Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Demotic Egyptian Papyri and the Formation of the Hebrew Bible

Publications

Forthcoming


Joseph Cross, "The Corpus of Northwest Semitic Texts in Egyptian Script," in Susan Hollis (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Egypt and the Hebrew Bible (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

 

Joseph Cross, "Appearance and Reality in Setna's Dialogue with "Pharaoh" in First Setna 5.31-35," in Aurore Motte and Victoria Almansa-Villatoro (ed.), Exploring (Im-)Politeness in Ancient Egyptian Texts: c. 2600 BCE–8th Century CE  (Brill, Studies in Pragmatics). Open Access

 

Meike J. Röhrig, "Alexander in the Armor of Nebuchadnezzar, Alexandria in the Robes of Tyre," in Oded Lipschits, Sara Milstein, Konrad Schmid and Jakob Wöhrle (ed.), Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 14. 

 

Meike J. Röhrig, "The Potter, Ezekiel, and the Foreigners," in Pearce P. Creasman, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections.

 

Meike J. Röhrig, "The Oracles against Egypt in the Book of Ezekiel," in Bernd U. Schipper, Joseph Cross and Robert Kade, Routledge Handbook of Egypt and the Bible (Oxford/New York: Routledge).

 

Bernd U. Schipper, Israel, Egypt, and the Hebrew Bible: Studies on History and Literature from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East / CHANE (Leiden/Boston: Brill, under contract for 2023).

 

Petra Schmidtkunz, "How Exceptions Can Help Us Understand the Big Picture. Or: The Strengths of a Hybrid System," in James D. Moore/Petra Schmidtkunz (ed.), Advances in Elephantine and Persian Period Research. Studies on Elephantine (Leiden/Boston: Brill).

 

Petra Schmidtkunz, "Reigning like an Achaemenid. On the ideological foundations of YHWH’s rule in Isa 45," in Ehud BenZvi/Kristin Joachimsen/Petra Schmidtkunz (ed.), Presences and Absences of Persian Deities, Kings, and Queens. WdO Special Volume.

 

Petra Schmidtkunz, "When the snake does not bite. How the notions of an ideal Urzeit and Endzeit belong together in texts from ancient Egypt and Judaea, and what this tells us about apocalypticism," in Moritz F. Adam and Daniel Maier (ed.), (Anti-)Apocalypticism throughout Antiquity, WUNT (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck).


Petra Schmidtkunz, Presences and Absences of Persian Deities, Kings, and Queens, co-edited with Ehud Ben Zvi and Kristin Joachimsen. WdO Special Volume.


Petra Schmidtkunz, Advances in Elephantine and Persian Period Research, co-edited with James D. Moore. Studies on Elephantine (Leiden/Boston: Brill).


Joseph Cross, “Esther as Novella,” in Helge Bezold and Kristin Joachimsen, eds., Esther: Themes and Issues (Equinox Themes and Issues in Biblical Studies)

 

2023

 

Joseph Cross, "Mouvance and the Art of Fiction in Performance in Manuscripts of a Demotic Egyptian Novella," Manuscript and Text Cultures 2/2 (2023), 168-200. Open Access

 

Maximilian Rechholz, "Seshat and Lady Wisdom - Prov 8 in Light of the Demotic Book of Thoth", in: Vetus Testamentum 73 (2023), 1–21. Open Access

 

Sarah Schulz, "Discovering Eschatological Leadership in the Book of Isaiah. The Motif of Animal Peace between Messianic Hope and New Creation", in: ZAW 135/4, 547561. Open Access

 

2022

 

Robert Kade, "The many Paths into the Chamber of Darkness," in: WdO 52/2 (2022), 271-310. Open Access