Hebrew Studies : a journal devoted to Hebrew
Language and Literature
Hebrew Studies : a journal devoted
to Hebrew Language and Literature / published by The National Association of Professors of Hebrew in Institutions
of Higher Learning.
vol. 55 (2014)
vol. 54 (2013)
vol. 53 (2012)
vol. 52 (2011)
Hebrew
studies, volume 52 (2011) / Marvin A. Sweeney, Editor ﹡ Smadar Shiffman,
Associate Editor ﹡ Pamela Barmash and Shachar Pinsker, Book Review Editors
Moshe Bar-Asher:
From oral transmission to written transmission: concerning
the meaning of some orthographic forms in the manuscripts of the Mishnah
and of Rabbinic literature (pp. 201-212)
Andrew H. Bartelt: "The Cambridge Introduction to Biblical Hebrew",
by Brian L. Webster (pp. 411-413)
Brian L. Webster: "A Basic introduction to Biblical Hebrew", by Jo Ann
Hackett (pp. 413-416)
Scott N. Callaham: "The function of the tautological infinitive in classical
Biblical Hebrew", by Yoo-ki Kim (pp. 416-419)
Paul Korchin: "Word order in the Biblical Hebrew finite clause", by
Adina Moshavi (pp. 419-424)
Jason A. Bembry: "BMH as body language: a lexical and iconographical
study of the word BMH when not a reference to cultic phenomena
in Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew", by W. Boyd Barrick.
(pp. 424-428)
Soo J. Kim: "The Bible as a human witness to divine revelation: hearing
the word of God through historically dissimilar traditions", edited by
Randall Heskett and Brian Irwin (pp. 428-431)
Steed V. Davidson: "``Thus says the Lord`` : essays on the Former and
Later Prophets in honor of Robert R. Wilson", edited by John J. Ahn and
Stephen L. Cook (pp. 432-434)
Anthony R. Petterson: "The fate of justice and righteousness during
David’s reign : narrative ethics and rereading the court history according
to 2 Samuel 8: 15b-20:26", by Richard G. Smith (pp. 434-437)
Tyler Mayfield: "Isaiah after exile : the author of third Isaiah as
reader and redactor of the book", by Jacob Stromberg (pp.
437-439)
Carleen Mandolfo: "In defense of divine justice: an intertextual approach
to the Book of Jonah", by Catherine L. Muldoon (pp. 439-441)
Jin K. Hwang: "Judaism of the Second Temple period, vol. 2: The Jewish
sages and their literature", by David Flusser (pp. 441-443)
Pamela Barmash: "The Aramaic and Egyptian legal traditions at Elephantine:
an Egyptological approach", by Alejandro F. Botta (pp. 443-
445)
Elizabeth Goldstein: "The Dead Sea Scrolls on sexuality: attitudes towards
sexuality in sectarian and related literature at Qumran", by William Loader
(pp. 445-447)
Jerome A. Lund: "Second Baruch: a critical edition of the Syriac text
with Greek and Latin fragments, English translation, introduction, and concordances",
by Daniel M. Gurtner (pp. 448-450)
Joel Gereboff: "Rabbinic texts and the history of Late-Roman Palestine",
edited by Martin Goodman and Philip Alexander (pp. 450-453)
Chanoch Gamliel: "Rashi - linguist despite himself : a study of the
linguistic dimension of Rabbi Solomon Yishaqi’s Commentary on Deuteronomy",
by Jonathan Kearney (pp. 453-457)
Haya S. Feig: "הספרות כמעבדה מוסרית : קריאה במבחר
יצירות בפרוזה העברית של המאה העשרים", by Adia
Mendelson-Maoz (pp. 457-458)
Tamar S. Drukker: החופש ליצור : האמנית והעולם ביצירתה
של רות אלמוג by Rachel Felday
Brenner (pp. 459-461)
Periodicals and collected essays / compiled by Pamela Barmash, Shachar
Pinsker, and Rick Painter (pp. 463-474)
Books received - 2011 (pp. 475-480)
