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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 14/4 (2025)

Does Wisdom Have a Sense of Humour? Exploring Humour in Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, and Cognate Literatures

• Alexander T. Kirk, Katherine E. Southwood, "Does Wisdom Have a Sense of Humour? Exploring Humour in Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, and Cognate Literatures,"  423-442 (abstract)
• Melissa A. Jackson, "What Could be Funny about Job?" 443-465 (abstract)
• Stuart Weeks, "Wisdom, Qohelet, and the Art of Snark," 466-482 (abstract)
• Joanna G. Kline, "The Wisdom of Beasts: Humour and Animal Imagery in Proverbs 30," 483-508 (abstract)
• Maya Volodarski-Richter, "Humour, Irony, and Related Phenomena in Proverbs," 509-536 (abstract)
• Nikolaos Lazaridis, "Humour in Ancient Egyptian Instructions," 537-563 (abstract)
• Takayoshi M. Oshima, "'Goatcha': A New Interpretation of the Ancient Sumerian Fable of The She- Goat and the Lion," 564-579 (abstract)

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 Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 11/Suppl. (2022)

• Ido Koch, "A Framework for the Study of Deportations to and from the Southern Levant during the Age of the Mesopotamian Empires," 10-24 (abstract)
• Laura Battini, "During the Displacement: Life, Death, Health and Psychological Conditions of Migrants," 25-55 (abstract)
• Eckart Frahm, "The Intellectual Background of Assyrian Deportees, Colonists, and Officials in the Levant," 56-82 (abstract)
• Gilad Itach, "The Assyrian Interests in the Western Part of the Province of Samaria," 83-112 (abstract)
• Ran Zadok, "Issues of the Deportations of the Israelites-Judeans and their Aftermath," 113-147 (abstract)
• Angelika Berlejung, "A Sketch of the Life of the Golah in the Countryside of Babylonia," 148-188 (abstract)
• C. A. Strine, "Was the Book of Ezekiel Written in a Refugee Camp? An Investigation"189-203 (abstract)
• Cynthia Edenburg, "Messaging Brothers in Distant Lands:  Biblical Texts in Light of Judean, Samarian and Diaspora Target Audiences," 204-223 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 11/1 (2022)

• John J. Collins, "The Torah in its Symbolic and Prescriptive Functions," 3-18 (abstract)
• Timothy H. Lim, "Implicit Criticism of Scriptures and Josephus' Rewritten Bible," 19-30 (abstract)
• Christopher Rollston, "Ad Fontes: The Authorship of the Pentateuch according to the Pentateuch," 31-48 (abstract)
• Sidnie White Crawford, "Where is Moses? The Temple Scroll's Claim to Authority," 49-59 (abstract)
• Laura Quick, "Detextualizing and Retextualizing the Torah," 60-77 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 10/4 (2021)

The Book of Jeremiah: Texts and Theology

• Mark W. Elliott, "The Book of Jeremiah: Texts and Theology," 349-352
• Dalit Rom-Shiloni, "Challenging the Notion of »Spiritual Metamorphosis«: Conceptions of Divine Presence and Anthropomorphic Language in Jeremiah," 353-386 (abstract)
• Georg Fischer, "»Nobody is like you!«: The Distinctive Portrayal of the Biblical God in the Book of Jeremiah," 387-404 (abstract)
• Konrad Schmid, "From Lament to Guilt: The Beginnings of Theology in the Book of Jeremiah," 405-422 (abstract)
• Mark W. Elliott, "Jeremiah: Truth and Sense in the History of Interpretation," 423-442 (abstract)
• David Andrew Teeter, "Jeremiah, Joseph, and the Dynamics of Analogy: On the Relationship between Jeremiah 37–44 and the Joseph Story," 443-487 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 10/3 (2021)

• Lisa J. Cleath, Alice Mandell, Jeremy D. Smoak, "Inscribing Monumentality in the Ancient Levant and in the Hebrew Bible," 229-242 
• Timothy Hogue, "With Apologies to Hazael: The Counter-monumentality of the Tel Dan Stele,"  243-256 (abstract)
• Alice Mandell, "»Top-Down« and »Bottom-up« Monumentality at Kuntillet 'Ajrud: The Evolution of the Benchroom at Kuntillet 'Ajrud as a Communal Monument," 257-282 (abstract)
• Jeremy D. Smoak, "Building Solomon's Temple: Crafting a Monumental Inventory in 1 Kgs 7:13–47," 283-300 (abstract)
• Julia Rhyder, "The Tent of Meeting as Monumental Space: The Construction of the Priestly Sanctuary in Exodus 25–31, 35–401," 301-313 (abstract)
• Laura Carlson Hasler, "Vulnerable Spaces and Mobile Rituals: Reconstruction and its Risks in Ezra-Nehemiah," 314-330 (abstract)
• Lisa J. Cleath, "Divine Enthronement in a Conquered Land: Constructinga Landscape Monument in Josh 8:30–35," 331-348 (abstract)

