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HEBREW STUDIES The Journal of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSORS OF HEBREW PASTS PsayS OOD MAN Ts Volume XX XIX (1998) ARTICLES 7 PETER J. GENTRY The System of the Finite Verb in Classical Biblical Hebrew 41 MARK SNEED The Social Location of the Book of Qoheleth 53. DANIEL S. MYNATT The Masorah Parva of 5» in Numbers 35:24 57 WILLIAM CUTTER Language Matters 75 = REUVEN SHOHAM The Role of the Mythic Birth Narrative in Modern Hebrew Poetry: Bialik, Shlonsky, Greenberg CHAYA SHACHAM Well-Hidden Testimony: A Study of “The Document” by S. Y. Agnon 115 ORA (RODRIGUE) SCHWARZWALD Word Foreignness in Modern Hebrew 143. ASHER LAUFER Voicing in Contemporary Hebrew REVIEW ESSAY 183. S. DAVID SPERLING A Review of Divine Commitment and Human Obligation — Selected Writings of David Noel Freedman, Vol. 1. Ancient Israelite History and Religion and Vol. 2. Poetry and Orthography. By David Noel Freedman Hebrew Studies 39 (1998) 2 Table of Contents REVIEWS 19] A Dictionary of the Bible. By W. F. R. Browning. SCOTT B. NOEGEL 193 Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Vol. VII. G. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren, and Heinz-Josef Fabry, eds. MATTHIAS HENZE 196 The Use of Arabic in Biblical Hebrew Lexicography. By John Kaltner. ALAN S. KAYE 199 Cities of the Biblical World. By LaMoine F. DeVries. ROGER S. BORAAS 201 Oral World and Written Word: Ancient Israelite Literature. By Susan Niditch. RONALD S. HENDEL 204 The Task of Old Testament Theology. By Rolf Knierim. ROBERT GNUSE 207 I Will Love Unloved: A Linguistic Analysis of Woman’ s Biblical Importance. By Jennifer J. McKenzie. BARBARA GREEN 209 The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism. By Regina M. Schwartz. ESTHER FUCHS 213 Reading the F ractures of Genesis: Historical and Literary Approaches. By David M. Carr. LILLIAN R. KLEIN 216 The Verbal System of Classicai Hebrew in the Joseph Story: An Approach from Discourse Analysis. By Yoshinobu Endo. ROBERT E. LONGACRE 218 Leviticus. By Philip J. Budd. JEFF S. ANDERSON Hebrew Studies 39 (1998) 3 Table of Contents 220 Perush al Sefer Bemidbar (A Commentary on the Book of Numbers, Chapters XXII-XXXVI). By Jacob Licht. Shmuel Ahituv, ed. MAYER I. GRUBER 224 Prophecy and Prophets. Yehoshua Gitay, ed. PAUL L. REDDITT 226 Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets. By Renita J. Weems. ESTHER FUCHS 229 Word-Order Variation in Isaiah 40-55: A Functional Perspective. By Michael Rosenbaum. KRISTIN JOACHIMSEN 231 Jeremiah, Volume 1: 1—25 and Volume 2: 26—52. By William McKane. JACK R. LUNDBOM 234 The Book of Ezekiel, Chapters 1-24. By Daniel I. Block. KENNETH D. HUTCHENS 236 A God of Vengeance? Understanding the Psalms of Divine Wrath. By Erich Zenger. Linda M. Maloney, trans. JAMES W. WATTS 238 The Iconography of Job through the Centuries. Artists as Biblical Interpreters. By Samuel Terrien. IZAK CORNELIUS 241 Ruth: A Commentary. By Kirsten Nielsen. AMY-JILL LEVINE 243 Women on the Biblical Road: Ruth, Naomi, and the Female Journey. By Mishael Maswani Caspi and Rachel S. Havrelock. SUSANNE SCHOLZ 246 Esther: A Commentary. By Jon D. Levenson. ANGEL MANUEL RODRIGUEZ Hebrew Studies 39 (1998) 4 Table of Contents 248 Herod: King the Jews and Friend of the Romans. By Peter Richardson. SARA MANDELL 251 The Ancient Library of Qumran. By Frank M. Cross. MICHAEL C. DOUGLAS 254 From Patriarch to Priest: The Levi-Priestly Tradition from Aramaic Levi to Testament of Levi. By Robert A. Kugler. EILEEN SCHULLER 257 Reading the Rabbis: The Talmud as Literature. By David Kraemer. ARYEH COHEN 259 Covenant of Blood: Circumcision and Gender in Rabbinic Judaism. By Lawrence A. Hoffman. BEVERLY P. MORTENSEN 262 Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism. By Michael D. Swartz. NATHANIEL DEUTSCH 264 “Your Voice Like a Ram’s Horn” : Themes and Texts in Traditional Jewish Preaching. By Marc Saperstein. SHAUL REGEV 267 Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature. By Alan Mintz. SARA R. HOROWITZ 270 Israeli Holocaust Drama. Michael Taub, ed. ZEV GARBER 272 Conversations with Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer. By Amia Lieblich. Naomi Seidman, trans. Chana Kronfeld and Naomi Seidman, eds. NAOMI SOKOLOFF 275 Facing the Fires: Conversations with A. B. Yehoshua. By Bernard Horn. YAEL HALEVI-WISE Hebrew Studies 38 (1997) § Table of Contents 216 The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion. R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder, eds. STEVE WEITZMAN 279 PERIODICALS AND COLLECTED ESSAYS 293 BOOKS RECEIVED 297 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS 298 NAPH OFFICERS 299 MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION Articles in Hebrew Studies are indexed in Religion Index One: Periodicals, Internationale Zeitschriftenschau fiir Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete (IZBG), Index to Jewish Periodicals, and Old Testament Abstracts. Book reviews are indexed in JZBG and Index to Book Reviews in Religion.