International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament explained

The International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) is a scientific organization of Old Testament scholars, established in 1950 in Leiden. The first congress was held in 1953 in Copenhagen.^[1]

List of congresses and presidents

No.	Place	Date	President
1.	Copenhagen	25.–28.8. 1953	Edith Bentzen-Smith^[2]
2.		27.8.–1.9. 1956	Roland de Vaux
3.	Oxford	31.8.–5.9. 1959	Godfrey Rolles Driver
4.	Bonn	26.–31.8. 1962
5.	Geneva	22.–28.8.1965	Johann Jakob Stamm
6.	Rome	15.–19.8.1968	Roderick Andrew Francis MacKenzie
7.	Uppsala	8.–12.8. 1971	Helmer Ringgren
8.	Edinburgh	18.–23.8. 1974	George W. Anderson
9.	Göttingen	21.–26.8. 1977	Walther Zimmerli
10.	Vienna	24.–29.8. 1980	Walter Kornfeld
11.	Salamanca	28.8.–2.9. 1983	Luis Alonso Schökel
12.		24.–29.8. 1986	Benjamin Mazar
13.	Leuven	27.8.–1.9. 1989	Chris Brekelmans
14.	Paris	19.–24.7. 1992	André Caquot
15.	Cambridge	16.–21.7. 1995	John Emerton
16.	Oslo	2.–7.8. 1998	Magne Sæbø
17.	Basel	5.–10.8. 2001	Ernst Jenni
18.	Leiden	1.–6.8. 2004	Arie van der Kooij
19.	Ljubljana	15.–20. 2007	Jože Krašovec
20.	Helsinki	1.–6.8. 2010	Raija Sollamo
21.	Munich	4.–9.8. 2013	Christoph Levin
22.	Stellenbosch	4.–9.9. 2016	Johann Cook
23.	Aberdeen	4.–9.8. 2019	Joachim Schaper^[3]
24.	Zürich	8. –12.8. 2022	Konrad Schmid^[4]
25.	Berlin	August 2022	Bernd Schipper^[5]

Bibliography

• Rudolf Smend Jr. and David E. Orton (Translator): "Fifty Years International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament and Vetus Testamentum" In: Vetus Testamentum 50 (2000), pp. 14–26.

Notes and References

1. "Congress Volume Copenhagen," Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 1, Leiden 1953.
2. Edith Bentzen-Smith led the congress replacing her husband Aage Bentzen who had died on 4 June that year.
3. https://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/conferences/iosot/index.php Homepage of the 23rd IOSOT Congress
4. https://www.iosot2022.uzh.ch/en.html Homepage of the 24rd IOSOT Congress
5. https://www.theologie.hu-berlin.de/de/professuren/stellen/gi/personen/prof.%20dr.%20dr.%20schipper Homepage of Prof. Schipper