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Karel van der Toorn

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#227

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Karel van der Toorn's Degrees

PhD Theology University of Amsterdam
Masters Theology University of Amsterdam
Bachelors Theology University of Amsterdam

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According to Wikipedia, Karel van der Toorn is a Dutch scholar of ancient religions. From 2006 to 2011 he was chairman of the Board at the University of Amsterdam, where he was a professor since 1998 and until he became the chairman of the Board.

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Karel van der Toorn's Published Works

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Scribal culture and the making of the Hebrew Bible (2007) (103)
Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible (DDD). - 2nd, extensively rev. ed (1995) (93)
Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel: Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life (1996) (79)
Sin and Sanction in Israel and Mesopotamia: A Comparative Study (1987) (62)
Anat-Yahu, Some Other Deities, and the Jews of Elephantine (1992) (39)
From her cradle to her grave : the role of religion in the life of the Israelite and the Babylonian woman (1996) (28)
Pluralism and identity : studies in ritual behaviour (1996) (26)
Nimrod Before and After the Bible (1990) (20)
Female Prostitution in Payment of Vows in Ancient Israel (1989) (18)
Canonization and decanonization (1998) (18)
Cuneiform documents from Syria-Palestine: texts, scribes, and schools (2000) (17)
The domestic cult at Emar (1995) (16)
The Image and the Book Iconic Cults, Aniconism, and the Rise of Book Religion in Israel and the Ancient Near East (1998) (15)
Gods and Ancestors in Emar and Nuzi (1994) (14)
David and the Ark (1994) (13)
Sin and Sanction in Israel and Mesopotamia (1987) (12)
Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical, and Interpretative Perspectives (2000) (12)
The Nature of the Biblical Teraphim in the Light of the Cuneiform Evidence (1990) (11)
Saul and the Rise of Israelite State Religion (1993) (10)
Scholars at the Oriental Court: The Figure of Daniel Against its Mesopotamian Background (2001) (10)
From the Mouth of the Prophet: The Literary Fixation of Jeremiah's Prophecies in the Context of the Ancient Near East (2004) (8)
Family Religion in Second Millennium West Asia (Mesopotamia, Emar, Nuzi) (2009) (8)
Canon and Social Control (1998) (8)
Ordeal Procedures in the Psalms and the Passover Meal (1988) (8)
Ancestors and anthroponyms : Kinship terms as theophoric elements in Hebrew names (1996) (7)
Ancient magic and divination 1 (1999) (7)
Judges Xvi 21 in the Light of the Akkadian Sources (1986) (7)
Mesopotamian Prophecy between Immanency and Transcendency: A Comparison of Old Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian Prophecy (2000) (6)
Torn Between Vice and Virtue: Stereotypes of the Widow in Israel and Mesopotamia (1995) (6)
The Exodus as Charter Myth (2001) (5)
Ilib and the "God of the Father" (1993) (5)
K. VANDER TOORN, The Babylonian New Year Festival: new insights from the cuneiform texts and their bearing on Old Testament study (1991) (5)
The Theology of Demons Mesopotamia and Israel: Popular Belief and Scholarly Speculation (2003) (5)
In the lions' den : The babylonian background of a biblical motif (1998) (5)
Theodicy in Akkadian Literature (2003) (4)
The Poetry of Magic (2000) (4)
Ethnicity at Elephantine: Jews, Arameans, Caspians (2016) (4)
Eshem-Bethel and Herem-Bethel : New Evidence from Amherst Papyrus 63 (2016) (4)
Becoming Diaspora Jews (2019) (4)
Echoes of Judaean Necromancy in Isaiah 28,7—22 (1988) (4)
Ritual responses to plurality and pluralism (1995) (3)
Did Ecclesiastes copy Gilgamesh (2000) (3)
WORSHIPPING STONES: ON THE DEIFICATION OF CULT SYMBOLS' (2007) (3)
Celebrating the New Year with the Israelites: Three Extrabiblical Psalms from Papyrus Amherst 63 (2017) (3)
Echoes of Gilgamesh in the Book of Qohelet? A Reassessment of the Intellectual Sources of Qohelet (2001) (3)
Did Jeremiah See Aaron's Staff? (1989) (3)
Dead That Are Slow to Depart : Evidence for Ancestor Rituals in Mesopotamia (2014) (3)
