Contents

Moshe Greenberg: An Appreciation ...... ix Bibliography of the Writings of Moshe Greenberg ...... xxiii Abbreviations ...... xxxix

PART 1 Exegetical and Literary Studies

Love of Zion: A Literary Interpretation of Psalm 137 ...... 3 Shimon Bar-Efrat The Meaning of Amos’s Third Vision (Amos 7:7–9) ...... 13 Alan Cooper On Reading Genesis 12:10–20 ...... 23 Barry L. Eichler Harvesting the Biblical Narrator’s Scanty Plot of Ground: A Holistic Approach to Judges 16:4–22 ...... 39 J. Cheryl Exum Proverbs 2 and 31: A Study in Structural Complementarity ...... 47 Reading Rahab ...... 57 Tikva Frymer-Kensky Psalm 8 on the Power and Mystery of Speech ...... 69 Walter Harrelson Two Aspects of the “Tent of Meeting” ...... 73 Knohl The Firstfruits Festivals of Grain and the Composition of Leviticus 23:9–21 ...... 81 Jacob Milgrom What Did Laban Demand of Jacob? A New Reading of Genesis 31:50 and Exodus 21:10 ...... 91 Jonathan Paradise

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A Lover’s Garden of Verse: Literal and Metaphorical Imagery in Ancient Near Eastern Love Poetry ...... 99 Shalom M. Paul Nehemiah 9: An Important Witness of Theological Re˘ection ...... 111 Rolf Rendtorˆ Naboth’s Vineyard Revisited (1 Kings 21) ...... 119 Nahum M. Sarna The “Aramean” of Deuteronomy 26:5: Peshat and Derash ...... 127 Richard C. Steiner “He Begot a Son in His Likeness after His Image” (Genesis 5:3) ...... 139 Jeˆrey H. Tigay Diˆerent Editions of the Song of Hannah and of Its Narrative Framework ...... 149

PART 2 Historical, Thematic, and Methodological Studies

On the Use of Traditional Jewish Exegesis in the Modern Literary Study of the ...... 173 The Genre of the Biblical Commentary as Problem and Challenge . . . . . 185 Brevard S. Childs David’s : Notes and Re˘ections ...... 193 Mordechai Cogan The BErît ‘Covenant’: Its Nature and Ceremonial Background ...... 203 Menahem Haran Prophecy and Soothsaying ...... 221 Yair Hoˆman The Next Phase in Jewish Religion: The as Sacred Space ...... 245 Baruch A. Levine The Methods of Late Biblical Scribes as Evidenced by the Compared with the Other Textual Witnesses ...... 259 Alexander Rofé

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PART 3 Postbiblical and Rabbinic Studies

Rabbinic Mythmaking and Tradition: The Great Dragon Drama in b. Baba Batra 74b–75a ...... 273 Michael Fishbane A Law and Its Interpretation ...... 285 Judah Goldin Masorah and Halakhah: A Study in Con˘ict ...... 291 Sid Z. Leiman The Akedah—and What to Remember ...... 307 Michael Rosenak

English Abstracts of Hebrew Essays ...... 315

Index of Authors ...... 326 Index of Scripture ...... 334 Index of Ancient and Premodern Sources ...... 343

Hebrew Essays PART 1 Biblical Studies

The Countenance of YHWH ...... 3* Shmuel Ahituv Creation and the Calendar of Holiness ...... 13* Yairah Amit The Philistine Entity and the Origin of the Name “Palestine” ...... 31* Israel Ephçal On the Borderline between Biblical Criticism and Hebrew Linguistics: The Emergence of the Term hçmArps ...... 37* Avi Hurvitz “A Psalm, a Song for the Sabbath Day” ...... 45* Meir Weiss Fragments of an Scroll from Masada 1043–2220 (Ezekiel 35:11–38:14) ...... 53*

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New Mari Documents and the Prophecy of Ezekiel ...... 71* Abraham Malamat The Origin and Development of Languages on Earth: The Sumerian versus the Biblical View ...... 77* Jacob Klein “And if Given the Strength—Eighty Years”: The Terms for Longevity in Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, and Mishnaic Hebrew . . . . . 93* Hayim Tadmor

Part 2 Second Temple, Rabbinic, and Medieval Studies lkc, ˆy[, qyd: A Semantic Analysis ...... 101* Moshe Weinfeld “Was It Not at His Hand the Sun Stopped?” (Ben Sira 46:6): A Chapter in Literary Archaeology ...... 107* Yair Zakovitch Tradition and Innovation in the Commentary of ben Meir (Rashbam) on Job: The Hymn to Wisdom (Job 28) ...... 115* The Pre-70 C.E. Judean : Its Origins and Character Reexamined ...... 143* Lee I. Levine Was Maimonides In˘uenced by Al-Ghazzalÿ? ...... 163* Hava Lazarus-Yafeh Peshat Exegesis of Biblical Historiography: Historicism, Dogmatism, and Medievalism ...... 171* Uriel Simon Additional Fragments of the “Rhymed Ben Sira” ...... 205* Ezra Fleischer Midrashic Derivations regarding the Transformation of the Names Jacob and Israel according to Traditional Jewish Exegesis: Semantic and Syntatic Aspects ...... 219* Simcha Kogut “Moses Had Written about Many Deeds . . . and David Came and Explained Them” (Exodus Rabbah 15:22) ...... 235* Avigdor Shinan Indexes to Hebrew Essays...... 245*