The International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) is a scientific organization of

Old Testament The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...

scholars, established in 1950 in

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. The first congress was held in 1953 in

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."Congress Volume Copenhagen," ''Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 1'', Leiden 1953.

List of Congresses and Presidents

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.

References

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