Shnaton - An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies

CONTENTS
Sara Japhet-Preface
Nili Wazana-Professor Moshe Weinfeld
Moshe Bar-Asher-Professor Moshe Weinfeld

Biblical Studies
Tova Ganzel-The Status of Functionaries in the Future Temple of Ezekiel
Jacob Milgrom-The Unique Features of Ezekiel’s Temple (Ezekiel 40–48)
Noam Mizrahi-Linguistic Analysis and Textual Criticism:The Syntax of Obadiah 19–20 in the Masoretic Text and the Ancient Versions
Amos Frisch-The Concept of Kingship in Psalms
Yael Shemesh-I find woman more bitter than death’ (Ecclesiastes 7:26): Is there Misogyny in the Bible?

The Bible in Relation to the Ancient Near East
Shawn-Zelig Aster-What Sennacherib Said, and What the Prophet Heard: On the Use of Assyrian Sources in the Prophetic Narrative of the Campaign of 701 BCE

Dead Sea Scrolls and Apocryphal Literature
Vered Noam-'You Shall Pass Through Fire’ (Numbers 31:23) – An Early Exegetic Tradition
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal-The Problem of Evil in the Syriac Translation of the Book of Ben Sira: the Differences between the Hebrew and the Syriac Texts Reconsidered

History of Exegesis
Yeshayahu Maori-‘Aggadot Hallukot’ in Rashi’s Commentary on Scripture
Gila Prebor-The Use of Midrash in Rashi’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes
Sara Japhet-Rashbam’s Introduction to his Commentary on Lamentations
Aharon Mondschein-‘The Masoretes fabricated explanations for full and deficient spellings’: On Abraham ibn Ezra’s Struggle against the(Ab)use of Biblical Spelling as an Exegetical Tool

Book Reviews
Eran Viezel-On: Joseph Cohen, Uriel Simon (eds.), R. Abraham IbnEzra: Yesod Mora Ve-Sod Torah – The Foundation of Reverence and the Secret of the Torah, an annotated critical edition, second revised and enlarged version (Sources and Studies, XI, The Institute for Jewish Bible Interpretation, Bar-Ilan University), Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2007, 272 pp. (in Hebrew)
Ronie Goldstein-On: Mariano Gómez Aranda, El comentario de Abraham Ibn Ezra al libro de Job: Edición crítica, traducción y estudio introductorio (Serie A: Literatura Hispanohebrea, 6) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,
Instituto de Filología, Madrid 2004, cxl, 342, 94 pp.;
Mariano Gómez Aranda, Dos Comentarios de Abraham Ibn Ezra Al Libro de Ester: Edición crítica, traducción y estudio introductorio (Serie A: Literatura Hispanohebrea, 9) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Filología, Madrid 2007, cxxviii, 193, 70 pp. 339