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. New York and London: Routledge. In Print.
  • 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.
  • 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. “The Agency of Elderly Women in Tannaitic Literature.” In Old Age in Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, and Their Contexts: Senescence and Its Significations. Edited by Seth Bledsoe and Albertina Oegema. New York and London: Routledge. In print.
  • 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).” Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Published (online first).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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