Collaborative Project Publications

Edited Volume: Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (CHAN 135; Leiden: Brill, 2024)

• Ammann, Sonja, Introduction, 1–20
• Berlejung, Angelika, The Ruins of Jericho (Joshua 6) and the Memorialization of Violence, 21–55
• Germany, Stephen, Memorializing Saul’s Wars in Samuel and Chronicles, 56–70.
• Bezold, Helge, Fighting Annihilation: The Justification of Collective Violence in the Book of Esther and in Its Cultural Context, 71–91.
• Rhyder, Julia, Hellenizing Hanukkah: The Commemoration of Military Victory in the Books of the Maccabees, 92–109.

Special Issue: Horror, prospektiv – Beilage zum evangelischen Magazin Bref (2024)

Special Issue: Biblische Darstellungen von Israel und Juda als Subjekte kollektiver Gewalt, ThZ 79 (4/2023)

• Germany, Stephen, Einleitung/Introduction, 279–295
• Ammann, Sonja, Das judäische Heer in den biblischen Erzählungen der babylonischen Eroberung, 296–315
• Kemp, Jenna, From Annihilation to Dispossession: Transforming Memories of חרם in the Book of Joshua, 316–344
• Germany, Stephen, Les guerres menées par Juda et Israël dans les livres des Chroniques, 345–368

Special Issue: Gewalt, prospektiv – Beilage zum evangelischen Magazin Bref (2022)

• Ammann, Sonja, Transforming Memories of Collective Violence in the Hebrew Bible: Vorstellung des SNF-Forschungsprojekts, 3
• Bezold, Helge, Gute Gewalt, schlechte Gewalt? Die Bewertung von Gewalt im Alten Testament, 6
• Germany, Stephen, Der Feind im Inneren: Alttestamentliche Kriegserzählungen als Beitrag zu Identitätsbildung, 7
• Bezold, Helge und Kemp, Jenna, Biblische Gewalt zwischen Antike und Gegenwart: Ein Interview mit Prof. Dr. Sylvie Honigman, 8
• Rhyder, Julia, Vergissmeinnicht: Siegesfeiern im Hellenistischen Judentum, 9

Special Issue: Transforming Memories of Collective Violence, HeBAI 10 (1/2021)

• Ammann, Sonja und Rhyder, Julia, Editorial Introduction: Transforming Memories of Collective Violence. Key Methods and Future Directions, 1–10
• Amman, Sonja, Second Kings 24–25 and Jeremiah 52 as Diverging and Converging Memories of the Babylonian Conquest, 11–29
• Germany, Stephen, Self-Defense as a casus belli in Ancient Mesopotamian and Hittite Literature and in the Hebrew Bible, 30–44
• Bezold, Helge, Violence and Empire: Hasmonean Perspectives on Imperial Power and Collective Violence in the Book of Esther, 45–62
• Rhyder, Julia, Festivals and Violence in 1 and 2 Maccabees: Hanukkah and Nicanor's Day, 63–76
• Honigman, Sylvie, Commemorative Fictions: Athens (480 BCE), Jerusalem (168 BCE), and Alexandria (38 CE), 77–96

Monographs

Bezold, Helge, Ester – Eine Gewaltgeschichte. Die Gewaltdarstellungen in der hebräischen und griechischen Esterüberlieferung, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 545, Berlin/New York: De Gruyer, 2022.

Ammann, Sonja, Der zerbrochene Spiegel. Die babylonische Eroberung Jerusalems als kulturelles Trauma, Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible 9, Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2024.

Kemp, Jenna, Forgetting to Remember: Cultural Memory, Intertextuality, and Scribal Agency in the Hebrew Bible, Forschungen zum Alten Testament I, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming.

Germany, Stephen, Kingmakers and Kingbreakers: Philistines, Arameans, and Historical Patterning in Samuel–Kings. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike / Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming.

Other Publications

Ammann, Sonja, “Oszillationen eines Traumas. Biblische Erzählungen der Eroberung Jerusalems,” Theologische Zeitschrift 74 (4), 2018, 319–337.

Ammann, Sonja, “Voting with One’s Feet: Emigration as a Matter of Choice in the Jeremiah Narratives,” in: Høgenhaven, Jesper; Poulsen, Frederik; Power, Cian (Hg.), Images of Exile in the Prophetic Literature, FAT II 103, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, 121–135.

Germany, Stephen, “Scribal Cartography in Numbers 32; Deuteronomy 2–3; and Joshua 12–13,” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 137 (2), 2021, 142–166.

Rhyder, Julia, “The Commemoration of War in Early Jewish Festivals,” Bible Odyssey, 2021. 

Bezold, Helge, Art. "Gewalt (AT)," WiBiLex, 2021.

Ammann, Sonja, "The Fall of Jerusalem: Cultural Trauma as a Process," Open Theology 8 (1), 2022, 362–371.

Rhyder, Julia, “Le porc et les interactions d’Antiochos IV avec les Juifs. Une comparaison nouvelle des sources,” Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie154, 2022, 383–409.

