International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament

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The International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament ( IOSOT ) is an international company of Alttestamentlern . It was on September 2, 1950 to one of the Dutch Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap convened Congress of Alttestamentlern in Leiden , established initially under the name "The International Organization of Old Testament Scholars" to permanently provide a forum for international and interdenominational exchange in the Old Testament To offer science whose necessity in Europe after the Second World War was undeniable.

The organization has no formal membership and has limited itself from the beginning to two goals: The implementation of international Old Testament congresses and the publication of an international journal for the Old Testament. The IOSOT congresses have been held every three years since then.

The journal published by IOSOT has been published quarterly since 1951 under the title Vetus Testamentum and is still one of the most important journals in the field. It contains articles and reviews in English, German and French. Since 1953 it has been supplemented by a series of monographs, Supplements to Vetus Testamentum , in which the congress volumes on the IOSOT congresses also appeared, beginning with the volume for the first IOSOT congress in Copenhagen in 1953 , which was also the first volume in the series.

List of Congresses and Presidents

No. place date president
1. Copenhagen August 25-28 1953 Edith Bentzen-Smith
2. Strasbourg 27.8. – 1.9. 1956 Roland de Vaux
3. Oxford 31.8. – 5.9. 1959 Godfrey Rolles Driver
4th Bonn August 26–31 1962 Martin Noth
5. Geneva August 22-28, 1965 Johann Jakob Stamm
6th Rome August 15-19, 1968 Roderick Andrew Francis MacKenzie
7th Uppsala 8-12 August 1971 Helmer Ringgren
8th. Edinburgh August 18-23 1974 George Wishart Anderson
9. Goettingen August 21-26 1977 Walther Zimmerli
10. Vienna August 24-29 1980 Walter Kornfeld
11. Salamanca 28.8. – 2.9. 1983 Luis Alonso Schökel
12. Jerusalem August 24-29 1986 Benjamin Mazar
13. Leuven 27.8. – 1.9. 1989 Christianus Brekelmans
14th Paris 19.-24.7. 1992 André Caquot
15th Cambridge July 16-21 1995 John Adney Emerton
16. Oslo 2. – 7.8. 1998 Magne Sæbø
17th Basel August 5-10 2001 Ernst Jenni
18th Suffer 1. – 6.8. 2004 Arie van der Kooij
19th Ljubljana 15-20 2007 Jože Krašovec
20th Helsinki 1. – 6.8. 2010 Raija Sollamo
21st Munich 4-9.8. 2013 Christoph Levin
22nd Stellenbosch 4-9.9. 2016 Johann Cook
23. Aberdeen 4-9.8. 2019 Joachim Schaper
24. Zurich 2022 Konrad Schmid

literature

  • Rudolf Smend : Fifty Years of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament and Vetus Testamentum. In: Vetus Testamentum 50 (2000), pp. 1-14.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CRNorth: The International Congress of Old Testament Scholars, Leiden, 1950. In: Expository Times 62 (1950), pp 48-50.
  2. ↑ Congress Volume Copenhagen, Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 1, Leiden 1953.
  3. ↑ Edith Bentzen took over the management of the congress as the widow of the recently deceased Aage Bentzen .
  4. ↑ homepage 23 IOSOT Congress
  5. ^ Homepage of Konrad Schmid on the website of the University of Zurich