Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Seventy-Five Years Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap: The Study of the Old Testament in the Netherlands and Belgium

Chapter 2 Micah in the Low Countries

Chapter 3 Revelation, History and Religious Plurality: Old Testament Studies from the Apeldoorn / Kampen Reformed Perspective

Chapter 4 Salient Features in the Book of Job

Chapter 5 A Changing ‘Archaeology of Palestine’ at the University of Leiden, 1959–2014

Chapter 6 Gender Perspectives on Hosea 2:4–25: Contributions from the Netherlands from 1988 until 2003

Chapter 7 The Rise and Demise of the So-called Deuteronomistic History: A Plea for the Compositional Unity of Genesis–Kings

Chapter 8 Septuagint Studies in Louvain

Chapter 9 The Dynamics of the Incomparable God Highlighted by the Immobility of an Idol: The Rhetorical Integrity of Isa. 40:12–26, 41:1–7 and 46:1–13

Chapter 10 Biblical Violence and the Task of the Exegete

Chapter 11 Computer-Assisted Analysis of Old Testament Texts: The Contribution of the WIVU to Old Testament Scholarship

Chapter 12 Old Testament Exegesis and Biblical Theology from an Ede/Leuven Evangelical Perspective

Chapter 13 Data, Knowledge and Tradition: Biblical Scholarship and the Humanities 2.0. Exodus 19 as a Laboratory Text

Chapter 14 Towards an Annotated Edition of Tannaitic Parables

Chapter 15 Delimitation Criticism: An Interim Evaluation

Index of Authors

Index of Textual References