Articles, 1980-1989

  1. default Janus Parallelism in Gen 49:26 ," Journal of Biblical Literature 99 (1980), pp. 291-293.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Society of Biblical Literature.]
  2. "Hebrew 'šdt and Ugaritic išdym," Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 8 (1980), pp. 81-84.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of the Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages.]
  3. "Late Biblical Hebrew and the Date of 'P'," Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 12 (1980), pp. 65-80.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society.]
  4. The Danites,” Archiv Orientální 49 (1981), pp. 150-152 [as part of "Adana Revisited" co-authored with Yoel L. Arbeitman].
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Archiv Orientální (Prague).]
  5. "Merneptah in Canaan," Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 11 (1981), pp. 171-172. [with Corrigenda printed as supplement to JSSEA 12 (1982)].
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities.]
  6. "Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew as Revealed Through Compound Verbs," in Yoel L. Arbeitman and Allan R. Bomhard, eds., Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1981), pp. 665-677.
    [PDF used with permission granted by John Benjamins Publishing Company (Amsterdam).]
  7.  "A Reconstruction of Moabite-Israelite History," Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 13 (1981), pp. 67-73.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society.]
  8. "Laqtil Infinitives: Yiph'il or Hiph'il?" Orientalia 51 (1982), pp. 231-238.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Orientalia.]
  9. "Double Polysemy in Gen 49:6 and Job 3:6," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 44 (1982), pp. 48-51.
    [Copyrighted by the Catholic Biblical Association of America and reproduced with its permission.]
  10. "Semitic PRZL/BRZL/BRDL 'Iron'," Scripta Mediterranea 3 (1982), pp. 54-71.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Scripta Mediterranea.]
  11. "A New Look at Pentateuchal HW'," Biblica 63 (1982), pp. 351-369.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Biblica.]
  12. "Dual Personal Pronouns and Dual Verbs in Hebrew," Jewish Quarterly Review 73 (1982), pp. 38-58.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the editors of the Jewish Quarterly Review.]
  13.  "On Jan Best's 'Decipherment' of Minoan Linear A," Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 14 (1982), pp. 79-87.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society.]
  14. "Jan Best and Minoan Linear A," Newsletter for Ugaritic Studies 30 (1983), p. 11.
    [N.B. The Newsletter for Ugaritic Studies was a relatively short-lived publication; information here.]
  15. Hebrew RM = 'Rain'," Vetus Testamentum 33 (1983), pp. 357-362.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  16. "Notes on Genesis XXXV," Vetus Testamentum 34 (1984), pp. 361-366.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  17. "UT 68 and the Tell Asmar Seal," Orientalia 53 (1984), pp. 448-452.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Orientalia.]
  18. "David and His Circle in Genesis XXXVIII," Vetus Testamentum 36 (1986), pp. 438-446.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  19. "Gen 10:13-14: An Authentic Hebrew Tradition Concerning the Origin of the Philistines," Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 13 (1987), pp. 89-96.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of the Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages.]
  20. "Eblaite u-ma and Hebrew wm- ," in Cyrus H. Gordon and Gary A. Rendsburg, eds., Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. 1 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1987), pp. 34-41.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Eisenbrauns, publisher of this volume.]
  21. "Modern South Arabian as a Source for Ugaritic Etymologies,"
    Journal of the American Oriental Society 107 (1987), pp. 623-628.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the American Oriental Society.]
  22. "Hebrew św/yh and Arabic šḫḫ," in Yoel L. Arbeitman, ed., Fucus: A Semitic/Afrasian Gathering in Remembrance of Albert Ehrman (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1988), pp. 419-430.
    [PDF used with permission granted by John Benjamins Publishing Company (Amsterdam).]
  23. "More on Hebrew Šibbōlet," Journal of Semitic Studies 33 (1988), pp. 255-258.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Oxford University Press, publisher of Journal of Semitic Studies.]
  24. "The Ammonite Phoneme /T/," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 269 (1988), pp. 73-79.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the American Schools of Oriental Research, publisher of this journal. The issue is available from the publisher at www.asor.org.]
  25. "Bilingual Wordplay in the Bible," Vetus Testamentum 38 (1988), pp. 354-357.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  26. "The Egyptian Sun-God Ra in the Pentateuch," Henoch 10 (1988), pp. 3-15.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Silvio Zamorani Editore (Turin), www.zamorani.com, publisher of this journal.]
  27. "The Mock of Baal in 1 Kings 18:27," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 50 (1988), pp. 414-417.
    [Copyrighted by the Catholic Biblical Association of America and reproduced with its permission.]
  28. "Jews in Persia, Then and Now," Midstream 34:2 (1988), pp. 44-45.
    [The journal is defunct, and hence I posted the pdf file on my own accord.]
  29. "Literary Structures in the Qur'anic and Biblical Stories of Joseph," The Muslim World 78 (1988), pp. 118-120.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of The Muslim World.]
  30. "The Northern Origin of 'The Last Words of David' (2 Sam 23,1-7)," Biblica 69 (1988), pp. 113-121.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Biblica.]
  31. "Additional Notes on 'The Last Words of David' (2 Sam 23, 1-7)," Biblica 70 (1989), pp. 403-408.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Biblica.]
  32. "Black Athena: An Etymological Response," Arethusa (Special Issue Fall 1989), pp. 67-82.
    [PDF used with permission granted by The Johns Hopkins University Press, publisher of Arethusa - © The Johns Hopkins University Press.]
  33. "Sabaic Notes to Hebrew Grammar," Abr-Nahrain 27 (1989), pp. 106-119.                                         [Used with permission granted by Peeters (Leuven), the publisher of this journal, in accordance with its Open Access policy available here:  http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=CMS.php&section=open_accesspeeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=CMS.php&section=open_access.]
  34. default לשוח in 1QS 7.15 ," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 5 (1989), pp. 83-94.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Sage Publications, publisher of this journal.]
  35. "Josephus, Flavius," in Lucian Boia, ed., Great Historians from Antiquity to 1800 (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989), pp. 297-298.
    [PDF used with permission granted by ABC-CLIO / Greenwood.]