Homage to Shmuel: Studies in the World of the Bible.

HOMAGE TO SHMUEL: STUDIES IN THE WORLD OF THE BIBLE [Hebrew]. Edited by Zipora Talshir, Shamir Yona, and Daniel Sivan. Pp. 436. Beer-Sheba: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2001. Cloth, NIS 134.55.

Shmuel Ahituv is professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheba. He is a versatile scholar of the Bible and ancient Israelite history who has written particularly on the relations between ancient Palestine and Egypt and has also made important contributions to Bible study in Israel in a variety of editorial capacities. This volume honors his work by a rich array of essays.

Amnon Altman, "Concerning the Judgment of the Refugee who Seeks Sustenance in the International Law in the Ancient Near East," pp. 3-20; Yaira Amit, "Gradation as a Rhetorical Device in Biblical Literature," pp. 21-48; Israel Gutmann, "Menasseh--the Worst of All the Kings of Judah?" pp. 49-66; Gershon Galil, "The Aramaic Royal Inscription from Tel Dan," pp. 67-74; David Gilead, "The Double Ending of the Book of Joshua: Editorial Considerations," pp. 75-80; Meir Gruber, "'In the Image of God': What is It?" pp. 81-87; Eliezer (Ed) Greenstein, "The Lament Over City and Sanctuary in Early Israelite Literature," pp. 88-97; Aaron Demsky, "The Conflict Between Samuel and Saul and the Question of the Judicial Authority of the King," pp. 98-111; Yair Hofmann, "The Pericope of the Fasts in the Book of Zechariah 7:1-6, 18-19 and the Shaping of the National Memory," pp. 112-145; Avigdor Victor Hurowitz, "Thirty (?) in Counsel and Knowledge," pp. 146-160; Michael Helzer, "Two Early West Semitic Seals," pp. 161-162; Menahem Haran, "The Prophet Isaiah's Going 'Naked and Barefoot for Three Years' Isaiah 20," pp. 163-166; Joel Weinberg, "The Phenomenon of 'Authorship' in the Literature of the Ancient Near East and the Bible," pp. 167-177; Moshe Weinfeld, "The Meaning of the Political 'Covenant of Friendship' in Israel and the Ancient Near East," pp. 178-183; Yair Zakovitch, "'By the Rivers of Babylon': Psalm 137--Memory in the Shadow of Trauma," pp. 184-204; Luba Harlap, "The Concept of the Gender of Nouns in Biblical Hebrew in the Middle Ages," pp. 205-215; Zipporah and David Talshir, "The Apocryphal Literature: Retroversion or Translation?" pp. 216-233; Shamir Yonah, "Who's Afraid of Repetitions? Concerning One of the Patterns of Repetition in Biblical Rhetoric," pp. 234-244; Haim Cohen and Jacob Klein, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and fan in the Bible and their Parallels--Ugaritic hrmtt and Akkadian niggalu," pp. 245-268; Mordecai Cogan, "'Because there Was Found in Him Something Pleasing to the Lord God of Israel' I Kgs 14:13: The Evolution of Interpretations," pp. 269-272; Rimon Kasher, "The 'Private' Prophecies in the Book of Ezekiel: Their Scope, Function and Relation to the 'Public' Prophecies," pp. 273-282; Abraham Malamat, "'Distant Land' as A Specific Category in International Relations in the Bible and the Ancient Near East," pp. 283-286; Daniel Sivan, "The Status of Ugaritic Among the Northwest Semitic Languages in the Wake of Recent Research," pp. 287-297; Bustanai Oded, "Fundamental Lines in the Policies of Exile of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires in Relation to the Investigation of the Exiles of Israel and Judah in Mesopotamia," pp. 298-318; Tova Forti, "The Image of the Moth: A Window on a Wisdom Psalm Psalm 39," pp. 319-331; Bezalel Porten, "The Jews of Elephantine Who are Named after Ancestors," pp. 332-361; Elisha Qimron, "The Letter waw as an Indicator of a Transitional Sound," pp. 362-375; Zechariah Kallai, "Punishment and Sin in Historiography," pp. 376-381; Alexander Rofe, "The 'Woman of Valor, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and the Editing of the Book of Proverbs," pp. 382-390; Anson Rainey, "The El-Amarna Documents: a Cultural Phenomenon in the Late Bronze Period," pp. 391-408; Nili Shupak, "The God Who Comes from Teman and the Egyptian Sun God: A New Study of Habakkuk 3:3-7," pp. 409-432; Haim Tadmor, "Chronological Remarks on the Conquest of Samaria," pp. 433-436.