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Ancient World and Archaeology

Bock, B. “Physiognomy and Destiny? Or, How Ancient Mesopotamian Man May Have Dealt with a Disaster Foretold through Physiognomical Omens.” Sefarad, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2002), pp. 241–257. [German]
Connan, J. and A. Nissenbaum. “Conifer Tar on the Keel and Hull Planking of the Ma’agan Mikhael Ship.” Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 30, No. 6 (June 2003), pp. 709–719.
Emerton, J. A. “The Value of the Moabite Stone as an Historical Source.” Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 52, No. 4 (2002), pp. 483–492.
Janzen, D. “Politics, Settlement, and Temple Community in Persian-period Yehud.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 2002), pp. 490–510.
Kelle, B. E. “What’s in a Name? Neo-Assyrian Designations for the Northern Kingdom and Their Implications for Israelite History and Biblical Interpretation.” Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 121, No. 4 (Winter 2002), pp. 639–666.
Lieu, J. “Not Hellenes but Philistines? The Maccabees and Josephus Defining the ‘Other.’” Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Fall 2002), pp. 246–263.
Niessen, F. “A Judaeo-Arabic Fragment of a Samaritan Chronicle from the Cairo Geniza.” Journal of Semitic Studies, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Fall 2002), pp. 215–236.
Weiner, S., P. Goldberg, and O. Bar-Yosef. “Three-dimensional Distribution of Minerals in the Sediments of Hayonim Cave, Israel: Diagenetic Processes and Archaeological Implications.” Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 29, No. 11 (November 2002), pp. 1289–1308.

Art, Architecture, Music, and Film

Kadish, S. “Constructing Identity: Anglo-Jewry and Synagogue Architecture.” Architectural History, No. 45 (2002), pp. 386–404.
Kramer, L. “Contesting Wagner: The Lohengrin Prelude and Anti-anti-semitism.” Nineteenth Century Music, Vol. 25, No. 2–3 (Fall-Spring 2001), pp. 190–211.
Reithmuller, A. “The ‘Mendelssohn Problem.’” Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, Vol. 59, No. 3 (2002), pp. 210–221. [German]
Seroussi, E. “New Perspectives on the Music of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogues in Northwestern Europe—Uprooted Roots: Amsterdam and the Early Sephardic Diaspora.” Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2001), pp. 297–309.
Spagnolo, F. “If the Fiddler Falls off the Roof... Italy in the Revival of Klezmer Music.” Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, Vol. 36, No. 1 (2001), pp. 85–129. [Italian] [End Page 203]

Biblical and Rabbinic Literature

Ackerman, S. “The Personal is Political: Covenantal and Affectionate Love (‘aheb, ‘ahaba) in the Hebrew Bible.” Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 52, No. 4 (2002), pp. 437–458.
Barco del Barco, F. J. D. “Text in Context: A Textual-linguistic Approach to Amos 4:7–8.” Sefarad, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2002), pp. 227–240.
Berkowitz, B. A. “Decapitation and the Discourse of Antisyncretism in the Babylonian Talmud.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 70, No. 4 (December 2002), pp. 743–769.
Brueggemann, W. “The ABCs of Old Testament Theology in the United States.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Vol. 114, No. 3 (2002), pp. 412–432.
Dohrmann, N. B. “Analogy, Empire and Political Conflict in a Rabbinic Midrash.” Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Fall 2002), pp. 273–297.
Ehrman, E. J. “Erich Unger’s The Natural Order of Miracles, Vol. 1: The Pentateuch and the Vitalistic Myth.” Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 2 (November 2002), pp.135–152.
———. “Erich Unger’s The Natural Order of Miracles, Vol. 2: The World of Nature and Miracles in the Pentateuch.” Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 2 (November 2002), pp. 153–189.
Fernandez Marcos, N. and E. Fernandez Tejero. “Don Francisco de Quevedo as Hebraist? A Translation of and Commentary on the ‘Lagrimas de Hieremias castellanas.’” Sefarad, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2002), pp. 309–328. [Spanish]
George, M. K. “YHWH’s Own Heart.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 2002), pp. 442–459.
Gillingham, S. “From Liturgy to Prophecy: The Use of Psalmody in Second-temple Judaism.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly. Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 2002), pp. 470–489.
Hoffken, P. “The Significance of the Davidic Dynastic Promise According to Josephus Flavius.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Vol. 114, No. 4 (2002), pp. 577–593. [German]
Kalimi, I. “The Bible and Classical Jewish Bible Explanation: An Interpretational and Religio-historical Study.” Zeitschrift für...