CONTENTS
Nili Wazana: Preface
List of Abbreviations
Jeffrey H. Tigay: Professor Moshe Greenberg ז"ל
Mordechai Cogan: Professor Moshe Greenberg ז"ל
Jonathan Ben-Dov: Professor Shemaryahu Talmon ז"ל
Michael Sigal: Professor Shemaryahu Talmon ז"ל
Baruch J. Schwartz: Professor Jacob Milgrom ז"ל
Biblical Studies
Rimon Kasher: Walking in the Way of God in the Hebrew Bible
Micha Roi: The Story of Elijah’s Flight (1 Kings 19): A Comparative Study on the Pattern of ̒Departure Stories’ in the Bible
The Bible in Relation to the Ancient Near East
Nili Samet: Sumerian City Laments and the Book of Lamentations: Toward a Comparative Theological Study
Yigal Bloch: Sěgullâ – A Re-examination of the Meaning of the Term Based on Two Assyrian Documents from the Thirteenth Century B.C.E.
Yoel Elitzur: Qīr of the Aramaean: A New Approach
Amitai Baruchi-Unna: Genres Meet: Esarhaddon’s Prayer in the Inscription AsBbA and Akkadian Prayers from the ̒Washing the Mouth’ Ritual
History of Exegesis
Yaakov Raphael Garzon: Sharp Anti-Christian Polemics in Rashi’s Commentaries to Genesis 1:1
Aharon Mondschein: Studies in the Rhymed Opening Verses of R. Abraham ibn Ezra in his Long Commentary on the Book of Exodus
Carmiel Cohen: ‘This will put the mind more at ease’: Gersonides’ Alternative for Talmudic Hermeneutics in his Commentary on the Torah
Aharon Ofir Shemesh: Henry Baker Tristram, Scholar of Nature in the Bible: His Methods for Identifying Plants and Animals and his Commentary
Book Reviews
Naphtali Meshel:
Yoram Cohen:
Honour of Hayim Tadmor on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday,
20 November 2003, Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities,
2009 (in Hebrew)>
Rimon Kasher:
Exile (8th–6th Centuries B.C.E.), Haifa: Pardes Publishing House,
2010 (in Hebrew)>
Dvora Dimant:
Books Received (compiled by Yaakov Dolgopolsky)
List of Contributors
English Abstracts