Information for contributors (p. 481)
National Association of Professors of Hebrew in American Institutions
of Higher Learning (p. 483)
Hebrew
studies, volume 53 (2012) / Serge Frolov, Editor ﹡ Smadar Shiffman,
Associate Editor ﹡ Pamela Barmash and Shachar Pinsker, Book Review Editors ﹡ Rick Painter and Rebekah Johnston, Managing Editors
Laura Wiseman: Craving pure essence: Portret = פורטרט [“Portrait”] by
Dahlia Ravikovitch (pp. 317-333)
Yochai Oppenheimer: Representation of space in Mizrahi
fiction (pp. 335-364)
Review Essay
Barry Dov Walfish: Exploring the place of the Book of Chronicles in the
Jewish tradition <a review of "The retelling of Chronicles in Jewish
tradition and literature: a historical journey", by Isaac Kalimi ; "The commentary of Rabbi David Kimhi to Chronicles:
a translation with Introduction and supercommentary", By Yitzhak Berger ; and, הפירוש המיוחס לרש”י לספר דברי הימים
(The commentary on Chronicles attributed to Rashi), by Eran Viezel> (pp. 365-371)
Reviews
David A. Bosworth: "The formation of the Hebrew Bible: a new reconstruction",
by David M. Carr (pp. 373-375)
Janelle Peters: "Gender issues in ancient and Reformation translations of Genesis 1-4",
by Helen Kraus (pp. 375-377)
Richard G. Smith: "Untamable texts: literary studies and narrative theory in the Books of Samuel",
by Greger Andersson (pp. 377-385)
Matthew Goff: "Understanding Wisdom literature: conflict and dissonance in the Hebrew
text", by David Penchansky (pp. 386-388)
Na’ama Pat-El: "The verbal system of the Aramaic of Daniel: an explanation in the
context of grammaticalization", by Tarsee Li (pp. 388-391)
Robert J. V. Hiebert: "On conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch: a study of translation
syntax", by Anwar Tjen (pp. 391-393)
W. Edward Glenny: "The Greek of the Septuagint: a supplemental lexicon", by
Gary Alan Chamberlain (pp. 394-396)
April D. Westbrook: "Apocalypse against Empire: theologies of Resistance in
early Judaism", by Anathea E. Portier-Young (pp. 396-399)
Alexander A. Di Lella: "Wisdom’s root revealed: Ben Sira and the Election of Israel",
by Greg Schmidt Goering (pp. 399-401)
Hanna Tervanotko: The Aramaic astronomical book (4Q208-4Q211) from Qumran: text,
translation, and commentary", by Henryk Drawnel (pp. 401-404)
Marilyn C. Kincaid: "The Jewish Jesus: revelation, reflection, reclamation",
edited by Zev Garber (pp. 404-407)
Yakir Paz: "Food and identity in early Rabbinic Judaism", by Jordan D. Rosenblum
(pp. 408-410)
Adam H. Becker: "The Talmud in its Iranian context", edited by Carol Bakhos and M. Rahim Shayegan
(pp. 410-412)
Wendy Zierler: "A feminist commentary on the Babylonian Talmud: introduction and
studies", edited by Tal Ilan, Tamara Or, Dorothea M. Salzer, Christiane Steuer, and Irina Wandrey
(pp. 413-416)
Ahouva Shulman: "גנזי חז״ל בספרות הקראית בימי הביניים" (Rabbinic excerpts in
medieval Karaite literature), by Ofra Tirosh-Becker (pp. 416-420)
Tirza Lemberger: "Haskalah and beyond: the reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the
emergence of Haskalah Judaism", by Moshe Pelli
(pp. 420-422)
Rivka Bliboim: "שפה ומשמעות: סיפור הולדתה ופריחתה של תורת המשמעים" (Language
and meaning: the birth and growth of cognitive semantics), by Tamar Sovran
(pp. 422-425)
Tamar Merin: "Literary passports: the making of modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe",
by Shachar M. Pinsker (pp. 425-428)
