Dear Colleagues, In 2020, Bialik published Semitic, Biblical, and Jewish Studies: Festschrift for Richard Steiner (ed. Aaron Koller, Mordechai Z. Cohen, and Adina Moshavi; Jerusalem and New York: Bialik and Yeshiva University Press, 2020), featuring articles from leading scholars in Europe, North America, and Israel on the topics mentioned in the title. The contents of the volume are below.
Because of distribution problem and COVID, Bialik had trouble shipping outside of Israel, so they sent me 50 copies of the volume. I recently heard from a librarian who tried to acquire a copy from Bialik that they said it was out of print, apparently forgetting that they were supposed to send interested buyers to me. So, as a public service announcement: if any library (or individual) would like to purchase a copy of this important volume, please be in touch with me directly. The cost is the list price of $40, plus $5 to ship within the US. All best wishes, Aaron Koller Yeshiva University Semitic, Biblical, and Jewish Studies: Festschrift for Richard Steiner (ed. Aaron Koller, Mordechai Z. Cohen, and Adina Moshavi; Jerusalem and New York: Bialik and Yeshiva University Press, 2020). English Section Semitic and Near Eastern Studies · Shalom Holtz, “Preliminary Observations on Trial Procedures in the Al-Yaḫudu Texts” · Robert Ritner, “The Supposed Earliest Hieroglyphic Mention of Israel (Berlin ÄM 21687): A Refutation” · John Huehnergard, “Of Peoples and Tongues: Semitic *nis- and *lisān-“ · Simon Hopkins, “Alif maqṣūra, final imāla, and pre-Classical Arabic” · Leonid Kogan, “Studies in Comparative Semitic Lexicography” · Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo, “The Kingdom of Idalion according to Epigraphic Sources” Biblical Language and Other Biblical Studies · Adina Moshavi, “How Have the Mighty Fallen? On Supposedly Exclamative אֵיךְ and אֵיכָה in Biblical Hebrew” · Aaron Koller, “Tree and Wood, Polysemy and Vagueness: Detangling the Branches of the Hebrew Word עץ” · Malcah Yaeger-Dror, “Prolegomenon to a Study of Biblical Prosody” · Edward L. Greenstein, “The Heart as an Organ of Speech in Biblical Hebrew” · Jan Joosten, “A Pseudo-Classicism in Esther” · W. Randall Garr, “Hebrew Causative Morphology” · Geoffrey Khan, “Remarks on the Pronunciation of Dageš in the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew” · High H. W. Williamson, “Bewitching Problems in Isaiah 8:19-20” · James C. VanderKam, “Making Text-Critical Decisions in Jubilees 2” Rabbinic Literature and Medieval Studies · Mordechai Z. Cohen, “‘The Firmly Established Text’: On Maimonides’ Expression al-naṣṣ al-muḥḳam in His Introduction to the Mishnah” · Aaron D. Rubin, “Judeo-Italian Biblical Glossaries: The Book of Haggai” · Shnayer Z. Leiman, “The Claim of the Boethusians: A Note on the Plain Sense of M. Menahot 10:3” · Haggai Ben-Shammai, “Text and Context in Saadya’s Bible Translations” · Jeffrey H. Tigay, “The Literary and Exegetical Significance of Some Differences Between the Parashâ and Chapter Divisions” · Aharon Maman, “On the Trail of Ibn Quraysh’s Lost Book, Sefer Av vaEm” Hebrew Section Semitic Languages and the Languages of the Bible · Cyril Aslanov, “Possible Evidence for Early Contacts between Hittite and Semitic Languages” · Ada Yardeni, “A Discussion of Three Topics in the Legal Documents from Naḥal Ḥever” · Chaim Cohen, “Brilliant Solutions of Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra to Linguistic Problems in the Torah in Light of Modern Biblical Philology – Part I (Genesis 4:10, 13; Genesis 14:10)” · Moshe Bar-Asher, “The Saying ‘The Lord is a Man of War’ and its Incarnations through the Ages” Biblical Studies · Yitzhak Berger, “Mordecai and ‘mor deror’: On the Presence of God in the Book of Esther” · Sara Japhet, “Again: Who is ‘Darius the Persian’ (Nehemiah 12:22)?” Rabbinic Literature and the Middle Ages · Aron Dotan, “An Ancient Tradition Regarding the Number of Verses in the Bible” · Yeshayahu Maori, “Exegetical Commonsense of Rabbi Abraham Bakrat in the Sefer Zikkaron” · Simcha Emanuel, “Linguistic Innovations in the Piyyuṭ Commentaries of the Middle Ages: A Case Study” · Joshua Blau and Joseph Yahalom, “Judah Halevi on the Hebrew Language: An Annotated Translation of the First Part of the Second Section of the Kuzari (§§76-81)” · Ephraim Kanarfogel, “Approaches to Prophecy in the Northern French and German Exegetical Traditions of the Middle Ages” · Shamma Yehuda Friedman, “‘Bring out your mother’s ketubba to me’: The Story of Hillel the Elder and the People of Alexandria, and the Exposition of ‘Common Parlance’” · Mark Steiner, “Blasphemer, Idolater, and A Haughty Sinner in the Thought of Maimonides” A PDF of the table of contents can be viewed at: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bialik-publishing.co.il/files/catalog/pdf/Steiner_TOC_HEB_ENG.pdf__;!!KGKeukY!xztppKl1e6k1-1lRgxkfQnHwvpo8jK-6V9Gsq-4JxUFOqcJv18fq7IjjpaEAEc9Xg4Xh3iIgdWmY1m9K4qQo-tVNdQTP3nU$
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