Birkat Shalom

Volume 1



Shalom Paul: Scholar, Teacher, Friend Victor Avigdor Hurowitz



Publications of Shalom M. Paul



Abbreviations



Part 1: The Bible



The Torah



Statut Public et Droit Privé dans la Tôrâh Henri Cazelles



Exodus 21:22–25 Revisited: Methodological Considerations Barry L. Eichler



Three Major Redactors of the Torah Richard Elliott Friedman



Nimrod, Son of Cush, King of Mesopotamia, and the Dates of P and J Israel Knohl



A Linguistic Analysis of the Phrase ’l mshntw (Exodus 21:19) and the Homiletic Sense ’l mshntw – ’l bwryw Simcha Kogut



Burnt Offering of Head, Peder, and Kidneys Edward Lipin



The Desecration of Yhwh’s Name: Its Parameters and Significance Jacob Milgrom



Alliteration in the Exodus Narrative Gary A. Rendsburg



Deuteronomic Concepts of Exile Interpreted in Jeremiah and Ezekiel Dalit Rom-Shiloni



Light in Genesis 1:3—Created or Uncreated: A Question of Priestly Mysticism? Mark S. Smith



The Historical Books



“They Feared God/They Did Not Fear God”: On the Use of yere’ YHWH and yare’ ’et YHWH in 2 Kings 17:24–41 Shawn Zelig Aster



The Lament of David over Abner Elisha Qimron



Oracle Inquiries in Judges Jack M. Sasson



King Solomon J. A. Soggin



Synchronic and Diachronic Considerations in the DtrH Portrayal of the Demise of Solomon’s Kingdom Marvin A. Sweeney



“And the Lord Sent Moses and Aaron” Yair Zakovitch



The Davidic-Solomonic Empire from the Perspective of Archaeological Bibliology Ziony Zevit



The Books of the Prophets



The Sinai Theophany in the Psalm of Habakkuk Shmuel Ahituv



Jeremiah 3:1–4:2 between Deuteronomy 24 and Matthew 5: Jeremiah’s Exercise in Ethical Criticism Mayer I. Gruber



The Historical Background of the Prophecies of Amos Menahem Haran



Isaiah and the Transition from Prophecy to Apocalyptic Ronald Hendel



Engendering Ezekiel: Female Figures Reconsidered Carol Meyers



Zechariah 12:12–14 and Hosea 10:5 in the Light of an Ancient Mourning Practice Alexander Rofé



The Ultimate Aim of Israel’s Restoration in Ezekiel Baruch J. Schwartz



Is It Good for the Jews? Ambiguity and the Rhetoric of Turning in Isaiah Benjamin D. Sommer



The Message of Psalm 114 Adele Berlin



The Writings



A New Criterion for Identifying “Wisdom Psalms” Tova Forti



Concepts of Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs Michael V. Fox



“The Voice of YHWH Causes Hinds to Calve” (Psalm 29:9) Jeffrey H. Tigay



The Influence of Legal Style on the Style of Aphorism: The Origin of the Retribution Formula and the Clause lô yinnaqeh ‘He Will Not Go Unpunished’ in the Book of Proverbs Shamir Yona



Part 2: The Bible and the Ancient Near East



The Mesopotamian Background of the Term µymyh tyrja in the World-Peace Vision of Isaiah 2:2a Pinhas Artzi



The Lions of Nineveh (Nahum 2:12–14): A Check on Nahum’s Familiarity with Assyria Mordechai Cogan



New Directions in Modern Biblical Hebrew Lexicography Chaim Cohen



Ahab and Archaeology: A Commentary on 1 Kings 16–22 William G. Dever



Hurrian Ullikummi and Daniel’s “Little Horn” Roy E. Gane



Reanalysis in Biblical and Babylonian Poetry Edward L. Greenstein



In Search of Resen (Genesis 10:12): Dur-Sharrukin? Victor Avigdor Hurowitz



Deuteronomy 6:6, 9 in the Light of Northwest Semitic Inscriptions André Lemaire



The Myth of Tammuz in Biblical Narrative Baruch Margalit



Volume 2



Part 3: The Ancient Near East



Scribal Initiative in the Clarification and Interpretation of Mesopotamian Law Collections Pamela Barmash



Two Aramaic Ostraca from a Tannery in ’Ên Gedî Esther Eshel and Hanan Eshel



Wordplay in the Lamashtu Incantations J. N. Ford



“The Ship of the Desert, the Donkey of the Sea”: The Camel in Early Mesopotamia Revisited Wayne Horowitz



“Secular” Love Songs in Mesopotamian Literature Jacob Klein and Yitschak Sefati



A Seated Figurine from Tell Ets-Tsâfi Gath: A Philistine Image of El? Aren M. Maeir



The Deity Addu (Hadad) of Kallassu (near Aleppo) in Two Mari Letters Abraham Malamat



Negotiating with Hammu-rapi: Frank H. Polak



The Love Poem of Rim-Sîn and Nanaya Marcel Sigrist and Joan Goodnick Westenholz



On rahatsum I, II, III and on Akkadian rihtsum = Hebrew ’tsrh Nathan Wasserman



From Biqºat to KTK: “All Aram” in the Sefîre Inscription in the Light of Amos 1:5 Nili Wazana



Two Become One: A Unique Memorandum of Obligation Ada Yardeni and Bezalel Porten



Part 4: Postbiblical, Medieval, and Modern Judaism



The Place of Genres in Bible Curricula Yairah Amit



The Three-Day Period of Purification before Entering the Temple Aaron Demsky



Scribal Interventions in 1QIsaiaha David Noel Freedman luuz and Joshua J. Van Ee



The “Plotting Witness” and Beyond: A Continuum in Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Talmudic Law Shamma Friedman



Franz Rosenzweig and the Land of Two Rivers William W. Hallo



Rashi and the “Messianic” Psalms Robert A. Harris



“The Lovers’ Way”: Cultural Symbiosis in a Medieval Commentary on the Song of Songs Sara Japhet



A Rather Risqué Pun in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Matthew Morgenstern



The “Voice” of the Narrator and the “Voice” of the Characters in the Bible Commentaries of Yefet ben ºEli Meira Polliack



Codification of Jewish Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls Lawrence H. Schiffman



Mismarot Lists (4Q322–324c) and “Historical Texts” (4Q322a; 4Q331–4Q333) in Qumran Documents Shemaryahu Talmon and Jonathan Ben-Dov



Literary Analysis, the So-Called Original Text of Hebrew Scripture, and Textual Evaluation Emanuel Tov



Sources for the Astronomy in 1 Enoch 72–82 James C. VanderKam



I. O. Lehman, HUC mss 951–981 from Kai Feng, and a Purported Link between China and Yemen David B. Weisberg



Philo and Maimonides on the Garden of Eden Narrative David Winston



Indexes



Index of Authors



Index of Scripture



Index of Words, Terms, and Expressions



Index of Nonbiblical Sources