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 David Noel Freedman 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 Israel 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 v vi Contents 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 Emanuel Tov PART 2 Historical, Thematic, and Methodological Studies On the Use of Traditional Jewish Exegesis in the Modern Literary Study of the Bible . 173 Adele Berlin The Genre of the Biblical Commentary as Problem and Challenge . 185 Brevard S. Childs David’s Jerusalem: 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 Land of Israel as Sacred Space . 245 Baruch A. Levine The Methods of Late Biblical Scribes as Evidenced by the Septuagint Compared with the Other Textual Witnesses . 259 Alexander Rofé Contents vii 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 Ezekiel Scroll from Masada 1043–2220 (Ezekiel 35:11–38:14) . 53* Shemaryahu Talmon viii Contents 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 Rabbi Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam) on Job: The Hymn to Wisdom (Job 28) . 115* Sara Japhet The Pre-70 C.E. Judean Synagogue: 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*.