The International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) is a scientific organization of Old Testament scholars, established in 1950 in Leiden. The first congress was held in 1953 in Copenhagen."Congress Volume Copenhagen," Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 1, Leiden 1953.
List of congresses and presidents
No. Place Date President 1 Copenhagen 25–28 Aug 1953 Edith Bentzen-SmithEdith Bentzen-Smith led the congress replacing her husband Aage Bentzen who had died on 4 June that year. 2 Strasbourg 27 Aug–1 Sept 1956 Roland de Vaux 3 Oxford 31 Aug–5 Sept 1959 Godfrey Rolles Driver 4 Bonn 26–31 Aug 1962 Martin Noth 5 Geneva 22–28 Aug 1965 Johann Jakob Stamm 6 Rome 15–19 Aug 1968 Roderick Andrew Francis MacKenzie 7 Uppsala 8–12 Aug 1971 Helmer Ringgren 8 Edinburgh 18–23 Aug 1974 George W. Anderson 9 Göttingen 21–26 Aug 1977 Walther Zimmerli 10 Vienna 24–29 Aug 1980 Walter Kornfeld 11 Salamanca 28 Aug–2 Sept 1983 Luis Alonso Schökel 12 Jerusalem 24–29 Aug 1986 Benjamin Mazar 13 Leuven 27 Aug–1 Sept 1989 Chris Brekelmans 14 Paris 19–24 July 1992 André Caquot 15 Cambridge 16–21 July 1995 John Emerton 16 Oslo 2–7 Aug 1998 Magne Sæbø 17 Basel 5–10 Aug 2001 Ernst Jenni 18 Leiden 1–6 Aug 2004 Arie van der Kooij 19 Ljubljana 15–20 July 2007 Jože Krašovec 20 Helsinki 1–6 Aug 2010 Raija Sollamo 21 Munich 4–9 Aug 2013 Christoph Levin 22 Stellenbosch 4–9 Sept 2016 Johann Cook 23 Aberdeen 4–9 Aug 2019 Joachim SchaperHomepage of the 23rd IOSOT Congress 24 Zürich 8–12 Aug 2022 Konrad SchmidHomepage of the 24rd IOSOT Congress 25 Berlin 11–15 Aug 2025 Bernd SchipperHomepage of Prof. Schipper at Humboldt University 26 Rome 10–14 July 2028 Peter Dubovsky
Bibliography Rudolf Smend Jr. and David E. Orton (Translator): "Fifty Years International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament and Vetus Testamentum" In: Vetus Testamentum 50 (2000), pp. 14–26.
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