Full Description
This volume honors the extraordinary scholarship of Prof. Gary A. Rendsburg, whose work and friendship have influenced so many in the last five decades. Twenty-five prominent scholars from the US, Europe, Israel, and Australia have contributed significant original studies in three of Rendsburg's areas of interest and expertise: Hebrew language, Hebrew Bible, and Hebrew manuscripts. These linguistic, philological, literary, epigraphic, and historical approaches to the study of Hebrew and its textual traditions serve as a worthy tribute to such an accomplished scholar, and also as an illustration how all of these approaches can complement one another in the fields of Hebrew and Biblical Studies.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
The Publications of Gary A. Rendsburg
Part 1 Hebrew Language
1 On Third Person Masculine Plural Pronouns in Hebrew
Steven E. Fassberg
2 Out of the Sweet Came Good: A Study in Semitic Etymology
Edward L. Greenstein
3 Hebraisms in Mandaic
C.G. Häberl
4 The Phasal Narrative Function of Long yiqṭol and weqaṭal in Biblical Hebrew
Geoffrey Khan
5 Windows, Walls, and Terebinths: The -ōn Morph in חַלּוֹנֵינוּ ḥallōnēnū (Jer 9:20) and Beyond
Frank H. Polak
6 On the Biblical Hebrew Preposition min
Aaron D. Rubin
7 Historical Linguistics and Language Change: the Rabbinic Hebrew Deponent
Azzan Yadin-Israel
8 The Etymology and Meaning of Kuntillet ʿAjrud: An Experimental Inquiry
Ziony Zevit
Part 2 Hebrew Bible
9 שֵׁדִים šēḏīm: Shades of Difference between 'Demons', Deity, and שַׁדַּי šadday
Debra Scoggins Ballentine
10 Greek Eros in Song of Songs 8:6-7
Adele Berlin
11 Month Names in the Bible
Christian M.M. Brady
12 Further Reflections on Egyptian Influences on the Early Hebrews—Priestly Matters
James K. Hoffmeier
13 The Akedah in a Different Voice
Aaron Koller
14 Targum Jonathan in the Critical Apparatus of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta in 1 and 2 Samuel
Craig E. Morrison
15 Hidden Waters: The Sounds of Sinking in the Song of the Sea
Scott B. Noegel
16 Sound Play in the Song of Hannah
Elizabeth Robar
17 Northern Refugees in Jerusalem: The Case of Menaḥem, Son of Yawbana
William M. Schniedewind
18 Transformation and Continuity in Liturgical Poetry: The Case of Psalm 20
Benjamin D. Sommer
19 Two Notes on the Rescue of Moses in Exodus and in the Dura-Europos Synagogue Mural
Jeffrey H. Tigay
20 Isaiah 15:9
H.G.M. Williamson
21 The Joy of Secondary Texts: The "Little Horn" in Masoretic Text and Old Greek Daniel 7-8
Ian Young
Part 3 Hebrew Manuscripts
22 Who Wrote Acrostic Signatures in Early Masoretic Bibles? The Case of Ḥananya ha-Levi ben Shelomo
Vincent D. Beiler
23 Christian Scholarship and Jewish Prayer in 13th-Century England: Oxford, MS Arch. Selden A. 3
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
24 The Curious Case of the Corresponding Colophons in Codex Cairo 3
Benjamin M. Outhwaite
25 A Letter from the Chief of the Samaritans, with a Little Present
Stefan Schorch
