Congress Volume Helsinki 2010

The 24 articles of this proceedings were first presented at the 20th Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, held in Helsinki, Finland in August 2010. Eight of the articles examine Deuteronomistic history (one is in German and one in French) and two are on the Book of Ben Sira. Other topics include archaeology and textual evidence from Sanballat, questions of Assyrian activity in the West, and an intriguing article by Susan Ackerman on apotropaic figurines and other protective traditions used for doorposts and elsewhere as a possible avenue of interpretation for cryptic references in Exodus 38:8 and 1 Sam 2:22. Each article concludes with a bibliography; the volume itself is not indexed. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Martti Nissinen, Doctor of Theology (1992), is Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is one of the leading specialists of ancient Near Eastern prophecy and has published extensively on gender issues in ancient Near Eastern texts.