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 Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 10/2 (2021)

• Lauren A. S. Monroe, Daniel E. Fleming, "Israel before the Omrides," 97-105 
• Aren M. Maeir, "On Defining Israel: Or, Let's do the Kulturkreislehre Again!" 106-148 (abstract)
• Daniel E. Fleming, "The Bible's Little Israel: Terminological Clasts in a Compositional Matrix," 149-186 (abstract)
• Lauren Monroe, "On the Origins and Development of Greater Israel," 187-227 (abstract)

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 Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 10/1 (2021)

Transforming Memories of Collective Violence. Key Methods and Future Directions

• Sonja Ammann, Julia Rhyder, "Transforming Memories of Collective Violence. Key Methods and Future Directions," 1-10
• Sonja Ammann, "Second Kings 24–25 and Jeremiah 52 as Diverging and Converging Memories of the Babylonian Conquest," 11-29 (abstract)
• Stephen Germany, "Self-Defense as a casus belli in Ancient Mesopotamian and Hittite Literature and in the Hebrew Bible," 30-44 (abstract)
• Helge Bezold, "Violence and Empire: Hasmonean Perspectives on Imperial Power and Collective Violence in the Book of Esther," 45-62 (abstract)
• Julia Rhyder, "Festivals and Violence in 1 and 2 Maccabees: Hanukkah and Nicanor's Day," 63-76 (abstract)
• Sylvie Honigman, "Commemorative Fictions: Athens (480 B.C.E.), Jerusalem (168 B.C.E.), and Alexandria (38 C.E.)," 77-96 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 9/4 (2020)

Tōrâ-centred Israel. When a Yehudite Concept Met Ptolemaic Egypt

• Ehud Ben Zvi, Sylvie Honigman, "Tōrâ-centred Israel. When a Yehudite Concept Met Ptolemaic Egypt," 367-369
• Sylvie Honigman, Ehud Ben Zvi, "The Spread of the Ideological Concept of a (Jerusalem-Centred) Tōrâ-centred Israel beyond Yehud: Observations and Implications," 370-397 (abstract)
• James K. Aitken, "The Ptolemaic Setting for the Translation of the Greek Pentateuch," 398-414 (abstract)
• Kimberley Czajkowski, Stéphanie Wackenier, "Legal Strategies of Judaeans in Herakleopolis, Middle Egypt, according to the Archives of the Politeuma," 415-434 (abstract)
• Anna Angelini, "The Reception and Idealization of the Torah in the Letter of Aristeas: The Case of the Dietary Laws," 435-447 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel  9/3 (2020)

Between Textual Criticism and Literary Criticism

• Karin Finsterbusch, Russell E. Fuller, Armin Lange, "Between Textual Criticismand Literary Criticism," 263-269 
• Armin Lange, "What is a Biblical Text?" 270-295 (abstract)
• Lawrence H. Schiffman, "What is a Jewish Biblical Text?" 296-305 (abstract)
• Emanuel Tov, "The Formation of the (Proto‑)Masoretic Text," 306-319 (abstract)
• Sidnie White Crawford, "The Jewish and Samaritan Pentateuchs: Reflectionson the Difference (?) between Textual Criticism and Literary Criticism," 320-333 (abstract)
• Karin Finsterbusch, "Traditional Textual Criticism Reconsidered: MT (codex L)-Ezek 35, LXX (papyrus 967)-Ezek 35 and its Hebrew Vorlage as Variant Editions and the Implications for the Search for the »Original« Text," 334-347 (abstract)
• Nadv Na'aman, "Was the Reign of Jeroboam II a Period of Literary Flourishing?" 348-365 (abstract)

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 Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 9/2 (2020)

