This book contains articles written by Moshe Weinfeld about Early Jewish Liturgy and examines the development of Jewish prayer throughout time.

SHNATON - An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies – is the most important Hebrew Journal for the research of Biblical Verse and the world in which it existed. It includes article from all areas of research of Biblical Studies in which are included Biblical Verse, Ancient Near East and its History, Languages and Literature all of which are inter linked with Biblical Verse, External Literature, the Judean Desert Scrolls, Ancient translations and the History of Commentary through the generations. The Annual also includes a special critical section for comprehensive criticism of recently published books in these issues.

Sample pages A digital version of this book is available here This book deals with the concept of justice and righteousness in ancient Israelite literature in comparison with identical concepts in ancient Near East. Various aspects of this ideal concept are taken into consideration: philological, historical, sociological and theological. Moshe Weinfeld surveys social reforms in the ancient Near East from the third millennium BCE to the Hellenistic period. The first chapters discuss semantics and center in terms that denote social justice, such as social reforms embodied in the terms justice and righteousness and their equivalents in cognate languages. A separate chapter discusses the institutions of Shemitta and Jubilee in ancient Israel. A special discussion is dedicated to justice and righteousness on the individual level. Just as the ruler is commanded to do justice and righteousness - to free his subjects from oppression, so every individual is asked to help the poor and the needy in their distress, which is to do justice and righteousness with others.

A digital version of this book is available here Sample pages The essays collected in this volume explore diverse aspects of literary creativity in the Ancient Near East, including Ancient Israel, with a special emphasis on historical writing. Cuneiform documents are analyzed in order to test historical consciousness in Ancient Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Israel, and Biblical texts are illuminated through comparisons drawn from neighboring cultures. The essays are particularly noteworthy for being the product of constant dialogue among leading scholars, noted specialists in their respective disciplines, who comprised a research group at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem during 1978/9.