Editors’ Preface

Abbreviations

Abstracts of Hebrew Articles

The Published Writings of Shemaryahu Talmon

Biblical Literature and Exegesis

MICHAEL FISHBANE - University of Chicago The Well of Living Water: A Biblical Motif and Its Ancient Transformations

WESTON W. FIELDS - Hebrew University The Motif ‘Night as Danger’ Associated with Three Biblical Destruction Narratives

JAN P. FOKKELMAN - University of Leiden Structural Remarks on Judges 9 and 19

CYRUS H. GORDON - New York University ‘This Time’ (Genesis 2:23)

BARUCH HALPERN - York University Sociological Comparativism and the Theological Imagination: The Case of the Conquest

PAUL D. HANSON - Harvard University 1 Chronicles 15-16 and the Chronicler’s Views on the Levites

SARA JAPHET - Hebrew University The Israelite Legal and Social Reality as Reflected in Chronicles: A Case Study

OTTO KAISER - Philipps University, Marburg The Law as Center of the Hebrew Bible

KLAUS KOCH - University of Hamburg Ezra and Meremoth: Remarks on the History of the High Priesthood

NORBERT LOHFINK - Philologisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen Deuteronomy 6:24: ‘To Maintain Us’

CAROL L. MEYERS and ERIC M. MEYERS - Duke University Jerusalem and Zion after the Exile: The Evidence of First Zechariah

JACOB MILGROM - University of California, Berkeley The Priestly Laws of Sancta Contamination

SHALOM M. PAUL - Hebrew University Polysensuous Polyvalency in Poetic Parallelism

ROLF RENDTORFF - University of Heidelberg The Image of Postexilic Israel in German Bible Scholarship from Wellhausen to von Rad

NAHUM M. SARNA - Brandeis University, Emeritus Legal Terminology in Psalm 3:8

JACK M. SASSON - University of North Carolina Time...to Begin

J. ALBERTO SOGGIN - University of Rome Jacob in Shechem and in Bethel (Genesis 35:1-7)

MATITIAHU TSEVAT - Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati Was Samuel a Nazirite?

Textual Criticism

MICHAEL V. FOX - University of Wisconsin, Madison The Redaction of the Greek Alpha-Text of Esther

MOSHE GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN - Hebrew University Editions of the Hebrew Bible—Past and Future

SARAH KAMIN The Theological Significance of the Hebraica Veritas in Jerome’s Thought

EMANUEL TOV - Hebrew University Interchanges of Consonants between the Masoretic Text and the Vorlage of the Septuagint

EUGENE ULRICH - University of Notre Dame The Canonical Process, Textual Criticism, and Latter Stages in the Composition of the Bible

Qumran

JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH - Princeton Theological Seminary An Allegorical and Autobiographical Poem by the Moreh has-Sedeq (1GH 8:4-11)

JONAS C. GREENFIELD - Hebrew University Two Notes on the Apocryphal Psalms

ALEXANDER ROFE - Hebrew University A Neglected Meaning of the Verb and the Text of 1QS vi: 11-13

JAMES A. SANDERS - Claremont School of Theology The Dead Sea Scrolls and Biblical Studies

Judaism

W. D. DAVIES - Duke University, Emeritus Reflections on Territory in Judaism

JACOB NEUSNER - University of Southern Florida Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Judaism: Sifra and the Problem of the Mishnah

Ancient Near East

TZVI ABUSCH - Brandeis University Ritual and Incantation: Interpretation and Textual History of Maqlu vii:58-105 and ix: 152-59

WILLIAM W. HALLO - Yale University Royal Ancestor Worship in the Biblical World

THORKILD JACOBSEN - Harvard University, Emeritus The Spell of Nudimmud

Index of References

Hebrew Bible

Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

New Testament

Qumran/Dead Sea Scrolls

Mishnaic and Other Rabbinic Writings

Other Ancient Near Eastern Texts