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According to Wikipedia, Jan Joosten is a Belgian biblical scholar, former pastor, and convicted sex offender. From 2014 to 2020, he was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He was previously, and then concurrently, a professor at the University of Strasbourg, a position he started in 1994 and maintained alongside his chair in Oxford. In June 2020, he was found guilty of possessing child pornography, and was dismissed from his Chair at Oxford. He retired from his Strasbourg position in 2021.

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Mothers' speech in three social classes (1976) (205)
People and Land in the Holiness Code: An Exegetical Study of the Ideational Framework of the Law in Leviticus 17-26 (1996) (60)
Elaborate similes : Hebrew and Greek. A study in Septuagint translation technique (1996) (34)
The Distinction Between Classical and Late Biblical Hebrew as Reflected in Syntax (2011) (33)
Pseudo-Classicisms in Late Biblical Hebrew (2016) (21)
Criticism of Drinking as Informal Social Control: A Study in 18 Countries (2009) (19)
Perceived availability of substances, substance use and substance‐related problems: a cross national study among French and Dutch adolescents (2005) (18)
Do the finite verbal forms in biblical Hebrew express aspect (2002) (17)
Culture as an explanation for substance-related problems: a cross-national study among French and Dutch adolescents. (2007) (17)
Tatian's Diatessaron and the Old Testament Peshitta (2001) (16)
How Old Is the Hebrew Bible? (2018) (15)
West Aramaic Elements in the Old Syriac and Peshitta Gospels (1991) (13)
The Syriac Language of the Peshitta and Old Syriac Versions of Matthew: Syntactic Structure, Inner-Syriac Developments and Translation Technique (1996) (13)
Current practice in physical child abuse forensic reports: a preliminary exploration. (2009) (13)
Varieties of Greek in the Septuagint and the New Testament (2013) (12)
Chapter Two: What is the Holiness Code? (1996) (12)
The Long Form of the Prefix Conjugation Referring to the Past in Biblical Hebrew Prose (1999) (12)
The verbal system of Biblical Hebrew: a new synthesis elaborated on the basis of classical prose (2012) (12)
Accounting for changes in family life of families with spina bifida children. (1979) (12)
A Note on the Text of Deuteronomy xxxii 8 (2007) (11)
THE DURA PARCHMENT AND THE DIATESSARON (2003) (10)
Conservatism and innovation in the Hebrew language of the Hellenistic period : proceedings of a fourth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Ben Sira (2007) (9)
How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?: A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study (2018) (7)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity (2001) (6)
Diachronic Linguistics and the Date of the Pentateuch (2016) (6)
THE KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF HEBREW IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD QUMRAN AND THE SEPTUAGINT (2000) (5)
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek in the Qumran Scrolls (2010) (5)
A New Interpretation of Leviticus 18:22 (Par. 20:13) and its Ethical Implications* (2020) (5)
Septuagint and Samareitikon (2015) (4)
The Verb גער “to Exorcize” in Qumran Aramaic and Beyond (2014) (4)
The Texts and Versions of the Book of Ben Sira (2011) (4)
Collected Studies on the Septuagint: From Language to Interpretation and Beyond (2012) (4)
Biblical Rhetoric as Illustrated by Judah's Speech in Genesis 44.18–34 (2016) (4)
The functions of the Semitic D stem : Biblical Hebrew materials for a comparative-historical approach (1998) (4)
