Arie van der Kooij
Professor emeritus of Biblical Studies
- Name
- Prof.dr. A. van der Kooij
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2171
- a.van.der.kooij@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Prof. dr. A. (Arie) van der Kooij (Emeritus) is retired associated member of LUCSoR. He doesn't have a desk at the university anymore. Please send an email if you want to contact him. The above mentioned telephone number is the number of the secretariat.
Fields of interest
Bible-study, Old Testament, Biblical interpretations, textual criticism and the Septuagint.
My inspiration
The topic of my research and education is the Old Testament: the bible of Judaism and part of the Christian bible. I find it fascinating to study this literary and religious inheritance in the context of contemporaneous cultures: Mesopotamia and Egypt. It is most interesting to find out, from extant literature and its translations, how a politically and economically insignificant tribe (Israel) kept its spiritual independence in times of oppression and misery. This is even more intruiging, if you take into account that to this day, the literature of Judaism and Christianity, still inspires myriads.
Professor emeritus of Biblical Studies
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- LUCSoR
- Kooij A. van der (4 June 2010), Monarchie of aristocratie. Rede uitgesproken ter gelegenheid van zijn afscheid als hoogleraar in de Uitlegging van het Oude Testament Geschiedenis van de Israëlitische Godsdienst en van de Israëlitische Letterkunde. Leiden. [lecture].
- Kooij A. van der (17 October 1997), Perspectives on the Study of the Septuagint: Who are the translators?. Symposium in honour of Adam S. van der Woude on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Groningen. [lecture].
- Kooij A. van der (23 July 1997), Zur Frage der Exegese im LXX Psalter. Ein Beitrag zur Verhältnisbestimmung zwischen Original und Übersetzung. Symposium über den Septuaginta-Psalter und seine Töchterübersetzungen. Göttingen. [lecture].
- Kooij A. van der (9 January 1997), Canonization of Hebrew Books that were kept in the Temple of Jerusalem. Conference on Canonization and Decanonization. Leiden. [lecture].
- Kooij A. van der (1995), The Peshitta of Genesis 6:1-4. Workshop The Peshitta of the Old Testament. [lecture].
- Kooij A. van der (16 July 1995), Zum Verhältnis vom Textkritik und Litertaturkritik. XV Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament. Cambridge. [lecture].
- Kooij A. van der (17 November 1994), Comparing the Septuagint and Hebrew Texts of Isaiah 9:1-6. Westminster Theological Seminary. Philadelphia. [lecture].
- Kooij A. van der (21 November 1994), The Death of Josiah in 1 Esdras. SBL Meeting. Chicago. [lecture].
- Kooij A. van der (16 November 1994), Aquila and Onkelos. Some Comments on Jewish Traditions about Bible Translations in Greek and Aramaic. Jewish Theological Seminary. New York. [lecture].
- Kooij A. van der (16 November 1994), Aquila and Onkelos. Some Comments on Jewish Traditions about Bible Translations in Greek and Aramaic. Hebrew Seminar, Columbia University. New York. [lecture].