Minhah le-Nahum : biblical and other studies presented to Nahum M. Sarna in honour of his 70th birthday / edited by Marc Brettler and Michael Fishbane. [print]

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Includes bibliographical references.

Interpretation and prayer : notes on the composition of 1 Kings 8.15-53 Marc Brettler -- The Hebrew crusade chronicles and the Ashkenazic tradition Gerson D. Cohen (deceased) -- The route of Jacob's funeral cortege and the problem of Eber Hayyarden (Genesis 50.10-11) / Aaron Demsky -- Law to canon : some 'ideal-typical' stages of development Michael Fishbane -- R. Isaac Arama's philosophical exegesis of the golden calf episode Marvin Fox -- Menahem ben Aaron ibn Zmeah's anti-polygyny Torah commentary from the Geniza Mordechai A. Friedman -- The holy scriptures defile the hands : the transformation of a biblical concept in rabbinic theology Shamma Friedman -- Reuben Judah Goldin -- The Aramaic incantation bowls in historic perspective Cyrus H. Gordon -- From the workshop of the new Jewish Publication Society Ketuvim translators Moshe Greenberg and Jonas C. Greenfield -- How modern are modern biblical studies? / Frederick E. Greenspahn -- Disturbing the dead William W. Hallo -- 11QPsa and the canonical Book of psalms Menahem Haran -- An essay on prophetic attitudes toward temple and cult in Biblical Israel Baruch A. Levine -- Translation as polemic : the case of Toledot Yeshu Martin I. Lockshin -- Gleanings from the biblical and talmudic lexica in light of Akkadian Shalom M. Paul -- Elephantine Aramaic contracts and the priestly literature Bezalel Porten -- Pharisees and Sadducees in Pesher Nahum Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Penitence, prayer and (charity)? / Menahem Schmelzer -- Yishaki : a Spanish biblical commentator whose "book should be burned", according to Abraham ibn Ezra Uriel Simon -- Fragments of a psalms scroll from Masada, Northern Mariana Islandssb (Masada 110-1742) / Shemaryahu Talmon -- A talmudic parallel to the petition from Yavneh-Tam Jeffrey H. Tigay.