Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Professor
lena-sofia.tiemeyer@altutbildning.se
Publications
Scholarly Books (Authored Monographs)
In Search of Jonathan: Jonathan between the Bible and Modern Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Jonah Through the Centuries. Wiley-Blackwell Commentary Series. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2022.
Zechariah’s Vision Report and Its Earliest Interpreters: A Redaction-Critical Study of Zechariah 1–8. LHBOTS 626. London: T&T Clark, 2016.
Zechariah and His Visions: An Exegetical Study of Zechariah’s Vision Report. LHBOTS 605. London: T&T Clark, 2015.
For the Comfort of Zion: The Geographical and Theological Location of Isaiah 40–55. VTS 139. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
Priestly Rites and Prophetic Rage: Post-Exilic Prophetic Critique of the Priesthood. FAT II/19. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.
Scholarly Books (Authored Textbooks)
Ezra-Nehemiah: Israel’s Quest for Identity. Old Testament Guides. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017.
Companion to the Old Testament: Introduction, Interpretation, Application (together with Hywel Clifford, Douglas Earl, and Ryan P. O’Down. London: SCM Press, 2016.
Introduction to Biblical Hebrew. Scholar’s Publisher, 2013.
Scholarly Books (Edited Volumes)
Conference Volume Zürich 2022. Edited by Samuel Arnet, Konrad Schmitt, and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. VTS. Leiden: Brill, contracted.
The Oxford Handbook of King David. Edited by David Shepherd and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, contracted.
The Routledge Handbook of the Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Novels, Short Stories, and Poetry. Edited by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge, contracted.
Song, Prayer, Scripture: Aspects of the Use of the Book of Psalms from the Hebrew Bible to the 21st Century. Edited by David Davage and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. LHBOTS. London: T&T Clark, contracted.
Metaphors in the Prophetic Literature of the Hebrew Bible and Beyond. Festschrift Göran Eidevall. Edited by David Davage, Mikael Larsson, and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. JAJS 36. Paderborn: Brill, contracted.
The Oxford Handbook of Isaiah. Edited by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
The Book of the Twelve: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. Edited by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer and Jakob Wöhrle. FIOTL 9/VTS 184. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
Prophecy and Its Cultic Dimensions. Edited by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. JAJS 31. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019.
Priests and Cult in the Book of the Twelve. Edited by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. ANEM 14. Atlanta, GA: SBL, 2016.
‘I Lifted My Eyes and Saw’: Reading Dream and Vision Reports in the Hebrew
Bible. Edited by Elisabeth R. Hayes and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer. LHBOTS 584. London: T&T Clark, 2014.
Continuity and Discontinuity: Chronological and Thematic Development in Isaiah 40–66. Edited by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer and Hans M. Barstad. FRLANT 255. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014.
Scholarly Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals
‘The Cyrus Cylinder in Biblical Scholarship’, Die Welt des Orients (forthcoming).
‘Jonah in 20th Century Literature’, Religions 13:661 (2022), pp. 1–13.
‘The Book of Jonah in Jewish-Christian Debate’, Taiwan Baptist Christian Seminary Journal 17 (2019), pp. 9–39.
‘“Peace for Our Time”: Reading Jonah in Dialogue with Abravanel in the Book of the Twelve’, Journal of Hebrew Scripture 17, no. 6 (2017), pp. 1–23.
‘Retelling Noah and the Flood: A Fictional Encounter with Genesis 6–9’, Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception 6, no. 2 (2017).
DOI: 10.11157/rsrr6-2-706
‘Death or Conversion: The Gentiles in the Concluding Chapters of the Book of Isaiah and the Book of the Twelve’, Journal of Theological Studies 68 (2017), pp. 1–22.
‘A New Look at the Biological Sex / Grammatical Gender of Jonah’s Fish’, Vetus Testamentum 66 (2016), pp. 1–17.
‘When God Seems Cruel: Responsible Christian Readings of Tough Passages in the Old Testament’, Central Taiwan Theological Seminary Journal (2014), pp. 14–50.