• David Andrew Teeter, William A. Tooman, "Standards of (In)coherence in Ancient Jewish Literature. Editorial,"  91-93
• David Andrew Teeter, William A. Tooman, "Standards of (In)coherence in Ancient Jewish Literature," 94-129 (abstract)
• Alexander Samely, "How Coherence Works: Reading, Re-Reading and Inner-Biblical Exegesis," 130-182 (abstract)
• Michael A. Lyons, "Standards of Cohesion and Coherence: Evidence from Early Readers," 183-208 (abstract)
• Reinhard Gregor Kratz, "Biblical Interpretation and Redaction History," 209-246 (abstract)
• Yair Zakovitch, "On Incoherency and Its Causes: Explanatory Notes as a Test Case," 247-261 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 9:1 (2020)

• Abraham Winitzer, "New Historical Perspectives on the Babylonian Exile," 1-3 
• Paul-Alain Beaulieu, "Judah in the Shadow of Babylon," 4-19 (abstract)
• Michael Jursa, Ran Zadok, "Judeans and Other West Semites: Another View from the Babylonian Countryside," 20-40 (abstract)
• David S. Vanderhooft, "Babylon as Cosmopolis in Israelite Texts and Achaemenid Architecture," 41-61 (abstract)
• Ronnie Goldstein, "Casting Nets and Burning Temples: The Babylonian and Persian Background of Jer 43:8–13," 62-90 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 8/4 (2019)

• Jacqueline Vayntrub, Laura Quick, Ingrid E. Lilly, "Gender and Philology's Uncommon Sense," 379-387
• Esther Brownsmith, "Mind the Gap: An Introduction to Biblical Philology, Gender, and the Two Mothers," 388-398 (abstract)
• Shawna Dolansky, "A (W)hol(e)(y) Breach: Philology, Gender, and Meaning," 399-415 (abstract)
• Sarah Shectman, "The Priestly Language of Gender," 416-430 (abstract)
• Ingrid E. Lilly, "The Fertility of Bones: Towards a Corporeal Philology of Reproduction," 431-447 (abstract)
• Laura Quick, "My Lord the Queen: Gender Discord in Comparative Perspective," 448-463 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 8:3 (2019)

• Christian Frevel, "The Importance of the Book of Numbers in Pentateuchal Research," 203-212 
• Walter Bührer, "Law and Narrative as »Inner-Biblical Interpretation« in the Book of Numbers," 213-239 (abstract)
• Adriane Leveen, "Narrative Concept(s) of the Book of Numbers," 240-256 (abstract)
• Christian Frevel, "The Various Shapes of Moab in the Book of Numbers: Relating Text and Archaeology," 257-286 (abstract)
• Katharina Pyschny, "From Core to Centre: Issues of Centralization in Numbers and Deuteronomy,"  287-312 (abstract)
• Stephen Germany, "Concepts of Land in Numbers and Joshua," 313-331 (abstract)
• Louis C. Jonker, "Numbers and Chronicles: False Friends or Close Relatives?" 332-377 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 8:2 (2019)

• Cynthia Edenburg - Reinhard Müller, "Perspectives on the Treaty Framework of Deuteronomy," 73-86 (abstract)
• Jacob Lauinger, "Literary Connections and Social Contexts: Approaches to Deuteronomy in Light of the Assyrian adê-Tradition," 87-100 (abstract)
• Hans Ulrich Steymans, "Deuteronomy 13 in Comparison with Hittite, Aramaic and Assyrian Treaties," 101-132 (abstract)
• William Morrow, "Have Attempts to Establish the Dependency of Deuteronomy on the Esarhaddon Succession Treaty (EST) Failed?" 133-158 (abstract)
• Juha Pakkala, "The Influence of Treaties on Deuteronomy, Exclusive Monolatry, and Covenant Theology" 159-183 (abstract)
• Silvia Schroer - Patrick Wyssmann, "The Imagery of Palestine/Israel between East and West," 184-202 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 8:1 (2019)

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• Jan Joosten - Bernd U. Schipper, "New Perspectives on the Joseph Story," 3-5
• Bernd U. Schipper, "The Egyptian Background of the Joseph Story," 6-23 (abstract)
• Jan Joosten, "The Linguistic Dating of the Joseph Story," 24-43 (abstract)
• Thomas Römer, "Genesis 39 and the Composition of the Joseph Narrative," 44-60 (abstract)
• Bernhard Lang, "The Man of Politics Can't Be Seduced: A Twice-Told Biblical Episode in Philo's On Joseph Reveals the Author's Political Theory," 61-71 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 7:4 (2018)

