The Word of the Lord Shall Go Forth

Preface Foreword Abbreviations Sharing the Results of Scholarly Research Philip J. King I. Hebrew Poetry and Prophecy Isaiah 33: An Isaianic Elaboration of the Zion Tradition J. J. M. Roberts Isaiah 55: Invitation to a Feast Richard J. Clifford MSRT HBRYT, 'the obligation of the covenant,' in Ezekiel 20:37 Moshe Greenberg The Minor Prophets and Ebla Mitchell Dahood The use of tora in Haggai 2:11 and the Role of the Prophet in the Restoration Community Eric M. Meyers Dating the Book of Malachi: A Linguistic Reexamination Andrew E. Hill Psalm 2 and Belit's Oracle for Ashurbanipal Helmer Ringgren New Exodus, Covenant, and Restoration in Psalm 23 Michael L. Barre, S. S., and John S. Kselman, S. S. Studies in the Structure of Hebrew Verse: The Prosody of Lamentations 1:1-22 Frank Moore Cross Sirach 10:19-11:6: Textual Criticism, Poetic Analysis, and Exegesis Alexander Di Lella, O.F.M. 'Prose Particle' Counts of the Hebrew Bible Francis I. Andersen and A. Dean Forbes Hoy and Hoy-Oracles: A Neglected Syntactic Aspect Delbert R. Hillers II. The Prose of the Hebrew Bible A Syllable-Word Structure Analysis of Genesis 12-23 Cornelius B. Houk Abraham and David in the Theology of the Yahwist Jack R. Lundbom The Two Pericopes on the Purification Offering Jacob Milgrom The Composition of Deuteronomy 5-11 Brian Peckham Levitical History and the Role of Joshua Robert Boling Judges 9 and Biblical Archeology Edward F. Campbell, Jr. The Ritual Dedication of the City of David in 2 Samuel 6 P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. Rab-saris or Rab-shakeh in 2 Kings 18 Hayim Tadmor Derios, der Meder Klaus Koch III. History and Institutions of Israel The Proto-History of Israel: A Study in Method Abraham Malamat The Identity of the Biblical sir a Oded Borowski Israelites as gerim, 'Sojourners,' in Social and Historical Context Frank Anthony Spina Gender Roles and Genesis 3:16 Revisited Carol L. Meyers Priestly Divination in Israel Herbert B. Huffmon Social Transformation and Ritual in 2 Samuel 6 James W. Flanagan David's Relations with Hiram: Biblical and Josephan Evidence for Tyrian Chronology Alberto R. Green Pollution, Purification, and Purgation in Biblical Israel Tikva Frymer-Kensky Jerusalem in der Sicht des Ezechielbuches Walther Zimmerli 587 ou 586? Henri Cazelles, S. S. IV. Northwest Semitic Epigraphy Writing Systems, Native Speaker Analyses, and the Earliest Stages of Northwest Semitic Orthography M. O'Connor The Descriptive Ritual Texts from Ugarit: Some Formal and Functional Features of the Genre Baruch A. Levine The Gezer Jar Signs: New Evidence of the Earliest Alphabet Joe D. Seger The Discovery of the Moabite Stone Siegfried H. Horn Ammonite Personal Names in the Context of the West Semitic Onomasticon Kent P. Jackson Social Organization in Egyptian Military Settlements of the Sixth-Fourth Centuries B.C.E.: dgl and mt. Aramaic Papyri in the Egyptian Museum: Missing Endorsements Bezalel Porten The Historical, Linguistic, and Biblical Significance of the Khirbet et-Kom Ostraca Lawrence T. Geraty The Background of the Paleo-Hebrew Texts and Qumran K. A. Mathews V. Other Perspectives Material Remains and the Cult in Ancient Israel: An Essay in Archeological Systematics William G. Dever Two Palestinian Segments from the Eblaite Geographical Atlas William H. Shea Baal, Lord of the Earth: The Ugaritic Baal Epic Lawrence E. Toombs The Zoroastrian Cosmos Gernot L. Windfuhr Nabateans and the Hisma: In the Footsteps of Glueck and Beyond David F. Graf Matthew 12:40 as an Interpretation of 'The Sign of Jonah' Against its Biblical Background George M. Landes Jewish Reaction to Christian Borrowings Cyrus H. Gordon Humanism and the Rise of Hebraic Studies: From Christian to Jewish Renaissance M. H. Goshen-Gottstein Prague Structuralism in American Biblical Scholarship: Performance and Potential Stanislav