‘To Read – or not to Read – Ezekiel as Christian Scripture’, Expository Times 121/10 (2010), pp. 1–8.
‘Through a Glass Darkly: Zechariah’s Unprocessed Visionary Experience’, Vetus Testamentum 58 (2008), pp. 573–594.
‘Abraham, a Judahite Prerogative’, Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 120 (2008), pp. 49–66.
‘Recent Currents in the Research of the Prophetic Literature’, Expository Times 119/4 (2008), pp. 161–169.
‘The Compassionate God of Traditional Jewish and Christian Exegesis’, Tyndale Bulletin 58/2 (2007), pp. 183–207.
‘Geography and Textual Allusions: Interpreting Isaiah 40–55 and Lamentations as Judahite Texts”, Vetus Testamentum 57 (2007), pp. 367–385.
‘God’s Hidden Compassion’, Tyndale Bulletin 57 (2006), pp. 191–213.
‘A Busy Night at the Heavenly Court’, Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 71 (2006), pp. 187–207.
‘The Question of Indirect Touch—Lam 4,14; Ezek 44,19 and Hag 2,12–13’, Biblica 87 (2006), pp. 64–74.
‘Giving a Voice to Malachi’s Interlocutors’, Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 19/2 (2005), pp. 173–192.
‘Prophecy as a Way of Cancelling Prophecy: The Strategic Uses of Foreknowledge’, Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 117 (2005), pp. 329–350.
‘The Watchman Metaphor in Isaiah lvi–lxvi’, Vetus Testamentum 55 (2005), pp. 378–400.
‘Compelled by Honour: A New Interpretation of Zechariah II 12A (8A)’, Vetus Testamentum 54 (2004), pp. 352–372.
‘The Haughtiness of the Priesthood (Isa 65,5)’, Biblica 85/2 (2004), pp. 237–244.
Chapters in Collections of Articles
‘The Erasure of the Saulide from the David Psalms’. In David Davage and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (eds), Song, Prayer, Scripture: Aspects of the Use of the Book of Psalms from the Hebrew Bible to the 21st Century. LHBOTS. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark (forthcoming).
‘Jonathan, the Lover or the Friend: The Depiction of Jonathan’s Sexuality in Contemporary Literature’. In Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, Nirmal Fernando, and Keren Abbou Hershkovits (eds), Scriptural Sexuality. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
‘Saul and Cinema: The Interpretation of the “Eternal Triangle” between Saul, Jonathan, and David in Kings’. In Rachelle Gilmour and Benjamin Jonson (eds), Explorations in the Interpretation of Samuel: Intertextuality and Reception. Studies of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: de Gruyter (forthcoming).
‘The Book of Hosea and Israelite Religion in the Eighth Century BCE’. In Brad E. Kelle (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Hosea. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
‘God’s Compassionate Change of Mind: How the Hebrew Bible Challenges Traditional Understandings of Providence’. In Justin Stratis (ed.), The T&T Clark Companion to the Doctrine of Providence. London: T&T Clark (forthcoming).
‘Isaiah in the Neo-Babylonian Period’. In Christopher Hays (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Isaiah. Cambridge: CUP (forthcoming).
‘God’s Forgiveness and Mutability in the Book of Amos’. In Stefan Beyerle (ed.), Amos: Book, Prophet, Prophecy, Context. BZAW. Berlin, de Gruyter (forthcoming).
‘The Volatile Deity: God’s “No, Yes, No, Yes” in the Book of Hosea’. In David Davage, Mikael Larsson, and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (eds), Metaphors in the Prophetic Literature of the Hebrew Bible and Beyond. Festschrift Göran Eidevall. JAJS 36. Paderborn: Brill (forthcoming 2024).
‘Isaiah 37:14–20’. In Daniel K. Falk and Rodney A. Werline (eds), Prayers in the Ancient World. Leiden: Brill (forthcoming 2024).
