Recently added articles from Hebrew Studies Journal:
A narrative pattern and its role in source criticism.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The narrative portions of the Pentateuch (and the Deuteronomistic History) betray a consistent pattern in which commands are fulfilled by the same verb, in the same binyan, in the waw-consecutive, with virtually no intervening text. Because the pattern is uniform across all books and ...
The grammar of social gender in biblical hebrew.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... When does the Hebrew Bible's masculine or "male" wording allow for women to be in view? This paper addresses that question via a philological (inductive) approach, taking the biblical corpus as a whole and distilling the rules of its linguistic system according to a plain-sense reading of ...
Poetic discourse and the problem of verbal tenses in the oracles of Balaam.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The paper aims to contribute to the discussion about the problem of verbal tenses in biblical poetic discourse. The present research is based on three main insights: (1) The verbal forms in the poetic text are analyzed according to the universal semantic and pragmatic parameters; (2) The ...
Scripture, wisdom, and authority in 4QInstruction: understanding the use of numbers 30:8-9 in 4Q416.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Qumran wisdom text 4QInstruction makes use of several passages found in Torah. Among the passages used are two verses from Numbers 30. This article examines the author's use of Num 30:8-9 in an effort to characterize how Scripture has been incorporated into this wisdom document ....
Who were the "mixed multitude"?(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In Exod 12:38, we read that when the Israelites left Egypt, a mixed multitude ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]) went up with them. Therefore, the question arises: Who were the mixed multitude? Interestingly, the word [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] is also attested to at the time of ...