International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament


The International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament is a scientific organization of Old Testament scholars, established in 1950 in Leiden. The first congress was held in 1953 in Copenhagen.

List of Congresses and Presidents

No.PlaceDatePresident
1.Copenhagen25.–28.8. 1953Edith Bentzen-Smith
2.Strasbourg27.8.–1.9. 1956Roland de Vaux
3.Oxford31.8.–5.9. 1959Godfrey Rolles Driver
4.Bonn26.–31.8. 1962Martin Noth
5.Geneva22.–28.8.1965Johann Jakob Stamm
6.Rome15.–19.8.1968Roderick Andrew Francis MacKenzie
7.Uppsala8.–12.8. 1971Helmer Ringgren
8.Edinburgh18.–23.8. 1974George W. Anderson
9.Göttingen21.–26.8. 1977Walther Zimmerli
10.Vienna24.–29.8. 1980Walter Kornfeld
11.Salamanca28.8.–2.9. 1983Luis Alonso Schökel
12.Jerusalem24.–29.8. 1986Benjamin Mazar
13.Leuven27.8.–1.9. 1989Chris Brekelmans
14.Paris19.–24.7. 1992André Caquot
15.Cambridge16.–21.7. 1995John Emerton
16.Oslo2.–7.8. 1998Magne Sæbø
17.Basel5.–10.8. 2001Ernst Jenni
18.Leiden1.–6.8. 2004Arie van der Kooij
19.Ljubljana15.–20. 2007Jože Krašovec
20.Helsinki1.–6.8. 2010Raija Sollamo
21.Munich4.–9.8. 2013Christoph Levin
22.Stellenbosch4.–9.9. 2016Johann Cook
23.Aberdeen4.–9.8. 2019Joachim Schaper
24.Zurich2022Konrad Schmid