Sample Editions of the Oxford Hebrew Bible : Deuteronomy 32:1-9, 1 Kings 11:1-8, and Jeremiah 27:1-10 (34 G) (2008) (4)
Sorting at the source (1980) (4)
THE NEGATION OF THE NON-VERBAL CLAUSE IN EARLY SYRIAC (1992) (4)
THE GOSPEL OF BARNABAS AND THE DIATESSARON (2002) (3)
PSEUOO-CLASSICISMS IN LATE BIBLICAL HEBREW, IN BEN SIRA, AND IN QUMRAN HEBREW (1999) (3)
The Interplay between Hebrew and Greek in Biblical Lexicology: Language, Text, and Interpretation (2015) (3)
The Date and Provenance of the Gospel of Barnabas (2010) (3)
Language as Symptom: Linguistic Clues to the Social Background of the Seventy (2007) (3)
The reception of Septuagint words in Jewish-Hellenistic and Christian literature (2014) (2)
Greek and Latin words in the Peshitta Pentateuch. First soundings (1998) (2)
Biblical Lexicology: Hebrew and Greek: Semantics - Exegesis - Translation (2015) (2)
Association of adolescent substance use with peer group and deviancy (2006) (2)
Septuagint vocabulary : pre-history, usage, reception (2011) (2)
The Lengthened Imperative with Accusative Suffix in Biblical Hebrew (1999) (2)
Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (2021) (2)
Imperative Clauses Containing a Temporal Phrase and the Study of Diachronic Syntax in Ancient Hebrew (2013) (2)
New Perspectiveson the Joseph Story (2019) (2)
YHWH’s Farewell to Northern Israel (Micah 6,1–8) (2013) (2)
Takamitsu Muraoka, Classical Syriac. A Basic Grammar with a Chrestomathy, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1997 (Porta Linguarum Orientalium, Neue Serie 19) (1999) (2)
The New Testament And Rabbinic Hebrew (2009) (2)
The Targums in the Light of Traditions of the Second Temple Period (2014) (2)
Interpretation and Meaning in the Septuagint Translation 1 (2012) (2)
The Syntax of Relative Clauses with a First or Second Person Antecedent in Biblical Hebrew (1993) (2)
The Old Testament Quotations in the Old Syriac and Peshitta Gospels: A Contribution to the Study of the Diatessaron (1990) (2)
1 Samuel Xvi 6, 7 in the Peshitta Version (1991) (2)
The Linguistic Dating of the Joseph Story (2019) (2)
The Tiberian Vocalization and the Hebrew of the Second Temple Period (2015) (2)
Wilhelm Gesenius and the History of Hebrew in the Biblical Period (2013) (1)
Prophetic Discourse and Popular Rhetoric in the Hebres Bible (2013) (1)
Chapter Seven: Conclusions (1996) (1)
TARGUMIC ARAMAIC - "OPPRESSION" (ISA. LXVII 2, HOS. XI 7, MIC. VI, 3) (2001) (1)
Reflections On The ‘Interlinear Paradigm’ In Septuagintal Studies (2008) (1)
Biblical Hebrew as Mirrored in the Septuagint: The Question of Influence from Spoken Hebrew (2002) (1)
The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Leiden University, 11-14 December 1995 (1998) (1)
Source-language oriented remarks on the lexicography of the greek versions of the Bible (2005) (1)
The Prayer Of Azariah (Danlxx 3): Sources And Origin (2009) (1)
Raymond F. Person, The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles. Scribal Works in an Oral World, (Ancient Israel and its Literature, 6), Leiden – Atlanta, Brill – SBL, 2010 (2012) (1)
Textual History and Linguistic Developments. The Doublet in 2 Kgs 8:28-29 // 9:15-16 in Light of 2 Chr 22:5-6 (2012) (1)
The use of some Particles in the old Testament Peshitta (1988) (1)
THE OLD SYRIAC AND PESHITTA VERSIONS OF MATTHEW (1996) (0)
Bible reference index (2015) (0)
Bertil Albrektson, Text, Translation, Theology. Selected Essays on the Hebrew Bible, Farnham, Ashgate, 2010 (2011) (0)
SYNTAX OF THE NON-VERBAL CLAUSE (1996) (0)
The participle as a component of the verbal system in Biblical Hebrew (2020) (0)
Jannes Smith, Translated Hallelujahs. A Linguistic and Exegetical Commentary on Select Septuagint Psalms, (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology, 56), Leuven, Peeters, 2011 (2012) (0)
