These are followed by an unabridged bibliography of the honoree's publications. Consistent with the series' format, the editors divide this installment into Hebrew and non-Hebrew sections. Brief English summaries of the non-English articles are provided as a matter of scholarly courtesy. Some of the English summaries fail to do justice to the content of their Hebrew counterparts understandably due to considerations of space. One hopes that several articles will appear in a European language in due course to accommodate those scholars ill-equipped to read modern Hebrew.
Most summaries are sufficiently concise for reference, however.
Typographical errors are not common, although the reviewer did notice a handful of negligible import. In 1953, Cross was invited to join the international team of scholars responsible for editing the scrolls discovered near Khirbet Qumran. His subsequent synthesis of the role the scrolls played in the history of the Masoretic text still stands as a critical turning point in the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. In the tradition of his teacher W. F. Albright, Cross illustrated masterfully the disciplinary symbiosis of Biblical studies and the fields of epigraphy and NW Semitic philology. Characteristic of the Festschrift genre, the content features its share of reiterative proposals recycled from previously published articles.