Pomegranates and golden bells : studies in biblical, Jewish and Near Eastern ritual, law, and literature in honour of Jacob Milgrom

Preface, by David Noel FreedmanBibliography of the Published Writings of Jacob MilgromAbbreviationsSECTION I: RITUAL, LAW, AND THEIR SOURCESThe Bearing of Sin in the Priestly Literature - Baruch J. SchwartzAnother Prolegomenon to Leviticus 17:11 - Rolf RendtorffPhilology, Archaeology, and a Terminus a Quo for P’s ‘hatta’t’ Legislation - Ziony Zevit‘ola’ and ‘hatta’t’ in the ‘Temple Scroll’ - Lawrence H. SchiffmanIntentional and Unintentional Sin in the Dead Sea Scrolls - Gary A. AndersonSome Considerations on the Translation of ‘kapporet’ in the Septuagint - Klaus KochAn Ethnoarchaeological Analysis of Hannah’s Sacrifice - Carol MeyersThe Akedah: A Paradigm of Sacrifice - Gordon J. WenhamCensus and Intercession in a Priestly Text (Exodus 30:11-16) and in Its Midrashic Transformation - Michael FishbaneConceptual Aspects in Exodus 25:1-9 - Rolf P. KnierimThe Incense of the Tabernacle - Yehuda FeliksSolomon’s Golden Vessels (1 Kings 7:48-50) and the Cult of the First Temple - Victor Avigdor HurowitzTerms and Epithets Relating to the Jerusalem Temple Compound in the Book of Chronicles: The Linguistic Aspect - Avi HurvitzProphets, Priests, and the Efficacy of Ritual - Ronald S. HendelConcerning Amos’ Repudiation of the Cult - Meir WeissDavid Autem Remansit in Hierusalem: Felix Coniunctio! - David P. WrightSacred Geography as Narrative Structure in 2 Kings 11 - Burke O. LongPoetic Structure in Leviticus - Mary Douglas4QLev (4Q25, 26a, 26b) - Emanuel TovA Calendrical Scroll from a Qumran Cave: ‘Mismarot’ B, 4Q321 - Shemaryahu Talmon and Israel KnohlSimon the Just: Simon I or Simon II? - James C. VanderKamThe Road to En-dor - Mordechai CoganThe Significance of the Veil in the Ancient Near East - Karel van der ToornThe Formula ‘If He Shall Not (Do)’ and the Problem of Sanctions in Biblical Law - Gershon BrinThe Fundamental Code Illustrated: The Third Commandment - Herbert B. HuffmonSome Archaeological Notes on Deuteronomy - Jeffrey H. TigayCould keleb in Deuteronomy 23:19 Actually Refer to a Canine? - Elaine Adler GoodfriendThe Social-Legal Origin for the Image of God as Redeemer of Israel - Jeremiah UntermanThe Place of the People in the Making of Law and Judgment - Ze’ev WeismanThe Rhetoric of Collective Responsibility in Deuteronomic Law - Dale PatrickMatrilineal Determination of Jewishness: Biblical and Near Eastern Roots - Mayer I. GruberA Fragment on Fetal Life and Pregnancy in 4Q270 - Joseph M. BaumgartenStylistic Conceits II: The Absolute Infinitive in Biblical Law - Reuven YaronOn the Political Use of the Bible in Modern Israel: An Engaged Critique - Moshe GreenbergA Peace of Compromise between Israel and the Arabs - Ze’ev W. FalkSECTION II: OTHER LITERARY, HISTORICAL, AND LINGUISTIC STUDIESUnruly Elements in Late Bronze Canaanite Society: Anson F. RaineyGenesis 14: An Enigma - Francis I. AndersenJuxtaposition in the Abraham Cycle - Yair ZakovitchReuben’s Sin with Bilhah in the ‘Testament of Reuben’ - James KugelThe Firstborn Plague and the Reading Process - Edward L. GreensteinA Contest of Magicians? The Plague Stories in P - John Van SetersThe Hidden Made Manifest: Muslim Traditions and the ‘Latent Content’ of Biblical and Rabbinic Stories - David J. HalperinThe Song of Deborah and Barak: Its Prosodic Levels and Structure - Jan P. FokkelmanObservations on the Jael-Sisera Story (Judges 4-5) - Baruch MargalitReflections on Historiography in the Account of Jehoshaphat - Ralph W. KleinThe Deuteronomist and the Exile - Yair HoffmanThe ‘Desert of the Sea’ Pronouncement (Isaiah 21:1-10) - Benjamin UffenheimerA Misunderstood Medieval Translation of ‘sered’ (Isaiah 44:13) and Its Impact on Modern Scholarship - Joshua BlauJeremiah’s Instructions to Seraiah (Jeremiah 51:59-64) - William McKaneHosea 7:16: Gibberish Jabber - Shalom M. PaulThe Crisis of the Mid-fifth Century B.C.E. Second Zechariah and the ‘End’ of Prophecy - Eric M. MeyersThe Structure of Psalm 119 - David Noel FreedmanSome Performative Utterances in the Bible - Delbert R. HillersScurrilous Etymologies - William W. HalloSome Remarks on the Semantics of the Root ‘b’t’ in Classical Hebrew - Jacob HoftijzerIs There a Word for the Royal Harem in the Bible? - Abraham MalamatThe ‘*qatala’ Form in Ugaritic Narrative Poetry - Mark S. Smith4Q127: An Unknown Jewish Apocryphal Work? - Devorah DimantSage and Super-sage in Philo of Alexandria - David WinstonINDEXESIndex of AuthorsIndex of ScriptureIndex of Ancient Sources