Ritual and Innovation in Biblical and Ancient Jewish Discourse

• Scott Scullion, "Preface," 405-411
• Nathan MacDonald, Hindy Najman, Jonathan Stökl, Elizabeth Stell, Rebekah Van Sant-Clark, "Ritual and Innovation in Biblical and Ancient Jewish Discourse," 412-414 
• Nathan MacDonald, "Scribalism and Ritual Innovation," 415-429 (abstract)
• Shlomo Zuckier, "»Acceptable« to »Will«: The Rabbinic Transformation of Ratzon in Sacrifice and Prayer," 430-448 (abstract)
• Judith H. Newman, "Ritualizing the Text in Early Judaism: Two Examples of Innovation," 449-465 (abstract)
• Naphtali S. Meshel, "Hermeneutics and the Logic of Ritual," 466-482 (abstract)
• Jonathan Stökl, "Innovating Ordination," 483-499 (abstract)
• Jacqueline Vayntrub, "Like Father, Like Son: Theorizing Transmission in Biblical Literature," 500-526 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 7:3 (2018)
Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Social Scientific Study of Involuntary Migration

• C. L. Crouch - C. A. Strine, "Editorial Introduction," 285-288
• C. A. Strine, "Is »Exile« Enough? Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Need for a Taxonomy of Involuntary Migration," 289-315 (abstract)
• Mark Leuchter, "A Resident Alien in Transit: Exile, Adaptation and Geomythology in the Jeremiah Narratives," 316-333 (abstract)
• David J. Reimer, "There – But Not Back Again: Forced Migration and the End of Jeremiah," 350-375 (abstract)
• Dalit Rom-Shiloni, "Forced/Involuntary Migration, Diaspora Studies, and More:  Notes on Methodologies," 376-398 (abstract)
• C. L. Crouch - C. A. Strine, "Final Thoughts: Reflections on Methodology," 399-402

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 7:2 (2018)

• Jeremy M. Hutton, "Epigraphy, Theory, and the Hebrew Bible," 131-139
• Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, " The bīt X Formula in Assyrian Documentation and Aramaean Social Structure," 140-171 (abstract)
• Matthew J. Suriano, "Remembering Absalom's Death in 2 Samuel 18–19 History, Memory, and Inscription," 172-200 (abstract)
• Jeremy M. Hutton - C. L. Crouch, "Deuteronomy as a Translation of Assyrian Treaties An 'Optimal Translation' Approach," 201-252 (abstract)
• Alice Mandell, "Reading and Writing Remembrance in Canaan Early Alphabetic Inscriptions as Multimodal Objects," 253-284 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 7:1 (2018)

• Yoram Cohen, "Nebuchadnezzar: History, Archaeology and Memory," 1-2
• JonathanBen-Dov, "Nebuchadnezzar: Seeing Twice Double in Babylonia and the Levant," 3-16 (abstract)
• Rocío Da Riva, "Neo-Babylonian Rock-cut Monuments and Ritual Performance. The Rock Reliefs of Nebuchadnezzar in Brisa Revisited," 17-41 (abstract)
• Michael Jursa - Shai Gordin, "The Ousting of the Nūr-Sîns. Micro-historical Evidence for State-Building at the Neo-Babylonian Empire's "Augustan Threshold" during the Reign of Nebuchadnezzar," 42-64 (abstract)
• Dan'el Kahn, "Nebuchadnezzar and Egypt: An Update on the Egyptian Monuments," 65-78 (abstract)
• Daniel M. Master, "Nebuchadnezzar at Ashkelon," 79-92 (abstract)
• David S. Vanderhooft, "'Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, My Servant': Contrasting Prophetic Images of the Great King," 93-111 (abstract)
• Ran Zadok, "People from Countries West and North of Babylonia in Babylon during the Reign of Nebuchadnezzar," 112-129 (abstract)

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 6:4 (2017)

• Yitzhaq Feder, "Moral Norm Formation and Transformation in Ancient Israel," 383-385
• T.M. Oshima, "Morality and the Minds of Gods," 386-430 (abstract)
• Thomas Kazen, "Emotional Ethics in Biblical Texts: Cultural Construction and Biological Bases of Morality,"431-456 (abstract)
• Thomas Staubli, "Disgusting Deeds and Disgusting Gods: Ethnic and Ethical Constructions of Disgust in the Hebrew Bible," 457-487 (abstract)
• Carol A. Newsom, "Moral "Recipes" in Deuteronomy and Ezekiel: Divine Authority and Human Agency," 488-509 (abstract)
• Idan Dershowitz, "Revealing Nakedness and Concealing Homosexual Intercourse: Legal and Lexical Evolution in Leviticus 18," 510-526 (abstract)