Tova L. Forti, Animal Imagery in the Book of Proverbs, (Vetus Testamentum Supplements, 118) Leiden – Boston, Brill, 2008 (2009) (0)
A Note on the Anomalous Jussive in Exodus 22:4 (2010) (0)
The Tiberian vocalization and the edition of the Hebrew Bible Text (2015) (0)
Hans M. Barstad, The Babylonian Captivity of the Book of Isaiah. « Exilic » Judah and the Provenance of Isaiah 40-55, Oslo, Novus, 1997 (1998) (0)
Introduction to Jubilee Edition (2020) (0)
3. Son of God in Wisdom 2:16–18: Between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament (2019) (0)
Géza G. Xeravits, József Zsengellér (éd.), Studies in the Book of Wisdom, (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 142), Leiden – Boston, Brill, 2010 (2012) (0)
Antony Tharekadavil, Servant of Yahweh in Second Isaiah. Isaianic Servant Passages in Their Literary and Historical Context, Frankfurt a. M. etc., Peter Lang, 2007 (2008) (0)
J. Frishman, L. Van Rompay, éds., The Book of Genesis in Jewish and Oriental Christian Interpretation. A Collection of Essays, Peeters, Leuven, 1997 (Traditio Exegetica Graeca 5) (1999) (0)
WHAT PART DID JEROBOAM PLAY IN THE SCHISM (1 KGS 12)? (2020) (0)
STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS (1996) (0)
Review: Verbal Syntax in the Greek Pentateuch. Natural Greek Usage and Hebrew Interference (2003) (0)
Chapter Five: Perspectives on the Land (1996) (0)
The value of mood measurement for regulating negative influences of social media usage: A case study of TikTok (2022) (0)
The Value of the Septuagint for Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible as Illustrated by the Oxford Hebrew Bible Edition of 1 Kings (2012) (0)
Chapter Three: The Addressees of the Holiness Code (1996) (0)
Magne Sœbo, (éd.) Hebrew Bible /Old Testament. The History of Its Interpretation. Volume I : From the Beginnings to the Middle Ages (Until 1300). Part 2 : The Middle Ages, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000, ISBN 3-525-53507-4 (2001) (0)
Thomas Römer, dir., The Books of Leviticus and Numbers, (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 215) Leuven, Peeters, 2008 (2009) (0)
Index of Greek words (2015) (0)
RJ.V. Hiebert, CE. Cox, P.J. Gentry [éds.] : The Old Greek Psalter. Studies in Honour of Albert Pietersma (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 332), 2001 (2003) (0)
Ignacio Carbajosa, The Character of the Syriac Version of Psalms. A Study of Psalms 90-150 in the Peshitta, (Monographs of the Peshitta Institute in Leiden, 17) Leiden, Brill, 2008 (2009) (0)
Reinhard G. Kratz, Hermann Spieckermann (éd.), One God – One Cult – One Nation. Archaeological and Biblical Perspectives, Berlin – New York, De Gruyter, 2010 (2011) (0)
The Septuagint as World Literature (2019) (0)
Katharine Julia Dell, The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006 (2011) (0)
Denise Schmandt-Besserat, How Writing Came About, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1996 (1999) (0)
Chalkèdôn (Ap 21,19) (1999) (0)
The Text of Matthew 13. 21a and Parallels in the Syriac Tradition (1991) (0)
Covenant (2019) (0)
A Note on w∂yiqtol and Volitive Sequences (2009) (0)
Four Fragments of the Hebrew Bible from Antinoopolis, P.Ant. 47–50 (2019) (0)
Christophe Nihan, From Priestly Torah to Pentateuch. A Study in the Composition of the Book of Leviticus, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2007 (2008) (0)
Carmel McCarthy, Biblia Hebraica Quinta, Fasc. 5 : Deuteronomy, Stuttgart, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2007 (2009) (0)
Index Of Semitic Words And Phrases (2008) (0)
