About
P.B. (Bärry) Hartog is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the PThU in Groningen. His research concentrates on Early Judaism (including the Dead Sea Scrolls) in the context of the Graeco-Roman world. He has a particular interest in issues of textual scholarship and exegesis, the construction and development of identity, and intercultural contacts in an ever-expanding world. Education
PhD in Religious Studies, KU Leuven
MA (Research) in Religious Studies, Leiden University
MA in Hebrew and Aramaic Languages and Cultures, Leiden University
BA in Theology, Leiden University Publications
In press
- “Contesting Oikoumene: Resistance and Locality in Philo’s Legatio ad Gaium.” In Intolerance — Polemics — Debate: Cultural Resistance in the Ancient World. Edited by George H. van Kooten and Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- “5Q10. Apocryphon of Malachi.” In Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 3a. Edited by Donald W. Parry and Andrew C. Skinner. Dead Sea Scrolls Editions. Leiden: Brill.
- “6Q24–25, 31. papUnclassified Fragments.” In Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 3a. Edited by Donald W. Parry and Andrew C. Skinner. Dead Sea Scrolls Editions. Leiden: Brill.
- “6Q26 papAccount or Contract.” In Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 3a. Edited by Donald W. Parry and Andrew C. Skinner. Dead Sea Scrolls Editions. Leiden: Brill.
- “6Q27–29. papCursive Unclassified Fragments.” In Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 3a. Edited by Donald W. Parry and Andrew C. Skinner. Dead Sea Scrolls Editions. Leiden: Brill.
2019
- “Textual Fixity and Fluidity in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: Alexandrian Homer Scholarship and the Qumran Pesharim.” Revue de Qumrân 30/112: 1–18.
- “Jubilees and Hellenistic Encyclopaedism.” Journal for the Study of Judaism 50: 1–25.
2018
- “Space and Travel in Philo’s Legatio ad Gaium.” The Studia Philonica Annual 30: 71–92.
- “The Qumran Pesharim and Alexandrian Scholarship: 4Q163/Pesher Isaiah C and Hypomnemata on the Iliad.” Journal of Ancient Judaism 8: 344–64.
- (ed. with Alison Schofield and Samuel Thomas) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities: Method, Theory, Meaning: Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies (Munich, 4–7 August, 2013). Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 125. Leiden: Brill. [ix + 221 pp.]
- “Pesher as Commentary.” Pages 92–116 in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities: Method, Theory, Meaning: Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies (Munich, 4–7 August, 2013). Edited by Pieter B. Hartog, Alison Schofield, and Samuel Thomas. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 125. Leiden: Brill.
- (with Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar) “Introduction.” Pages vii–ix in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities: Method, Theory, Meaning: Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies (Munich, 4–7 August, 2013). Edited by Pieter B. Hartog, Alison Schofield, and Samuel Thomas. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 125. Leiden: Brill.
- “Reading and Copying the Minor Prophets in the Late Second Temple Period.” Pages 411–23 in The books of the Twelve Prophets: Minor Prophets—Major Theologies. Edited by Heinz-Josef Fabry. Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium 295. Leuven: Peeters.
- “Werken der Wet: De Dode-Zeerollen en de Galatenbrief.” Schrift50:4: 29–33
- “De kleine profeten in de Tweede Tempelperiode: Eenheid en verscheidenheid.” Amsterdamse Cahiers voor Exegese van de Bijbel en zijn Tradities 32: 117–25.
- Review of George J. Brooke and Renate Smithuis, eds., Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Studies in Honour of Philip S. Alexander. Journal for the Study of Judaism 49: 595–98.
- Review of Timothy H. Lim, ed., When Texts are Canonized. Review of Biblical Literature 25/10/2018.
- Review of Yair Furstenberg, ed. Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 72:1: 79–80.
2017
- Pesher and Hypomnema: A Comparison of Two Commentary Traditions from the Hellenistic-Roman Period. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 121. Leiden: Brill. [xv + 356 pp.]
- (ed. with Jutta Jokiranta) The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Hellenistic Context. Dead Sea Discoveries 24:3. [139 pp.]
- (with Jutta Jokiranta) “The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Hellenistic Context.” Dead Sea Discoveries 24: 339–55.
- “‘The Final Priests of Jerusalem’ and ‘The Mouth of the Priest’: Eschatology and Literary History in Pesher Habakkuk.” Dead Sea Discoveries 24: 59–80.
- “Pesharim.” Pages 293–95 in The Dictionary of the Bible in Ancient Media. Edited by Chris L. Keith, Ray Person, Elsie Stern, and Tom Thatcher. London: T&T Clark.
- “Kittim: II: Judaism.” Pages 386–87 in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Edited by Christine Helmer, Steven Linn McKenzie, Thomas Chr. Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, and Eric Ziolkowski. Vol. 15. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Review of Géza G. Xeravitz and Peter Porzig, Einführung in die Qumranliteratur. Review of Biblical Literature 01/09/2017.
- Review of Shani Tzoref and Ian Young, eds., Keter Shem Tov: Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls in Memory of Alan Crown. Bibliotheca Orientalis 74: 170-73.
2016
2015
- (ed. with Eibert Tigchelaar, Pierre van Hecke, and Seth Bledsoe) Hebrew of the Late Second Temple Period: Proceedings of a Sixth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 114. Leiden: Brill. [x + 211 pp.]
- Review of József Zsengellér, ed., Rewritten Bible after Fifty Years: Texts, Terms, or Techniques? A Last Dialogue with Geza Vermes. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies 13/10/2015.
- Review of Gideon R. Kotzé, The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations: A Text-Critical Study. Review of Biblical Literature 17/09/2015.
- Review of Elvira Martín-Contreras and Lorena Miralles-Maciá, eds., The Text of the Hebrew Bible: From the Rabbis to the Masoretes. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies 06/07/2015.
- Review of Richard Bautch and J. Todd Hibbard, eds., The book of Isaiah: Enduring Questions Answered Anew: Essays Honouring Joseph Blenkinsopp and his Contribution to the Study of Isaiah. Louvain Studies 39: 102–4.
2013
2011
Forthcoming
- (ed. with Shulamit Laderman, Vered Tohar, and Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen) Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation. Jewish and Christian Perspectives. Leiden: Brill.
- “Where Shall Wisdom be Found? Identity, Sacred Space, and Universal Knowledge in Philostratus and the Acts of the Apostles.” To appear in Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation. Edited by Pieter B. Hartog, Shulamit Laderman, Vered Tohar, and Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen. Jewish and Christian Perspectives. Leiden: Brill.
- “Josephus, the Teacher of Righteousness, and Prophetic Authority in the Late Second Temple Period.” To appear in Proceedings of the Prophetic Texts and Their Ancient Contexts Unit in the Society of Biblical Literature. Edited by Jonathan Stökl and Hanna Tervanotko. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies. London: Bloomsbury.
- “Pesharim.” To appear in Dead Sea Scrolls. Edited by Cecilia Wassén. Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies 3. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
- “163. Commentary on Isaiah C.” To appear in Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 5a. Edited by George J. Brooke and Moshe J. Bernstein. Dead Sea Scrolls Editions. Leiden: Brill.
- Review of Maren R. Niehoff, ed., Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real. To appear in Journal for the Study of Judaism.
- Review of Constanza Cordoni and Gerhard Langer, eds., “Let the Wise Listen and Add to Their Learning” (Prov 1:5): Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday. To appear in NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion.