JANES Relaunched: Volume 33, Issue 1, 2018

Volume 33, Issue 1, 2018

JANES 33-1 Front Matter

JANES Editors

JANES Volume 33 Front Matter

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The Canopy of Translation: Research on the Biblical Hebrew Verbal Tense System in the Light of Bible Translations

Ohad Cohen

Drawing on linguistic research on the translation of Hebrew verb forms, the present article endeavors to shed light on the manner in which nineteenth and early-twentieth century grammarians...

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  Rupert and Rashi

  Isaac GottliebStewart Vanning

  In this article we will show similarities in the writings of Rupert of Deutz

  
  
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  The Story of Gideon's Destruction of the Altar of Baal (Judges 6:25–32): An Intertextual Reading in Light of Two Biblical Passages

  Hava Shalom-Guy

  An intertextual reading of the story of Gideon's destruction of the altar of Baal

  
  
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  Localized Scribal Systems at Elephantine and Qumran

  Russell Hobson

  The term “Qumran practice,” coined by E. Tov, is most commonly understood to denote the relatively full orthography

  
  
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  Ma’amireka—Ma’amirenu

  Murray Lichtenstein

  The traditional liturgical poem for the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur kī ˀānū ˁammexā (“For We are Your People”) asks for divine forgiveness

  
  

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The Masoretic Mnemonic Device of the Third Verse Siman

David Marcus

In the Hebrew Bible there are many verses and phrases which are paralleled elsewhere with only minor changes.

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Qohelet 12:1-7 – Intimations of Mortality

George Savran

For all the importance that death has in the Bible, its occurrence is generally reported in a perfunctory manner

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Psalm 6 in Comparative Perspective

S. David Sperling

The study of the Bible against its background in the ancient Near East has fallen on hard times in recent decades for several reasons

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  Visual Poetry in the Ugaritic Tablet KTU 1.4

  Jonathan YogevShamir Yona

  Shortly after the Ugaritic texts that were found in Ras Shamra began to be interpreted, it was discovered that many were written in a poetic style

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