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206 American Jewish Life SHOFAR Spring 2000 Vol. 18, No.3 Articles Noted Vanden Heuvel, W. J. "America and the Holocaust." American Heritage, Vol. 50, No.4 (July-August 1999), pp. 34ff. Ancient World and Archaeology Anati, E. "The Rock Art ofthe Negev Desert." Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 62, NO.1 (March 1999), pp. 22-34. Begg, C. "David's Conquests and Officials According to Josephus." Athenaeum-Studi Periodici di Letteratura e Storia dell Antichita, Vol. 87, No.1 (1999), pp. 169-190. Brewer, D. I. "Jewish Women Divorcing Their Husbands in Early Judaism: The Background to 'Papyrus Se'elim 13'." Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 92, No.3 (July 1999), pp. 349-357. Conrad, D. "Hobby or Academics? Biblical Archaeology and its Position in the So-called Canon . ofTheological Scholarship." Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palastina-Vereins, Vol. 115, No. I (1999), pp. I-II [German]. Finkelstein, I. "State Formation in Israel and Judah: A Contrast in Context, a Contrast in Trajectory." [Review] Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 62, No.1 (March 1999), pp. 35-52. Fischer, A. and W. P. McCray. "Glass Production Activities as Practised at Sepphoris, Israel (37 BC-AD 1516)." Journal ofArchaeological Science, Vol. 26, NO.8 (August 1999), pp. 893-905. Galimberti, A. "The 'Commentarii' of L. Vitelliius and the Roman Source of Book 18 of the 'Antichita Giudaiche' ofFlavius Josephus." Historia-Zeitschriftfur Alte Geschichte, Vol. 48, No.2 (1999), pp. 224-234 [Italian]. Miroschedji, P. D. "Yarmuth: the Dawn of City-states in Southern Canaan." Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 62. No.1 (March 1999), pp. 2-19. Art, Music, and Film Kaplan, Y. "For Whom Did Emanuel De Witte Paint His Three Pictures of the Sephardic Synagogue in Amsterdam?" Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. 32, No.2 (1998), pp. 133-154. Biblical and Rabbinic Literature Bare, B. "On the Symbolic Value of Biblical Chronology from Adam to the Death of Moses: 'Genesis' and 'Exodus' in Light of Data from the 'Book of Jubilees'-An Interpretive Essay." Laval Theologique et Philosophique, Vol. 55, No.2 (June 1999), pp. 215-226 [French]. Articles Noted 207 Bowen, N. R. "The Daughters of your People: Female Prophets in Ezekiel 13: 17-23." Journal ofBiblical Literature, Vol. 118, No.3 (Fall 1999), pp. 417-433. Langer, R. "Revisiting Early Rabbinic Liturgy: The Recent Contributions of Ezra Fleischer." [Review] Prooftexts: A Journal ofJewish Literary History, Vol. 19, No.2 (May 1999), pp. 179-194. Levin, C. "The Message of Justification in the Old Testament: A Hermeneutical Key to the Concept ofNatural Order and Divine Righteousness in the Hebrew Scriptures." Zeitschrift fur Theologie und Kirche, Vol. 96, No.2 (June 1999), pp. 161-176. [German] Shedinger, R. F. "Did Tatian Use the 'Old Testament Peshitta'? A Response to Jan Joosten." Novum Testamentum, Vol. 41, No.3 (July 1999), pp. 265-279. Sommer, B. D. "Revelation at Sinai in the Hebrew Bible and in Jewish Theology." Journal of Religion, Vol. 79, No.3 (July 1999), pp. 422-451. Steiner, R. C. "Incomplete Circumcision in Egypt and Edom: 'Jeremiah' (9:24-25) in the Light ofJosephus and Jonckheere." Journal ofBiblical Literature, Vol. 118, No.3 (Fall 1999), pp. 497-505. Biography, Autobiography, Memoirs, Diaries Weiland, S. "Biography, Rhetoric, and Intellectual Careers: Writing the Life ofHannah Arendt." Biography-An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Vol. 22, No.3 (Summer 1999), pp. 370-398. Education and Teaching Maitles, H. and P. Cowan. "Teaching the Holocaust in Primary Schools in Scotland: Modes, Methodology and Content." Educational Review, Vol. 51, NO.3 (November 1999), pp. 263-271. Shechtman, Z. and A. Wirzberger. "Needs and Preferred Style of Supervision among Israeli School Counselors at Different Stages ofProfessional Development." Journal ofCounseling & Development, Vol. 77, No.4 (Fall 1999), pp. 456-464. History and Politics Cohen, J. M. "Donation as a Social Phenomenon: Synagogue Textiles of the Ashkenazi Community of Amsterdam in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. 32, No.1 (1998), pp. 24-42. Holocaust Assayag, J. "Wittgenstein versus Hitler: The Jew ofLinz." Homme, No. 152 (October -December 1999), pp. 181-190 [French]. Dayan Rosenman, A. "Vercors and the Status of French Jews during the Nazi Occupation: A Militant Rebellion." Temps Modernes, Vol. 54, No. 604 (May-July 1999), pp. 131-151. [French] Laqueur, W...

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