This volume contains the Proceedings of the 18th Joint Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study (SOTS) and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland en Belgiė (OTW) in the summer of 2022 in Nottingham. The ten contributions are prefaced by an editorial Introduction (Hempel, Ausloos) followed by studies on Hebrew Semantics (Raymond de Hoop, Paul Sanders, Ellen van Wolde), the Pentateuch (Gert Kwakkel, Jan-Wim Wesselius, Philip Yoo), exilic and post-exilic historiography (Carly Crouch, Michaėl van der Meer) and two chapters that draw on Sumerian poetry and gender-based violence in contemporary South Africa, respectively, to illuminate biblical narratives in Judges and 1-2 Samuel (Ekaterina E. Kozlova, Nozipho Princess S. Dlodlo).
Charlotte Hempel, University of Birmingham, UK, is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria. She has published extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible, including The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary (Mohr Siebeck, 2020) and with George Brooke, T&T Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Hans Ausloos, F.R.S.-FNRS / Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, is Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS). He is Director of the Louvain Centre for Septuagint Studies and Textual criticism, and has published mainly on the so-called Deuteronomistic redaction of the Pentateuch, on textual criticism and on the Septuagints translation technique.