6 The Relation of the Septuagint of Proverbs to the Septuagint of Psalms (2016) (0)
Brian D. Russell, The Date of Composition and Influence of Exodus 15 : 1-21, (Studies in Biblical Literature 101) Frankfurt am Main et al., Peter Lang, 2007 (2007) (0)
SYNTAX OF THE NOMINAL PHRASE (1996) (0)
Targum Jonathan and Its Relation to the Septuagint in the Book of Hosea (2019) (0)
Tzemah L. Yoreh, The First Book of God, Berlin – New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2010 (2011) (0)
Comments on ‘Three Approaches to the Tripartite Nominal Clause in Syriac’ by Wido Van Peursen (2006) (0)
Gary N. Knoppers, Bernard M. Levinson (dir.), The Pentateuch as Torah. New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance, Winona Lake IN, Eisenbrauns, 2007 (2008) (0)
Language and Textual History of the Syriac Bible: Collected Studies (2013) (0)
Archaic Elements in the Syriac Version of Ben Sira (2011) (0)
Late Biblical Hebrew and Qumran Hebrew: A Diachronic View (2018) (0)
The Operation of a Syntactic Rule in Classical Biblical Hebrew and in Hebrew Inscriptions of the Monarchic Period (2011) (0)
George J. Brooke, Thomas Römer (éd.), Ancient and Modern Scriptural Historiography / L’historiographie biblique, ancienne et moderne, Louvain, Peeters, 2007 (2008) (0)
Karel van der Toorn, éd., The Image and the Book. Iconic Cults, Aniconism, and the Rise of Book Religion in Israel and the Ancient Near East, Peeters, Leuven, 1997 (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 21) (1999) (0)
Son of God in Wisdom 2: 16–18: (2019) (0)
Tryggve N. D. Mettinger, The Eden Narrative. A Literary and Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 2-3, Winona Lake IN, Eisenbrauns, 2007 (2009) (0)
Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea. A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents, written by Michael Owen Wise (2018) (0)
La tradition syriaque des évangiles et la question du «substrat araméen» (1997) (0)
Joseph Alobaidi, Old Jewish Commentaries on the Song of Songs I. The Commentary of Yefet ben Eli, (Bible in History, 9), Berne, Peter Lang, 2010 (2013) (0)
SYNTAX OF THE IT CLAUSE (1996) (0)
Jan Joosten, Jean-Sébastien Rey, dir., Conservatism and Innovation in the Hebrew Language of the Hellenistic Period. Proceedings of a Fourth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Ben Sira, Leiden, Brill, 2008 (2008) (0)
La prosopopée, les pseudo-citations et la vocation d'Isaïe (Is 6,9-10) (2001) (0)
Chapter One: History of Research on the Holiness Code (1996) (0)
Irene E. Riegner, The Vanishing Hebrew Harlot. The Adventures of the Hebrew Stem ZNH, New York, Peter Lang, 2009 (2011) (0)
Index of Selected Passages (1996) (0)
Maria Montessori's contribution to educational thought and practice : souvenir in honour of Dr. Maria Monessori's birth centenary, 31 August, 1970 (1971) (0)
Divergent cultic practices in the SeptuagintThe “shoulder” (βραχίων) of the priest (2015) (0)
Language, Exegesis, and Creative Writing in Chronicles (2020) (0)
The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2016) (0)
Armin Lange, Matthias Weigold, József Zsengellér (éd.), From Qumran to Aleppo. A Discussion with Emanuel Tov about the Textual History of the Jewish Scriptures in Honor of his 65th Birthday, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009 (2011) (0)
Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson, Holy, Holy, Holy : The Story of a Liturgical Formula, Berlin – New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2008 (2011) (0)
The Minimal Psychiatric Summary (M.P.S.) and the Current Organization in Mental Health Care (1999) (0)
The Form and Function of the Biblical Hebrew Preterite Yiqtol in Psalms 1-41 In The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew, (2017) (0)
