Books Received — 2009

BOOKS RECEIVED — 2009 Ahituv, Shmuel. Echoes from the Past: Hebrew and Cognate Inscriptions from the Biblical Period. Pp. xiv + 512. Jerusalem: Carta, 2008. Cloth. Angel, Andrew R. Chaos and the Son of Man: The Hebrew Chaoskampf Tradition in the Period 515 BCE to 200 CE. LSTS 60. Pp. xiii + 261. New York: T & T Clark, 2006. Cloth. Angel, Hayyim J. Revealed Texts, Hidden Meanings: Finding the Religious Significance in Tanakh. Pp. xiii + 261. Jersey City, N.J.: KTAV Publishing House, 2009. Cloth. Arnold, Bill T. Genesis. The New Cambridge Bible Commentary. Pp. xxi + 409. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Cloth. Paper. Bacon, Gershon, Daniel Sperber, and Aharon Gaimani, eds. :znkCa ydwhy twdlwtb Myrqjm rmyz (qyra) qjxy dwbkl lbwy rps (Studies on the History of the Jews of Ashkenaz: Presented to Eric Zimmer). Pp. 209. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2008. Cloth. Bamberger, Joseph. znkCab Myynybh ymym hdga lC hytwdlwtl :ydwhyh rwypypah (The Jewish Pope: History of a Medieval Ashkenazic Legend). Thema. Pp. 160. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009. Cloth. Bar-Asher, Moshe. NwCl ynwyow twawbm a Krk .Mymkj NwClb Myrqjm (Studies in Mishnaic Hebrew: Vol. 1: Introductions and Linguistic Investigations). Pp. hk + 394. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2009. Cloth. Bar-Asher, Moshe. qwdqd yqrp b Krk .Mymkj NwClb Myrqjm (Studies in Mishnaic Hebrew. Vol. 2: Grammatical Topics). Pp. hk + 379. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2009. Cloth. Barrick, W. Boyd. 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. LHBOTS 477. Pp. xiii + 193. New York: T & T Clark, 2008. Cloth. Berger, Yitzhak. The Commentary of Rabbi David Kimhi to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary. BJS 345. Pp. ix + 318. Providence, R.I.: Brown University, 2007. Cloth. Berquist, Jon L. and Claudia V. Camp, eds. Constructions of Space II: The Biblical City and Other Imagined Spaces. LHBOTS 490. Pp. ix + 197. New York: T & T Clark, 2008. Cloth. Bibb, Bryan D. Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus. LHBOTS 480. Pp. vii + 182. New York: T & T Clark, 2009. Cloth. Hebrew Studies 50 (2009) 446 Books Received Black, Fiona C. The Artifice of Love: Grotesque Bodies and the Song of Songs. LHBOTS 392. Pp. xiv + 280. New York: T & T Clark, 2009. Cloth. Blenkinsopp, Joseph. Judaism: The First Phase: The Place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Origins of Judaism. Pp. xiv + 262. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2009. Paper. Boccaccini, Gabriele and Giovanni Ibba, eds. Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees. Pp. xxi + 474. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2009. Paper. Boda, Mark and Michael Floyd, eds. Tradition in Transition: Haggai and Zechariah 1–8 in the Trajectory of Hebrew Theology. LHBOTS 475. Pp. xv + 384. New York: T & T Clark, 2008. Cloth. Bosworth, David A. The Story within a Story in Biblical Hebrew Narrative. CBQMS 45. Pp. viii + 200. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2008. Paper. Botta, Alejandro F. The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach. LSTS 64. Pp. xvii + 237. New York: T & T Clark, 2009. Cloth. Branch, Robin Gallaher. Jeroboam’s Wife: The Enduring Contributions of the Old Testament’s Least-Known Women. Pp. xxiii + 270. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2009. Paper. Bridge, Steven L. Getting the Old Testament: What It Meant to Them, What It Means for Us. Pp. xx + 227. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2009. Paper. Clanton, Dan W., Jr. Daring, Disreputable, and Devout: Interpreting the Bible’s Women in the Arts and Music. Pp. x + 198. New York: T & T Clark, 2009. Paper. Cottrill, Amy C. Language, Power, and Identity in the Lament Psalms of the Individual. LHBOTS 493. Pp. vii + 184. New York: T & T Clark, 2008. Cloth. Davis, Ellen F. Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible. Pp. xvii + 234. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Cloth. Paper. Dutcher-Walls, Patricia, ed. The Family in Life and in Death: The Family in Ancient Israel: Sociological and Archaeological Perspectives. LHBOTS 504. Pp. xii + 137. New York: T & T Clark, 2009. Cloth. Echols, Charles L. “Tell Me, O Muse”: The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) in the Light of Heroic Poetry. LHBOTS 487. Pp. xiii + 241. New York...