‘Queering the Straight Jonah – A Reception-Exegetical Exploration’. In Juliana Claassens, Steed Davidson, Ashwin Thyssen, and Charlene Van Der Walt (eds), Queering the Prophet: On Jonah, and Other Activists. SCM Press (forthcoming 2023).
‘The Power of Revelation in 1–2 Samuel’. In Mark G. Brett and Rachelle Gilmour (eds), Political Theologies in the Hebrew Bible. JAJS 35. Paderborn: Brill, 2023, pp. 227–241.
‘Jacob as a Literary Figure: The Intersection between Jacob in Genesis and Jacob in Isaiah 40–55’. In Anja Marschall and Andreas Schüle (eds), Exodus und Erzeltern in Deuterojesaja. Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2023, pp. 35–48.
‘Missing Jonathan: The Curious Case of the Neglected Crown Prince in Modern Dramatizations of the David Narrative’. In Hyun Chul Paul Kim, Tyler D. Mayfield, and Hye-Kyung Park (eds), Historical Settings, Intertextuality, and Biblical Theology: Essays in Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney. FAT 160. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022, pp. 145–160.
‘Continuity of Worship: The Portrayal of the Temple and its Cult in Isaiah 40–55’. In Angelica Berlejung and Aren M. Maeir (eds), Writing and Re-Writing History by Destruction: Papers Read at the Annual Conference of the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times Held at Leipzig, May 14–17th, 2018. RIAB 3 / ORA. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022, pp. 169–188.
‘The Reception of David and Michal in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Literature’. In Marzena Zawanowska and Mateusz Wilk (eds), The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King. TBN 29. Leiden: Brill, 2021, pp. 554–585.
‘What can Isaiah 24–27, Ezekiel 38–39, and Zechariah 9–14 Teach us about Late Persian / Early Hellenistic Scribal Practices?’ In Hannes Bezzel and Uwe Becker (eds), Prophecy and Hellenism. FAT II/129. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021, pp. 111–124.
‘The Haggai-Zechariah 1-8 Corpus’. In Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer and Jakob Wöhrle (eds), The Book of the Twelve: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. FIOTL 9/VTS 184. Leiden: Brill, 2020, pp. 38–64.
‘Dumping Your Toxic Waste Abroad: Exorcism and Healing in Zechariah’s Vision Report and Beyond’. In Mikael Tellbe and Tommy Wasserman, with Ludvig Nyman (eds), Healing and Exorcism. WUNT II/511. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, pp. 10–30.
‘Jonah, the Eternal Fugitive: Exploring the Intertextuality of Jonah’s Flight in the Bible and Its Later Reception’. In Jesper Høgenhaven, Frederik Poulsen, and Cian Power (eds), Images of Exile in the Prophetic Literature. FAT II/103. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, pp. 255–268.
‘Dating Zechariah 3 and 4: The Evidence in Favour of and Against Understanding Zechariah 3 and 4 as Sixth Century Texts’. In Richard J. Bautch and Mark Lackowski (eds), On Dating Biblical Texts to the Persian Period: Discerning Criteria and Establishing Epochs. FAT II/45. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, pp. 65–77.
‘The Seer and the Priest: The Case of the Co-called Linen Ephod’. In Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (ed.), Prophecy and Its Cultic Dimensions. JAJS 31. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019, pp. 135–151.
‘When God Changes His Mind: A Theological Exploration of Jonah 3:9–10 and 4:2’. In Birger Olsson and James Starr (eds), Orden är dig mycket nära. Skellefteå, Sweden: Artos, 2018, pp. 125–146.
‘Jonah and His Fish: The Monstrification of God’s Servant in Early Jewish and Christian Reception History’. In Zohar Hadromi-Allouche (ed.), Fallen Animals: Art, Religion, Literature. Ecocritical Theory and Practice. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017, pp. 47–70.
‘Reading Zechariah’s Vision Report in the Book of the Twelve’. In Heiko Wenzel (ed.), The Book of the Twelve: An Anthology of Prophetic Books or The Result of Complex Redactional Processes? Osnabrücker Studien zur Jüdischen und Christlichen Bibel 4. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017, pp. 49–77.
