Special Issue IOSOT 2013 - Books and Journals
Special Issue IOSOT 2013 - Books and Journals
Special Issue IOSOT 2013 - Books and Journals
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Vetus Testamentum <strong>IOSOT</strong> (<strong>2013</strong>) 1<br />
Vetus<br />
Testamentum<br />
brill.com/vt<br />
Preface<br />
On the occasion of the twenty-first conference of the International Organization<br />
for the Study of the Old Testament, Brill Publishing <strong>and</strong> the editorial board of<br />
Vetus Testamentum are pleased to set the present collection before the learned<br />
public: ten articles published in the journal between 1950 <strong>and</strong> today, reprinted<br />
without change from the original. Most of them have been seminal in one way<br />
or another, <strong>and</strong> all, we think, continue to repay close study. The selection was<br />
made so as to illustrate the diversity of subject matter, scholarly approach, <strong>and</strong><br />
geographic provenance that characterizes Vetus Testamentum.<br />
Beyond the principle of publishing only innovative research of the highest<br />
scholarly level, the animating spirit of Vetus Testamentum is to bring scholars of<br />
different origins <strong>and</strong> backgrounds into discussion with one another. The days<br />
of the hegemony of one school—German historical criticism during much of<br />
the nineteenth <strong>and</strong> early twentieth centuries—are gone. They are in danger<br />
of being followed by a period of balkanization of scholarly approaches. Vetus<br />
Testamentum was designed to check the risk of fragmentation by providing an<br />
international forum where one speaks not to one’s own circle, but to knowledgeable<br />
scholars around the world. The process of peer review put into place<br />
at Vetus Testamentum over the last few years reinforces this dynamic.<br />
On the brink of important logistical <strong>and</strong> political changes—the growing<br />
attraction of electronic publishing, <strong>and</strong> the evolution toward “open access”—<br />
the editorial board hopes to secure the core mission of Vetus Testamentum.<br />
The journal could not exist without its readers <strong>and</strong> its authors. Let the present<br />
volume be an invitation to read, but also to submit, excellent articles in the<br />
future, as in the past.<br />
Jan Joosten<br />
Editor-in-chief<br />
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, <strong>2013</strong> DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341127