Congress Volume Zurich 2022

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 Hebräischen und Aramäischen 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).

• PrefaceList of Tables and FiguresAbbreviationsContributors1 Imperial DesiresConstructions and Maintenance of Race in Biblical InterpretationSteed Vernyl Davidson2 Neo-Assyrian Administrative Texts and the BiblePeter Dubovský3 „Unsere Vorfahren haben uns erzählt …“ (Ps 78,3)Geschichtserinnerungen der Psalmen im Spiegel ihrer RezeptionsgeschichteSusanne Gillmayr-Bucher4 Kosmisierung des ChaosNeue Erkenntnisse zu einer zentralen Denkfigur alttestamentlicher und frühjüdischer WeisheitstraditionenFriedhelm Hartenstein5 Past, Present and FutureThe Redaction History of 2 Kings 17Shuichi Hasegawa6 The Lure and Relief of Ritualised BehaviourCognitive and Cultural Readings of Scrolls and Covenant RitualisationJutta Jokiranta7 Since When and for How Long Was Azekah Part of the Kingdom of Judah?Oded Lipschits and Sabine Kleiman8 Turbulent Priests?Rethinking the History of the Israelite PriesthoodNathan MacDonald9 The Disavowing and Devaluing of Women and Women’s LaborA Postcolonial Feminist Reading of the Book of NumbersDora Rudo Mbuwayesango10 Rethinking Historical MethodsTime, Text, and Ancestors in the Memories of IsraelJudith Newman11 Die Bedeutung der Numismatik für das Studium des Alten TestamentsManfred Oeming12 YHWH, a God Who SpeaksRemarks on the Rhetoric of Direct Speeches by God in Biblical NarrativesMartin Prudký13 Incertitude et indécidabilité en critique textuelle de la Bible hébraïqueTrois problèmes épistémologiquesMatthieu Richelle14 From Empirical Knowledge to Critical WisdomThe Composition and Intention of the Book of ProverbsBernd U. Schipper15 The Composition of the Pentateuch as a Historical and a Hermeneutical ProblemKonrad Schmid16 Why Do People Have a Problem with the Cursing Psalms?Scripture, Genre, and the Ethics of PrayerBenjamin D. Sommer17 RereadingWilliam A. Tooman18 Travel and Divination Inquiries in the Hebrew Bible and Epigraphic SourcesAn OverviewDavid S. Vanderhooft19 The Biblical “Special Traits List”A Subversive Reaction to Imperial PowerNili WazanaIndex