Jaeyoung Jeon

 

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         Senior Researcher (Chercheur SNF Senior)

         Bible hébraïque

Institut romand des sciences bibliques (IRSB)


Email : Jaeyoung.Jeon@unil.ch

   

 

Projects

Ambizione Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Lausanne (Sept. 2017- Aug. 2021)

A Bible Born out of Conflicts: a Literary and Socio-historical Study of the Aaronite/Zadokite and Levite Scribal Debates in the Persian Period.

Guest Researcher, National Research Foundation (Korea), Kon-Kuk University (Seoul, Korea, Sept. 2014-Aug. 2017)

Jewish Studies Terminology Dictionary

Post-Doctoral Project, Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Lausanne (Oct. 2013 – Sept. 2016)

Composition and Redaction of the Wilderness Narratives (Exod 15:22 - 18:27; Num 10:11-20:29) in their Pentateuchal and Hexateuchal Contexts. Conducted by Prof. Thomas Römer

Fields of Interest

Socio-historical and literary-critical approaches to the Hebrew Bible

(Pentateuch / Hexateuch / Deuteronomistic History / Chronicles); the Persian Period; laws in the Bible and the Ancient Near East; linguistic analysis of the Hebrew Bible 

Education

Ph.D.: Tel-Aviv University, The Department of the Hebrew Culture Studies, The School of Jewish Studies (2012)

Supervisor: Prof. Edward L. Greenstein

Dissertation Topic: “A Redactional-Critical Study of Call of Moses (Exodus 3-4) and the Exodus Story (Exodus 5-11)”

M. A.: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Rothberg International School (2004)

B.L. (Bachelor of Law):  Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, Korea: 1996)

 

List of Publications and Conferences

Conference Presentations and Public Lectures

Precious Memories, How They Linger (April 2021: Webinar)

Topic: “Scribal Performance and Redaction in the Pentateuch”

SBL Annual Meeting 2019 (Nov. 2019: San Diego, U.S.)

Session: Pentateuch
Topic: “The Israelite Wilderness Camp and the Persian Movable Court of the Great Kings”

Chronicles and the Priestly Literature (Nov. 2019: Lausanne, Switzerland)

Topic 1: “Introduction”
Topic 2: “Histories of the Levites and Zadokites: a Struggle for Symbolic Capital”

SBL International Meeting (July 2019: Rome, Italy) – accepted

Session: Writings (including Psalms)
Topic: “The Honorable History of the Levites in the Book of Chronicles as a Counter History”

The Historical Location of P?: Language, Geography, and Material Culture
(May 2019: Lausanne, Switzerland)

Topic: “The Priestly Wilderness Redaction and the Persian Empire”


Mishnah Public Reading Session (April 2019: Seoul, Korea)

Topic: “Seder Kodashim, Maseket Zebachim 13”


EABS/ISBL (Aug. 2018: Helsinki, Finland)

Session: Writings (including Psalms)
Topic: “The Levitical Struggle against the Priests and the Tent of Meeting in       Chronicles”


Collective Memory as Capital in Iron Age Levant and Adjacent Regions
(Feb. 2018: Collège de France, Paris, France)

Topic: “Jeroboam's Golden Calves: Constructing a Counter History of the Levites in the Books of Chronicles”

SBL Annual Meeting 2017 (Nov. 2017 Boston, U.S.)

Session: Pentateuch

Topic: The Scout Story (Num 13-14) as a Political Argument in the Persian Period

ProPent 2017 (Sept. 2017: Pretoria, South Africa)

Topic : "An Ambivalent Reception of the Tent of Meeting Tradition in Chronicles"  

SBL International Meeting 2017 (Aug. 2017: Berlin, Germany)

Session: Pentateuch 

Topic: The Promise of the Land and the End of P

SBL Annual Meeting 2016 (September 2016: San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Scheduled)
Session: Egyptology and Ancient Israel
Topic : Egyptian Iconography and the Battle with Amalek (Exodus 17:8-16) Revisited
Session: Social Sciences and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures
Topic : Scribal Conflicts over Hegemony in the Second Temple in Jerusalem
IRSB Seminar Day (Oct. 2016 scheduled)
Topic: “The Priestly Hexateuch and the Persian Yehud”
SBL International Meeting 2016 (July 2016: Seoul, Korea)
Session: Scribal Conflicts in the Biblical and Post-biblical Literature
Topic: “Tabernacle or Tent of Meeting? : The Scribal conflicts about the Wilderness Sanctuary”
Collège de France: Chaire des Milieux Biblique (26-27 May, 2016: Paris): Oral et écrit
dans l’Antiquité orientale : les processus de redaction et d’édition
Topic: “Orality in Redacrtion? Some Cases in the Pentateuch: De à’oralité dans les redactions? Quleques cas tires du Pentateuque”
SBL International Meeting 2015 (July 2015: Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Session: Pentateuch

Topic: “A Source of P? : the Priestly Exodus Account and the Book of Ezekiel.”

