Publications

Dissertation

  • Oegema, Albertina. “Negotiating Paternal Authority and Filial Agency: Fathers and Sons in Early Rabbinic Parables.” PhD diss., Utrecht University, 2021.

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

  • Bledsoe, Seth, and Albertina Oegema, eds. Conceptualizing Old Age in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Contexts: Senescence and Its Significations. London: Routledge, 2026.
  • Ottenheijm, Eric, and Albertina Oegema, eds. “Understanding Rabbinic Judaism: A Special Issue about The Literature of the Sages: A Re-visioning (Christine Hayes, ed., CRINT 16, Leiden: Brill, 2022).” Special issue of NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 78 (2024).
  • Oegema, Albertina, Jonathan Pater, and Martijn Stoutjesdijk, eds. Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 483. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022 (open access).

Scholarly Articles

  • Oegema, Albertina. “Old Age, Gender, and Authority: An Intersectional Analysis of Zechariah and Elisabeth.” In Aging, Old Age, and Constructions of Old Age in the Ancient Near East. Edited by Alison Acker Gruseke and Carol Meyers. Kasion. Münster: Zaphon. Accepted.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “The Legacy of Yehuda Aschkenasy and His Students: Studying Rabbinic Literature in Dialogue with the New Testament in the Netherlands and Flanders.” In Contexten van het Nieuwe Testament: Geschiedenis van de interpretatie van het Nieuwe Testament in de Lage Landen. Edited by Bart Koet and Myriam Klinker-De Klerck. Leiden: Brill. Accepted.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “From Subordinate Men to Men-in-the-Making: The Construction and Reception of Filial Masculinities in Early Rabbinic Parables.” In Parables and Their Reception. Edited by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, Anders Martinsen, and Ellen Aasland Reinertsen. Berlin: De Gruyter. Accepted.
  • Oegema, Albertina, and Seth Bledsoe. “Introduction.” Pages 1–7 in Old Age in Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, and Their Contexts: Senescence and Its Significations. Edited by Seth Bledsoe and Albertina Oegema. London: Routledge, 2026.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “The Agency of Elderly Women in Tannaitic Literature.” Pages 87–108 in Old Age in Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, and Their Contexts: Senescence and Its Significations. Edited by Seth Bledsoe and Albertina Oegema. London: Routledge, 2026.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Fearful and Joyous Old Men: Old Age, Masculinity, and Emotions in Luke’s Account of Zechariah (Lk. 1) and the Fables of Babrios (Fab. 98, 136).” JSNT 48 (2025): 90–118.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “The Ethics of Fatherly Happiness: A Narrative Ethical Analysis of the Parables in Luke 15:11–32 and Sifre Deut. 343.” Pages 257–272 in Parables as Persuasive Devices: Towards a New Era in Parable Research. Edited by Lauri Thurén, Antti Kyytsönen, and Katri Antin. WUNT 2/633. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025.
  • Ottenheijm, Eric, and Albertina Oegema. “Preface: A Special Issue about Christine Hayes, ed., The Literature of the Sages: A Re-visioning.” NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion. Special issue: “Understanding Rabbinic Judaism: A Special Issue about The Literature of the Sages: A Re-visioning (Christine Hayes, ed., CRINT 16, Leiden: Brill, 2022).” NTT JTSR 78 (2024): 135–138.
  • Oegema, Albertina, and Esther Graf. “Das jüdische Raumverständnis von Synagogen und der virtuelle Synagogenraum.” Pages 125–143 in Digitale Sakralraumpädagogik. Edited by Ulrich Riegel and Mirjam Zimmermann. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2024.
  • Merz, Annette, and Albertina Oegema. “Honouring Human Agency and Autonomy: Children as Agents in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Parables.” Pages 223–248 in The Power of Parables: Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish and Christian Parables. Edited by Annette Merz, Eric Ottenheijm, and Marcel Poorthuis. Jewish and Christian Perspectives 39. Leiden: Brill, 2024 (open access).
  • Oegema, Albertina. “What Are These Sons Doing? Filial Agency in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Writings.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 113 (2022): 261–283.
  • Oegema, Albertina, and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. “Beyond the Parable-Fable Dichotomy: An Introduction to the Volume.” Pages 1–11 in Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World. Edited by Albertina Oegema, Jonathan Pater, and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 483. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022 (open access).
  • Oegema, Albertina, and Annette Merz. “Kinder als handelnde Subjekte in neutestamentlichen und rabbinischen Gleichnissen.” Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 48 (2021): 27–43.
  • Oegema, Albertina, Jonathan Pater, and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. “It Is like a Woman Who …? Women in Early Rabbinic and Early Christian Parables.” Pages 236–264 in Parables in Changing Contexts: Essays on the Study of Parables in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Marcel Poorthuis. Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 35. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “‘De zoon smeekte bij zijn vader’: De agency van gestrafte kinderen in vroegrabbijnse parabels” [“‘The Son Begged His Father’: The Agency of Punished Children in Early Rabbinic Parables”]. Ex tempore 38 (2019): 82–96.
  • Oegema, Albertina, Jonathan Pater, and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. “Alleen bruiden, slavinnen en weduwen? De rol van vrouwen in vroegrabbijnse en vroegchristelijke gelijkenissen” [“Just Brides, Slaves, and Widows? The Role of Women in Early Rabbinic and Early Christian Parables”]. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 71 (2017): 130–150.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “The Reception of Isa 40:15 in Liber antiquitatum biblicarum, 2 Baruch, and 4 Ezra.” Pages 94–111 in Authoritative Texts and Reception History: Aspects and Approaches. Edited by Dan Batovici and Kristin De Troyer. Biblical Interpretation Series 151. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Popular Articles

