Alle publikasjoner (in English)

Books 

2025    New Revelations: How the Bible Handles Its Provocative Parts. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.

2024    Gud, pest og plage: Bibelens vanskelige tekster. Oslo: Verbum.

2018    Qumran, Mount Gerizim, and the Books of Moses. Edited with Gary N. Knoppers. Studia Samaritana 10, Studia Judaica 104. Berlin: de Gruyter.

2013    Rejoice, Dear Zion! Hebrew Construct Phrases with "Daughter" and "Virgin" as Nomen RegensBeihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 447. Berlin: de Gruyter.

2009    The Origin of the Samaritans. Vetus Testamentum Supplements 128. Leiden: Brill.

1997-2016       Det gamle testamentet: Analyse av tekstar i utval. Edited. Oslo: Samlaget 1997, 2. ed. 2000, 3. ed. Oslo 2003, reprinted 2007, 2010, 2016.

1989    Motive und Schichten der Landtheologie in I Chronik 1-9. Coniectanea Biblica Old Testament Series 28. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell.

1987    Israels Land in 1 Chronik 1-9. Dissertation, University of Uppsala.

Articles and Chapters in Books

2025    “Religion and Ethnic Composition of Persian Period Samaria.” Pages 153–162 in A corpus of Samarian Coinage from the Persian Period : Volume I, Studies in Samarian Coins. Ed. by Haim Gitler, Mati Johananoff, Oren Tal. Jerusalem: The Israel Numismatic Society.

2025    “Das Gottesbild der Samaritaner.” Pages 336–351 in Samaritan Languages, Texts, and Traditions: Collected Studies. Ed. by Stefan Schorch. Studia Samaritana 8, Studia Judaica, 56. Berlin: de Gruyter.

2024    “Religious Life in the Area of Samaria in the Hellenistic Period.” Pages 318–330 in Handbuch zur Septuaginta/Handbook of the Septuagint. Volume 4. Ed. by Walter Ameling. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus.

2024    “What the Pre-Samaritan Texts Can Tell Us About the History of the Pentateuch in the Hellenistic Period.” Pages 385–402 in The Formation of Biblical Texts: Chronicling the Legacy of Gary N. Knoppers. Ed. by Deirdre N. Fulton, Kenneth A. Ristau, Jonathan S. Greer, and Margaret E. Cohen. FAT 176. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

2024    “The Greek Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim.” Pages 45–58 in Samaritans Through the Ages: Studies on Samaritan History, Texts, Interpretation, Linguistics and Manuscripts. Ed. by József Zsengellér. Studia Samaritana 14, Studia Judaica 134. Berlin: de Gruyter.

2023    “Is Mount Gerizim YHWH's Chosen place?” Semitica 65: 291-304.

2023    “The Attitude towards the Northerners in the Book of Chronicles.” Pages 105–116 in Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions: Identity Perspectives from Egypt, Transjordan, Mesopotamia, and Israel in the Second Temple Period. Ed. by Benedikt Hensel, Bartosz Adamczewski, and Dany Nocquet. FAT 167. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

2023    “Structural Differences between the Source Languages and the Target Languages in Bible Translation.” Pages 267–279 in Context Matters: Old Testament Essays from Africa and Beyond Honoring Knut Holter. International Voices in Biblical Studies (IVBS) 16. Ed. by Madipoane Masenya, Marta Høyland Lavik, Ntozakhe Cezula, and Tina Dykesteen Nilsen. Atlanta GA: SBL Press.

2023    “Når Gud sender pest – i Det gamle testamentet. Ein semantisk analyse.” Teologisk Tidsskrift 4:228-235.

2023    “The Use of Deuteronomy’s Centralization Command in the Temple Scroll.” Studies in Honour of Kåre Berge. Ed. by Diana Edelman and Kristin Joachimsen. Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 37: 84-101.

2022    “Possible Ideological Tendencies in the MT, the LXX, and the SP.” Pages 81–94 in Torah: Functions, Meanings, and Diverse Manifestations in Early Judaism and Christianity. Ed. by William Schniedewind, Jason Zurawski, and Gabriele Boccaccini. Atlanta GA: SBL Press.

2021    “Mandated by Moses: Prophets in the Pentateuch.” Pages 108–130 in Herald of Good Tidings: Essays on the Bible, Prophecy and the Hope of Israel in Honour of Antti Laato. Ed. by Pekka Lindqvist and Lotta Valve. Hebrew Bible Monographs 97. Sheffield: Phoenix Press.

2021    “The Pentateuch and the Samaritans.” Pages 95–110 in The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch. Ed. by Jeffrey Stackert and Joel S. Baden. Oxford: University Press.

2020    “The Tension between the Law and the Prophets as a Background to the Formation of the Samaritan Pentateuch.” Pages 263–282 in Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible: Tracing Perspectives of Group Identity from Judah, Samaria, and the Diaspora in Biblical Traditions. Ed. by Benedikt Hensel, Dany Nocquet, and Bartosz Adamczewski. FAT 120. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

2020    “The Mosaic Torah among the Samaritans: The Tablets from Divine Essence.” Pages 44–65 in The Challenge of the Mosaic Torah in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Ed. by Antti Laato. Leiden: Brill.

