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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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.