Magic at the Cradle: A Reassessment (2000) (2)
Nine Months among the Peasants in the Palestinian Highlands: An Anthropological Perspective on Local Religion in the Early Iron Age (2003) (2)
Psalm 20 and Amherst Papyrus 63, XII, 11-19 : A Case Study of a Text in Transit (2017) (2)
Gods and Ancestors in Emar and Nuzi (1994) (2)
Ethnicity at Elephantine: Jews, Arameans, Caspians (2016) (2)
Ritual resistance and self-assertion: The Rechabites in Early Israelite religion (1995) (2)
Ancestors and Anthroponyms: Kinship Terms as Theophoric Elements in Hebrew Names (1996) (1)
Ezra in Egypt? The Significance of Hananyah’s Mission (2017) (1)
Jean Bottéro, 'Mesopotamia: writing, reasoning, and the gods' (1995) (1)
Papyrus Amherst 63 (2018) (1)
Near Eastern Communities in the Diaspora Before 587 BCE (2001) (1)
Origins: The Ancient near Eastern Background of Some Modern Institutions (1998) (1)
God in Context (2018) (1)
Sin, Pollution, and Purity: Mesopotamia (2004) (1)
Religious Practices of the Individual and Family: Introduction; --: Syro-Canaanite Culture; --: Mesopotamia (2004) (1)
Celebrating the New Year with the Israelites: Three Extrabiblical Psalms from Papyrus Amherst 63 (2017) (1)
Baal’s Legacy: Echoes of Ugarit in Papyrus Amherst 63 (2020) (0)
2. Authorship in Antiquity: Practice and Perception (2009) (0)
7. Manufacturing the Prophets: The Book of Jeremiah as Scribal Artifact (2009) (0)
Turning tradition into eternal truth (2013) (0)
6. The Teaching of Moses: Scribal Culture in the Mirror of Deuteronomy (2009) (0)
God in Context: Selected Essays on Society and Religion in the Early Middle East (2018) (0)
8. Inventing Revelation: The Scribal Construct of Holy Writ (2009) (0)
9. Constructing the Canon: The Closure of the Hebrew Bible (2009) (0)
TEETER, D.A. – Scribal Laws. Exegetical Variation in the Textual Transmission of Biblical Law in the Late Second Temple Period. (Forschungen zum Alten (2016) (0)
Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series (1995) (0)
2. The Aramean Heritage (2019) (0)
Revelation as a Scholarly Construct in Israel and Mesopotamia (2004) (0)
The Aramean Heritage (2019) (0)
The Aramean Diaspora in Egypt (2019) (0)
Turning tradition into eternal truth (2013) (0)
3. The Divine Custodians. Immanent and Transcendent Foundations of the Moral Order (1985) (0)
6. Class Conflicts and Moral Antithesis (1985) (0)
A Military Colony and Its Religion (2019) (0)
5. In Search of the Secret Sin. Confessions of Ignorance and Pleas for Illumination (1985) (0)
Epilogue (2019) (0)
Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible: Metaphor, Culture, and the Making of a Religious Concept. By Joseph Lam (2021) (0)
The Origins of the Elephantine Jews (2019) (0)
Previously, at Elephantine (2018) (0)
Pluralism and identity: An epilogue (1995) (0)
Elephantine Revisited (2019) (0)
Public Self and Private Self in the World of the Hebrew Bible (2021) (0)
3. In Search of the Scribes, I: Comparative Evidence (2009) (0)
5. Making Books: Scribal Modes of Text Production (2009) (0)
2. Ethics and Etiquette. Rules for Proper Conduct and Correct Behaviour (1985) (0)
Speaking of Gods : Dimensions of the Divine in the Ancient Near East (2015) (0)
4. In Search of the Scribes, Ii: The Biblical Evidence (2009) (0)
From catalogue to canon? An assessment of the library hypothesis as a contribution to the debate about the biblical canon (2006) (0)
Eshem-Bethel and Herem-Bethel: New Evidence from Amherst Papyrus 63 (2016) (0)
The Domestic Cult at Emar (1995) (0)
Echoes of Judaean Necromancy in Isaiah 28,7—22 (1988) (0)
Public Self and Private Self in the World of the Hebrew Bible (0)
Teaching Elephantine to Theological Students: A Round-Table (2019) (0)
1. Books that are Not Books: Writing in the World of the Bible (2009) (0)
AND THE JEWS OF ELEPHANTINE (2016) (0)
Did Jeremiah See Aaron's Staff? (1989) (0)
Recent Trends in the Study of Israelite Religion (2002) (0)
5. A Military Colony and Its Religion (2019) (0)
Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion (2005) (0)
Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible: Metaphor, Culture, and the Making of a Religious Concept (2020) (0)

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