SCRIPTURA  

Hendrik Bosman

What should a Festschrift amount to – more in particular:what will constitute an appropriate Festschriftfor Yehoshua Gitay?

Yairah Amit

This article deals with different endings and especially with reversal endings. Thiskind of endings is of especial significance to the understanding of the work as awhole, because they cast it in a new or different light. The article contains threeexample... see more

Adele Berlin

This essay, dedicated to my friend and colleague, Yehoshua Gitay, discusses thestory of Hannah, with emphasis on the speeches and on Hannah’s two prayers, theprose prayer embedded in the narrative and the poetic prayer that follows it. Thetwo prayers are ... see more

J. P. Bosman

The theologically central “credo” of Exodus 34:6-7 is looked at in the context of the OldTestament in general, and in the Book of the Twelve in particular. The paradoxicalnature of the way Exodus 34:6-7 is alluded to in 5 of the books of the Book of the T... see more

Johann Cook

This contribution demonstrates that the person(s) responsible for the Septuagint ofProverbs employed literary perspectives on different levels. He took the broaderpicture of the whole of the book into consideration in his rendering of it. Hence thestateme... see more

Sakkie Cornelius

Artists are not merely illustrators, but also interpreters of ancient texts such as theBible. The works of South African artists such as Mbatha on biblical stories are wellknown, but the art of the Namibian Muafangejo should also be acknowledged.Examples ... see more

Mayer I. Gruber

Responding to my 1998 article “Three Failed Dialogues from the Biblical World,”Professor Moshe Greenberg suggested that by translating the imperative mut in Job2:9 “Drop dead” I offended Job’s wife, Hebrew Scripture, and my readers. Theoffense was to make... see more

William W. Hallo

In all ages of civilization, men have challenged the brutal reality of death with two unconquerabledreams: one the hope of longevity, long life, and the other the illusion of immortality,of eternal life. Let us see first what the Bible has to say on the s... see more

Victor Avigdor Hurowitz

The magical elements of the well-known account of the snake infestation and itsremedy by a bronze serpent (Num 21:4-9) have been discussed often in commentariesand individual studies. This article directs attention to aural elements of thisstory including... see more

Hanna Liss

IntroductionIn his study The Sanctuary of Silence (1995), Israel Knohl states that the Priestly Code (P)seeks “to maintain an interior‚ ‘holy kingdom’ alongside the broader political structure.”1To him, this “‘holy kingdom’ disregards not only the sphere ... see more

Bobby Loubser

The paper examines the loss of meaning that occurs when Biblical manuscripts aretranslated into the modern printed media. Most of the Biblical texts originated incultures where the conventions of oral and manuscript communication predominated.When such te... see more

Shalom M. Paul

It is suggested in this contribution that in Dan 6:20 ?????????? is not a gloss but rather anAramaic calque on the Akkadian expression, ina/ana mimmû šeri ina namari, “When thefirst light of dawn shone,” which occurs several times in the Gilgamesh epic, t... see more

Jack M. Sasson

In this brief study I follow up on a recent JBL article in which SZ Aster discussesand rejects proposed emendations for the title ~y[rh ryba (1 Sam 21:8) applied tothe Edomite Doeg, Saul’s instrument in killing the priests of Nob. I offer one morepossible... see more