Sheffield-Manchester-Lausanne Symposium 2015 (June 2015: Lausanne, Switzerland)
Topic: “The Scout Story (Num 13-14) and the wilderness Narrative”

Egypt's Role in the Hebrew Bible (April 2015: Lausanne, Switzerland)
Topic: “Egyptian Gola in Prophetic and Pentateuchal Traditions: A Socio-historical Perspective”
SBL Annual Meeting 2014 (September 2014: San Diego, U.S.)
Session: Pentateuch

Topic: “Ithro’s visit at Mt. Sinai (Exodus 18): pre-Priestly or post-Priestly?”
Sheffield-Manchester-Lausanne Symposium 2014 (April 2014: Manchester, England)
Topic: “Scribal Rivalry between Zadokites and Levites”
SBL International Meeting 2013 (July 2013: St.Andrews, Scotland)
Session: Pentateuch

Topic: “Understanding the Call of Moses (Exod. 3:9-15) in the Light of the Deuteronomic Law Concerning False Prophets (Deut. 18.15-22)”
The Korean Society of Old Testament Studies Annual Conference (April 2013: Seoul, Korea)
Session: Pentateuch

Topic: “Redaction-Critical Study of Exodus 3-4”
SBL Anuual Meeting 2012 (Nov. 2012: Chicago, U.S.)

Session: Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew

Topic: “A Linguistic Argument for Resolving a Source/Redaction-Critical Problem in Exod. 3:9”
ASOR (American School of Oriental Research) Annual Meeting 2012 (Nov. 2012:
Chicago, U.S.)

Session: The Bible and Archaeology

Topic: “Text and Archaeological Findings: 1Kgs 9:15 and Kirbeth Q’yafah as a Test Case” (Co-presentation)
The Bible Department Forum, Tel-Aviv University (Nov. 2011: Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Topic: “A Bakhtinian Reading of the Flood Story”
SBL Annual Meeting 2011 (Nov. 2011: San Francisco, U.S.)
Session: Bakhtin and Imagination
Topic: “The Biblical Flood Story: Speaking about the Already Spoken About”
Korea and Israel: Christianity, the Bible and Judaism (May 2011: Jerusalem, Israel) Hosted by the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies & Department of the Bible in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Topic: “What can Korean Bible Students Learn from Israelite Scholarship?”
The General Assembly of Korean Presbyterian Church (Nov. 2009: Seoul, Korea)

 Topic: “The Ancient Near East, the Pentateuch, and Judaism”
A General Assembly of Jordanian Christian Leaders (Aug. 2009: Amman, Jordan)
Topics: “The Principle of Justice in the Biblical Narrative” “A New Look on Jesus’ Meeting with a Samaritan Woman (John. 4.3-19) in the Perspective of the Biblical Type-scene”
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Public Lecture) (May 2009: Seoul, Korea)
Topic: “Dialogic Nature of the Bible: An Analysis of the Flood Story”

 

Conference organization

Chronicles and the Priestly Literature

11. 2019 University of Lausanne, 18 speakers/3 days; 

Les manuscrits de la mer morte, 70 ans après : Bilan des recherches

04. 2017 University of Lausanne, for Prof. David Hamidovic, 7 speakers/1 day;

IRSB Seminar Day (Oct. 2016) with Prof. Thomas Römer
Subject: Who wrote the Pentateuch?: Different Groups and their Scribal Contributions to the Pentateuch (one day, eight speakers)
SBL International Meeting 2016 (July 2016) with Prof. Thomas Römer
Subject: Scribal Conflicts and Debates in the Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature
  (two sessions, six speakers)

Publications

Jaeyoung Jeon and Louis Jonker (eds.), Chronicles and the Priestly Literature: Literary-Historical and Ideological Relationships between Chronicles, Ezekiel, and the Pentateuch. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 528. Berlin; New York: de Gruyter (forthcoming).

From the Reed Sea to Kadesh: Formation of the Pentateuchal Wilderness Narrative. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (forthcoming). 

Jaeyoung Jeon (ed.), Social Groups and Scribal Circles behind the Formation of the Pentateuch. Ancient Israel and its Literature. Atlanta: SBL Press (forthcoming).

“The Israelite Wilderness Camp and the Persian Movable Court of the Great Kings” in Jürg Hutzli at al. eds., The Location of P. Archaeology and Bible. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (forthcoming)

“The Rhetorical Marker “ועתה הנה” and Resolving a Source/Redaction Critical Problem in Exodus 3,” in Peter Machinist at al. (eds.), Festschrift for Edward L. Greenstein, Eisenbrauns; Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020 (forthcoming).

