Jan Joosten (biblical scholar)

Jan Joosten (born 17 May 1959 in Ekeren, Belgium) is a Biblical scholar. Since 2014, he has been Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of the Old Testament at the University of Strasbourg.^[1] He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Joosten finished his studies in 1981 in Brussels. His areas of interest are the Septuagint, Syriac versions of the Bible, a biblical manuscript found at Qumran, and the Diatessaron.

Works

• "The Syriac Language of the Peshitta and Old Syriac Versions of Matthew. Syntactic Structure, Inner-Syriac Developments and Translation Technique", Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 22 (Leiden, Brill, 1996)
• "People and Land in the Holiness Code. An Exegetical Study of the Ideational Framework of the Law in Leviticus 17-26", Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 67 (Leiden, Brill, 1996)
• "Édition (avec Ph. Le Moigne) des actes du colloque Aspects de la Bible grecque", dans la Revue des Sciences Religieuses 280 (1999), p. 132-228.
• En collaboration avec Eberhard Bons et Stephan Kessler, Les Douze Prophètes. Osée, La Bible d'Alexandrie 23, 1 (Paris, Cerf, 2002).
• "The Dura Parchment and the Diatessaron", Vigiliae Christianae, 57, (2003), 159-175.
• "En collaboration avec Philippe Le Moigne, L'apport de la Septante aux études sur l'Antiquité". Actes du colloque de Strasbourg 8 et 9 novembre 2002, Lectio Divina 203 (Paris, Cerf, 2005).

See also

• Dura Parchment 24

References

1. "Regius Professor of Hebrew, Oxford University: Jan Joosten". Press release. GOV.UK. Retrieved 22 January 2015.

External links

• Jan Joosten at the University of Strasbourg
• Publications of Jan Joosten