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Articles Noted Articles Noted 177 Ancient World and Archaeology Bordreuil, P., F. Israel, and D. Pardee. "King's Command and Widow's Plea: Two New Hebrew Ostraca of the Biblical Period." Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 61, No. I (March 1998), pp. 2-13. [Coil. of France, Inst. Etudes Semitiques, F-7523I Paris, France] . Dever, W. G. "Archaeology, Ideology, and the Quest for an Ancient or Biblical Israel." Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 61, No.1 (March 1998), pp. 39-52. [Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA] Lemaire, A. "New Epigraphical Data on the Royal Epoch of Israeli History." Revue des Etudes Juives, Vol. 156, No. 3--4 (July-December 1997), pp. 445--461 (French). [Ecole Prat. Hautes Etud., F-75013 Paris, France] Ulrich, E., P. W. Flint, and P. W. Skehan. "A Scroll Containing Biblical and Apocryphal Psalms: A Preliminary Edition of '4QPS', or '4Q88'."Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 60. No.2 (April 1998), pp. 267-282. [Univ. Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA] Yinger, K. L. "Romans 12:14-21 and Nonretaliation in Second-temple Judaism: Addressing Persecution Within the Community." Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. I (January 1998), pp. 74-96. [Fuller Theol. Seminary, Pasadena, CA 91182, USA] Young, 1. M. "Israelite Literacy: Interpreting the Evidence, Part 1." Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 48, No.2 (April 1998), pp. 239-253. [Univ. of Sydney, Dept. of Semitic Studies, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia] __. "Israelite Literacy: Interpreting the Evidence, Part 2." Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 48, No. 3 (July 1998), pp. 408--422. [Univ. Sydney, Dept. Semitic Studies, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia] Zatelli, E. "The Origin of the Biblical Scapegoat Ritual: The Evidence of Two Eblaite Texts." Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 48, No.2 (April 1998), pp. 254-263. [Univ. of Florence, via Romagnosi 6, 1-50134 Florence, Italy] Art, Music, and Film Nemtsov, Y. and B. Schrodernauenburg. "Music in the Inferno of the Nazi Terror: Jewish Composers in the Third Reich (With an Accompanying Index of Works Composed at the Concentration Camp Theresienstadt by Krasa, Klein, Haas, Schul, and Ullmann)." Acta Musicologica, Vol. 70, No.1 (January-June 1998), pp. 22--44 (German). [N/A] Puca, A. "Steve Reich and Hebrew Cantillation." Musical Quarterly, Vol. 81, No.4 (Winter 1997), pp. 537-555. [New York Univ., New York, NY, USA] Veidlinger,1. "Let's Perform a Miracle: The Soviet Yiddish State Theater in the I920s." Slavic Review, Vol. 57, No.2 (Summer 1998), pp. 372-397. [Georgetown Univ., Dept. of History, Washington, DC 20057, USA] Waterman, S. "Place, Culture and Identity: Summer Music in Upper Galilee." Transactions of the Institute ofBritish Geographers, Vol. 23, No.2 (1998), pp. 253-267. [Univ. of Haifa, Dept. of Geography, IL-31905 Haifa, Israel] 178 SHOFAR Summer 1999 Vol. 17, No.4 Wehrmann, H. "Heine's Views on Music." Acta Musicologica, Vol. 70, No.1 (January-June 1998), pp. 79-107 (German). [N/A] Biblical and Rabbinic Literature Ahrend, M. "An Adaptation ofthe Modalities of the 'Midrash' in the Biblical Exegesis of Rashi and His Disciples." Revue des Etudes Juives, Vol. 156, No. 3-4 (July-December 1997), pp. 275-288 (French). [Bar I1an Univ., IL-52100 Ramat Gan, Israel] Bietenhard, S. "Armies and Their Leaders in the Biblical Books of Kings." Revue Biblique, Vol. 105, No. 4 (October 1998), pp. 492-519 (German). [Auhofstr 8, CH-8051 Zurich, Switzerland] Bleich, 1. D. "Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature-Torah Reading on Fast Days-Life Insurance and the 'Ketubah'." Tradition, Vol. 32, No. I (Fall 1997), pp. 68-80. [N/A] Bockmuehl, M. "Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (Matthew 8:22/Luke 9:60): Jesus and the Halakhah." Journal of Theological Studies, No. 49, Part 2 (October 1998), pp. 553-581. [N/A] Bokser, J. A. "The Rape of Dinah: Gender, Body, Text and the Israelite Nation." CitharaEssays in the Judeo-Christian Tradition, Vol. 37, No.2 (May 1998), pp. 5-14. [Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA] Cohen, M. "Socio-Religious Reform Following the Deposition of Rabbi Gamaliel on the Presidency of the Talmudic Academy in Yabneh." Revue des Etudes Juives, Vol. 156, No. 3-4 (July-December 1997), pp. 481-493 (French). [Univ. Lille 3, F-59653 Villeneuve Dascq, France...

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