‘Jonah and the Foreigners: Interreligious Relations in the Reception History of the Book of Jonah’. In Hallvard Hagelia and Markus Zehnder (eds), Interreligious Relations: Biblical Perspectives. London: T&T Clark, 2017, pp. 259–279.
‘Vocalization and Interpretation in Isaiah 56–66: Weyikṭol or Wayyikṭol in Isaiah 63.1–6 as a Case of Early Jewish Interpretation’. In Greger Andersson and David Willgren (eds), Studies in Isaiah: History, Theology, and Reception. LHBOTS 654. London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 157–180.
‘The Prophets: Looking Forward’. In Carolyn J. Sharp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets. Oxford; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 666–672.
‘Attitudes to the Cult in Jonah: In the Book of Jonah, the Book of the Twelve, and Beyond’. In Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (ed.), Priests and Cult in the Book of the Twelve. ANEM 14. Atlanta, GA: SBL, 2016, pp. 119–135. https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/9780884141532_OA.pdf
‘The Vision Report Genre between Form-Criticism and Redaction-Criticism: An Investigation of Amos 7–9 and Zechariah 1–6’. In Mark M. Boda, Michael Floyd, and Colin Toffelmire (eds), The New Form Criticism and the Book of the Twelve. ANEM 10. Atlanta, GA: SBL, 2015, pp. 58–80.
‘Hope and Disappointment: The Judahite Critique of the Exilic Leadership in Isaiah 56–66’. In Rannfrid Thelle, Terje Stordalen, Mervyn Richardson, and Robert P. Gordon (eds), New Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy and History. FS Hans M. Barstad. VTS 168. Leiden: Brill, 2015, pp. 57–73.
‘Continuity and Discontinuity in Isaiah 40–66: History of Research’. In Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer and Hans M. Barstad (eds), Continuity and Discontinuity: Chronological and Thematic Development in Isaiah 40–66. FRLANT 255. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014, pp. 13–40.
‘The Polyvalence of Zechariah’s Vision Report’. In Elizabeth Hayes and Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (eds), ‘I Lifted My Eyes and Saw’: Reading Dream and Vision Reports in the Hebrew Bible. LHBOTS 584. London: T&T Clark, 2014, pp. 16–29.
‘Yhwh, the Divine Beings, and Zechariah 1–6’. In Nathan MacDonald and Ken Brown (eds), Monotheism in Late Prophecy and Early Apocalyptic Literature: Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on Early Jewish Monotheism, III. FAT II/72. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, pp. 73–101.
‘The Lament in Isaiah 63:7–64:11 and its Literary and Theological Place within Isaiah 40–66’. In Richard Bautch and J. Todd Hibbard (eds), The Book of Isaiah: Enduring Questions Answered Anew: Essays Honoring Joseph Blenkinsopp and His Contribution to the Study of Isaiah. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2014, pp. 58–76.
‘Imperial Influence on the Language and Content of Isaiah 40–55’. In Andrew T. Abernethy, Mark Brett, Tim Bulkeley and Tim Meadowcroft (eds), Isaiah and Imperial Context: The Book of Isaiah in the Times of Empire. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2013, pp. 122–136.
‘The Doubtful Gain of Penitential Prayer: The Fine Line between Lament and Penitential Prayer’. In Tim Bulkeley and Miriam Bier (eds), Spiritual Complaint: Theology and Practice of Lament. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2013, pp. 102–121.
‘Were the Neo-Assyrian Prophets Intercessors? A Comparative Study of Neo-Assyrian and Israelite Prophecy’. In R. Gordon and Hans M. Barstad (eds), ‘Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela’: Prophecy in Israel, Assyria and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013, pp. 253–272.
‘Isaiah 40–55: A Drama of Judahite Voices’. In Mark J. Boda, Carol J. Dempsey, and LeAnn Snow Flesher (eds), Daughter Zion: Her Portrait, Her Response. Atlanta, GA: SBL, 2012, pp. 55–75.
