Gary A. Rendsburg

Letters-to-the-Editor

1. "Orientation in Egypt and Palestine," Biblical Archaeologist 44 (1981), p. 198.
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2. "The Birthplace of Abraham," Jerusalem Post, April 8, 1991, p. 4 (appeared also in Jerusalem Post International Edition, April 20, 1991).
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3. "Responses to two letters-to-the-editor," Bible Review 17:3 (June 2001), p. 53. 
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4. "Let It Be," Biblical Archaeology Review 31:1 (January/February 2005), p. 63.
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5. "The Word of the Lord," Biblical Archaeology Review 32:4 (July/August 2006), p. 6.
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6. "'Response to 'Writing God's Name'," Biblical Archaeology Review 37:5 (September-October 2011), pp. 10-11.
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Book Reviews, 2020-present

60.  Benjamin D. Suchard, The Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels: Including a Concise Historical Morphology, in Review of Biblical Literature, available online (for SBL members only) at: https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=13395.

61.  Isaac Kalimi, Metathesis in the Hebrew Bible: Wordplay as a Literary and Exegetical Device, in Vetus Testamentum 71 (2021), pp. 153-156.

62.  Laurie Allen, et al., “ Scribes of the Cairo Geniza,” in Early Modern Digital Review 3:2 (October 2020), available here.

63.  Yosef Ofer,  The Masora on Scripture and its Methods, in SOTS Book List 2021 (London: Society for Old Testament Study, 2021), pp. 38-39. [PDF used with permission granted by the Society for Old Testament Study.]

64.  Francis Breyer,  Ägyptische Namen und Wörter im Alten Testament, in SOTS Book List 2021 (London: Society for Old Testament Study, 2021), p. 153. [PDF used with permission granted by the Society for Old Testament Study.]

65.  Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten,  How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 114 (2021), pp. 704-706. [PDF used with permission granted by the American Oriental Society.]

66.  Jeffrey H. Tigay and Adele Berlin, eds.,  Ancient Israel, from its Beginning through 332 BCE (Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1), in SOTS Book List 2022 (London: Society for Old Testament Study, 2022), p. 10. [PDF used with permission granted by the Society for Old Testament Study.]

67.  Julien C. Cooper,  Toponymy on the Periphery: Placenames of the Eastern Desert, Red Sea, and South Sinai in Egyptian Documents from the Early Dynastic until the End of the New Kingdom, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 143 (2023), 241-245.[PDF used with permission granted by the American Oriental Society.]

68. Joel S. Baden and Jeffrey Stackert, eds.  The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch, in Journal of the American Oriental Society
143 (2023), pp. 717-719. [PDF used with permission granted by the American Oriental Society.]

69.  Élodie Attia and Antony Perrot, eds., The Hebrew Bible Manuscripts: A Millennium, in SOTS Book List 2022 (London: Society for Old Testament Study, forthcoming).

