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Journal for the study of the Old testament
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ISSN: 03090892 14766728 Year: 2005 Publisher: London: Sheffield: Sheffield: Sage, Sheffield academic press, JSOT,

Synchronic or diachronic ? : a debate on method in Old Testament exegesis : papers read at the ninth joint meeting of het Oudtestamentisch werkgezelschap in Nederland en Belgie and the Society for Old Testament study held at Kampen, 1994
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ISSN: 01697226 ISBN: 9004103422 9004497927 9789004103429 9789004497924 Year: 1995 Volume: 34 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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In Old Testament exegesis a gap is widening between the adherents of the "diachronic", historical-critical approach and those who out of dissatisfaction with both the results and the methods of this "classical" approach opt for a wide variety of "synchronic" approaches. The Ninth Joint Meeting of the Dutch "Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap" and the British "Society for Old Testament Study", held at Kampen 28-31 August 1994, brought together partisans from both camps who engaged in a most interesting and fruitful debate on one of the major methodological issues confronting modern O.T. scholarship. This volume contains the papers read as well as some reports from the workshops. With indices of texts and subjects.

Intertextuality in Ugarit and Israel : papers read at the tenth joint meeting of the society for Old testament study and het Oudtestamentisch werkgezelschap in Nederland en Belgie held at Oxford, 1997
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ISSN: 01697226 ISBN: 9004111549 9004493980 9789004111547 9789004493988 Year: 1998 Volume: 40 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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In modern literary studies intertextuality is at the centre of interest. Although the relationship between texts has always been an important aspect of Old Testament studies, especially in literary criticism, the scale of comparison has broadened, including for example the interrelationships between the First, Second and Third Isaiah, or the whole Book of the Twelve. These relatively new approaches raise a number of methodical questions which were addressed at the Tenth Joint Meeting of the British Society for Old Testament Study and the Dutch 'Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap', held at Oxford, 22nd to 25th July 1997. Did the ancient authors have a well-defined concept of a book? How did they relate to the literary work of their predecessors and contemporaries? Can we trace the theological motifs behind their use of other literary compositions? What does an ancient version reveal about the way it interpreted its source text? One of the problems confronting biblical scholars in this kind of research is the lack of controllable models. Therefore it is useful to study the work of the Ugaritic chief priest Ilimilku whose three major literary compositions provide us with a unique possibility to monitor intertextual relationships in the work of one and the same ancient author. Ugaritic and other ancient Near Eastern parallels help us to understand how the Priestly writer re-interpreted the Yahwistic account of the creation of mankind. Apparently intertextuality in Israel is a phenomenon which cannot properly be understood without taking other literature from the ancient world into account.


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Between evidence and ideology : essays on the history of ancient Israel read at the joint meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oud Testamentisch Werkgezelschap, Lincoln, July 2009


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Torah and tradition : papers read at the Sixteenth joint meeting of the Society for Old Testament study and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap, Edinburgh, 2015
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ISBN: 9789004337480 9004337482 9789004337695 9004337695 Year: 2017 Volume: 70 70 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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The proceedings of the sixteenth joint meeting presented in this volume will show the fruits of the ongoing cooperation between the members of the British Society for the Study of the Old Testament and the Dutch Oudtestamentische Werkgezelschap. The theme of the conference was ‘Torah and Tradition’. The volume brings together many different approaches in describing the multifaceted traditions behind the Hebrew Bible in its present form.


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Goochem in mokum, wisdom in Amsterdam : papers on biblical and related wisdom read at the fifteenth joint meeting of the Society of Old Testament study and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap, Amsterdam, July 2012

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This collection of essays is focused on the wisdom traditions of the Hebrew Bible, including the Book of Sira. The biblical books are read as literary works on their own as well as in an ancient Near Eastern setting. Some essays scrutinize Greek and Hellenistic wisdom traditions. The authors refrain from a definition of 'wisdom' which would have been a reductionist exercise in view of the great variety of material and the complexity of the perennial problems (wo)mankind is confronted with.

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