Ranen Omer-Sherman: "A new sound in Hebrew poetry: poetics, politics, accent",
by Miryam Segal. (pp. 428-431)
Zev Garber: "The shadow of death: letters in flames", by Moshe Pelli
(pp. 432-433)
Or Rogovin: ."סלמנדרה: מיתוס והיסטוריה בכתבי ק. צטניק" (Salamandra:
myth and history in Katzetnik's writings), by Yechiel Szeintuch,
edited by Carrie Friedman-Cohen (pp. 434-436)
Periodicals and collected essays / compiled by Pamela Barmash, Shachar Pinsker, and Rick Painter
(pp. 437-451)
Books Received - 2012 (pp. 453-456)
Information for contributors (pp.457-461)
National Association of Professors of Hebrew in American Institutions of Higher Learning
(p. 462)
Membership information (p. 463)
Hebrew
studies, volume 54 (2013) / Serge Frolov, Editor ﹡ Smadar Shiffman,
Associate Editor ﹡ Pamela Barmash and Shachar Pinsker, Book Review Editors ﹡ Rick Painter, Managing Editor
Table of contents:
Alexander Andrason: Future values of the Qatal and their conceptual and diachronic logic : How to chain future senses of the
Qatal to the core of its semantic network (pp. 7-38)
Rivka Halevy: Understanding the locative alternation in Swarm-Drip verbs : evidence from Hebrew (pp. 39-47)
Kristopher A. Lyle: A new methodology for ascertaining the semantic
potential of Biblical Hebrew prepositions (pp. 49-67)
Max Rogland: Two philological notes on Haggai 2:15-19 (pp.
69-77)
David Emanuel: The diachronic order of Psalms 134-136
(pp. 79-92)
Victor Avigdor Hurowitz: Unsavory personalities in the Book of
Proverbs in light of Mesopotamian writings
(pp. 93-106)
Marvin A. Sweeney: Dimensions of the Shekhinah: The meaning
of the Shiur qomah in Jewish mysticism, liyurgy, and
Rabbinic thought (pp. 107-120)
Aryeh Wineman: Hasidic myth on the death of Moses and its
metamorphosis (pp. 121-132)
Lily Kahn: Grammatical gender in the early modern Hasidic Hebrew
tale (pp. 133-165)
Aharon Gaimani: Letters of charity from Yemen (pp.
167-202)
Chaya Shacham: Clay in the potter's hand:
The Song of Songs and the case of Lea Goldberg (pp. 203-222)
Bruria Margolin: Yihud sentences and their contribution
to information structure in modern Hebrew
(pp. 223-242)
Tamar Wolf-Monzon: Ya'acov Orland's ballad
The Day of Tel Faher : reality, myth, poetry (pp. 243-263)
Yehudit Henshke: Sara Shilo's No gnomes
will appear : a linguistic analysis (pp. 265-284)
Alan Mintz: David Grossman's To the End
of the Land : a symposium (pp. 285-286)
Nitza Ben-Dov: Voices of war, illness, and
dream
(pp. 287-298)
Todd Hasak-Lowy: Grossman after 2000: an
ambivalent complaint in nine parts (pp. 299-309)
Anne Golomb Hoffman: Toward an ethics embodiment (pp. 311-318)
Iris Milner: Sacrifice and redemption in To the End of the Land (pp. 319-334)
Alan Mintz: Ora's tale: the narrative ambitions of
David Grossman's To the End of the Land (pp. 335-344)
Shimrit Peled: Nationalism and maternal sacrifice in To the
End of the Land (pp. 345-357)
Smadar Shiffman: The indelible stamp of reality on the subject:
David Grossman's To the End of the Land
(pp. 359-371)
Review Essays
Serge Frolov: Jews, Greeks, and dilettantes <a review of
"Argonauts of the desert : structural analysis of the Hebrew Bible", by Philippe Wajdenbaum> (pp. 373-385)
Na'ama Pat-El and Aren Wilson-Wright: "Features of archaic Biblical Hebrew and the linguistic dating debate
<A review of "Dating archaic Biblical poetry: Critique of the linguistic arguments", by Robyn C. Vern>. (pp.