West Aramaic elements in the Syriac Gospels: methodological considerations (1994) (0)
Horizons in Textual Criticism: New Approaches and New Questions (2018) (0)
Bernard M. Levinson, Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation, University Press, Oxford, 1997 (1999) (0)
Chapter Six: Yhwh’s Land and Israel’s Land (1996) (0)
Johannes C. de Moor, The Rise of Yahwism. The Roots of Israelite Monotheism, Peeters, Leuven, revised and enlarged edition 1997 (première édition 1990) (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 91) (1999) (0)
Sebastian P. Brock, George Anton Kiraz, Ephrem the Syrian. Select Poems, (Eastern Christian Texts, 2) Provo UT, Brigham Young University Press, 2007 (2009) (0)
Septuagint, Targum and Beyond Comparing Aramaic and Greek Versions from Jewish Antiquity (2019) (0)
Jan Joosten, Peter Tomson, dir., Voces Biblicae. Septuagint Greek and its Significance for the New Testament, Leuven, Peeters, 22007 (2008) (0)
Étan Levine, Marital Relations in Ancient Judaism, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2009 (2011) (0)
Axel Graupner, Michael Wolter, Moses in Biblical and Extra-Biblical Traditions, Berlin – New York, W. de Gruyter, 2007 (2008) (0)
Index Of Texts (2008) (0)
Louis C. Jonker, Exclusivity and Variety. Perspectives on Multidimensional Exegesis, Kampen, Kok Pharos, sans date (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 19) (1998) (0)
Wilfried Warning, Literary Artistry in Leviticus , Brill, Leiden, 1999, XVI. (Biblical Interpretation Series 35), ISBN 90-04-11235-9 (2001) (0)
Robert J. Wilkinson, Orientalism, Aramaic and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation. The First Printing of the Syriac New Testament, (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 137) Leiden, Brill, 2007 (2009) (0)
Anneli Aejmelaeus, On the Trail of the Septuagint Translators. Collected Essays, Louvain, Peeters, 2007 (2008) (0)
Pierre Van Hecke (éd.), Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible, Louvain, Peeters, 2005 (2008) (0)
How Old is the Targumic Tradition? Traces of the Jewish Targum in the Second Temple Period, and Vice Versa (2016) (0)
Index of Hebrew words (2015) (0)
“A Gift of Arms”: The Greek Translation of Sirach 7:31 and the Interpretive Process Underlying the Septuagint (2017) (0)
The Hebrew of the Ben Sira Manuscripts from the Genizah (2019) (0)
BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION IN THE SAMAREITIKON AS EXEMPLIFIED IN ANONYMOUS READINGS IN LEVITICUS ATTESTED IN M’ (2019) (0)
THE SYNTAX OF Hbrakah 'ahat hi' lka 'abi (GEN. 27 : 38?a) (1991) (0)
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls (2011) (0)
INNER-SYRIAC DEVELOPMENTS (1996) (0)
Staffan Olofsson, As a Deer Longs for Flowing Streams. A Study of the Septuagint Version of Psalm 42-43 in its Relation to the Hebrew Text, (De Septuaginta Investigationes, 1), Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011 (2013) (0)
F.-L. Hossfeld/E. Zenger, Psalmen 51-100, 2000 (2003) (0)
Grammar and Style in the Septuagint: On Some Uses of Preverbs (2020) (0)
Yael Ziegler, Promises to Keep. The Oath in Biblical Literature, (Vetus Testamentum Supplements, 120) Leiden, Brill, 2008 (2009) (0)
Rhetorical ornamentation in the Septuagint: The case of grammatical variation (2011) (0)
HEBREW THOUGHT AND GREEK THOUGHT IN THE SEPTUAGINT: FIFTY YEARS AFTER BARR’S SEMANTICS (2014) (0)
Chapter Four: The Status Of The People (1996) (0)
SYNTAX AND TRANSLATION TECHNIQUE (1996) (0)
Index of Passages Discussed (1996) (0)
Tatian’s Sources and the Presentation of the Jewish Law in the Diatessaron (2019) (0)

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