 19

Valuing leadership and love: David exceeding Samson

Isaac’s dual test in the blessings narrative: A new reading of Gen 27:18-29

Seeing doubles: On two of a kind

The destroyed city as grazing space: Interpretive possibilities in Isaiah 5.17, 17.2, 27.10, and 32.14

The destruction of Hazor: Israelite history and the construction of history in Israel

Keeping the paschal lamb: Exodus 12.6 and the question of sacrifice in the Passover-of-Egypt

Genesis 1.1 as the first act of creation

Pan-Psalter Occurrence Scheme of ‘Jacob’ and ‘Covenant’

Mordecai’s dream in Esther—The Greek and Latin versions, character, and the tradition of interpretation

Matrices of motherhood in Judges 5

‘May YHWH avenge me on you; but my hand shall not be against you’ (1 Sam. 24:13): Mapping land and resistance in the ‘biographical’ notes of the ‘Book’ of Psalms

Grace Aguilar’s double-vision to a feminized religiosity through the Torah’s laws on inheritance and vows

The cult of Esther: Temple and priestly imagery in the book of Esther

The assassination of Mephibosheth: Royal and redactional intrigue in the book of Samuel

Polite rhetoric: Judah’s plea to Joseph in Genesis 44.18-34

Refusing the king’s portion: A reexamination of Daniel’s dietary reaction in Daniel 1