70. Sara Japhet Biblical Studies, in SOTS Book List 2023 (London: Society for Old Testament Study, forthcoming).

71. John Goldingay, Joshua, in SOTS Book List 2023 (London: Society for Old Testament Study, forthcoming).

Book Reviews, 2000-2019

38. Wilfred E. Watson and Nicolas Wyatt, eds., Handbook of Ugaritic Studies, in Jewish Quarterly Review 91 (2000), pp. 191-196.
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39. Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, and Pieter van der Horst, eds., Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 321 (2001), pp. 92-93.
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40. Erik Hornung, Akhenaten and the Religion of Light, in Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 38 (2001), 144-145.
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41. Raymond Cohen and Raymond Westbrook, Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations, in Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 38 (2001), pp. 145-147.
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42. Raymond de Hoop, Genesis 49 in its Literary and Historical Context, in Journal of Semitic Studies 47 (2002), pp. 138-141.
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43. Abraham Tal, A Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic, in AJS Review 27 (2003),  106-109.
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44. F. J. Baasten and W. Th. van Peursen, eds., Hamlet on a Hill: Semitic and Greek Studies Presented to T. Muraoka on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, in Ancient Near Eastern Studies 41 (2004), pp. 267-272.
45. Sue Groom, Linguistic Analysis of Biblical Hebrew, in Jewish Quarterly Review 97 (2007), available online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jewish_quarterly_review/v097/97.2rendsburg.pdf.
46. Shmuel Ahituv, Echoes from the Past: Hebrew and Cognate Inscriptions from the Biblical Period, in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 358 (2010), 89-93.
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47. Ron Tappy and P. Kyle McCarter, eds., Literate Culture and Tenth- Century Canaan: The Tel Zayit Abecedary in Context, in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 359 (2010), pp. 89-91 [see below, no. 48].
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48. "In Their Own Words,” Biblical Archaeology Review 37/1 (January- February 2011), 20 [excerpt from review of Ron E. Tappy and P. Kyle McCarter, eds., Literate Culture and Tenth-Century Canaan: The Tel Zayit Abecedary in Context (see above, review no. 47)].
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49. Avraham Faust, The Archaeology of Israelite Society in Iron Age II, in Strata: Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 31 (2013), 215- 218.
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50. Aren Maeir, Jodi Magness, and Lawrence H. Schiffman, eds., “Go Out and Study the Land” (Judges 18:2): Archaeological, Historical and Textual Studies in Honor of Hanan Eshel, in Dead Sea Discoveries 21 (2014), pp. 251- 254.
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51. David Stec, The Genizah Psalms: A Study of MS 798 of the Antonin Collection, in SOTS Book List 2015 (London: Society for Old Testament Study, 2021), pp. 41-42.
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52. Seth Schwartz, The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad, in The Classical Review 65 (2015), 537-539.
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53. Steven Fassberg, Moshe Bar-Asher, and Ruth A. Clements, eds., Hebrew in the Second Temple Period: The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and of Other Contemporary Sources, in Journal of Semitic Studies 61 (2016), pp. 278-281.
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54. Moshe Bar-Asher, Studies in Classical Hebrew, in Journal of Semitic Studies 61 (2016), 528-532.
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55. Aaron Hornkohl, Ancient Hebrew Periodization and the Language of the Book of Jeremiah. The Case for a Sixth-Century Date of Composition, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 131 (2018), pp. 190-192.
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56. Lewis Glinert, The Story of Hebrew, in AJS Review 42 (2018), 243- 245.
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57. “Fashioning a New Bible: Why and How?”: Ronald Hendel, Steps to a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible, in Biblical Archaeology Review 44:6 (Nov- Dec 2018), 58, 60.
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58. “A Man, A Book, A Mission”: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 , in Moment Magazine (Nov-Dec 2018), pp. 68-69.
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59. Avi Hurvitz, From Genesis to Chronicles: Chapters in the Linguistic History of Biblical Hebrew, in Review of Biblical Literature (May 2019), 4 , available online (for SBL members)  at: https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=12413