‘The Coming of the Lord in Isaiah 40–66’. In Mark J. Boda and Ian W. Provan (eds), Let Us Go Up To Zion: Essays in Honour of H. G. M. Williamson on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. VTS 143. Leiden: Brill, 2012, pp. 233–244.
‘Ezekiel – A Compromised Prophet in Reduced Circumstances’. In Lester L. Grabbe and Martti Nissinen (eds), Constructs of Prophecy in the Former and Latter Prophets and in Other Texts. ANEM 4. SBL, 2011, pp. 165–185.
‘Lamentations in Isaiah 40–55’. In Robin Parry and Heath A. Thomas (eds), Great is Thy Faithfulness? Toward Reading Lamentations as Christian Scripture. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011, pp. 55–63.
‘Will the Prophetic Texts from the Hellenistic Period Stand Up, Please’. In Lester L. Grabbe and Oded Lipschits (eds), Judah between East and West: The Transition from Persian to Greek Rule (400–200 BCE). LSTS 75. London: T&T Clark, 2011, pp. 255–279. https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/062804P.front.pdf
‘The Priests and the Temple Cult in the Book of Jeremiah’. In Hans M. Barstad and Reinhard G. Kratz (eds), Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah. BZAW 388. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009, pp. 232–263.
‘Two Prophets, Two Laments, and Two Ways of Dealing with Earlier Texts’. In Joachim Schaper (ed.), Die Textualisierung der Religion. FAT 62. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009, pp. 185–202.
‘Zechariah’s Spies and Ezekiel’s Cherubim’. In Mark J. Boda and Michael F. Floyd (eds), Tradition and Innovation in Haggai and Zechariah: Tradition in Transition. LHBOTS 475. London/New York: Continuum, 2008, pp. 104–127.
‘The Guilty Priesthood (Zech 3)’. In Christopher M. Tuckett (ed.), The Book of Zechariah and its Influence. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2003, pp. 1–19.
Other Writings
‘Ezra’, ‘Nehemiah’, ‘1 Esdras’, in The New Oxford Annotated Bible (NOAB6) (forthcoming).
‘Zechariah, Introduction’, in HarperCollins Study Bible (forthcoming).
‘The Book of Zechariah’, in The New Oxford Bible Commentary (eds Katharine Dell and David Lincicum; Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
‘Zechariah 3 and the Women of Jerusalem’, in Zechariah (eds Malka Simkovich and Leslie Hoppe; Wisdom Commentary; Liturgical Press, forthcoming).
‘Nineveh— Mediaeval Judaism’, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception.
‘Jonah (Book and Person)—Film’, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception.
‘Jonah (Book and Person)—Judaism—Rabbinic Judaism’, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception.
‘Joel (Book and Person)—Literature’, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception.
‘Isaiah’, in God in the Details: A Biblical Survey of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures (eds Timotheos Tsohantaridis and John S. Knox; Dubuque, IA: KendallHunt, 2017), pp. 177–179.
‘Noah in Fiction’, in Oxford Biblical Studies Online.
‘Zadok’, in Oxford Bibliographies.
‘The Book of Ezekiel’. In Mark K. Boda and J. Gordon McConville (eds), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2012, pp. 214–229.
‘Eschatology in the Old Testament’. In Steven Holmes and Russell Rook (eds), What Are We Waiting For: Hopeful Theologians in Discussion. Milton Keynes: Paternoster Press, 2008, pp. 13–23.
‘Despite and Nonetheless (Isaiah 43:1–7)’. Expository Times 118/3 (2006), pp. 132–133.
‘Feminist and Ideological Interpretation’. In Tremper Longman III and Peter Enns (eds), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry and Writings. Leicester: Intervarsity Press, 2008, pp. 205–218.
‘Lebanon’. In Bill T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson (eds), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books. Leicester: Intervarsity Press, 2005, pp. 650–652.
