Periodicals and Collected Essays

PERIODICALS AND COLLECTED ESSAYS compiled by David P. Wright SOLVING RIDDLES AND UNTYING KNOTS: BIBLICAL, EPIGRAPHIC, AND SEMITIC STUDIES IN HONOR OF JONAS C. GREENFIELD. Ziony Zevit, Seymour Gitin, and Michael Sokoloff, eds. Pp. xxxiv + 668. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1995. Cloth, $49.50. A preface by the editors and a bibliography of Jonas Greenfield's writings accompany three sections of essays. There are also indices of authors and passages. Bible: Jes P. Asmussen, "Some Bird Names in the Judeo-Persian Translations of the Hebrew Bible"; Joshua Blau, "The Monophthongization of Diphthongs as Reflected in the Use of Vowel Letters in the Pentateuch"; Ariel A. Bloch, "The Cedar and the Palm Tree: A Paired Male/Female Symbol in Hebrew and Aramaic"; William M. Brinner, "Some Problems in the Arabic Transmission of Biblical Names"; Magen Broshi and Ada Yardeni, "On netinim and False Prophets"; Andre Caquot, "Grandeur et purete du sacerdoce: Remarques sur Ie Testament de Aqha/ {4Q542)"; Henri Cazelles, "Abiqar, Umman and Amun, and Biblical Wisdom Texts"; Riccardo Contini, "Epistolary Evidence of Address Phenomena in Official and Biblical Aramaic"; Moshe Greenberg, "The Etymology of nidda '(Menstrual) Impurity"'; William W. Hallo, "Slave Release in the Biblical World in Light of a New Text"; Stephen A. Kaufman, "Paragogic nun in Biblical Hebrew: Hypercorrection as a Clue to a Lost Scribal Practice"; Michael L. Klein, "A Fragment-Targum of Onqelos from the Cairo Genizah"; Tryggve Kronholm, "Abraham, the Physician: The Image of Abraham the Patriarch in the Genuine Hymns of Ephraem Syrus"; Jacob Lassner, "Ritual Purity and Political Exile: Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, and the Events of 586 B.C.E. in a Yemenite Folktale"; Baruch A. Levine, "The Semantics of Loss: Two Exercises in Biblical Hebrew Lexicography"; Peter Machinist, "Fate, miqreh, and Reason: Some Reflections on Qohelet and Biblical Thought"; Abraham Malamat, "A Recently Discovered Word for 'Clan' in Mari and Its Hebrew Cognate"; Emile Puech, "Note de lexicographie hebralque qumranienne (m-sw I yrwq, mh'§bym. twO; Elisha Qimron. "A Work concerning Divine Providence: 4Q413"; Nahum M. Sarna, "Variant Scriptural Readings in Liturgical Texts"; Lawrence H. Schiffman, "4QMysteriesa: A Preliminary Edition and Translation"; Stanislav Segert, "Poetic Structures in the Hebrew Sections of the Book of Daniel"; Shaul Shaked, "Qumran: Some Iranian Connections"; J. A. Soggin, Hebrew Studies 37 (1996) 226 Periodicals and Collected Essays "Abraham and the Eastern Kings: On Genesis 14"; Michael E. Stone, "A New Edition and Translation of the Questions of Ezra"; Hayim Tadmor, "Was the Biblical sarIs a Eunuch?"; Shemaryahu Talmon, "A Calendrical Document from Qumran Cave 4 (mi~marot 0, 4Q325)"; Jeffrey H. Tigay, "L' ns Ihh 'He Had Not Become Wrinkled' (Deuteronomy 34:7)"; Emanuel Tov, "A Paraphrase of Exodus: 4Q422"; J. P. Weinberg, "The Word ndb in the Bible: A Study in Historical Semantics and Biblical Thought." Epigraphy: Shmuel Abituv, "Flour and Dough: Gleanings from the Arad Letters"; Walter E. Aufrecht, "A Phoenician Seal"; Klaus Beyer, "The Ammonite Tell Siran Bottle Inscription Reconsidered"; Frank Moore Cross, "Paleography and the Date of the Tell Fabariyeh Bilingual Inscription"; Philippe Gignoux, "The Pahlavi Inscription on Mount Thomas Cross (South India)"; Andre Lemaire, "The Xanthos Trilingual Revisited"; E. Lipinski, "The Inscribed Marble Vessels from Kition"; Philip Mayerson, "Grain Prices in Late Antiquity and the Nature of the Evidence"; Alan Millard, "Latin in First-Century Palestine"; Joseph Naveh, "Phoenician Ostraca from Tel Dor." Semitics: Tzvi Abusch, "The Socio-Religious Framework of the Babylonian Witchcraft Ceremony Maqlu: Some Observations on the Introductory Section of the Text, Part II"; Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo, "More on the Latin Personal Names Ending with -us and -ius in Punic"; Arnold J. Band, "Regelson, Pagis, and Wallach: Three Poems on the Hebrew Language"; M. A. Dandamayev, "The Neo-Babylonian tamkiiru"; M. J. Geller, "An Eanna Tablet from Uruk in Cleveland"; Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, "An Old Babylonian Bawdy Ballad"; William L. Moran, "Some Reflections on Amarna Politics"; David 1. Owen, "PasOri-Dagan and IniTenup 's Mother"; Shalom M. Paul, "The 'Plural of Ecstasy' in Mesopotamian and Babylonian Love Poetry"; Jack M. Sasson, "Water beneath Straw: Adventures of a Prophetic Phrase in the Marl Archives"; Marcel Sigrist, "Some di-til-Ia Tablets in the British Museum"; Aaron Skaist, "Smu gamru: Its Function and History"; Mark S...