OTSEM in Göttingen

The annual meeting of OTSEM begins today and runs until Wednesday. This is a meeting of graduate students, post-docs and faculty in Old Testament from Scandinavian institutions and the university of Göttingen. This year Oxford are joining for the first time. As well as two keynote addresses (R. Smend, “Wellhausen as OT scholar”; J. Barton, “Law and Narrative in the Pentateuch”), there are also papers by the doctoral students and post-docs.

There is a great deal of good material, but of particular interest are:

Francis Borchardt (Helsinki), Letter of Aristeas 1-40 and Judean National Identity

Gunnar Magnus Eidsvåg (SMT Stavanger), Samaritans in LXX Amos 6

Anne Katrine Gudme (Copenhagen), Modes of Religion: An Alternative to ‘Popular’/‘Official’ Religion

Hanne Løland (MF Oslo), Wishing for Death of Fighting for Life? Death Wish as Negotiating Strategy in the Hebrew Bible

Juha Pakkala (Helsinki), The Date of the Oldest Edition of Deuteronomy

Harald Samuel (Göttingen), From Priest to Patriarch: Genealogical Speculation around Levi

Ruth Sauerwein (Göttingen), A Few Observations on the Title “Man of God” in the Elisha Cycle

Peter Skippervold (Oslo), A Tradition of Interactive Learning in the Hebrew Bible?

Ola Wikander (Lund), Drought, Death and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel