The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, JHS, is an academic peer-reviewed journal that pioneers free open-source, prompt, and academically responsible electronic publication.
This edtion incorporates the following articles and reviews published in the journal in 2008: David E. S. Stein, “The Noun (’îš) in Biblical Hebrew: A Term of Affiliation,” Raz Kletter, “The Friends of Antiquities: The Story of an Israeli Volunteer Group and Comparative Remarks, John A. Cook, “The Vav-Prefixed Verb Forms in Elementary Hebrew Grammar,” Yael Shemesh, “Elisha and The Miraculous Jug of Oil (2 Kgs 4:1-7),” Yael Shemesh, “The Elisha Stories as Saints’ Legends,” Aron Pinker, “The Doings of the Wicked in Qohelet 8:10,” Ronald Hendel and Saul M. Olyan, “Beyond Purity and Danger: Mary Douglas and The Hebrew Bible," Ronald Hendel, “Mary Douglas and Anthropological Modernism,” Alfred Marx, “The Relationship between the Sacrificial Laws and the Other Laws in Leviticus 19,” Saul M. Olyan, “Mary Douglas’s Holiness/Wholeness Paradigm: Its Potential for Insight and its Limitations,” Rüdiger Schmitt, “The Problem of Magic and Monotheism in the Book of Leviticus," David P. Wright, “Deciphering a Definition: The Syntagmatic Structural Analysis of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible,” Silvio Sergio Scatolini Apóstolo, “Imagining Ezekiel,” Herb Basser, “Did Rashi Notice a Janus Parallelism in Ezek 20:37?,” Thomas Römer, “Moses Outside the Torah and the Construction of a Diaspora Identity,” Jonathan Jacobs, “Characterizing Esther from the Outset: The Contribution of the Story in Esther 2:1–20,” Moshe Kline, “ 'The Editor was Nodding' A Reading of Leviticus 19 in Memory of Mary Douglas,” Michael Avioz, “Saul as a Just Judge in Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews,” Elie Assis, “The Temple in the Book of Haggai,” F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, “Psalm 133: A (Close) Reading,” Nadav Na'aman, “The Search of The Ancient Name of Khirbet Qeiyafa,” Yosef Garfinkel and Saar Ganor, “Khirbet Qeiyafa: Sha’arayim,” Andrew E. Steinmann, “Letters of Kings about Votive Offerings, The God of Israel and the Aramaic Document in Ezra 4:8–6:18,” Nadav Na'aman, “Shaaraim – The Gateway to the Kingdom of Judah,” Ian Young, “Biblical Hebrew and The Qumran Pesher Habakkuk”.
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