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A Reexamination of the Name Command of the DecalogueCarmen Joy Imes The Name Command (NC) is usually interpreted as a prohibition against speaking Yhwh’s name in a particular context: false oaths, wrongful pronunciation, irreverent worship, magical practices, cursing, false teaching, and the like. However, the NC lacks the contextual specification needed to support the command as speech related. Taking seriously the narrative context at Sinai and the closest lexical parallels, a different picture emerges—one animated by concrete rituals and their associated metaphorical concepts. | | | |
An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its AfterlivesRobert D. Miller II “Readers will find useful tools throughout Miller’s work, whether it is the careful development of the background of the dragon-slaying myth in ancient cultures or the myriad observations about biblical texts when examined through this lens. This is a subject that has needed sustained attention.”—Mark McEntire, Review of Biblical Literature | | | |
A Lexicon of Language ContactBenjamin J. Noonan “This is an effective summary of previous studies of this subject and adds many perceptive insights of the author himself. ... [T]he book as a whole provides much stimulating supplementary material for any Hebrew dictionary that has decided to ignore or been content to provide only out-of-date etymological data.”—Mervyn Richardson, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament | | | |
A Grammar of Its Six Major DialectsJames P. Allen Unlike previous grammars that focus on just two of the Coptic dialects, this volume, written by senior Egyptologist James P. Allen, describes the grammar of the language in each of the six major dialects. It also includes exercises with an answer key, a chrestomathy, and an accompanying dictionary, making it suitable for teaching or self-guided learning as well as general reference. | | | |
Dossiers H–K: 485 OstracaBezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way onto the antiquities market and are now scattered across a number of museums, libraries, and private collections. This fifth and final volume of the Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea completes the work of bringing these ostraca together in a single publication. | | | |
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