Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications
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ויצלהו מידם: Proleptic Summaries, Conative Imperfects, and Harmonization in the Joseph Story and Other Biblical Narratives
(Society of Biblical Literature, 2021-12)Despite Rashbam’s solution, a good number of prominent source critics, from the eighteenth century to the present day, have followed Jerome in using the philologically flimsy conative interpretation of ו יַּ צַּלִהֵ וּ to ... -
Hydrogen Sulfide: New Light on Ancient Malodors, Biblical Toponyms, and Comparative Semitic from a Medieval Scroll
(Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 2021)It has always been assumed that there is no need for students of ancient Hebrew—let alone students of Proto-Canaanite—to concern themselves with post-talmudic Hebrew1. That assumption, however, is shown to be incorrect by ... -
On the Use of Greek Translations in Dating the Shift from Targum Proto–Jonathan to Targum Yerushalmi in Ezekiel
(Brill ; Jerusalem: Magnes Press Hebrew University, 2019)It is generally believed that there was a shift in Eretz Israel from an Ur-targum to the Prophets (“Targum Proto-Jonathan”) to a later Palestinian offshoot (“Targum Yerushalmi”), whose precise character and origin are ... -
The Lachish Ewer: An Offering and a Tribute
(Israel Exploration Society, 2016)Joseph Naveh’s Early History of the Alphabet is a magisterial survey. I learned an enormous amount from reading it and even more from auditing the author’s epigraphy class during a year that I spent at the Institute ... -
The Practices of the Land of Egypt (Lev. 18:3): Incest, ʿAnat, and Israel in the Egypt of Ramesses the Great
(Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2016)To my mind, the simplest, most straightforward answer is that the Israelites were in Egypt during Ramesses’s reign. Many of them––especially if they worked in Ramesses’s new residential capital––would have heard the title ... -
Ḫ > Ḥ in Assyria and Babylonia
(Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press, 2011)Conclusions The available evidence suggests that H > Ḥ occurred later in Babylonia than in Assyria, in both Akkadian and Aramaic. In Assyria, it seems to have occurred-for some speakers, at least-before 669 BCE; in ... -
“The ‘Lemma Complement’ in Hebrew Commentaries from Byzantium and Its Diffusion to Northern France and Germany
(Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG, 2011)The publication of a corpus of Byzantine Jewish texts from the Cairo Genizah by Nicholas de Lange2 has provided important new data for reconstructing the history of Jewish biblical exegesis in the Middle Ages. De Lange was ... -
Linguistic Traces of Jewish Traders from Islamic Lands in the Frankish Kingdom
(Academy of Hebrew Language, 2011)The earliest extant rabbinic literature from Christian Europe contains Arabic loanwords: חלדרובא '(camel) hump', מעריפה 'non-Jewish trading partner', מערופא 'id.', and עמברא 'ambergris'. The last two words have an Aramaic ... -
A-coloring Consonants and Furtive Pataḥ in Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic According to the Tiberian Masorah
(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ; באר-שבע : הוצאת הספרים של אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, 2009)Elisha Qimron’s תיארקמ תימרא is an important work that contains many thought-provoking discussions. In this note, I would like to address three questions raised, directly or indirectly, by his brief discussion of furtive ... -
The Lost Meaning of Deuteronomy 33:2 as Preserved in the Palestinian Targum to the Decalogue
(Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2009)This essay is a sequel to a previous article by one of the present writers, which claims to recover the lost meaning of מימינו אשדת למו Deut 33:2.1 ...Weinfeld adduces much extrabiblical evidence ... -
Proto–Canaanite Serpent Spells in the Pyramid Texts: A First Look at the History of Hebrew in the Third Millennium B.C.E.,
(General of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2008)םיטסקטה ראש לכמ הברהב םימודק הלאה םיטסקטה םנמז תב ,נ"הספל עבראו םירשעה האמה ןמ איה סנוא לש הדימריפה .ונידיבש תידכאבש הלא ונייהד ,תיחרזמ תימשב רתויב םימודקה םיפוצרה םיטסקטה קר ונל תנתונ תאזה הדימריפה .תיאלבאו terminus ... -
The Byzantine Biblical Commentaries from the Genizah: Rabbanite vs. Karaite
(Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2007)In light of the above, it seems quite certain that Reuel is a Rabbanite. His commentary and the Commentary on Genesis and Exodus appear to be the best representatives of the native Byzantine Rabbanite tradition, relatively ... -
Påṯaḥ and Qåmeṣ: On the Etymology and Evolution of the Names of the Hebrew Vowels
(Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2009)בכלל פרסומיו המאלפים הרבים של פרום׳ אהרן דותן יש אחד שכותרתו פותחת במילים "פתחי חטפין". עליי להודות שכל אימת שביקשתי להשמיע כותרת זו בקול באתי במבוכה, שכן בושתי לגלות שוב ושוב שאינני יודע, פשוטו כמשמעו, כיצד יש להגות שתי ... -
On the Rise and Fall of Canaanite Religion at Baalbek: A Tale of Five Toponyms
(Society of Biblical Literature [Society Publisher], 2009)In this article, I shall attempt to show that the rise and fall of Canaanite religion at Baalbek from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period can be traced with the help of five toponyms: (1) Mbk Nhrm (Source of the Two ... -
Variation, Simplifying Assumptions and the History of Spirantization in Aramaic and Hebrew
(Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2007)Like all ancient historians, those of us who deal with the history of ancient languages are dependent on chance discoveries for the data with which we work. We are faced with enormous gaps in the historical record, and we ... -
On the Monophthongization of *ay to ī in Phoenician and Northern Hebrew and the Preservation of Archaic/Dialectal Forms in the Masoretic Vocalization
(GBPress- Gregorian Biblical Press, 2007)Until recently, the Phoenician reflex of *ay did not seem to warrant much attention. Van den Branden, Segert, and Friedrich & Röllig were content to give the reflex as ë and supply a few examples2. It is only in the last ... -
Richard C. Steiner, “Boles and Šiqmim [Amos 7:14]: Words Borrowed from Old South Arabian and Trees Imported from Yemen,” Tema, vol. 9 (2006): 17-44 (Hebrew)
(Netanya : Association for Society and Culture, 2006).Banquet במאה התשיעית רשם אשורבניפל, בטקסט ייחודי הכתוב על מה שמכונה את העצים, השתילים והצמחים שראה במערכות המלחמה שלו ושייבאם ,Stela לנטיעה בגנים המושקים שהקים בבירתו החדשה בכלח )נמרוד(. הנאה ותועלת נתערב ו זה בזה. הקף ... -
Påṯaḥ and Qåmeṣ: On the Etymology and Evolution of the Names of the Hebrew Vowels
(GBPress- Gregorian Biblical Press, 2005)The פתח sign is well known, and for most of my life I have wondered at the fact that people read the t with a lenis pronunciation, when it ought to be fortis. Furthermore, most Jews read the word with the stress on the ... -
A Jewish Aramaic (Or Hebrew) 'Laissez‐Passer' from the Egyptian Port of Berenike
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Albounout "Frankincense" and Alsounalph "Oxtongue": Phoenician-Punic Botanical Terms with Prothetic Vowels from an Egyptian Papyrus and a Byzantine Codex
(Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 2001)The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden, usually dated to the third century c.E. on paleographic grounds, contains a Semitic loanword that appears to have been overlooked by Semitists. In V/6, the word appears in ...
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