<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>I propose that the jubilee legislation intended to provide an alternative calendar system to replace the prevailing one, based on the year of the reigning monarch. In that alternative calendar, the Day of Atonement on which the ...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>According to the biblical account (1 Kgs 7:23–26), in the middle of the courtyard of the temple stood a large water vessel of cast brass. Commentators and researchers have put forward various suggestions as to the form of the Mo...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Psalm 147:10 comprises an elaborate play on words, involving the parasonant pairs <jats:styled-content xml:lang="heb">חפץ</jats:styled-content>/<jats:styled-content xml:lang="heb">קפץ</jats:styled-content> and <jats:styled-conte...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In the ancient near East, including ancient Israel, the material value of sacrifice was held in high esteem. In the sacrificial system of Leviticus 1-5, however, we find modes of abstraction from the material value of offerings ...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The different scribal hands show that the Qumran Cave 4 manuscript 4Q24 (4QLev<jats:sup>b</jats:sup>) actually consists of two different manuscripts: a first-century <jats:sc>BCE</jats:sc> manuscript with parts of Leviticus 1–3 ...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper examines the widespread classification of <jats:italic>ʾt</jats:italic> before the nominative as a trademark of Late Biblical Hebrew. The paper begins by defining the nature and scope of this syntactic usage and revie...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Proverbs 21:1 says that “The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it to all whom he will.” The reference to “stream(s) of water” (<jats:styled-content xml:lang="heb">פלגי־מים</jats:styled-content>)...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The question-response interchange in biblical dialogue is of great linguistic as well as literary interest. In order to successfully serve purposes such as characterization and plot development, question-response interactions in...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The many <jats:italic>qere</jats:italic> notes in the Aramaic passages of the Hebrew Bible show that the Biblical Aramaic reading tradition goes back to a different variety of Aramaic than the consonantal texts. While this <jats...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The relationship between the Decalogue (in Exod 20) and the oracles of Hosea has been the source of much speculation with regard to directions of influence, common sources, shared motifs, and the historical settings for their re...