387-410)
Reviews
Jennie Grillo: "Ancient
Judaism: new visions and views", by Michael E.
Stone (pp. 411-413)
Isaac Gottlieb: "ליישב פשוטו של מקרא:
אסופת מחקרים בפרשנות המקרא", edited by Sara Japhet
and Eran Viezel (pp. 413-419)
K. L. Noll: "Jeroboam's royal drama", by Keith
Bodner (pp. 419-421)
Paul Korchin: "Biblical metaphor
reconsidered: a cognitive approach to poetic prophecy in Jeremiah 1-24",
by Job Y. Jindo (pp. 421-425)
Michael D. Matlock: "Exile and restoration
revisited: essays on the Babylonian and Persian periods in memory of
Peter R. Ackroyd", edited by Gary N. Knoppers, Lester L. Grabbe, and
Deirdre Fulton
(pp. 425-428)
Richard J. Bautch: "Visions and eschatology: a
socio-historical analysis of Zechariah 1-6", by Antonios Finitsis (pp. 428-431)
Eric Lawee: "The
challenge of received tradition: dilemmas of interpretation in Radak's
Biblical commentaries", by Naomi Grunhaus (pp. 431-433)
Periodicals and collected essays / compiled by Pamela Barmash, Shachar
Pinsker, and Rick Painter (pp. 437-447)
Books received - 2013 (pp. 449-452)
Information for contributors (p. 453-457)
Hebrew
studies, volume 55 (2014) / Serge Frolov, Editor ﹡ Smadar Shiffman,
Associate Editor ﹡ Pamela Barmash and Shachar Pinsker, Book Review Editors ﹡ Rick Painter, Managing Editor
Table of contents:
John Huehnergard and Aren Wilson-Wright: A compound etymology
for Biblical Hebrew זולתי 'Except' (pp. 7-17)
Yohan Hwang: Eschatology in Genesis 15:6 (pp. 19-41)
Brian Bompiani: Style switching in the Jacob and Laban narratives (pp. 43-57)
Matthew Michael: Twilight of the Gods: Hidden polemics in Joshua
10:12-14 (pp.
59-72)
Sung Jin Park: "Pointing to the accents in the scroll": Functional
development of the Masoretic accents in the Hebrew Bible
(pp. 73-88)
Joseph Dana: Moshe Ibn Ezra and his ars poetica: imitation and
innovation according to Kitab al-Muhadara val-Mudhakara
(pp. 89-116)
Adel Shakour: Relative clauses in Hebrew translation of Maimonides'
Treatise on Asthma (pp. 117-127)
Michal Ephratt: A model is born: presenting the derivation in Modern
Hebrew (pp. 129-170)
Nimrod Shatil: Noun patterns and their vitality in Modern Hebrew (pp. 171-203)
Dalia Cohen-Gross and Noga Ilani: Hebrew plene spelling
in Israeli books: Does it follow the rules? (pp.
