Description: Preface Contributors Appreciation, by Victor Avigdor Hurowitz The Published Writings of Menahem Haran (Bibliography) Abbreviations PART 1. Priests and Their Sphere The Distribution of the Priestly Gifts according to a Document of the Second Temple Period - Sara Japhet The Holiness of Israel and the Land in Second Temple Times - James Kugel Realms of Sanctity: The Case of the ''Misplaced'' Incense Altar in the Tabernacle Texts of Exodus - Carol Meyers Hezekiah and the Temple - H. G. M. Williamson The Earthen Altar Laws of Exodus 20:24-26 and Related Sacrificial Restrictions in Their Cultural Context - Ziony Zevit PART 2. The Torah The Other Egypt: A Welcome Asylum - Mordechai Cogan The Composition of the Book of Exodus: Reflections on the Theses of Erhard Blum - Graham I. Davies Some Recent Non-arguments concerning the Documentary Hypothesis - Richard Elliott Friedman The Priestly Account of the Theophany and Lawgiving at Sinai - Baruch J. Schwartz Sons of God(s), Heroes, and nephilim: Remarks on Genesis 6:1-4 - J. A. Soggin The Significance of the End of Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 34:10-12) - Jeffrey H. Tigay PART 3. The Prophets The Authentic Sermon on Jeremiah in Jeremiah 7:1-20 - Sa-Moon Kang Le Cadre alphabetique du ''Livre de Jonathan'' (1 Sam 16:14-2 Sam 1:27) - Francois Langlamet The Composition of Jeremiah 30-31 - William McKane Le Cantique de Debora et ses relectures - R. J. Tournay PART 4. The Writings The Concept of Abomination in the Book of Proverbs - R. E. Clemens The Social Location of the Book of Proverbs - Michael V. Fox A Forensic Understanding of the Speech from the Whirlwind - Edward L. Greenstein Chronicles and the Priestly Torah - Rolf Rendtorff On the Canonicity of the Song of Songs - Magne Saebo Notes on the Use of the Definite Article in the Poetry of Job - Nahum M. Sarna The Meaning of ''Darkness'': A Study in Philological Method - Chaim Cohen A Papyrus Recording a Divine Legal Decision and the Root rhq in Biblical and Near Eastern Legal Usage - Frank Moore Cross Are There Examples of Enclitic mem in the Hebrew Bible? - John A. Emerton Noisy and Yearning: The Semantics of ppw and Its Congeners - Moshe Greenberg Bilingualism and the Beginnings of Translation - William W. Hallo Three Biblical Expressions for Being Merciful in Light of Akkadian and Aramaic - Victor Avigdor Hurowitz Polysemous Pivotal Punctuation: More Janus Double Entendres - Shalom M. Paul Participial Formulations: Lawsuit, Not Wisdom--A Study in Prophetic Language - Henning Graf Reventlow Scribal Practices Reflected in the Documents from the Judean Desert and in the Rabbinic Literature: A Comparative Study - Emanuel Tov English Abstracts of Hebrew Essays Index of Authorities Index of Scripture HEBREW ESSAYS King Solomon''s Designation for Kingship in Biblical Historiography - Shmuel Ahituv Implicit Redaction and Latent Polemic in the Story of the Rape of Dinah - Yairah Amit The Date and the Meaning of the Prophecy against ''Those Who Live in These Ruins in the Land of Israel'' (Ezekiel 33:23-29) - Gershon Brin The Origins and Development of the Expression: A Study in the History of Writing-Related Terminology in Biblical Times - Avi Hurvitz ''And I Will Tell of All Your Work'': Faith and Belief in Psalm 77 - Meir Weiss The Book of the Covenant Interprets the Book of the Covenant: The ''Boomerang Phenomenon'' - Yair Zakovitch A Calendrical Scroll from Qumran Cave 4: Mismarot Bb (4Q321) - Shemaryahu Talmon and Israel Knohl Towards the Structure of the Book of Kings: Formulaic Synchronism and Story Synchronism (1 Kings 12-2 Kings 17) - Zipora Talshir Cushan-Rishathaim (Judges 3:8-11): An Implicit Polemic - Bustenai Oded Complementary Fragments from the Cairo Genizah - Michael L. Klein Ruth 4:11 LXX: A Midrashic Dramatization - Alexander Rofe The Joseph Story: Legend or History? - Nili Shupak

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