Ammann, Sonja, "What Follows the Death of the Author? Introduction," in: Ammann, Sonja and Pyschny, Katharina (Hg.), Authorship and the Hebrew Bible, FAT 158, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022, 1–16.

Germany, Stephen, “The ‘Edom Texts’ in Samuel–Kings in Inner- and Extrabiblical Perspective,” in: Hensel, Benedikt; Edelman, Diana; Ben Zvi, Ehud (Hg.), About Idumea and Edom: Recent Research and Approaches from Archaeology, Hebrew Bible Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, London: Equinox, 2022, 363–391.

Ammann, Sonja, "Das Schicksal des Volkes. Transformationsprozesse alttestamentlicher Geschichtserzählungen am Beispiel der babylonischen Eroberung Jerusalems," in: Schmid, Konrad (Hg.), Heilige Schriften in der Kritik. XVII. Europäischer Kongress für Theologie (5.–8. September 2021 in Zürich), Veröffentlichungen der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie 68, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2023, 207–218.

Germany, Stephen, "The Literary and Theological Function of the Philistines and Arameans in Chronicles," Religions 14,446, 2023, 1–9 

Germany, Stephen, "Saul and David, Israel and Judah: The Book of Samuel as Paradigmatic History," Vetus Testamentum 73 (4–5), 2023, 546–566.

Rhyder, Julia, “Politics and Theology in Second Maccabees. Rethinking the Epiphanies, Prayers, and Deaths of Martyrs,” in: Brett, Mark; Gilmour, Rachelle (eds.), Political Theologies in the Hebrew Bible, Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplement 35, Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2023, 257–271.

Germany, Stephen, "Gilead in 2 Samuel and the Discourse on Diaspora during the Persian Period," in: Hensel, Benedikt; Adamczewski, Bartosz; Nocquet, Dany (Hg.), Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions: Identity Perspectives from Egypt, Transjordan, Mesopotamia, and Israel in the Second Temple Period, FAT 167, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023, 175–189.

Bezold, Helge, "Völker, die zu Juden werden? Zur Bedeutung des Hitpa‘el-Partizips מתיהדים in Est 8,17,“ in: Gautschy, Rita; Grütter, Nesina; Müller, Matthias (Hg.), Von Elephantine bis Ugarit. Festschrift für Hanna Jenni, Ägypten und Altes Testament 116, Münster: Zaphon, 2023, 1–8.

Germany, Stephen, "Die ‘alten’ Hebräer und die Anfänge des Königtums. Komposition, Funktion und Datierung der ‘Hebräer’-Passagen in 1 Samuel," in: Gautschy, Rita; Grütter, Nesina; Müller, Matthias (Hg.), Von Elephantine bis Ugarit. Festschrift für Hanna Jenni, Ägypten und Altes Testament 116, Münster: Zaphon, 2023, 39–51.

Kemp, Jenna, "Forgetting to Remember: Theorizing the Role of the Forgotten in the Production of Biblical Text and Tradition,” Biblical Interpretation 31 (4), 2023, 415–439.

Ammann, Sonja, "Zeit ohne Geschichte? Das Exil als Leerstelle biblischer Geschichtserzählungen," in: Zimmermann, Ruben; Erbele-Küster, Dorothea; Meyer zu Horste-Bührer, Raphaela J.; Roth, Michael; Volp, Ulrich (Hg.), Ethik der Zeit Zeiten der Ethik. Ethische Temporalität in Antike und Christentum, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024, 131–144.

Germany, Stephen, "Israelite and Judahite Involvement in Transjordan during the Monarchic Period: A Synthesis of the Biblical and Extrabiblical Sources," in: Hensel, Benedikt (Hg.), Transjordan and the Southern Levant: New Approaches Regarding the Iron Age and the Persian Period from Hebrew Bible Studies and Archaeology, Archaeology and Bible 8, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024.

Germany, Stephen, "Arameans in the Book of Samuel: Literary, Historical, and Archaeological Perspectives (with Assaf Kleiman)," in: Germany, Stephen; Hensel, Benedikt (Hg.), Israel, Judah, and Neighboring Groups in the Book of Samuel: Historical and Textual Approaches, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming 2024.

Germany, Stephen, "Political Prophet, Wonder Worker, and Trailblazer: The Figure of Elijah in Biblical Tradition, " in: Crostini, Barbara; Dumitrescu, Andrei (Hg.), Depictions of the Prophet Elijah: Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology, Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2024.

Kemp, Jenna, "The Lofty and the Low: Orienting toward Metaphor in the Composition Criticism of Isaiah 2:6-21," Vetus Testamentum, under review.

Rhyder, Julia, “Pilgrimage Festivals (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament),” Encyclopaedia of the Bible and Its Reception 24, forthcoming.

Germany, Stephen, "Reconsidering the Religio-Historical Background of the ‘Uncircumcised Philistine’ Motif in the Book of Samuel," in: Klein, Johannes (Hg.), Between Fiction and Facts: Historicity and Religiosity in the Books of Samuel, Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, forthcoming.