Rate My Professor Koert van Bekkum

Van Bekkum’s research centers on the literary, historical, and theological significance of the biblical books from Genesis to 2 Kings, encompassing archaeology of the Southern Levant, biblical history, biblical covenants and treaties in ancient Near Eastern contexts, chronology of ancient Israel, violence in the Hebrew Bible, monsters in biblical texts, and Reformed hermeneutics of historical narratives. Key publications include Violence in the Hebrew Bible: Between Text and Reception (ed. with Jacques Van Ruiten, Brill, 2020), Playing with Leviathan: Interpretation and Reception of Monsters from the Biblical World (ed. with Jaap Dekker, Henk van de Kamp, Eric Peels, Brill, 2017), Biblical Hebrew in Context: Essays in Semitics and Old Testament Texts in Honour of Professor Jan P. Lettinga (ed. with Gert Kwakkel, Wolter H. Rose, Brill, 2018), and his inaugural lecture “But as for Me and My House, We Will Serve YHWH:” Joshua 24 and Christian Theology in a Context of Religious Plurality (ETF Leuven, 2021). Recent contributions cover neo-Calvinism, biblical chronology, and land division in Joshua. His scholarship, cited 123 times on Google Scholar, reflects memberships in the Society of Biblical Literature (2012–), American Schools of Oriental Research (2019–), Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap (2013–), and roles on the Executive Board of the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (2017–).