2020    “State and Temple Economy in the Levant in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods.” Pages 129–143 in The Bible and Money: Economy and Socioeconomic Ethics in the Bible. Ed. by Markus Zehnder and Hallvard Hagelia. The Bible in the modern world 76. Sheffield: Phoenix Press.

2019    “Samaritans.” T & T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism. Ed. Daniel Gurtner and Loren Stuckebruck. London etc.: T & T Clark.

2019    «Where Should the Temple Stand: In Jerusalem or on Mount Gerizim?” Judaïsme Ancien: Revue internationale d’histoire et de philologie / Ancient Judaism: International Journal of History and Philology 7 (2019) 75-88.

2019    “Scholars' Assessments of the Relationship between the Pre-Samaritan Texts and the Samaritan Pentateuch.” Pages 1-17 in The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Leuven etc.: Peeters Publishers.

2018    “Abraham and Joseph in Samaritan tradition.” Pages 59-80 in Abraham's Family: A network of Meaning in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

2018    “Anti-Samaritan Polemics in the Hebrew Bible? The case of 2 Kings 17:24-41.” Pages 3-18 in The Samaritans in Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives. Ed. by Jan Dušek. StSam 11; StJud 110. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

2018    “Reconsidering the ‘New Covenant’ in Jeremiah 31:31-34.” Pages 149-169 in The Book of Jeremiah: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. Leiden: Brill.

2017    “SP-Exodus.” Textual History of the Bible. Ed. by Emanuel Tov and Adrian Schenker. Leiden: Brill.

2016    “From Adam to Wayyal: Chronicles as rewritten Bible.” Pages 91-110 in Adam and Eve Story in the Hebrew Bible and in Ancient Jewish Writings Including the New Testament. Ed. by Antti Laato and Lotta Valve. SRB 7. Turku: Åbo Akademi University. 

2016    “The Temple of Jerusalem as the Centre of Affairs in the Book of Chronicles: Memories of the Past and Contemporary Social Setting.” Pages 229-242 in Centres and Peripheries in the Early Second Temple Period. Ed. By Ehud Ben Zvi and Christoph Levin. FAT 108. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

2015    “The Place That the Lord Your God Will Choose.” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 4 (2015) 205-218.

2015    “SP-Exodus.” Electronic edition of Textual History of the Bible. Ed. by Emanuel Tov and Adrian Schenker. Leiden: Brill.

2014    «Samaritansk sjølvforståing i innskriftene frå Garisim og Delos.» Teologisk Tidsskrift 3 (2014) 271-285.

2014    “The date of II Reg 17,24-41.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 126 (2014) 31-44.

2014    “Folly and Fools. III. Judaism.” Cols. 355-358 in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Ed. by Dale C. Allison, Jr. et al. Vol. 9. Berlin: de Gruyter.

2014    “The Samaritan Temple and Rewritten Bible.” Pages 85-101 in Holy Places and Cult. Studies in Rewritten Bible, vol. 5. Ed. by Erkki Koskenniemi and J. Cornelis de Vos. Åbo/Winona Lake, IN: Åbo Academic Press/Eisenbrauns.

2014    “Samaritan Self-Consciousness in the First Half of the Second Century B.C.E. in Light of the Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim and Delos.” Journal for the Study of Judaism 45 (2014) 449-470.

2014    “Did Isaiah really see God? The Ancient Discussion about Isaiah 6:1.” Pages 115-136 in New Studies in the Book of Isaiah: Essays in Honor of Hallvard Hagelia. Ed. by Markus Zehnder. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.

2013    “Samaritans.” Pages 832-836 in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. 2nd Edition. The IVP Bible Dictionary Series. General Editor Joel B. Green. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Academic. With H. G. M. Williamson.

2013    “The Origin of the Jews and Samaritans According to the Samaritan Chronicles.” Pages 283-297.“Durch Dein Wort ward jegliches Ding!” “Through Thy Word All Things Were Made!” 2. Mandäistsiche und samaritanistische Tagung / 2ndInternational Conference of Mandaic and Samaritan Studies, Zum Gedenken an Rudolph Macuch (1919-1993). Hgg. von/ed. by Rainer Voigt, Mandäistische und samaritanische Studien 2, Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz.

2012    “The Second Temple and the Temple of the Samaritans.” Pages 67-80 in Die Samaritaner und die Bibel / The Samaritans and the Bible: Historische und literarische Wechselwirkungen zwischen biblischen und samaritanischen Traditionen / Historical and Literary Interactions between Biblical and Samaritan Traditions. Edited by Jörg Frey, Ursula Schattner-Rieser, Konrad Schmid. Studia Samaritana 7. Berlin: de Gruyter.

2011    “Gamla testamentet och aktuell historisk forskning.” Pages 63-79 in Rum för teologisk spänning: Historiska, samtidsorienterade och kyrkliga perspektiv i teologisk forskning. Edited by Kim Groop, Mikael Lindfeldt, Pekka Lindquist. Åbo: Åbo Akademis förlag.

