Hebrew Studies: A Journal Devoted to the Hebrew Language and Literature. Volume XLVIII, 2007.

Octavo, paper covers, frontispiece portrait, frontispiece photo, 429 pp. Articles are "Jewish Ambivalence towards the Bible," Frederick E. Greenspan, Scratched Silver and Painted Walls: Can We Date Biblical Texts Archaeologically," Ziony Zevit, "'Lest Ye Perish in the Way': Ritual and Kinship in Exodus 4:24-26," Christopher B. Hays, "Dating Prophetic Texts," Marvin A. Sweeney, "Ethics and Wisodm in the Book of Proverbs," Michael V. Fox, "The Isha Zara in Proverbs 1-9: Allegory and Allegorization," Tova Forti, "A Cognative Linguistic Perspective on Hineh in The Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges and Ruth," C.H.J. Van Der Merwe, "From Linguistics to Text-Criticism and Back: Wayyiqtol Constructions with Long Prefixed Verbal Forms in Biblical Hebrew," Yigal Bloch, "Hala as a Discource Marker of Justification in Biblical Hebrew," Adina Moshavi, "Rabbinic Responses to Aging," J. Gordon Harris, "Feminist Hebrew Literary Criticism: The Political Unconscious," Esther Fuchs, "J.L. Gordon's Early Stores and Their Rolein His Poetic World," Einat Baram Eshel, "Words, words, words," Zev Garber, "The Young Historians or Chronicles of Homes: Lily Perry's 'Bikur Ha-Talyayin (The Executioner's Visit)," Tsila Abramovitz Ratner, "Metaphors in Hebrew Slang, and Their Parallels in Hebrew Literature and in the Sources," Shmuel Bolotzky, "'Efshar Kafeh?' 'May I Some Coffee?' Non-Sentential Utterances in Colloquial Hebrew," Esther Borochovsky Bar-Aba, "Two Perspectives on Abraham Regelson's 'Hakukot Otiyotayich' Engraved are Your Letters)," Gideon Katz & Gideon Nevo.…