Ki Baruch Hu
Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Judaic Studies in Honor of Baruch A. Levine
Edited by R. Chazan, William W. Hallo, and L. H. Schiffman
Ki Baruch Hu
Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Judaic Studies in Honor of Baruch A. Levine
Edited by R. Chazan, William W. Hallo, and L. H. Schiffman
Known to most readers as author of Leviticus in the Jewish Publication Society Torah Commentary series and Numbers 1–20 in the Anchor Bible series, as well as numerous essays in Bible dictionaries and encyclopedias, Baruch Levine holds the place of honor in this collection. The volume has been compiled by the students, colleagues, and friends known to him over his many years of professorship at New York University. Included in the festschrift are 36 essays in English and 5 essays in Hebrew.
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- Table of Contents
Baruch A. Levine: A Brief Biography - Lawrence H. Schiffman
Baruch A. Levine: An Appreciation - R. Chazan
Baruch A. Levine: A Personal Reflection - William W. Hallo
Bibliography of the Writings of Baruch A. Levine compiled by Marlene R. Schiffman
Abbreviations
Part I: Ancient Near East
Introducing the Witnesses in Neo-Babylonian Documents - Eva von Dassow
Kemet and Other Egyptian Terms for Their Land - Ogden Goelet
A Ugaritic Cognate for Akkadian hitpu? - William W. Hallo
Un anneau inscrit du Bronze Recent a Megiddo - Emile Puech
Topic and Comment in the Amarna Texts from Canaan - Anson F. Rainey
Non-Word Divider Use of the Small Vertical Wedge in Yarih and Nikkal and in an Akkadian Text Written in Alphabetic Cuneiform - Anne F. Robertson
Livraisons et depenses royales durant la Troisieme Dynastie d’Ur - Marcel Sigrist
Part II: Bible
Preliminary Remarks for the Sociological Study of Israelite ‘Official Religion’ - Jacques Berlinerblau
Kings and Prophets: Cyrus and Servant - Reading Isaiah 40-55 - Robert G. Boling
Kipper and Atonement in the Book of Isaiah - Michael L. Brown
The Goddess Wisdom— ‘Where Can She Be Found?’ Literary Reflexes of Popular Religion - Michael D. Coogan
The Seven-Day Siege of Jericho in Holy War - Daniel E. Fleming
Quantitative Measurement in Biblical Hebrew Poetry - David Noel Freedman and Jeffrey C. Geoghegan
The Terms and in the Context of Inheritance - Moshe Greenberg
Jeremiah of Anathoth: A Prophet for All Israel - Herbert B. Huffmon
Textual ‘Information Gaps’ and ‘Dissonances’ in the Interpretation of the Book of Jonah - George M. Landes
History and Time - Brian Peckham
No Entry: The Limits of the Sacred in Near Eastern Monotheism - F. E. Peters
The Pleiades, the Flood, and the Jewish New Year - Ellen Robbins
Elisha at Dothan (2 Kings 6:8-23): Historico-literary Criticism Sustained by the Midrash - Alexander Rofe
‘I Will Be Your God and You Will Be My People’: The Origin and Background of the Covenant Formula - Seock-Tae Sohn
Pants, Persians, and the Priestly Source - S. David Sperling
Isaiah 34, Chaos, and the Ban - Philip D. Stern
‘The Appointed Time Has Not Yet Arrived’: The Historical Background of Haggai 1:2 - Hayim Tadmor
Some More Delocutives in Hebrew - Jeffrey H. Tigay
Poetry and Prose in the Book of Jeremiah - Robert R. Wilson
The Exodus from Ur of the Chaldeans: A Chapter in Literary Archaeology - Yair Zakovitch
Part III: Judaica
Signs of Ambivalence in Islamic Spain: Arabic Representations of Samuel the Nagid - Ross Brann
The Hebrew First-Crusade Narratives and Their Intertextual Messages - Robert Chazan
Hebrew Nationalism and Biblical Criticism: The Attitude of Perez Smokenskin - David Engel
Ruhamah’s Daughter: From Hysteria to Her-Story in Ruth Almog’s Shorshei Avir - Yael S. Feldman
Jewish Studies and Medieval Jewish Philosophy: The Odd Couple - Alfred L. Ivry
Karaite Perspectives on Yom Teru a - Philip E. Miller
Those Cantankerous Sepphoreans Revisited - Stuart S. Miller
The Sukkot Wine Libation - Jeffrey L. Tubenstein
Sacred Space and Mental Iconography: Imago Templi and Contemplation in Rhineland Jewish Pietism - Elliot R. Wolfson
English Abstracts of Hebrew Essays
Indexes
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture
Index of Ancient and Premodern Sources
Hebrew Essays
The Archaeological Background of the History of Southern Phoenicia and the Costal Plain in the Assyrian Period - Ephraim Stern
Nomads in the Desert in Egyptian Sources - Shmuel Ahituv
On the Explanation of First Mishnah in Tractate Baba Mesi a - David Halivni
The Flow of Cultural Influences from Syria and the Land of Israel to Mesopotamia in the Old Babylonian Period - Abraham Malamat
Tanaaitic Disputes in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls - Lawrence H. Schiffman
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