Includes bibliographical references.

Volume One -- Ancient Near Eastern Studies -- Athe adaptation processes of mythologemes: examples from ancient near eastern literature / Noga Ayali-Darshan -- Babylonian months in Ugarit, Mari-on-the-Ḫabur, and the Assyria in the thirteenth-eleventh centuries BCE / Yigal Bloch -- The "hunger years" and the "sea peoples": preliminary observations on the recently published letters from the "house of Urtenu" archive at Ugarit / Yoram Cohen -- Some thoughts on tu-ta-ti in light of the Tukudh syllabary of Archdeacon Robert MCDonald / Wayne Horowitz -- The Mandaeans in the face of modernity: Yahia Bihram, the Pasha's wife, and the British empire / Matthew Morgenstern -- The role of Thitmanit as a mourner in the Kirta epic / Shirly Natan-Yulzary -- Frsutrations of an epigrapher: remarks on the Ugaritic text RS 5.180 + 5.198 / Dennis Pardee -- Negotiation tactics, diplomacy, and literary design in Ugaritic epic poetry / Frank H. Polak -- Studies in biblical Hebrew and Northwest semitic languages -- When five is not 5: the Bible's nonliteral use of numbers / Adele Berlin -- The lingustic dating of Lamentations: insights from the Tiberias stylistic classifier for the Hebrew Bible / Joshua Berman -- Three-tier names: an Onomastic formula from Jewish antiquity / Aaron Demsky -- A note on the vocalization and accentuation of hawah and hawu in Tiberian biblical Hebrew / Steven E. Fassberg -- On the etymology of Aramaic srsypa "footstool" / James Nathan Ford -- A note on the pluractional Piel / W. Randall Garr -- Purity and profanation: the root *ḥ-l-l in biblical Hebrew and Semitic / Jo Ann Hackett and John Huehnergard -- The rhetorical marker wath hnh and resolving a source: redaction-critical problem in Exodus 3 / Jaeyoung Jeon -- 2 Kings 6:1-3 as an instance of conversational repair / Adina Moshavi -- The metaphorical and symbolic uses of flora in the Bible: identification and translation of "Hyssop" / Jacobus A. Naude, Cynthia L. Miller-Naude, and Tshokolo J.Makutoane -- Archaic lexicon in biblical Hebrew and the phenomena of lingustic convergence: a case for svt spr (Judges 5:14) / Tania Notarius -- bn byt: new light on an overlooked biblical administrative term and its historical setting / Nili Samet -- Exodus 1, Akkadian pilku, and Israelite corvee labor / Zevit -- Studies in biblical law and narrative -- Ishmael: father of the western nomads / Yairah Amit -- Biblical law: a successful relationship between law and religion / Assnat Bartor -- Playing with fire: indeterminacy and danger in the Nadab and Abihu episode / Yitzhaq Feder -- The opening section of the book of Kings: 1 Kings 1:1-4 / Amos Frisch -- Noah and his sons: the narative's dual status and the structure of Genesis 1-11 / Jonathan Grossman -- The prophetic speech in Judges 6:7-10 reconsidered / Sara Japhet -- The significance of Leah's soft eyes (Gen 29:17) / David Marcus -- Two readings of Jacob's dream (Gen 28:10-22): "the angels of God" - What are they, and whatis their role? / Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg -- Form follows content in biblical literature / Gary A. Rendsburg -- Samson as riddle / Jack M. Sasson -- The Gideon cycle and the Deuteronomist's critique of hereditary monarchy: an intertextual perspective / Diane M. Sharon -- What is Melchizedek the king-priest doing in the Abraham narrative? / Zvi Shimon -- What not to do with the Name of Yahweh your God / S. David Sperling -- wytslhu mydm: proleptic summaries, conative imperfects, and harmonization in the Joseph story and other biblical narratives / Richard C. Steiner -- Glimpses of God / Phyllis Trible -- Textual emendations based on style and syntax / Shamir Yona

Volume Two -- World order in the doxologies of Amos and Job / Jonathan Ben-Dov -- The art of poetry in Jeremiah 17:5-8 / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp -- Seductive speech and double voice in Proverbs 7 and Song of Songs / J. Cheryl Exum -- Translating two Job-ish Psalms / Everett Fox -- What do Job's friends want him to do? / Michael V. Fox -- Seeing God in the Psalms: the crisis of biblical religion / Stephen A. Geller -- "evil" or "agitated": the meaning of reshayim in Job 3:17 / Dominick S. Hernandez -- God's ambiguous Oaths in Amos 4:2 and Psalm 89:36 (and Psalm 60:8//108:8?) / Shalom E. Holtz -- Psalm 29: Canaanite or Israelite? the evidence of the numerical structure / Israel Knohl -- Revisiting Edward L. Greenstein's "the problem of evil in the book of Job" / Adriane Leveen -- The grammar of creation / Seth L. Sanders -- Turning inward: addressing the Nefesh in biblical poetry / George Savran -- God as Defendant, advocate, and judge in the book of Job / Konrad Schmid -- Conversation with one's heart or soul in wisdom literature / Nili Shupak -- Leviathan's actions in Job 41:22-24 / Ellen van Wolde -- A new approach to the canonization of the Hebrew Bible: the case of Chronicles, not contested yet not cited often / Pamela Barmash -- The phenomenon of alternative interpretations in the commentary of Rabbi Tuvia son of Rabbi Eliezer, Leqah Tov, on the five scrolls / Gershon Brin -- The Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:1-43) as the plan of Jewish history / Alan Cooper -- Targumic wordplay / Isaac Gottlieb -- Genres of prophetic rhetoric in rabbinic exegesis / Robert A. Harris -- "Servant of Solomon": sensitivity to language and context in Moses Gabbai's supercommentary on Rashi's Commentary on the Torah / Eric Lawee -- The reluctant Brick Maker: Babel and Abraham in Pseudo-Philo and Bereshit Rabbah / Diana Lipton -- Fish swallows man: the tale of Jonah and its reception history in folkloristic perspective / Susan Niditch -- Gender, ethnicity, identity: duality in the book of Esther / Orit Avnery -- Women, men, and God: hierarchical triangle in the Hebrew Bible / Adi Marili -- Awe-tism and the Biblical God / Ora Horn Prouser -- Indeterminacy of meaning in the art of Yehuda Levy-Aldema: the case of "teku" in the Sodom and Gomorrah art series (Gen 19:32) / Susanne Scholz -- Why did the serpent choose to address Eve rather than Adam (Gen. 3:1)? Eve, the serpent, and the reader's responsibility / Yael Shemesh -- Biblical interpretation as mind reading: Aviva Zornberg and the problem of other minds / Steven Weitzman