2011    “Josephus on the Samaritans – his Tendenz and Purpose.” Pages 109-120 in Samaria, Samarians, Samaritans, Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of the Société d’Études Samaritaines, Pápa, Hungary, July 17-25, 2008, Studia Samaritana 6, Berlin: de Gruyter.

2010    ”Authentic Reading of the Bible.” Pages 219-229 in Culture, Religion, and the Reintegration of Female Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda. Edited by Bård Mæland. Bible and Theology in Africa 10. New York etc.: Peter Lang.

2009    “Who are the ‘Fools’ in 4QNarrative and Poetic Compostition A-C?” Pages 119-133 in Northern Lights on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of the Nordic Qumran Network 2003-2008     ”Die älteste samaritanische Kanonauffassung.” Pages 219-226 in Und das Leben ist siegreich! And Life is Victorious: Mandäische und samaritanische Literatur/Mandaean and Samaritan Literatures. Edited by Rainer Voigt. Mandäistische Forschungen 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2007    "Heiliger Krieg im Alten Testament - Religion und Gewalt." Vision Mission Zeitschrift des Missionsseminars Hermannsburg, Nr. 26, Juli 2007, pp. 3-8

2007    “Names and Narratives: The Meaning of Their Combination In 1 Chronicles 1-9.” Pages 59-80 in Shai le-Sara Japhet: Studies in the Bible, its Exegesis and its Language. Edited by Moshe Bar-Asher. Jerusalem: Bialik.

2007    ”Finnes tanken om Moder Jord i Det gamle testamente?” Pages 53-64 in Økoteologi: Kontekstuelle perspektiver på miljø og teologi. Edited by Bård Mæland and Tom Sverre Tomren. Trondheim: Tapir.

2005    ”The Major Expansions in the Samaritan Pentateuch - The Evidence from the 4Q Texts.” Pages 117-124 in Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of the Société d'Études Samaritaines, Helsinki, August 1-4, 2000. Studies in Memory of Ferdinand Dexinger. Edited by Haseeb Shehadeh & Habib Tawa with the collaboration of Reinhard Pummer. Paris: Geuthner.

2003    “What did I learn about the Old Testament in Hong Kong?” Pages 32-44 in Lilja Kinnunen-Riipinen (ed.), Holy Bible: Aspects for the Old Testament Research. The Annual Book 2003 of Lutheran Institute of Theological Education Volume II. Bangkok: Lutheran Institute for Theological Education.

2000    “The Martyrdom of Isaiah and the Background of the Formation of the Samaritan Group.” Pages 3.15-3.28 in Samaritan Researches Volume V: Proceedings of the Congress of the SES (Milan July 8-12 1996) and of the Special Section of the ICANAS Congress (Budapest July 7-11 1997). Edited by Vittorio Morabito, Alan D. Crown and Lucy Davey. Studies in Judaica 10. Sydney: Mandelbaum. 

1999    “2 Chronicles 36.20-23 as Literary and Theological ‘Interface’.” Pages 395-403 in The Chronicler as Author: Studies in Text and Texture. Edited by M. Patrick Graham and Steven L. McKenzie. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 263. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

1994    ”Sach 13,2-6: Das Ende der Prophetie - aber welcher? Pages 143-156 in Text and Theology: Studies in Honour of Prof. Dr. Theol. Magne Sæbø. Edited by Arvid Tångberg. Oslo: Verbum. 

1993    ”rmh” Col. 523-527 in Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament. Vol. VII. Edited by Heinz-Josef Fabry and Helmer Ringgren. Stuttgart etc.: Kohlhammer.

 

Book Reviews

2019    Schorch, Stefan [Ed.]: The Samaritan Pentateuch. A Critical Editio Maior. Vol. III: Leviticus. Ed. By S. Schorch. Berlin u. a.: De Gruyter 2018. XLVI, 251. Theologische Literaturzeitung 144 (2019) 999-1001.

2010    Reinhard Pummer, The Samaritans in Flavius Josephus. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 129. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2009. Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period, 41 (2010): 420-421.

2010    LarsOlov Eriksson och Åke Viberg (red.), Gud och det utvalda folket: Inledning till Gamla Testamentet. Stockholm: Verbum, 2009. Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 75 (2010): 184-186.

2007    Stefan Schorch, Die Vokale des Gesetzes: Die samaritanische Lesetradition als Textzeugnis der Tora. 1. Das Buch Genesis. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 339. Berlin: de Gruyter 2004. Journal of  Semitic Studies 52 (2007): 152-153.

2007    Ingrid Hjelm, Jerusalem's Rise to Sovereignty: Zion and Gerizim in Competition. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 404. Copenhagen International Seminar, 14. London and  New York: T & T Clark International, 2004. The Journal of Theological Studies 58 (2007): 603-607.
2006    Simon Crisp and Manuel Jinbachian (ed.s), Text, Theology and Translation: Essays in Honour of Jan de Waard, New York: United Bible Societies, 2004. Society for Old Testament Book List 2006, p. 5.

2006    Isaac Kalimi, The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns 2005, Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2006, p. 74.

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