Semitic, Biblical, and Jewish Studies in honor of Richard C. Steiner
By: edited by Aaron J. Koller, Mordechai Z. Cohen and Adina Moshavi
Contributors: Steiner, Richard C., honoree
Publisher: Bialik Institute; Michael Scharf Yeshiva University Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Jerusalem; New York
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9789655362770
Subjects: Hebrew language; Criticism, interpretation; Semitic languages; Rabbinical literature; History and criticism; Bible
Other titles: Biblical, semitic and Jewish studies; Meḥkarim be-śafot shemiyot, miḳra u-madaʿei ha-yahadut : mugashim li-Reʼuvan Śimḥah Shṭainer / ʻorkhim: Aharon Koler, Mordekhai Kohen, ʻAdinah Moshavi
Notes: Title on title page and cover title are different.

Includes bibliographical references.

Essays in English or Hebrew.
Table of contents: title: Richard Steiner: an appreciation; title: List of Publications; title: Semitic and Near Eastern studies: Preliminary observations on trail procedure in the Al-Yahudu texts / Shalom E. Holtz; title: The supposed earliest hieroglyphic mention of Israel (Berlin AM 21687): a refutation / Robert K. Ritner; title: Of people and tongues: Semitic 'nis'-and 'lisan' / John Huehnergard; title: 'Alif maqsura', final 'imala', and pre-Classical Arabic / Simon Hopkins; title: Studies in comparative Semitic lexicography / Leonid Kogan; title: The Kihgdom of Idalion according to epigraphic sources / Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo; title: Biblical language and other Biblical studies: How have the mighty fallen? on supposedly exclamative 'ekh' and 'ekhah' in biblical Hebrew / Adina Moshavi; title: Tree and wood, polysemy and vagueness: detangling the branches of the Hebrew word 'ets' / Aaron Koller; title: Prolegomenon to a study of Biblical prosody / Malcah Yaeger-Dror; title: The heart as an organ of speech in biblical Hebrew / Edward L. Greenstein; title: A pseudo-classism in Esther / Jan Joosten; title: Hebrew causative morphology / W. Randall Garr; title: Remarks on the pronunciation of 'dages' in the Tiberian reading tradition of biblical Hebrew / Geoffrey Khan; title: Bewitching problems in Isaiah 8:19-20 / Hugh G. M. Williamson; title: Making text- critical decisions in Jubilees 2 / James C. VanderKam; title: Rabbinical literature and Medieval studies: 'The firmly established text': on Maimonides' expression in 'al-nass al-mukadam' in his introduction to the Mishna / Mordechai Z. Cohen; title: Judeo-Italian biblical glossaries: the Book of Haggai / Aaron D. Rubin; title: The claim of the Boethusians: a note on the plain sense of M. Menahot 10:3 / Shayer Z. Leiman; title: Text and context in Saadya's Bible translations / Jeffrey H. Tigay; title: On the trail of Ibn Quraysh's lost book, Sefer Av vaEm / Aharon Maman.