The articles in this volume Israel Knohl : The Linking of Holiness Concepts and the broadening of the Borders of Holiness in the Editorial Layer of the Pentateuch. Alexander Rofé : Divorce in the Hebrew Bible and the Meaning of Sefer Keritut. Ishay Rosen-Zvi : A Protocol of the Yavnean Academy? Rereading Tosefta Sanhedrin. Shlomo Toledano : The Talmudic Methodology of Rabbi Bezalel Ashkenazi. Judith Weiss: The Two Zoharic Versions of the Legend of The Tanna and the Deadman. Iris Brown (Hoizman) : ‘The Violation of the Torah is Its True Fulfillment’;Ultra-Orthodox Ruling against the Halakhah for The Emendation of the Sinners – R. Hayim of Sanz as a Case Study.

Table of Contents: Alexander Rofé - Text-Criticism within the Philological-Historical Discipline: The Problem of the Double Text of Jeremiah Jonathan Ben-Dov - Hebrew and Aramaic Writing in the Pseudepigrapha and the Qumran Scrolls: The Ancient Near Eastern Background and the Quest for a Written Authority Itamar Kislev - The Commentaries of Ibn Ezra and Rashbam and the Dispute over the Ingredients of the Altar Incense Yair Lorberbaum - Changes in Maimonides’ Approach to Aggadah Rami Reiner - ‘A Tombstone Inscribed’: Titles Used to Describe the Deceased in Tombstones from Würzburg between 1147–1148 and 1346

Essays in this volume include: Mordechai Cogan – Some Text-Critical issues in the Hebrew Bible from an Assyriological Perspective Gary N Knoppers – Projected Age Comparisons of the Levitical Townlists: Divergent Theories and their significance Michael Avioz – The Date of the Destruction of the First Temple in Ancient Versions and Early Biblical Interpretation Moshe J Bernstein –"Rewritten Bible": A Generic Category which has outlived its usefulness?

An introduction book to prophetic literature concentrates on the essence of prophecy as a phenomenon in the history of religion, in the history of prophecy in Israel and the different kinds of prophets in Israel.

This introduction is meant to accompany the reader in the scientific study of the book of Deuteronomy. It is meant for researchers, teachers, and students of Biblical texts in the advanced stages of first degree studies. The language is clear, not professional and the book explains basic issues so that any educated Hebrew speaker can read it. The book deals with ritual laws, legal matters and with speech and narrative elements.

In this volume the author attempts to describe the whole prophetical narrative in the Hebrew Bible, delimiting the extent of the single stories and establishing the date of their composition, their ideas, and message.The discussion centers on the problem of the literary genres, whether the stories are history, legend, parable or any other genre.The artistic value of some of these biblical masterpieces is highlighted. The conclusions bear upon the value of the prophetical stories as sources for the political and religious history of ancient Israel This third edition has been extensively revised and augmented. The second edition, published in 1986, was translated into English, Italian and Russian.