Hebrew Studies: A Journal Devoted to the Hebrew Language and Literature. Volume XLIX 2008.

Octavo, paper covers, frontispiece portrait, 409 pp. Articles are "The Grammar of Social Gender in Biblical Hebrew," David E.S. Stein, "Who Were the 'Mixed Multitudes?" Shaul Bar, "A Narrative Pattern and its Role in Source Criticism," Joel S. Baden, "Poetic Discourse and the Problem of Verbal Tenses in the Oracles of Balaam," Tania Notarius, "Scripture, Wisdom, and Authority in 4Qinstruction: Understanding the Use of Numbers 30:8-9 in 4Q416," Daryl F. Jefferies, "On the Narrative Discourse in Tannaitic Language: An Exploration of the Ma'aseh and the Pa'am ahat Discourse Units," Rivka Shemesh, "Rabbinic Elements in the Verbal System of Maskilic Hebrew Fiction 1857-1881," Lily Kahn, "Love, Suddenly: Etgar Keret Invents Hebrew Romance," Yaron Peleg, "The Woman-Artist in Ruth Almog's Fiction: Her Formation and Engagement with the World," Rachel Feldhay Brenner, "Multilayers in Modern Hebrew Syntax," Tamar Zewi, "Hebrew Word Structure: Its Rendering in Pointing and in Latin Conversion," Uzzi Ornan, "Aspects of Dialogic Syntax: Examples from Yehoshua and Grossman," Adian Abadi, "Beyond Martyrdom: Rereading Shamir's 'With His Own Hands,'" Philip Hollander, Shaked Symposium: "Gershon Shaked's History of Hebrew Narrative Fiction: A Zionist Enterprise," Avner Holtzman, "The Challenges of Writing a Literary History of Early Modernist Hebrew Fiction: Gershon Shaked and Beyond," Shachar Pinsker, "Red Gershon and Reb Yudl: Thoughts on the Achievement of Gershon Shaked on the First Anniversary of His Death," Alan Mintz, "Inter-Generational Portraits: Agnon, Shaked, Gender and Narrative," Anne Golomb Hoffman. …