Research Catalog

Title

Solving riddles and untying knots : biblical, epigraphic, and Semitic studies in honor of Jonas C. Greenfield / edited by Ziony Zevit, Seymour Gitin, Michael Sokoloff.

Publication

Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 1995.

Supplementary Content

• Table of contents
• Aufsatznachweise im Index theologicus

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Details

Additional Authors

• Greenfield, Jonas C. (Jonas Carl), 1926-1995.
• Zevit, Ziony.
• Gitin, Seymour.
• Sokoloff, Michael.

Description

xxxiv, 668 p. : ill.; 24 cm

Alternative Title

• ‏חיים ליונה
• Ḥayim le-Yonah

Subject

• Greenfield, Jonas C. 1926-1995
• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Dead Sea scrolls
• Inscriptions, Semitic
• Semitic philology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Bible. Some bird names in the Judeo-Persian translations of the Hebrew Bible / Jes P. Asmussen -- Monophthongization of diphthongs as reflected in the use of vowel letters in the Pentateuch / Joshua Blau -- Cedar and the palm tree: a paired male/female symbol in Hebrew and Aramaic / Ariel A. Bloch -- Some problems in the Arabic transmission of biblical names / William M. Brinner -- On netinim and false prophets / Magen Broshi, Ada Yardeni -- Grandeur et pureté du sacerdoce: remarques sur le Testament de Qahat (4Q542) / André Caquot -- Aḥiqar, Ummân and Amun, and biblical wisdom texts / Henri Cazelles -- Epistolary evidence of address phenomena in official and Biblical Aramaic / Riccardo Contini -- Etymology of 'menstrual impurity' / Moshe Greenberg -- Slave release in the biblical world in light of a new text / William W. Hallo -- Paragogic nun in Biblical Hebrew: hypercorrection as a clue to a lost scribal practice / Stephen A. Kaufman -- Fragment-targum of Onqelos from the Cairo Genizah / Michael L. Klein -- Abraham, the physician: the image of Abraham the patriarch in the genuine hymns of Ephraem Syrus / Tryggve Kronholm -- Ritual purity and political exile: Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, and the events of 586 B.C.E. in a Yemenite folktale / Jacob Lassner -- Semantics of loss: two exercises in Biblical Hebrew lexicography / Baruch A. Levine
• Fate, miqreh, and reason: some reflections on Qohelet and biblical thought / Peter Machinist -- Recently discovered word for "clan" in Mari and its Hebrew cognate / Abraham Malamat -- Note de lexicographie hébraïque qumrânienne (m-ṣw /yrwq, mḥšbym, śwṭ) / Émile Puech -- Work concerning divine providence: 4Q413 / Elisha Qimron -- Varian scriptural readings in liturgical texts / Nahum M. Sarna -- 4QMysteries: a preliminary edition and translation / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Poetic structures in the Hebrew sections of the Book of Daniel / Stanislav Segert -- Qumran: some Iranian connections / Shaul Shaked -- Abraham and the eastern kings: on Genesis 14 / J.A. Soggin -- New edition and translation of the Questions of Ezra / Michael E. Stone -- Was the biblical sārîs a eunuch? / Hayim Tadmor -- Calendrical document from Qumran cav 4 (mišmarot D, 4Q325) / Shemaryahu Talmon -- 'He had not become wrinkled' (Deuteronomy 34:7) / Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Paraphrase of Exodus: 4Q422 / Emanuel Tov -- Word ndb in the Bible: a study in historical semantics and biblical thought / J.P. Weinberg
• Semitics. Socio-religious framework of the Babylonian witchcraft ceremony Maqlû: some observations on the introductory section of the text, part II / Tzvi Abusch -- More on the Latin personal names ending with -us and -ius in Punic / Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo -- Regelson, Pagis, and Wallach: three poems on the Hebrew language / Arnold J. Band -- Neo-Babylonian tamkārū / M.A. Dandamayev -- Eanna tablet from Uruk in Cleveland / M.J. Geller -- Old Babylonian bawdy ballad / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- Some reflections on Amarna politics / William L. Moran -- Pasūri-Dagan and Ini-Teššup's mother / David I. Owen -- "Plural of ecstasy" in Mesopotamian and Babylonian love poetry / Shalom M. Paul -- Water beneath straw: adventures of a prophetic phrase in the Mari archives / Jack M. Sasson -- Some di-til-la tablets in the British Museum / Marcel Sigrist -- Šīmu gamru: its function and history / Aaron Skaist -- God Athtar in the ancient Near East and his place in KTU 1.6 I / Mark S. Smith.

Call Number

*PBN (Greenfield, J.C.) 96-904

ISBN

• 0931464935
• 9780931464935

LCCN

95016310

OCLC

32392922

Title

Solving riddles and untying knots : biblical, epigraphic, and Semitic studies in honor of Jonas C. Greenfield / edited by Ziony Zevit, Seymour Gitin, Michael Sokoloff.

Imprint

Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 1995.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Connect to:

Table of contents

Aufsatznachweise im Index theologicus

Added Author

Greenfield, Jonas C. (Jonas Carl), 1926-1995.

Zevit, Ziony.

Gitin, Seymour.

Sokoloff, Michael.

Note

At head of title: Ḥayim le-Yonah

Alternate Script for Note

חיים ליונה

Research Call Number

*PBN (Greenfield, J.C.) 96-904