This issue contains the following essays:
Menahem
Kahana
- The Good in the Sight of Heaven and Right in
the Sight of Man
Yair
Furstenberg - From Tradition to Controversy: New Modes of Transmission in the
Teachings of Early Rabbis
Gideon
Bohak - A New Genizah Fragment of Toledoth
Yeshu in Aramaic
Yehoshua
Granat - To Alexandria, with the sound of bell and pomegranate: Yehuda Halevi’s Arrival in Alexandria in Light of a
Newly Identified Poem by Aaron Ibn Al-ʿAmmānī
Shulamit
Elizur - Between Poetic and Statutory
Formulations: A Note on the History of the Ha-Maʿariv ʿAravim Benediction
Menahem
Kister - ‘The Lord of Hosts is His Name in Ha-Maʿariv ʿAravim Benediction: Metamorphoses and Erosion of Benediction
Formulae
Joshua Blau - Review of: W. Randall Garr and Steven Ellis Fassberg (eds.), A Handbook of Biblical Hebrew, I: Periods, Corpora, and Reading Traditions (xii + 228 pp.); II: Selected Texts (vi + 136 pp.), Winona Lake, IN 2016