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12. März 2026 OBO 306 – de Angelo Cunha W., van der Meer M.N., Rösel M., The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Scribal Scholarship in Antiquity. Studies in Honor of Arie van der Kooij on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday

Scholars studying the transmission, translation, interpretation and reworking of ancient Israelite and early Jewish religious literature often get the impression that the manuscripts they study are hampered by a whole range of unconscious or deliberate scribal mistakes and misrepresentations. One scholar who has followed a...

12. März 2026 OBO 305 – Schroer S., Wyssmann P., Images in Transition The Southern Levant and its Imagery between Near Eastern and Greek Traditions

The material culture of the Southern Levant from the late 5th century to the early 3rd century BCE is marked by evolving local and regional traditions enriched by the adoption and adaptation of features reflecting Persian and Greek culture. Processes of influence and interaction –...

12. März 2026 OBO 304 – Muraoka T., The Wisdom of Solomon in the Septuagint

In spite of the traditional mention of king Solomon in the title of the book, Wisdom of Solomon can be dated to the middle of the first century BCE and was probably written by a Jewish author in Alexandria. As such it is one of...

12. März 2026 OBO 303 – Münger S., Rahn N., Wyssmann P., ‘Trinkt von dem Wein, den ich mischte!’ ‘Drink of the Wine which I have Mingled!’ Festschrift für Silvia Schroer zum 65. Geburtstag

Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge würdigen das vielfältige Wirken von Silvia Schroer in biblischer Exegese, Ikonographie, feministischer Kritik und der breiten Erforschung von Texten und Bildern des Alten Israel und seiner Nachbarkulturen. Weggefährt*innen, die verschiedenen Generationen von Forschenden angehören, schlagen in 35 Aufsätzen Brücken...

12. März 2026 OBO 302 – Muraoka T., Wisdom of Ben Sira

A philological commentary on the book of Ben Sira accompanied by a full translation of the Greek text in the Septuagint. Similar in content to the book of Proverbs, and though not canonical, but read and studied by the ancient Jewish community, as shown by...

12. März 2026 OBO 301 – Howard J.C., Architecture, Iconography, and Text. New Studies on the Northwest Palace Reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II

The papers published in this volume attempt to move scholarship forward in the interpretation of the Northwest Palace reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II, with particular focus on the intersection of their architectural setting, their loaded iconography, and the text of the so-called Standard Inscription incised across...

12. März 2026 OBO 300 – Lenzi A., Suffering in Babylon Ludlul bēl nēmeqi and the Scholars, Ancient and Modern

Suffering in Babylon comprises a series of studies on Ludlul bēl nēmeqi. Part One examines the modern scholarship surrounding the poem’s textual reconstruction and translation. Ludlul exists today as a composite text, pieced together over the last 180 years from dozens of cuneiform tablets and...

12. März 2026 OBO 299 – Porzia F., Bonnet C., Divine Names on the Spot II. Exploring the Potentials of Names through Images and Narratives

Names, images, and narratives are intimately related and frequently polysemous. As pieces of information on the gods, they convey fragments of knowledge and attempts to interpret the multifaceted complexity of the divine world. In what Robert Parker describes as an “archipelago”, images and narratives are...

12. März 2026 OBO 298 – Porzia F., Le peuple aux trois noms. Une histoire de l’ancien Israël à travers le prisme de ses ethnonymes

L’identité juive n’a cessé de faire l’objet d’un questionnement, notamment depuis la découverte des premiers témoignages archéologiques attribués aux «proto-Israélites» de l’Âge du Fer jusqu’aux discussions récentes sur l’attribution de la nationalité dans l’actuel État d’Israël. L’élément commun de cette histoire plurimillénaire réside dans le...

12. März 2026 OBO 297 – Walker J., The Power of Images The Poetics of Violence in Lamentations 2 and Ancient Near Eastern Art

The publication of Keel’s Symbolism of the Biblical World (German 1972, English 1978) demonstrated the value of ancient Near Eastern iconography for interpreting biblical texts. In the intervening decades since (and of) Keel’s work, iconographic exegesis of the Hebrew Bible has witnessed significant methodological and...