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Wesselius, J.W.

Wesselius, J.W.

Jan-Wim Wesselius, born in Monster, the Netherlands, in 1954. Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. Associate Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic at the University of Amsterdam.

Fellow (1 September 1997 – 30 June 1998)

During my year at NIAS, besides a number of other occupations, I further developed and refined my theory about the literary structure of a number of books of the Hebrew Bible.

In two books and in a number of articles I tried to demonstrate that in many cases the overall structure of a book (or a series of books) is defined by its relationship with other books, rather than by regularity of form or substance: this is a revolutionary thesis, which will keep scholars’ minds occupied for a long time