BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS (p. 11)

BIBLICAL STUDIES

ALAN COOPER and BERNARD R. GOLDSTEIN
Exodus and Massot in History and Tradition (p. 15)

ROBERT GOOD
Zechariah 14:13 and Related Texts: Brother Against Brother in War (p. 39)

EDWARD L. GREENSTEIN
YHWH's Lightning in Psalm 29:7 (p. 49)

AVI HURVITZ
byt-`wlm and byt-qbrwt: Two Funerary Terms in
Biblical Literature and Their Linguistic Background (p. 59)

SARA JAPHET
yd wshm (Isa 56:5)-A Different Proposal (p. 69)

STEPHEN J. LIEBERMAN
Are Biblical Parallels Euclidean? (p. 81)

DAVID MARCUS
Ridiculing the Ephraimites: The Shibboleth Incident (Judges 12:6) (p. 95)

JACOB MILGROM
Two Biblical Hebrew Priestly Terms: sheqets and tame' (p. 107)

DENNIS PARDEE
Acrostics and Parallelism: The Parallelistic Structure of Psalm 111 (p. 117)

SHALOM M. PAUL
Exodus 1:21: 'To Found a Family'-a Biblical and Akkadian Idiom (p. 139)

ROBERT J. RATNER
Morphological Variation in Biblical Hebrew Rhetoric (p. 143)

GARY A. RENDSBURG
Israelian Hebrew Features in Genesis 49 (p. 161)

STANISLAV SEGERT
Assonance and Rhyme in Hebrew Poetry (p. 171)

SHEMARYAHU TALMON
The 'Topped Triad': A Biblical Literary Convention and the
'Ascending Numerical Pattern' (p. 181)

ZIONY ZEVIT
Cognitive Theory and the Memorability of Biblical Poetry (p. 199)

SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD

MAGEN BROSHI
The Serpents' Pool and Herod's Monument: A Reconsideration (p. 213)

JOSEPH A. FITZMYER
The Gathering in of the Community's Teacher (p. 223)

MARIANNE LUIJKEN GEVIRTZ
Abram's Dream in the Genesis Apocryphon: Its Motifs and
Their Function (p. 229)

JUDAIC STUDIES

LEWIS M. BARTH
Genesis 15 and the Problems of Abraham's Seventh Trial (p. 245)

JACOB BAZAK
The Authority of Arbitrators to Amend or to Change
Their Award in Jewish Law (p. 265)

MICHAEL L. KLEIN
Serugin (Shorthand) of Onqelos from the Cairo Genizah (p. 275)

STEPHEN M. PASSAMANECK
A Trace of Tobacco in the Shevut Ya`akov (p. 289)

YONA SABAR
Targum De Targum: An Old Neo-Aramaic Version of the
Targum on Song of Songs (p. 303)

MODERN PERIOD

WILLIAM CUTTER
Ancient Coins (Language in T. Carmi's Translation of "Hamlet") (p. 319)

EDWARD BERNARD GLICK
Israel, America, and American Jews: From the Eighties to the Nineties (p. 339)

DAN ISAAC
The Worth of a Jew's Eye: Reflections of the Talmud in
The Merchant of Venice (p. 349)

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STANLEY GEVIRTZ (p. 377)

PLATES (p. 393)