Selected articles from current issue: Amir Banbaji | More Figurative than all Other Songs. A Study of the Pre-Maskilic History of the Hebrew Melitsah Nurit Barnea-Bernheim | ‘Total Love’: The Story of Miriam in ‘The Tale of the Scribe’ by S.Y. Agnon Neta Stahl | ‘How Come I Love the Ugav?’: The Ugav in Uri Zvi Grinberg’s Poetry Roy Greenwald | Kin of Dust: On Al Hakhmot Derakhim by Avot Yeshurun

Selected articles from current issue: Arnon Atzmon | ‘He Who Seeks Out Good: This is David’: The Opening Unit of Midrash Psalms as an Introduction to the Book of Psalms David Sabatto | ‘Thus, I Received it From the House of My Father’s Father’. The Sources and Structuring of the Legend of Yehonatan, Moses’ Grandson Ido Hevroni | Turning the Hearts of the Children to Their Parents: The Education of R. Elazar Son of R. Shimon (Pesiqta de Rab Kahana 11) Omri livnat | ‘Samuel, The Son of Labrat Has Died’: Between Manuscript and Edition, Between Panegyric and Lampoon

Few articles in this issue: Gilad Shapira | Hermenautics as Poetics: The Case of Midrash HaGadol Moshe Shoshan | The Road to Lydda: A Survivor's Story: Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai's Flight from Jerusalem According to Eicha Rabba 1:5 Richard Hidary | Why Are There Lawyers in Heaven?: Rabbinic Aggadot on the Divine Courtroom Kedem Golden | Solving a Riddle of Judah Halevi Idit Einat-Nov | 'Everybody wants to live': A Literary Reading of the Maqama by Yehuda Al-Harizi, 'The Rooster'

ARITCLES Arnon Azmon - Editing and Meaning in Pesikta de-Rav Kahana, Pesikta Rabbati and Midrash Tanhuma on ‘Vayehi Beyom Chalot Moshe’ (Num 7:1) Yuval Fraenkel - The Hand-Leaning Controversy: Controversy and Authority Noam Samet - ‘The Wise Shall Inherit Glory’ (Prov 3:35) - The Redaction of the Sugya on Human Dignity Rachel Hitin-Mashiah and Tamar Lavi - Two Supplications (בקשות) by Rabbi Yedidya Monsoñego Amir Banbaji - The Maskilim as ῾Defenders of the Text’: A Third Paradigm of Jewish Enlightenment Tamar Salmon-Mack - The Weakening of the Parents’ Home and the Development of Other Kinship Relations in Epistolary Hebrew Literature in the 19th century Einat Baram Eshel - The Story of the Flood and its Representations in Hebrew Children’s Literature Shira Stav - Be My Mother and Brother: Rachel and Bialik Lilach Nethanel - Zalman Shneour’s Book of Wanderings Haya Shacham - ‘The World is a Riddle but the Riddle is a World’ Tal Holz - Slave of Time: The Work of Mourning in Israeli Holocaust Literature of the ‘1948 Generation’

Contents: ARITCLES Reuven Kiperwasser - The Bitter Fate of Elihoref and Ahiya: The Metamorphosis of a Story from the Land of Israel that Went to Babylonia Tamar Kadari - Song and Meaning:A new Look on Rabbinic Exegesis of the Song of Songs Hanan Mazeh - ' 'עיקר עיבורה של דינה זכר היה (The original conception of Dinah was as a male): The Origin and Development of an Aggadic Tradition in Rabbinic Literature Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky - ‘Bekibbutz galuyot u behikabetz betulot ’: On the Identification of the Forbidden Piyyutim in a Responsa by Rav Natronai Gaon Ophir Münz-Manor - The Payytanic Epithet and its Relations to Figurative Language in Pre-Classical Piyyut Yotam Poplker - ‘Yam Acharon’ on the Way to America: ‘Immigrants’ as a Key Story to the Work of L. A. Arieli-Orlof Itamar Drori - Return of the Author – ‘Bell and Pomegranate’ by Hayim Hazaz Dvir Tzur - The Birth of the New Jew in the New Land: On Pioneer–Native Relations in S. Yizhar's Stories, or on the Face(s) of the Native Home. Ilana Szobel - The Girl with the Billy-Goat’s Hoof: Parental Abuse, Metamorphosis and Poetics in the Poetry of Tsvia Litevsk Nancy Ezer - Bursting Out of the Center and Breaking into it in Two Literary Autobiographies: Yoram Kaniuk’s Post Mortem and Leah Aini’s Rose of Lebanon