‘Manasseh’. In Bill T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson (eds), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books. Leicester: Intervarsity Press, 2005, pp. 674–677.
Sanballat’. In Bill T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson (eds), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books. Leicester: Intervarsity Press, 2005, pp. 877–880.
Membership of professional organizations
Society of Biblical Literature
Society for the Old Testament Study
European Association of Biblical Scholars
Svenska Exegetiska Sällskapet
Conference Papers and other Public Lectures
‘Literary Fiction as Exegesis’, presented at Biblical Reception Workshop. Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, 9–10 May 2023
‘Saul and Cinema’, presented at Annual Meeting of the SBL, Denver, Colorado, 21 Nov 2022.
‘Missing Jonathan: The Curious Case of the Missing Prince in Modern Filmic Retellings of the David Narrative’, presented at Annual Meeting of the SBL, Denver, Colorado, 19 Nov 2022.
‘The Psalter and King David: A Reception Historical Perspective’, presented at the conference Song, Prayer, Scripture, Örebro School of Theology, 14 Oct, 2022.
‘Jonathan, the Lover and the Friend: The Depiction of Jonathan in Contemporary Literature with Focus on the Portrayal of his Sexuality’, presented at the Webinar on Scriptural Sexuality, 4 July 2022.
‘Queering the Straight Jonah – A Reception-Exegetical Exploration’, presented at the conference Queering the Prophet, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 17 March, 2022.
‘Jacob as a Literary Figure: The Intersection between Jacob in Genesis and Jacob in Isaiah 40–55’, presented at the conference Isaiah and Ancestors, University of Leipzig, Germany, 11 Sept, 2021.
‘The Revelation of Power / The Power of Revelation in 1 Samuel’, presented at the webinar on Power, University of Melbourne, 10 July 2020.
‘Jonah in 20th Century Literature’, presented at the Winter Meeting of the Society of the Old Testament Study, Nottingham, UK, 7 Jan. 2020.
‘Review of Christopher Hays, The Origins of Isaiah 24–2’, at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, San Diego, California, 23 Nov. 2019.
‘God’s Indecisiveness: His “No, Yes, No, Yes” in Hosea’, at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, San Diego, California, 23 Nov. 2019.
‘The Cyrus Cylinder in Biblical Research’, at the Persias Conference, King’s College London, UK, 29 Aug. 2019.
‘Jonah Through the Centuries’, a set of three day-conferences presented at the Baptist Seminary of Tainan (2 May 2019), Central Taiwan Theological College in Taichung (6 May 2019), and the Baptist Seminary of Taipei, Taiwan (15 May 2019).
‘The Book of Jonah in Jewish-Christian Debate’, presented at King’s College London, UK, 24 April 2019. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ethel-m-wood-lecture-2019.
‘Haggai-Zechariah 1–8 in the Book of the Twelve: A Dialogue with James Nogalski’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Denver, Colorado, 19 Nov. 2018.
‘Bede’s Portrait of Nehemiah: A Portrait Made of Proof-Texts and Selection’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Denver, Colorado, 17 Nov. 2018.
‘God’s Forgiveness and Mutability in Amos’s Vision Report and Beyond’, presented at the conference Amos: Book – Prophet – Prophecy – Context in Greifswald, Germany, 14 Sept. 2018.
‘The Creation of the Final Form of Ezekiel and the Final Form of the Book of Zechariah – Hellenistic Influences?’ presented at the Aberdeen Prophecy Network Conference in Jena, Germany, 18 June 2018.
‘Continuity of Worship: The Portrayal of the Temple and its Cult in Isa 40–55’, presented at the Minerva Conference in Leipzig, German, 17 May 2018.
‘Intercession, Repentance, and God’s Forgiveness: A Dialogue between Open Theism and the Book of Jonah’, presented at the conference Forgiveness in Dublin, Ireland, 11–12 May 2018.
‘Getting Rid of your Toxic Waste’, presented at the conference Healing and Exorcism in Örebro, Sweden, 8 March 2018.
