Books Received — 2018

Barker, James W., Anthony Le Donne, and Joel N. Lohr, eds. Found in Translation: Essays on Jewish Biblical Translation in Honor of Leonard J. Greenspoon. Pp. xxiii + 303. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2018. Cloth, $75.00.

Biale, David, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv, and Marcin Wodziński. Hasidism: A New History. Pp. xi + 875. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Cloth, $45.00.

Blyth, Caroline. Reimagining Delilah's Afterlives as Femme Fatale: The Lost Seduction. LHBOTS 652. Pp. x + 198. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Cloth, $114.00.

Brenner, Michael. In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea. Pp. xv + 372. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Cloth, $29.95.

Brenner-Idan, Athalya, Gale A. Yee, and Archie C. C. Lee, eds. The Five Scrolls. Texts@Contexts 6. Pp. xiv + 230. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Cloth, $114.00.

DeLapp, Nevada Levi. Theophanic "Type-Scenes" in the Pentateuch: Visions of YHWH. LHBOTS 660. Pp. xii + 186. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Cloth, $114.00.

Forti, Tova L. "Like a Lone Bird on a Roof": Animal Imagery and the Structure of Psalms. CrStHB 10. Pp. vii + 118. University Park: Eisenbrauns, 2018. Paper, $39.95.

Goodman, Martin. A History of Judaism. Pp. xxix + 623. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Cloth, $39.95.

Heller, Roy L. The Characters of Elijah and Elisha and the Deuteronomic Evaluation of Prophecy: Miracles and Manipulation. Pp. xii + 250. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Cloth, $114.00.

Horowitz, Wayne, Takayoshi Oshima, and Seth L. Sanders. Cuneiform in Canaan: The Next Generation. 2nd ed. Pp. xii + 248. University Park: Eisenbrauns, 2018. Cloth, $59.95.

Imes, Carmen Joy. Bearing Yhwh's Name at Sinai: A Reexamination of the Name Command of the Decalogue. BBRSup 19. Pp. xx + 227. University Park: Eisenbrauns, 2018. Cloth, $64.95.

Morales, Nelson R. Poor and Rich in James: A Relevance Theory Approach to James's Use of the Old Testament. BBRSup 20. Pp. xvi + 283. University Park: Eisenbrauns, 2018. Cloth, $59.95.

Ophir, Adi and Ishay Rosen-Zvi. Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile. Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions. Pp. viii + 333. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cloth, $99.00.

Osborne, William R. Trees and Kings: A Comparative Analysis of Tree Imagery in Israel's Prophetic Tradition and the Ancient Near East. BBRSup 18. Pp. xv + 208. University Park: Eisenbrauns, 2018. Cloth, $39.50.

Pioske, Daniel D. Memory in a Time of Prose: Studies in Epistemology, Hebrew Scribalism, and the Biblical Past. Pp. xiv + 281. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cloth, $99.00.

Powell, Stephanie Day. Narrative Desire and the Book of Ruth. LHBOTS 662. Pp. xii + 201. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Cloth, $114.00.

Quick, Laura. Deuteronomy 28 and the Aramaic Curse Tradition. Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs. Pp. xiv + 214. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cloth, $85.00.

Roskies, David G. (Jewspeak: Essays on Yiddish Literature, Language and Culture). Pp. 167. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2018. Paper.

Schwartz, Howard. A Palace of Pearls: The Stories of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. Pp. xxiii + 424. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cloth, $34.95.

Southwood, Katherine E. and Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor, eds. Women and Exilic Identity in the Hebrew Bible. LHBOTS 631. Pp. x + 179. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Cloth, $114.00.

Stern, Karen B. Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity. Pp. xxiii + 283. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Cloth, $35.00.

van der Merwe, Christo H. J., Jacobus A. Naudé, and Jan H. Kroeze, A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar. 2nd ed. Pp. xxxiv + 605. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Paper, $47.95.

Viola, Lynne. Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. Pp. xxi + 268. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cloth, $29.95.

Wajsberg, Eljakim H. (Babylonian Aramaic and the Talmudic Text Traditions). Studies in Language 21. Pp. xxi + 477. Jerusalem: The Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2018. Cloth, $35.00.

Wimpfheimer, Barry Scott. The Talmud: A Biography. Lives of Great Religious Books. Pp. xiii + 299. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Cloth, $26.95.