Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973) was an Israeli poet who left his mark on the new Hebrew poetry and had an impact on Israel’s literary milieu as a translator and playwright as well. His extensive work gradually developed throughout his lifetime and can be seen to reflect a process o…
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The Judaean Desert discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of the textual development and transmission of the Hebrew Bible. Accordingly, after almost seventy years of research, four theories of textual transmission have become predominant. Nevertheless, in recent years…
The present study is an investigation into the roles of the rural Levites in Deuteronomy. In the first chapter I review the identity and roles of the Levites in the Hebrew Bible before and after cult centralization, transitioning from local high place priests to a lack of local …
Inheritance language is striking in Hebrews, beginning with the identification of the Son as the heir of all things (1:2), who is later understood as the mediator of a new covenant that enables reception of the eternal inheritance (9:15). This use of inheritance language is deep…
In the 3rd century BCE the Hebrew Torah was translated into Greek. This work argues that the translator of Greek Genesis, a narrative text concerning global and Jewish national origins, aimed to make his translation's plot virtuous according to contemporary literary standards: c…
This dissertation pursues a thorough study of paragraph delimitation in biblical Hebrew narrative. This study introduces three different approaches to unit division and identifies the textual boundaries of 1 Samuel 1–7 through these methods. Comparing and synthesizing all the re…