‘David and Michal in Contemporary Western Fiction’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 2017
‘Zion in Post-Monarchic Prophetic Texts’, presented at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, 7 Aug. 2017.
‘Exile as Death, and Death as Exile in the Book of Jonah’, presented at the conference Exile and Prophecy in Copenhagen, Denmark, 8 May 2017.
‘When God Changes His Mind: An Exploration of the Reception History of Jonah 3:9’, presented at the Conference “Gamla testamentets tolkning och kontextualisering”, Johannelund Theological Seminary, Uppsala, Sweden, 6 Feb. 2017.
‘The Seer and the Priest: The Significance of the Presentation of Cultic Personnel as Prophets’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, San Antonio, Texas, 20 Nov. 2016.
‘Reading Jonah in Dialogue with Abravanel in the Book of the Twelve’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, San Antonio, Texas, 19 Nov. 2016.
‘David and the Wife of his Youth in Twentieth and Twenty-first-century Western Fiction’, presented at the Conference on King David, Warsaw, Poland, 28 Oct. 2016.
‘Zechariah’s Vision Report in the Book of the Twelve’, presented at ISBL, Seoul, South Korea, 7 July 2016.
‘Reading Noah and the Flood: A Fictional Encounter with Genesis 6–9”, presented at ISBL, Seoul, South Korea, 6 July 2016.
‘Zechariah’s Vision Report in the Book of the Twelve’, presented at the Conference on the Book of the Twelve at ETF in Leuven, Belgium, 24 June 2016.
‘Jonah and the Foreigners: Interreligious Relationships in the Reception History of the Book of Jonah’, presented at Kristiansand, Norway, 11 Aug. 2015.
‘Species Ambiguity and Sex Change in the Book of Jonah: A Fishy Tale’, presented at the International Meeting of the SBL, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21 July 2015.
‘Jonah and the Foreigners: Interreligious Relationships in the Reception History of the Book of Jonah’, presented at the International Meeting of the SBL, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 July 2015.
‘Interpretation and Vocalization: Weyikṭol or Wayyikṭol in Isaiah 57:17–18 and 63:1–6 as Cases of Masoretic Biblical Interpretation’, presented at the conference The Words of the Prophets, Their Meaning and History of Reception—With Special Focus on the Books of Isaiah and the Twelve Prophets, Örebro, Sweden, 23 April 2015.
‘Jonah and the Fish: The Monstrification of God’s Servant in Jewish and Christian Reception History’, presented at the conference ‘Fallen Animals’ in Aberdeen, UK, March 2015.
‘Review of Dalit Rom Shiloni, Exclusive Inclusivity’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, San Diego, California, 25 Nov. 2014.
‘The Role of the Gentiles in the Cult of Yhwh in the Concluding Chapters of the Book of Isaiah and the Book of the Twelve’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, San Diego, California, 23 Nov. 2014.
‘Utopia and Dystopia in Isaiah 56–66: A Syntactical Investigation’, presented at A Day in Honour of Professor Hans Barstad, New College, Edinburgh, UK, 31 Oct. 2014.
‘Prophetic Vision Reports between Form- and Redaction-Criticism: An Investigation of Amos 7–9 and Zech 1–6’, presented at the Summer Meeting of the Society of the Old Testament Study, Oxford, UK, 22 July 2014.
‘Hope and Disappointment: The Judahite Critique of the Exilic Leadership in Isaiah 56–66’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Baltimore, Maryland, 23 Nov. 2013.
‘Dating Zechariah 1–6: The Evidence in Favour of and Against Understanding Zechariah 1–6 as a Sixth Century Text’, presented at the International Meeting of the SBL, St Andrews, UK, 10 July 2013.
’Hur mycket visste författarna till Jes 40–55 om Babylon och vad betyder detta för dess geografiska ursprung?’ presented at Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden, 24 April 2013.
‘Daughter Zion and the Lament in Isaiah 63:7–64:11’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Chicago, Illinois, 22 Nov. 2012.
