Contents: Nili Wazana – Preface In Memoriam Gershon Galil Prof. Zecharia Kallai 24.6.1923-17.1.2016 ) Amihai Mazar Prof Trude Dothan 12.10.1922-28.1.2016 ) Biblical Studies David Frankel - The Final Form of the Story of the Rape of Dinah in Light of Textual and Redaction Criticism Noam Mizrahi - From Wisdom to Hymn: The Literary, Textual and Linguistic Development of Jer 10:12-13 Miriam Sklarz - The Poet Before God, Against his Enemies and Facing his Congregation Naphtali S. Meshel - Dramatic Irony and double entendre in the Book of Job Amitai Baruchi - Unna Plural Forms Referring to ‘Elohim’ and the Israelite Cultic Proclamation Recurring in the Cult of the Calf The Bible in Relation to the Ancient Near East Shira J. Golani - ‘That (No) Plague May Come Upon Them for Being Registered’ (Exod 30:12): Census and Plague in the Bible in Light of the Ancient Near East Mordechai Cogan - Restoring the Empire: Sargon II’s Campaign to the West in 720/19 BCE History of Exegesis David Kopeliovich - Hated by his Brothers: The Typological Function of Jeremiah the Prophet in Josephus’ Jewish War Jonathan Jacobs - Use of the ʻNarrative Parableʼ by Northern-France Disciples (11th-12th Centuries) Isaac Gottlieb and Stewart Vanning - Rupert of Deutz (c.1075-1129) and Jewish Commentaries on the Joseph Story Itamar Kislev - The Contribution of Minhat Yehuda for Improving the Text of Rashbam’s Torah Commentary Yohanan Kapah - Joseph Hayyun’s Maggid Mishne

Nili Wazana Preface Baruch J. Schwartz Professor Menahen Haran ז"ל Biblical Studies Yair Zakovitch The Concretization of Metaphors and Metaphoric Language in the Bible Leah Jacobsen The Meaning of Elisha’s Words: ‘I would like to kiss my father and mother and I will follow you’ (I Kings, XIX 20a) Chaim Cohen The Hapax Legomenon דיו (Ink) in the Context of ’ ואני כתב על הספר בדיו ‘ (Jeremiah 36:18): A ‘False Friend’ in Modern Hebrew Due to the Masoretes’ Misunderstanding of the Preposition בדי Meaning ‘To’ or ‘For’ Hava Shalom-Guy The Confessional Prayer in Nehemiah 9:6-37: A Literary-Historical Consideration The Bible in Relation to the Ancient Near East Uri Gabbay The Sumerian Cultic Laments: History, Remembrance and Theology Nili Samet Reading Literary Texts Historically: The Sumerian City Laments as a Test Case Edward L. Greenstein A Woman’s Voice in Lamentations 3 Jakob Klein Bat-Ṣiyyon in the Book of Lamentations and the ‘Lamenting Goddess’ in Mesopotamian Literature Shlomo Bachar Three Appearances of a Figure in Song of Song: Who is she that is ‘Coming up’, ‘Looking through’ and ‘Leaning on’? History of Exegesis Nahem Ilan Lamah/Lammah Meaning No/Don’t in Saadya Gaon’s Translations and Commentary David Shneor A Summary of the Study of Rashi’s Bible Maps and the Reasons for their Disappearance from the Printed Editions of Rashi’s Commenatry Eran Viezel God’s Revelation to the Biblical Authors in the Writings of R. David Kimhi Miriam Sklarz Anonymous Quotations from Ibn Ezra in Nachmanides’ Commentary on the Pentateuch Book Reviews English Abstracts For contents and article abstracts please press "Sample pages "

The articles in this volume: The Legislation of War: A Study of the Story of the Israelite War against Midian (Numbers 31) - Ariel Kopilovitz ‘You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots’ (Joshua 11:6): The Identification of Horses and Chariots as the Weapons of Israel’s Enemies in Biblical Literature - Yakov Dolgopolsky-Geva A Complete Root Glossary of Canaanite Words and Forms from the Amarna Tablets - Esther Haber ‘We must have a king over us, that we may be like all the other nations’ (I Sam 8:19): Israelite Kings in Art - Irit Ziffer The Story of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Men (Gen. 6:1–4) in Light of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women Akkadian Itineraries: From the Kingdom of Akkad to the Assyrian Empire - Amitai Baruchi-Unna The Akkadian Wisdom Composition ‘Hear the Advice’: Traditional Wisdom versus Rebellious Skepticism - Yoram Cohen The Leqah Tov Commentary on Song of Songs: Its Place in the History of Biblical Exegesis and its Relationship with the Commentary of Rashi - Jonathan Jacobs Nachmanides’ Exegesis of Midrash in his Commentary on the Torah - Miriam Sklarz Additions and Changes in Nachmanides’ Commentaries relating to the Geography of Israel - David Shneor Book Reviews For contents and article abstracts please press "Sample pages "

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: (The Biblical Encyclopaedia Library), Jerusalem 2009 (in Hebrew)> Yoram Cohen: Inscriptions. History, Historiography and Ideology. A conference in 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: , The Early History of the Babylonian Exile (8th–6th Centuries B.C.E.), Haifa: Pardes Publishing House, 2010 (in Hebrew)> Dvora Dimant: at Qumran in their Ancient Context (STDJ 78), Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2008> Books Received (compiled by Yaakov Dolgopolsky) List of Contributors English Abstracts