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