Publications

Recent Publications

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

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

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

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

Previous 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 (eds.), Images of Exile in the Prophetic Literature, FAT II 103, Tübingen 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.

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

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

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

    Bezold, Helge, Ester – Eine Gewaltgeschichte. Die Gewaltdarstellungen in der hebräischen und griechischen Esterüberlieferung, BZAW 545, Berlin/New York 2022.

    Ammann, Sonja, "Das Schicksal des Volkes. Transformationsprozesse alttestamentlicher Geschichtserzählungen am Beispiel der babylonischen Eroberung Jerusalems," in: Schmid, Konrad (ed.), Heilige Schriften in der Kritik. XVII. Europäischer Kongress für Theologie (5.–8. September 2021 in Zürich), VWGTh, Leipzig 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.

    Germany, Stephen, "Gilead in 2 Samuel and the Discourse on Diaspora during the Persian Period," in: Hensel, Benedikt; Adamczewski, Bartosz; Nocquet, Dany (eds.), Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions: Identity Perspectives from Egypt, Transjordan, Mesopotamia, and Israel in the Second Temple Period, FAT 167, Tübingen 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 (eds.), Von Elephantine bis Ugarit. Festschrift für Hanna Jenni, Ägypten und Altes Testament 116, Münster 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 (eds.), Von Elephantine bis Ugarit. Festschrift für Hanna Jenni, Ägypten und Altes Testament 116, Münster 2023, 39–51.

    Germany, Stephen, "Israelite and Judahite Involvement in Transjordan during the Monarchic Period: A Synthesis of the Biblical and Extrabiblical Sources," in: Hensel, Benedikt (ed.), Transjordan and the Southern Levant: New Approaches Regarding the Iron Age and the Persian Period from Hebrew Bible Studies and Archaeology, Tübingen 2023.

    Germany, Stephen, "Reconsidering the Religio-Historical Background of the ‘Uncircumcised Philistine’ Motif in the Book of Samuel," in: Klein, Johannes (ed.), Between Fiction and Facts: Historicity and Religiosity in the Books of Samuel, BWANT, Stuttgart 2023. 

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

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

    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 Testamen, Tübingen 2024, 131–144.

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

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