Jonas Greenfield was one of the foremost epigraphers and biblical scholars of this generation. This volume, dedicated to Professor Greenfield by his students, colleagues, and friends, reflects the broad spectrum of academic interests he pursued: Bible, Qumran, epigraphy, and Semitics.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Bibliography of the Published Writings of Jonas C. Greenfield
Abbreviations
BIBLE
Jes P. Asmussen: Copenhagen - Some Bird Names in the Judeo-Persian Translations of the Hebrew Bible
Joshua Blau: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities - The Monophthongization of Diphthongs as Reflected in the Use of Vowel Letters in the Pentateuch
Ariel A. Bloch: University of California at Berkeley - The Cedar and the Palm Tree: A Paired Male/Female Symbol in Hebrew and Aramaic
William M. Brinner: University of California at Berkeley - Some Problems in the Arabic Transmission of Biblical Names
Magen Broshi: Israel Museum and Ada Yardeni: Hebrew University - On ‘netinim’ and False Prophets
Andre Caquot: College de France, Paris - Grandeur et purete du sacerdoce: Remarques sur le ‘Testament de Qahat’ (4Q542)
Henri Cazelles: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris - Ahiqar, ‘Umman’ and ‘Amun,’ and Biblical Wisdom Texts
Riccardo Contini: University of Venice - Epistolary Evidence of Address Phenomena in Official and Biblical Aramaic
Moshe Greenberg: Hebrew University - The Etymology of ‘ndh’ (Menstrual) Impurity
William W. Hallo: Yale University - Slave Release in the Biblical World in Light of a New Text
Stephen A. Kaufman: Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati - Paragogic ‘nun’ in Biblical Hebrew: Hypercorrection as a Clue to a Lost Scribal Practice
Michael L. Klein: Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem - A Fragment-Targum of ‘Onqelos’ from the Cairo Genizah
Tryggve Kronholm: University of Uppsala - Abraham, the Physician: The Image of Abraham the Patriarch in the Genuine Hymns of Ephraem Syrus
Jacob Lassner: Northwestern University - Ritual Purity and Political Exile: Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, and the Events of 586 B.C.E. in a Yemenite Folktale
Baruch A. Levine: New York University - The Semantics of Loss: Two Exercises in Biblical Hebrew Lexicography
Peter Machinist: Harvard University - Fate, ‘miqreh,’ and Reason: Some Reflections on Qohelet and Biblical Thought
Abraham Malamat: Hebrew University - A Recently Discovered Word for ‘Clan’ in Mari and Its Hebrew Cognate
Emile Puech: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Note de lexicographie hebraique qumranienne (‘m-sw / yrwq, mhsbym, swt’)
Elisha Qimron: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - A Work concerning Divine Providence: 4Q413
Nahum M. Sarna: Brandeis University - Variant Scriptural Readings in Liturgical Texts
Lawrence H. Schiffman: New York University - 4QMysteriesa: A Preliminary Edition and Translation
Stanislav Segert: University of California at Los Angeles - Poetic Structures in the Hebrew Sections of the Book of Daniel
Shaul Shaked: Hebrew University - Qumran: Some Iranian Connections
J. A. Soggin: Universita di Roma—La Sapienza - Abraham and the Eastern Kings: On Genesis 14
Michael E. Stone: Hebrew University - A New Edition and Translation of the ‘Questions of Ezra’
Hayim Tadmor: Hebrew University - Was the Biblical ‘saris’ a Eunuch?
Shemaryahu Talmon: Hebrew University - A Calendrical Document from Qumran Cave 4 (mismarot D, 4Q325)
Jeffrey H. Tigay: University of Pennsylvania - ‘He Had Not Become Wrinkled’ (Deuteronomy 34:7)
Emanuel Tov: Hebrew University - A Paraphrase of Exodus: 4Q422
J. P. Weinberg: Jerusalem - The Word ‘nbd’ in the Bible: A Study in Historical Semantics and Biblical Thought
EPIGRAPHY
Shmuel Ahituv: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Flour and Dough: Gleanings from the Arad Letters
Walter E. Aufrecht: The University of Lethbridge, Canada - A Phoenician Seal
Klaus Beyer: Heidelberg University - The Ammonite Tell Siran Bottle Inscription Reconsidered
Frank Moore Cross: Harvard University - Paleography and the Date of the Tell Fahariyeh Bilingual Inscription
Philippe Gignoux: Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris - The Pahlavi Inscription on Mount Thomas Cross (South India)
Andre Lemaire: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris - The Xanthos Trilingual Revisited
E. Lipinski: Katholiek Universiteit Leuven - The Inscribed Marble Vessels from Kition
Philip Mayerson: New York University - Grain Prices in Late Antiquity and the Nature of the Evidence
Alan Millard: University of Liverpool - Latin in First-Century Palestine
Joseph Naveh: Hebrew University - Phoenician Ostraca from Tel Dor
SEMITICS
Tzvi Abusch: Brandeis University - The Socio-Religious Framework of the Babylonian Witchcraft Ceremony ‘Maqlu’: Some Observations on the Introductory Section of the Text, Part II
Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo: Universita degli Studi di Roma - More on the Latin Personal Names Ending with ‘-us’ and ‘-ius’ in Punic
Arnold J. Band: University of California at Los Angeles - Regelson, Pagis, and Wallach: Three Poems on the Hebrew Language
M. A. Dandamayev: Institute for Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg - The Neo-Babylonian ‘tamkaru’
M. J. Geller: University College, London - An Eanna Tablet from Uruk in Cleveland
Victor Avigdor Hurowitz: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - An Old Babylonian Bawdy Ballad
William L. Moran: Harvard University - Some Reflections on Amarna Politics
David I. Owen: Cornell University - Pasuri-Dagan and Ini-Tessup’s Mother
Shalom M. Paul: Hebrew University - The ‘Plural of Ecstasy’ in Mesopotamian and Babylonian Love Poetry
Jack M. Sasson: University of North Carolina - Water beneath Straw: Adventures of a Prophetic Phrase in the Mari Archives
Marcel Sigrist: Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem - Some di-til-la Tablets in the British Museum
Aaron Skaist: Bar-Ilan University - ‘Simu gamru’: Its Function and History
Mark S. Smith: St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia - The God Athtar in the Ancient Near East and His Place in KTU 1.6 I
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture
Index of Ancient Texts
