Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures V : Comprising the Contents of ‹i›Journal of Hebrew Scriptures‹ i›, Vol. 8

This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures in 2008. Contributors include D. Stein, R. Kletter, J. Cook, Y. Shemesh, A. Pinker, R. Hendel, S. Olyan, A. Marx, R. Schmitt, D. Wright, S. Apóstolo, H. Basser, T. Römer, J. Jacobs, M. Kline, M. Avioz, E. Assis, F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, N. Na'aman, Y. Garfinkel, S. Ganor, A. Steinmann, and I. Young. The review section includes more than fifty reviews. TABLE OF CONTENTS REVIEWS PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS The Noun אִישׁ (’îš) in Biblical Hebrew: A Term of Affiliation The Friends of Antiquities (in Heb. נאמני עתיקות ): The Story of an Israeli Volunteer Group and Comparative Remarks The Vav-Prefixed Verb Forms in Elementary Hebrew Grammar Elisha and The Miraculous Jug of Oil (2 Kgs 4:1-7) The Elisha Stories as Saints’ Legends The Doings of the Wicked in Qohelet 8:10 Beyond Purity and Danger: Mary Douglas and The Hebrew Bible Mary Douglas and Anthropological Modernism The Relationship between the Sacrificial Laws and the Other Laws in Leviticus 19 Mary Douglas’s Holiness/Wholeness Paradigm: Its Potential for Insight and its Limitations The Problem of Magic and Monotheism in the Book of Leviticus Deciphering a Definition: The Syntagmatic Structural Analysis of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible Imagining Ezekiel Did Rashi Notice a Janus Parallelism in Ezek 20:37? Moses Outside the Torah and the Construction of a Diaspora Identity Characterizing Esther from the Outset: The Contribution of the Story in Esther 2:1–20 “The Editor Was Nodding” A Reading of Leviticus 19 in Memory of Mary Douglas Saul as a Just Judge in Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews The Temple in the Book of Haggai Psalm 133: A (Close) Reading In Search of The Ancient Name of Khirbet Qeiyafa Khirbet Qeiyafa: Sha’arayim Letters of Kings about Votive Offerings, The God of Israel and the Aramaic Document in Ezra 4:8–6:18 Shaaraim – The Gateway to the Kingdom of Judah Late Biblical Hebrew and The Qumran Pesher Habakkuk REVIEWS INDEX

This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in Volume 8 (2008) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.