  • Oegema, Albertina. “Welke vader geeft zijn zoon een slang te eten? Over de parabel van de voedsel vragende zoon (Matteüs 7:9–11//Lukas 11:11–13)” [“What Sort of Father Feeds His Son a Snake? On the Parable of the Food Requesting Son (Matthew 7:9–11//Luke 11:11–13)”]. In Parabels: Een universeel genre [Parables: A Universal Genre]. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2024.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Ruim het veld voor ons! Over de parabel van de kinderen op het veld (Ev. Thom. 21)” [“Leave Our Field! On the Parable of the Children in the Field (Gos. Thom. 21)”]. In Parabels: Een universeel genre [Parables: A Universal Genre]. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2024.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Ouderdom in de Hebreeuwse Bijbel” [“Old Age in the Hebrew Bible”]. PThUnie 16, no. 3 (2022): 11–13.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Boze vaders in vroegrabbijnse parabels” [“Angry Fathers in Early Rabbinic Parables”]. Alef Beet 31, no. 1 (2022): 3–13.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Ruimte om te ruziën: De parabel van de kinderen op de markt (Lucas 7:31–35//Matteüs 11:16–19)” [“Room to Argue: The Parable of the Children at the Market (Luke 7:31–35//Matthew 11:16–19)”]. Pages 133–136 in Parabels: Onderricht van Jezus en de rabbijnen [Parables: Teachings of Jesus and the Rabbis]. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2020.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Vaders wil is wet? De parabel van de twee zonen (Matteüs 21:28–32)” [“Father’s Word Is Law? The Parable of the Two Sons (Matthew 21:28–32)”]. Pages 97–100 in Parabels: Onderricht van Jezus en de rabbijnen [Parables: Teachings of Jesus and the Rabbis]. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2020.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Parabels en de scheiding der wegen: De parabel van de pachters van de wijngaard (Marcus 12:1–11//Matteüs 21:33–44//Lucas 20:9–18//Evangelie van Thomas 65–66)” [“Parables and the Partings of the Ways: The Parable of the Tenants of the Vineyard (Mark 12:1–11//Matthew 21:33–44//Luke 20:9–18//Gospel of Thomas 65–66)”]. Pages 127–131 in Parabels: Onderricht van Jezus en de rabbijnen [Parables: Teachings of Jesus and the Rabbis]. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2020.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Een blik op het lijden van de zoon: De parabel van de verloren zoon en zijn boze broer (Lukas 15:11–32)” [“Watching the Son’s Suffering: The Parable of the Prodigal Son and His Angry Brother (Luke 15:11–32)”]. Pages 169–172 in Parabels: Onderricht van Jezus en de rabbijnen [Parables: Teachings of Jesus and the Rabbis]. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2020.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Broodje gezond op zijn rabbijns: Goede voeding in een laatantieke joodse parabel” [“A Salad Roll, Rabbinic Style: Good Food in a Late Ancient Jewish Parable”]. Pages 203–210 in Wie is er bang voor religie? Waarom kennis van religie belangrijk is [Who Is Afraid of Religion? Why Knowledge of Religion Is Important]. Edited by Joas Wagemakers and Lucien van Liere. Almere: Uitgeverij Parthenon, 2019.

Reviews

  • Oegema, Albertina. Review of Kristine Henriksen Garroway and John W. Martens, eds., Children and Methods: Listening to and Learning from Children in the Biblical World. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 76 (2022): 83–84.
  • Oegema, Albertina, and Lieve Teugels. Review of Joshua Schwartz and Peter J. Tomson, eds., Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: The Interbellum 70‒132 CE. Journal for the Study of Judaism 51 (2020): 433–441.
  • Oegema, Albertina. Review of Hagith Sivan, Jewish Childhood in the Roman World. Journal for the Study of Judaism 49 (2018): 591–594.
  • Oegema, Albertina. Review of Herbert W. Basser and Marsha B. Cohen, The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions: A Relevance-Based Commentary. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 70 (2016): 79–80.
  • Oegema, Albertina. Review of Tobias Nicklas et al., eds., Other Worlds and Their Relation to This World: Early Jewish and Ancient Christian Traditions. Journal for the Study of Judaism 43 (2012): 421–423.
  • Oegema, Albertina. Review of Mary Anna Bader, Tracing the Evidence: Dinah in Post-Hebrew Bible Literature. Journal for the Study of Judaism 42 (2011): 87–88.
  • Oegema, Albertina. Review of Hanan Eshel, Masada: An Epic Story. Journal for the Study of Judaism 42 (2011): 395.
  • Oegema, Albertina. Review of Hanan Eshel, Qumran: Scrolls • Caves • History. Journal for the Study of Judaism 42 (2011): 396.

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