FOREWORD, CHRISTOPHER A. ROLLSTON

INTRODUCTION, YIGAL LEVIN

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS

I. STUDIES IN BIBLE

EDWARD L. GREENSTEIN
What Was the Book of Yashar?

SHMUEL VARGON
The Time of Hezekiah’s Illness and the
Visit of the Babylonian Delegation

JOSHUA BERMAN
Criteria for Establishing Chiastic Structure:
Lamentations 1 and 2 as Test Case

DAVID A. GLATT-GILAD
Genealogy Lists as a Window to Historiographic
Periodization in the Book of Chronicles

II. ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES

IDAN BREIER
Sumer as the Cradle of History—Canine as Well:
The Representation of the Dog in Sumerian Proverbial
Literature

CHAIM COHEN AND JACOB KLEIN
Akkadian Hapax Legomena: Scribal Ego and Foreign Words

ILAN PELED
Men in Question: Parallel Aspects of Ambiguous
Masculinities in Mesopotamian and Biblical Sources

III. EPIGRAPHY

ADA YARDENI
Papyrological and Palaeographical Aspects of the
Elephantine Documents

GORDON J. HAMILTON
A New Approach to Authenticating the Writing on an
Unprovenanced Steatite Vessel as an Early Alphabetic
Inscription

IV. ONOMASTIC STUDIES

YOEL ELITZUR
The Biblical Names of Jerusalem

YIGAL LEVIN
Baal Worship in Early Israel: An Onomastic View in
Light of the “Eshbaal” Inscription from Khirbet Qeiyafa

BEZALEL PORTEN
A Comprehensive Table of Bethel Names in
Ancient Inscriptions

V. LITERACY AND SCRIBAL EDUCATION

MEIR BAR-ILAN
Socialized Literacy in Antiquity

NILI SHUPAK
Straightening the Crooked Stick: The Boundardies of
Education in the Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Tradition

WILLIAM M. SCHNIEDEWIND
Understanding Scribal Education in Ancient Israel:
A View from Kuntillet ʿAjrud

ANDRÉ LEMAIRE
Aramaic Literacy and School in Elephantine

VI. STUDIES IN RABBINIC LITERATURE
SHAMMA FRIEDMAN
Artistotle in the Babylonian Talmud? A Scholastic
Interpolation by the Talmud’s Anonymous Glossator

EMMANUEL FRIEDHEIM
The Mithrakana in the Yerushalmi—A Historical Note

MORDECHAI AKIVA FRIEDMAN
Fatwas for Abraham Maimonides

AARON DEMSKY CURRICULUM VITAE

PLATES FOR YARDENI’S “ELEPHANTINE DOCUMENTS”

PLATES FOR FRIEDMAN’S “FATWAS FOR ABRAHAM MAIMONIDES”