205-218)
Maria Maddalena Colasuonno: Notes on sociolinguistic terminology in
Modern Hebrew: Morpho-syntactic and lexical devices for the creation of
a technolect (pp. 219-251)
Rima Shikhmanter: A Moment of Rebirth: Nathan
Alterman's poetry for children
(pp. 253-270)
Haim O. Rechnitzer: From Honolulu to Tel Aviv via Mt. Gilboa : the
rise and fall of Shlonsky's Messianic Halutz (pp. 271-294)
Shahar Bram: Wandering around the library :
on the joint book of poet Harold Schimmel and
photographer Avigail Schimmel (pp. 305-327)
Dorit Lemberger: Contacts and discontinuities : Changing aspects in
Shimon Adaf's work (pp. 329-354)
Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen: The Non-chosen body : poetics and
politics in Alona Kimhi's Lily la
Tigresse (pp. 355-377)
Review Essays
John A. Cook: Putting old wine in new wineskins : a new synthesis of
the verbal system of Biblical Hebrew that is neither new nor a coherent
synthesis <A review The Verbal system of
Biblical Hebrew: a new synthesis elaborated on the basis of classical
prose, by Jan Joosten> (pp. 379-388)
Tania Notarius: Historical linguistics is not text-dating <A review of
Early Biblical Hebrew, late Biblical Hebrew, and linguistic
variability: a sociolinguistic evaluation of the linguistic dating of
Biblical texts, by Dong-Hyuk Kim> (pp. 389-397)
Elizabeth Robar: An old argument in new garb : John Cook on aspect
and Biblical Hebrew
<A review of Time and the Biblical Hebrew verb :
the expression of tense, aspect, and modality in Biblical Hebrew, by
John A. Cook> (pp.
399-409)
Ben Boeckel: Doing form criticism with slippery genres : a
review of treaty, law and covenant <A review of
Treaty, law and covenant in the Ancient Near East, by Kenneth A.
Kitchen and J. N. Lawrence> (pp. 411-430)
Serge Frolov: Halfway to Noth: taking stock of current research
on the formation of Genesis-Kings <A review of
Pentateuch, Hexateuch, or Enneateuch? Identifying literary works in
Genesis through Kings, edited by Thomas B. Dozemam, Thomas Römer,
and Konrad Schmid> (pp. 431-443)
Reviews
Rachel Hallote: "The lives of ordinary people in ancient
Israel: where archaeology and the Bible intersect", by William G. Dever (pp. 445-448)
Sandra Jacobs: "Tanak: a theological and critical introduction to
the Jewish Bible", by Marvin A. Sweeney (pp. 448-450)
Timothy J. Sandoval: "The Book of Genesis: a biography", by Ronald
Hendel (pp. 450-453)
Anthony J. Frendo: "Josiah's reform and the dynamics of
defilement: Israelite rites of violence and the making of a Biblical
text", by Lauren A. S. Monroe (pp. 453-455)
Christine Mitchell: "Isaiah 40-66: Translation and commentary", by
Shalom M. Paul
(pp. 455-457)
Michael Rosenberg: "A Companion to Biblical interpretation in
early Judaism", edited by Matthias Henze (pp. 457-461)
Karen Grumberg: "Futurity: contemporary
literature and the quest for the past", by Amir Eshel (pp. 461-464)
Tirza Lemberger: "עטרה ליושנה: המאבק ליצירת יהדות
ההשכלה", by Moshe Pelli (pp. 464-466)
Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky: "הקולך זה הקול:
היבטים רטוריים ודיאלוגיים בפיוטי הגאולה של ר' שלמה אבן גבירול",
by Ariel Zinder (pp. 467-469)
Eric Zakim: "Place and ideology in contemporary Hebrew
literature", by Karen Grumberg
(pp. 469-472)
Tamar S. Drukker: "הספרות והחיים : פואטיקה
ואידיאולוגיה בספרות העברית החדשה: למנחם ברינקר,
ביובלו", edited by Iris Parush, Hamutal
Tsamir and Hanna Soker-Schwager (pp. 472-474)
Haya S. Feig: "Israeli cinema: identities in motion", edited by
Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg (pp. 474-476)
Adriana X. Jacobs: "A Poetics of trauma: the work of
Dahlia Ravikovitch", by Ilana Szobel
(pp. 476-479)
Ranen Omer-Sherman: "Agnon's Moonstruck lovers: the Song of
Songs in Israeli culture", by Ilana Pardes (pp.
479-482)