Book Reviews, 1980-1999

1. Louk C. Meijer, Eine strukturelle Analyse der Hagia Triada-TafelnEine strukturelle Analyse der Hagia Triada-Tafeln, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 105 (1983), pp. 143-144.
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2. Mediterranean Language Review, Vol. I, in Scripta Mediterranea (1984), pp. 61-62.
3. Frederick E. Greenspahn, Hapax Legomena in Biblical Hebrew, in Jewish Quarterly Review 75 (1985), pp. 410-412.
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4. Jon D. Levenson, Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible, in Journal of Reform Judaism 33 (1986), pp. 99-101.
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5. Meir Sternberg, The Poetics of the Biblical Narrative, and Adele Berlin, Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 107 (1987), pp. 554-557.
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6. Robert M. Good, The Sheep of His Pasture: A Study of the Hebrew Noun 'Am(m) and Its Semitic Cognates, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 107 (1987), pp. 558-559.
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7. Nahman Avigad, Hebrew Bullae from the Time of Jeremiah: Remnants of a Burnt ArchiveHebrew Bullae from the Time of Jeremiah: Remnants of a Burnt Archive, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 108 (1988), p. 663.
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8. Jaakov Levi, Die Inkongruenz im biblischen Hebräisch, in Journal of Biblical Literature 108 (1989), pp. 499-501.
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9. Joel Rosenberg, King and Kin: Political Allegory in the Hebrew Bibleing and Kin: Political Allegory in the Hebrew Bible, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 109 (1989), pp. 294-295.
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10. Thomas L. Thompson, The Origin Traditions of Ancient Israel: I. The Literary Formation of Genesis and Exodus 1-23, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 110 (1990), p. 160.
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11. H. L. J. Vanstiphout, K. Jongeling, F. Leemhuis, and G. J. Reinink, eds., Scripta Signa Vocis: Studies about Scripts, Scriptures, Scribes and Languages in the Ancient Near East, presented to J. H. Hospers by his pupils, colleagues, and friends , and D. M. Golomb, ed., "Working With No Data": Semitic and Egyptian Studies Presented to Thomas O. Lambdin, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 109 (1989), p. 508.
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12. Elisha Qimron, The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 (1991), pp. 127-128.
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13. David Toshio Tsumura, The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2: A Linguistic Investigation, in Journal of Biblical Literature 110 (1991), pp. 136-138.
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14. Maurice Olender, The Languages of Paradise, in The Bookpress (Ithaca, NY) 2:5 (June 1992), pp. 7, 13, 16 [reprinted below].
15. Maurice Olender, The Languages of Paradise, in California Linguistic Newsletter 23:3 (Fall-Winter 1992), pp. 40-41 [reprint of above].
16. Nahum M. Waldman, The Recent Study of Hebrew: A Survey of the Literature with Selected Bibliography, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 112 (1992), pp. 318-320.
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17. Michael Sokoloff, A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period, in AJS Review 17 (1992), pp. 296-299.
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18. Edward M. Cook, ed., Sopher Mahir: Northwest Semitic Studies Presented to Stanislav Segert, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 113 (1993), pp. 612-613.
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19. Mark S. Smith, The Origins and Development of the Waw-Consecutive: Northwest Semitic Evidence from Ugarit to Qumran, in Hebrew Studies 34 (1993), pp. 202-206.
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20. David Noel Freedman, A. Dean Forbes, and Francis I. Andersen, Studies in Hebrew and Aramaic Orthography, in Journal of Biblical Literature 113 (1994), pp. 313-315.
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21. Shalom M. Paul, Amos: A Commentary on the Book of Amos, in AJS Review 19 (1994), pp. 244-247.
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22. Josef Tropper, Die Inschriften von Zincirli, in Religious Studies Review 21 (April 1995), p. 125.
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23. D. R. G. Beattie, The Targum of Ruth: Translated, with Introduction, Apparatus, and NotesThe Targum of Ruth: Translated, with Introduction, Apparatus, and Notes, and J. Stanley McIvor, The Targum of Chronicles: Translated, with Introduction, Apparatus, and Notes, in Journal of Biblical Literature 114 (1995), pp. 545-547.
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24. Menahem Cohen, Miqra'ot Gedolot Ha-Keter: Joshua-Judges, in AJS Review 20 (1995), pp. 172-175.
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25. Shemaryahu Talmon, Literary Studies in the Hebrew Bible, Form and Content: Collected Studies, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 115 (1995), pp. 520-521.
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26. Ian Young, Diversity in Pre-Exilic Hebrew, in Hebrew Studies 36 (1995), pp. 135-140.
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27. Bernard Grossfeld, The Targum Sheni to the Book of Esther: A Critical Edition Based on MS. Sassoon 282 with Critical Apparatus, in AJS Review 21 (1996), pp. 139-142.
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28. Elisha Qimron and John Strugnell, Qumran Cave 4:V : Miqcat Ma'ase ha-Torah, in AJS Review 21 (1996), pp. 145-148.
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29. Daniel Sivan, Ugaritic Grammar, and Elisha Qimron, Biblical Aramaic, in Israel Exploration Journal 46 (1996), p. 291.
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30. James H. Charlesworth, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations, Volume 1, in AJS Review 21 (1996), pp. 386-389.
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31. Zvi and Shifra Rin, 'Alilot ha-'Elim: Kol Shirot 'Ugarit, on H-Judaic (electronic network) (posted July 1997).
32. J. Hoftijzer and K. Jongeling, Dictionary of North-West Semitic Inscriptions, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 118 (1998), pp. 96-97.
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33. Anson F. Rainey, Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets: A Linguistic Analysis of the Mixed Dialect used by Scribes from Canaan, 4 vols., in AJS Review 23 (1998), pp. 245-247.
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34. John R. Huddlestun, ed., Divine Commitment and Human Obligation: Selected Writings of David Noel Freedman, 2 vols. in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 310 (1998), pp. 92-94.
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35. Martin McNamara and Ernest G. Clarke, Targum Neofiti 1: Numbers / Targum Pseudo-Jonathan: Numbers, in Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (1998), p. 547.
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36. Martin McNamara, Targum Neofiti 1: Deuteronomy, in Journal of Biblical Literature 118 (1999), pp. 738-739.
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37. S. David Sperling, The Original Torah, in AJS Review 24 (1999), pp. 359-362.
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