| Summary: | Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Edward L. Greenstein Publications -- Abbreviations -- Ancient Near Eastern Studies -- Adaptation Processes of Mythologemes -- Babylonian Months -- The "Hunger Years" and the "Sea Peoples" -- Some Thoughts on tu-ta-ti -- Mandaeans in the Face of Modernity -- Role of Thitmanit as a Mourner -- Frustrations of an Epigrapher -- Negotiation Tactics, Diplomacy, and Literary Design -- Studies in Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic Languages -- When Five Is Not 5 -- Linguistic Dating of Lamentations -- Three-Tier Names -- Note on the Vocalization and Accentuation -- On the Etymology of Aramaic שרשיפא "Footstool" -- A Note on the Pluractional Piel -- Purity and Profanation -- Rhetorical Marker ועתה הנה -- 2 Kings 6:1-3 as an Instance of Conversational Repair -- Metaphorical and Symbolic Uses of Flora -- Archaic Lexicon in Biblical Hebrew -- בן בית -- Exodus 1, Akkadian pilku, and Israelite Corvée Labor -- Studies in Biblical Law and Narrative -- Ishmael -- Biblical Law -- Playing with Fire -- Opening Section of the Book of Kings -- Noah and His Sons -- Prophetic Speech in Judges 6:7-10 Reconsidered -- Significance of Leah's Soft Eyes -- Two Readings of Jacob's Dream -- Form Follows Content in Biblical Literature -- Samson as Riddle -- Gideon Cycle and the Deuteronomist's Critique of Hereditary Monarchy -- What Is Melchizedek the King-Priest Doing -- What Not to Do with the Name of Yahweh Your God -- ויצלהו מידם -- Glimpses of God -- Textual Emendations Based on Style and Syntax.
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