TY - BOOK AU - Greenfield,Jonas C. AU - Zevit,Ziony AU - Gitin,Seymour AU - Sokoloff,Michael AU - TI - Solving riddles and untying knots: biblical, epigraphic, and Semitic studies in honor of Jonas C. Greenfield SN - 9780931464935 AV - BS1192.S683.S658 1995 PY - 1995/// CY - Winona Lake, Indiana PB - Eisenbrauns KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Dead Sea scrolls KW - Inscriptions, Semitic KW - Semitic philology N1 - 1 and indexes; Some bird names in the Judeo-Persian translations of the Hebrew Bible; Jes P. Asmussen --; Monophthongization of diphthongs as reflected in the use of vowel letters in the Pentateuch; Joshua Blau --; Cedar and the palm tree: a paired male/female symbol in Hebrew and Aramaic; Ariel A. Bloch --; Some problems in the Arabic transmission of biblical names; William M. Brinner --; On netinim and false prophets; Magen Broshi, Ada Yardeni --; Grandeur et purete du sacerdoce: remarques sur le Testament de Qahat (4Q542); Andre Caquot --; Ahiqar, Umman and Amun, and biblical wisdom texts; Henri Cazelles --; Epistolary evidence of address phenomena in official and Biblical Aramaic; Riccardo Contini --; Etymology of 'menstrual impurity'; Moshe Greenberg --; Slave release in the biblical world in light of a new text; William W. Hallo --; Paragogic nun in Biblical Hebrew: hypercorrection as a clue to a lost scribal practice; Stephen A. Kaufman --; Fragment-targum of Onqelos from the Cairo Genizah; Michael L. Klein --; Abraham, the physician: the image of Abraham the patriarch in the genuine hymns of Ephraem Syrus; Tryggve Kronholm --; Ritual purity and political exile: Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, and the events of 586 B.C.E. in a Yemenite folktale; Jacob Lassner --; Semantics of loss: two exercises in Biblical Hebrew lexicography; Baruch A. Levine; Fate, miqreh, and reason: some reflections on Qohelet and biblical thought; Peter Machinist --; Recently discovered word for "clan" in Mari and its Hebrew cognate; Abraham Malamat --; Note de lexicographie hebraique qumranienne (m-sw /yrwq, mhsbym, swt); Emile Puech --; Work concerning divine providence: 4Q413; Elisha Qimron --; Varian scriptural readings in liturgical texts; Nahum M. Sarna --; 4QMysteries: a preliminary edition and translation; Lawrence H. Schiffman --; Poetic structures in the Hebrew sections of the Book of Daniel; Stanislav Segert --; Qumran: some Iranian connections; Shaul Shaked --; Abraham and the eastern kings: on Genesis 14; J.A. Soggin --; New edition and translation of the Questions of Ezra; Michael E. Stone --; Was the biblical saris a eunuch?; Hayim Tadmor --; Calendrical document from Qumran cav 4 (mismarot D, 4Q325); Shemaryahu Talmon --; 'He had not become wrinkled' (Deuteronomy 34:7); Jeffrey H. Tigay --; Paraphrase of Exodus: 4Q422; Emanuel Tov --; Word ndb in the Bible: a study in historical semantics and biblical thought; J.P. Weinberg; Socio-religious framework of the Babylonian witchcraft ceremony Maqlu: some observations on the introductory section of the text, part II; Tzvi Abusch --; More on the Latin personal names ending with -us and -ius in Punic; Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo --; Regelson, Pagis, and Wallach: three poems on the Hebrew language; Arnold J. Band --; Neo-Babylonian tamkaru; M.A. Dandamayev --; Eanna tablet from Uruk in Cleveland; M.J. Geller --; Old Babylonian bawdy ballad; Victor Avigdor Hurowitz --; Some reflections on Amarna politics; William L. Moran --; Pasuri-Dagan and Ini-Tessup's mother; David I. Owen --; "Plural of ecstasy" in Mesopotamian and Babylonian love poetry; Shalom M. Paul --; Water beneath straw: adventures of a prophetic phrase in the Mari archives; Jack M. Sasson --; Some di-til-la tablets in the British Museum; Marcel Sigrist --; Simu gamru: its function and history; Aaron Skaist --; God Athtar in the ancient Near East and his place in KTU 1.6 I; Mark S. Smith; 2 ER -