Journal of Hebrew Scriptures  

Robert Rezetko, Martijn Naaijer

In 2014 Avi Hurvitz published A Concise Lexicon of Late Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Innovations in the Writings of the Second Temple Period. In the present article we offer an alternative, quantitative interpretation of the data in the Lexicon. ... see more

Ronald A. Geobey

The story of Jeroboam's secession from the Solomonic “empire” is an integral element of the process of identity reformulation within which context “Biblical Israel” asserted its antiquity. While this reading yields a greater understanding of its final for... see more

Krzysztof J. Baranowski

The Amarna letters from Canaan (ca. the middle of the fourteenth century B.C.E.) contain several passages which employ the yaqtul forms in the narrative. These passages attest to the existence of the short prefix conjugation in contemporaneous C... see more

Alexander Andrason

This article analyzes the relationship that exists between the qatal and wayyiqtol forms in Biblical Hebrew. It provides a twofold approach, based on complexity theory, fuzziology, cognitive linguistics and the theory of dynamic semant... see more

George Athas

This article argues for a new understanding of Lot's shocking offer of his daughters in Genesis 19 on the basis of “unknown detail omission.” The narrator exploits ambiguities in the narrative to fool the reader into condemning Lot's character. However, w... see more

Jeremiah W. Cataldo

Scholarship has tended to emphasize a positivistic view of Zechariah—namely, that the text, constructivist in nature, reflects what the prophet viewed as the eventual outcome of his community. In contrast, using Melanie Klein's theory on the “death instin... see more

Natalie Mylonas, Stephen Llewelyn, Gareth Wearne

Cognitive linguists are increasingly recognising the value of metonymy for understanding the way language works. This article applies recent advancements in the theory of metonymy to the Hebrew noun ??? in order to explain its broad semantic range. It arg... see more

Sarah Schwartz

This paper reexamines the literary function of the narrative toledot formulae in Genesis, claiming that the formula thrice (Gen 2:4; 6:9; 25:19) introduces a passage about the specified father rather than one solely about his sons. This finding ... see more

Frauke Uhlenbruch, Francis Landy, Ian D. Wilson, Harold Torger Verdeler, Ryan Higgins, James F. McGrath

The present issue is a collection of essays which were originally presented as conference papers at the “Science Fiction and the Bible” unit of the European Association of Biblical Studies in Leipzig (2013) and Vienna (2014). It includes an introduction b... see more

Hava Shalom-Guy

Compelling topical, conceptual, and linguistic analogies between Saul's first military campaign against the Philistines at Michmash (1 Sam 13:1–14:46) and Gideon's war against the Midianites (Judg 6–8) indicate direct dependence by the Michmash narrative ... see more

Matthew Suriano

The Hebrew Bible often portrays Sheol in a manner evocative of the tomb. In texts such as Psalm 88 the tomb is a dreary and isolating symbol. Yet this contrasts with the positive role of the family tomb where the dead are reunited with their ancestors. Th... see more

Joshua Berman

The last decade has seen a growing interest in empirical models from the cognate literature to trace the growth of Hebrew scriptures. Yet, deeply rooted intellectual commitments within the history of the diachronic study of the Bible retard the incorporat... see more

Robert Rezetko, Martijn Naaijer

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Stephen D. Campbell

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Shannon Baines

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Mark R. Glanville

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Cynthia Shafer-Elliott

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Anthony R. Meyer

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David T. Lamb

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Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

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Peter Altmann

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Donn F. Morgan

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David J. Fuller

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Mark R. Glanville

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Scott B. Noegel

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Jared C. Calaway

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John A. Cook

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Chelsea Lamb

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Anthony R. Pyles

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Paul S. Evans

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Janice P. De-Whyte

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