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Bruce Zuckerman has reworked the way in which we glance at old Semitic inscriptions. via his efforts, an important inscriptions of biblical occasions were reread and the historical past of the biblical and moment Temple classes reimagined. He has made contributions to the fields of bible study and sleek Judaism, and, in founding Maarav: A magazine for the learn of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures, has made the examine of many students on hand to the scholarly neighborhood. The sequence of articles incorporated the following honor his many contributions via discussions of a wide selection of inscriptional fabrics, Biblical texts, archaeology, lexicography and instructing method. integrated within the quantity is a republication of his course breaking exhibition catalogue, complicated Out the prior.

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W. Dobbs-Allsopp Princeton Theological Seminary The earliest written copies of biblical poems currently extant come from the Judean Desert. And not a few of these exhibit some kind of special formatting. The essay that follows, in the main, consists of a series of observations about this special formatting that does not so much argue a position as elaborate an ever richer description of practice. My governing ambition throughout is “to take into account,” as M. 2 Such “thick” (re)description is valuable in its own right.

Et de clou n’approche pas de lui. Et tu établiras pour ton pere un nom de joie, et pour tous tes freres une fondation éprouvée . tu feras surgir. Et tu verras et tu te réjouiras dans la lumiere éternelle et tu ne seras pas quelqu’un de l’ennemi. . Search and ask and know what the agitator demands, and do not reject/weaken him by means of exhaustion/a rod and hanging/crucifixion as (capital) [punishmen]t do not pronounce . and do not let the nail approach him. And you will establish for your father a name of joy, and for all your brothers a proven foundation .

17) The Qumran instances are the oldest attestations of ° 11 Puech, DJD XXXI (n ): . v. äðé; for later Palestinian Aramaic, see Sokoloff, DJPA (n ): . The meaning “discourage” is particularly evident in Tg. Onq. Num :, . ” 14 Puech, “Fragments” (n ): , . 15 The scribe was not particularly careful about spacing; äëðåìòåâ (fg :) is actually written äëðåì òåâ. C. E. Stone and Esther Eshel, The Aramaic Levi Document: Edition, Translation, and Commentary (Leiden: Brill, ): –.

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