Jaeyoung Jeon and Louis Jonker, “Introduction,” in Jaeyoung Jeon and Louis Jonker (eds.), Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible, BZAW 528. Berlin; New York: de Gruyter (forthcoming)

“The Levites and Idolatry: A Scribal Debate in Ezekiel 44 and Chronicles,” in Jaeyoung Jeon and Louis Jonker (eds.), Chronicles and the Priestly Literature: Literary-Historical and Ideological Relationships between Chronicles, Ezekiel, and the Pentateuch. BZAW 528. Berlin; New York: de Gruyter (forthcoming)

“Introduction: State of Pentateuchal Research,” in Jaeyoung Jeon (ed.), Who Wrote the Pentateuch? Ancient Israel and its Literature. Atlanta: SBL Press (forthcoming).

“Orality in Late Pentateuchal Texts: Cases of “Performative Redaction,” in Thomas Römer et al. (eds.), Oral et écrit dans l'Antiquité orientale : les processus de rédaction et d'édition. Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 26 et 27 mai 2016. OBO ; Leuven : Peeters, 2021 (forthcoming).

“The Scout Narrative (Numbers 13) as a Territorial Claim in the Persian Period,” JBL 139 (2020): 255-274.

“A Literary Development of the Cloud and Fire Pillar Motif in the Pentateuchal Wilderness Tradition.” Bibliche Notizen 182 (2019): 3–7.

“‘This is Holy!’: Introduction to Kodashim, the Fifth Seder of Mishnah.” Christian Thought 2019–6 (2019): 152-165 (Korean).

 “Is There P in the Book of Numbers?” Korean Journal of Christian Studies 111 (2019): 5-38 (Korean).

“Egyptian Iconography and the Battle with Amalek (Exodus 17:8-16) Revisited.” Semitica 61 (2019): 89–115.

“The Priestly Tent of Meeting in Chronicles: Pro-Priestly or Anti-Priestly?” JHS 18 (2018): 1-15

“The Promise of the Land and the Extent of P,” ZAW 130 (2018): 513-528.

“The Elders Redaction” in J. Jeon (ed.), Who Wrote the Pentateuch? Ancient Israel and its Literature Series. Atlanta: SBL Press, (forthcoming)

Dozeman, Thomas and Jeon, Jaeyoung, “The Composition of the Conflict of Korach, Dathan, and Abiram,” in J. Jeon (ed.), Who Wrote the Pentateuch? Ancient Israel and its Literature Series. Atlanta: SBL Press, (forthcoming)

 “Orality in Redaction? Some Cases in the Pentateuch” in Thomas Römer et al. (eds.), Oral et écrit dans l’Antiquité orientale : les processus de redaction et d’édition. (forthcoming)
 “The Levites,” in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 16. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2018, 337-346.
“Literacy,” in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 16. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2018, 775-780.
“Egyptian Gola in Prophetic and Pentateuchal Traditions: A Socio-historical Perspective,” JAEI 18 (2018), 12-23.
“Seeking for the Hegemony: Scribal Rivalry between the Zadokites and Levites,” in Klutz, Todd, at al. (eds.), Scripture as Social Discourse: Social-Scientific Perspectives on Early Jewish and Christian Writings. London: Bloomsbury, 2017 97-110.
 “The Visit of Jethro (Exodus 18): Its Composition and Levitical Reworking,” JBL 136 (2017): 289-306.
“Jeziel,” in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 14. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2017. 959-963.
“Jezer,” in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 14. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2017. 959-963.
“A Source of P?: the Priestly Exodus Account and the Book of Ezekiel,” Semitica 58 (2016): 79-94.
“Horma,” in in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 12. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2016. 393-394.
“Hur,” in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 12. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2016. 599-601.
“Jehu,” in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 13. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2016. 862-864.
“Jehu (King of Israel),” in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 13. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2016. 864-866.
“Jephunneh,” in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 13. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2016. 901-902.
“Jeremai,” in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 13. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2016. 903.
“Jericho,” in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 13. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2016. 959-963.
“Jeribai,” in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 13. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2016. 955-959.
“Jeshana,” in Ed. by Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol 13. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2016. 1109-1110.
“The Zadokites in the wilderness: the Rebellion of Korach (Num 16) and the Zadokite Redaction,” ZAW 127 (2015): 381-411.
The Call of Moses and the Exodus Story: A Redactional-Critical Study in Exodus 3-4 and 5-13, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 2013.
“The Two Laws in the Sotah Passage (Num 5.11-31),” VT 57 (2007): 181-207. 
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