‘A Visionary Experience and its Interpretations: A New Look at the Redaction History of Zechariah’s Vision Report’, presented at the International Meeting of the SBL/Annual Meeting of the EABS, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 22 July 2012.
‘Yhwh, the Divine Beings, and Zechariah 1–8’, presented at the conference Monotheism in Late Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature in Göttingen, Germany, 18 June 2012.
‘Zechariah’s Vision Report – Religious Experience or Literary Fiction?’ presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, San Francisco, California, 19 Nov. 2011.
‘A Vision within a Vision’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, San Francisco, California, 20 Nov. 2011.
‘Continuity and Discontinuity in Isaiah 40–66: History of Research’, presented at the Meeting of the Edinburgh Prophecy Network, Aberdeen, UK, 7 Oct. 2011.
‘The Polyvalency of Zechariah’s Vision Report’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the EABS, Thessaloniki, Greece, 9 Aug. 2011.
‘Reading the Prophets Responsibly: The Use of the Hebrew Prophets in the Church Today’, presented at Africa International College, Nairobi, Kenya, 8 June 2011.
‘Imperial Influence on the Language and Content of Isaiah 40–55’, presented at the ‘Isaiah and Empire Colloquium’, Laidlaw College, Auckland, NZ, 15 Feb. 2011.
‘The Fine Line between Lament and Penitential Prayer’, presented at the Colloquium on ‘Spiritual Complaints’, Laidlaw Carey Graduate School, Auckland, NZ, 11 Feb. 2011.
‘The Coming of the Lord – An Inter-textual Reading of Isa 40:1–11; 52:7–10; 59:15–20 and Isa 63:1–6’, presented at the International Meeting of the SBL, Tartu, Estonia, 27 July 2010.
‘Were the Neo-Assyrian Prophets Intercessors? A Comparative Study of Neo-Assyrian and Israelite Prophecy’, presented at the Meeting of the Edinburgh Prophecy Network, Edinburgh, UK, 11 Dec. 2009.
‘A Response to Marvin Sweeney’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, New Orleans, Louisiana, 22 Nov. 2009.
‘To Read – or not to Read – Ezekiel as Christian Scripture’, presented as the Old Testament Lecture at the Tyndale Triennial Conference at Tyndale House, Cambridge, UK, 6 July 2009.
‘Daughter Zion of Judah’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Boston, Massachusetts, 23 Nov. 2008.
‘The Judahite Community behind Daughter Zion’, presented at the summer meeting of the Society of the Old Testament Study, Oxford, UK, 23 July 2008.
‘En gåtfull spegelbild – Sakarjas visionsupplevelse’, presented at Johannelund Theological Seminary, Uppsala, Sweden, 9 April 2008.
‘Ezekiel the Man, the Prophet, the Priest and the Watchman’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, San Diego, California, 18 Nov. 2007.
‘A Synchronic or a Diachronic Reading Isaiah 40–55 – Does it Differ?’ presented at the Annual Meeting of SBL, San Diego, California, 18 Nov. 2007.
‘Abraham, a Judahite Prerogative’, presented at the International Meeting of the SBL, Vienna, Austria, 3 July 2007.
‘Jeremiah and the Priests’, presented at the Meeting of the Edinburgh Prophecy Network, Edinburgh, UK, 11 May 2007.
‘Geography and Textual Allusions: Interpreting Isaiah 40–55 and Lamentations as Judahite Texts’, presented at the International Meeting of the SBL, Edinburgh, UK, 3 July 2006.
‘Zechariah’s Unprocessed Visionary Experience’, presented at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 Nov. 2005.
‘Two prophets, Two Laments and Two Ways of Dealing with Earlier Texts’, presented at the Conference on Die Textualisierung der Religion. Juda und Jerusalem zwischen Kult und Text vom 7. bis 5. Jh. v. Chr, at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany, 8 July 2005.
‘The Compassionate God of Jewish Exegesis’, presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific North-West Regional Meeting of the SBL. Seattle, Washington, 29 April 2005.