Preface

Moshe Bar-Asher The Qal Passive Participle of Geminate Verbs in Biblical Hebrew

Joshua Blau Problems of Noun Inflection in Arabic: Reflections on the Diptore Declension

John A. Emerton ‘The Kingdoms of Judah and Israel and Ancient Hebrew History Writing

Steven E. Fassberg Sequences of Positive Commands in Biblical Hebrew lek ‘emor, lek we’amarta, halok we’amarta

W. Randall Garr The Paragogic run in Rhetorical Perspective

Edward L. Greenstein Forms and Functions of the Finite Verb in Ugaritic Narrative Verse

John Huehnergard On the Etymology of the Hebrew Relative: she

Avi Hurvitz Continuity and Change in Biblical Hebrew: The Linguistic History of a Formulaic Idiom from the Realm of the Royal Court

Jan Joosten The Disappearance of Iterative WEQATAL in the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System

Menahem Zevi Kaddari Homonymy and Polysemy in the New Modern Hebrew Lexicon of the Hebrew Bible

Geoffrey Khan Some Aspects of the Copula in North West Semitic

André Lemaire Hebrew and Aramaic in the First Millennium BCE in the Light of Epigraphic Evidence (Socio-Historical Aspects)

André Lemaire and Ada Yardeni New Hebrew Ostraca from the Shephelah

Mordechay Mishor On the Language and Text of Exodus 18

Adina Moshavi The Discourse Functions of Object/Adverbial-Fronting in Biblical Hebrew

Alviero Niccacci The Biblical Hebrew Verbal System in Poetry

M. O’Connor The Human Characters’ Names in the Ugaritic Poems: Onomastic Eccentricity in Bronze-Age West Semitic and the Name Daniel in Particular

Frank H. Polak Linguistic and Stylistic Aspects of Epic Formulae in Ancient Semitic Poetry and Biblical Narrative

Elisha Qimron The Pausal Patah in Biblical Hebrew

Gary A. RendsburgIsraelian Hebrew in the Song of Songs