Gary A. Rendsburg

Book Reviews, 2026-present

  1. Roey Schneider, The Semitic Sibilants, in SOTS Book List 2026 (London: Society for Old Testament Study, forthcoming).

Miscellaneous

  1. Series of Parasha Columns at The Forward, written during the years 2003-2007.
  2. “Moabite,” in Murray Spiegel and Rickey Stein, 300 Ways to Ask the Four Questions: From Zulu to Abkhaz (Roseland, N.J.: Spiegel-Stein Publishing, 2007), p. 40.
  3. Series of Parasha (and other) Columns at www.thetorah.com, 2017-present.
  4. “The Extraordinary Life of Johannes of Oppido (Obadiah the Proselyte),” Genizah Fragments 76 (September 2018), p. 2.
  5. "Israel unfairly singled out during climate change protests," The Daily Targum (September 25, 2019), p. 7.
  6. "Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Israel: A Plea for Consistency," Marginalia (November 1, 2019).
  7. "Hebrew Fragment from Australia," Books within Books Magazine (February 22, 2021).

Letters-to-the-Editor

  1. "Orientation in Egypt and Palestine," Biblical Archaeologist 44 (1981), p. 198.
    [PDF file used with permission of ASOR and University of Chicago Press (which handles permission for ASOR).]
  2. "The Birthplace of Abraham," Jerusalem Post, April 8, 1991, p. 4 (appeared also in Jerusalem Post International Edition, April 20, 1991).
    [PDF made available via NewsBank, accessed via Rutgers University Libraries.]
  3. "Responses to two letters-to-the-editor," Bible Review 17:3 (June 2001), p. 53. 
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society (http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/), publisher of Biblical Archaeology Review.]
  4. "Let It Be," Biblical Archaeology Review 31:1 (January/February 2005), p. 63.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society (http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/), publisher of Biblical Archaeology Review.]
  5. "The Word of the Lord," Biblical Archaeology Review 32:4 (July/August 2006), p. 6.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society (http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/), publisher of Biblical Archaeology Review.]
  6. "'Response to 'Writing God's Name'," Biblical Archaeology Review 37:5 (September-October 2011), pp. 10-11.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society (http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/), publisher of Biblical Archaeology Review.]

Book Reviews, 2020-2025

  1. 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.
  2. Isaac Kalimi, Metathesis in the Hebrew Bible: Wordplay as a Literary and Exegetical Device, in Vetus Testamentum 71 (2021), pp. 153-156.
  3. Laurie Allen, et al., “ Scribes of the Cairo Geniza,” in Early Modern Digital Review 3:2 (October 2020), available here.
  4. 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.]
  5. 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.]
  6. 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.]
  7. 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.]
  8. 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.]
  9. 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.]
  10. Élodie Attia and Antony Perrot, eds., The Hebrew Bible Manuscripts: A Millennium, in SOTS Book List 2023 (London: Society for Old Testament Study, 2023), pp. 38-39.
  11. Sara Japhet Biblical Studies, in SOTS Book List 2024 (London: Society for Old Testament Study, 2024), p. 6.
  12. John Goldingay, Joshua, in SOTS Book List 2024 (London: Society for Old Testament Study, 2024), p. 37.

Book Reviews, 2000-2019

  1. Wilfred E. Watson and Nicolas Wyatt, eds., Handbook of Ugaritic Studies, in Jewish Quarterly Review 91 (2000), pp. 191-196.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Jewish Quarterly Review.]
  2. 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.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the American Schools of Oriental Research.]
  3. Erik Hornung, Akhenaten and the Religion of Light, in Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 38 (2001), 144-145.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the American Research Center in Egypt.]
  4. 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.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the American Research Center in Egypt.]
  5. Raymond de Hoop, Genesis 49 in its Literary and Historical Context, in Journal of Semitic Studies 47 (2002), pp. 138-141.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Journal of Semitic Studies.]
  6. Abraham Tal, A Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic, in AJS Review 27 (2003),  106-109.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Association for Jewish Studies.]
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the American Schools of Oriental Research.]
  10. 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].
    [PDF used with permission granted by the American Schools of Oriental Research.]
  11. "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)].
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society.]
  12. Avraham Faust, The Archaeology of Israelite Society in Iron Age II, in Strata: Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 31 (2013), 215- 218.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society.]
  13. 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.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Dead Sea Discoveries.]
  14. 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, 2015), pp. 41-42.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Society for Old Testament Study.]
  15. Seth Schwartz, The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad, in The Classical Review 65 (2015), 537-539.
    [PDF used with permission granted by The Classical Review .]
  16. 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.
    [Accepted manuscript posted per the Oxford University Press self-archiving policy.]
  17. Moshe Bar-Asher, Studies in Classical Hebrew, in Journal of Semitic Studies 61 (2016), 528-532.
    [Accepted manuscript posted per the Oxford University Press self-archiving policy.]
  18. 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.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the American Oriental Society.]
  19. Lewis Glinert, The Story of Hebrew, in AJS Review 42 (2018), 243- 245.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Assocation for Jewish Studies.]
  20. “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.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society.]
  21. “A Man, A Book, A Mission”: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 , in Moment Magazine (Nov-Dec 2018), pp. 68-69.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Moment Magazine.]
  22. 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
  1. Book Reviews, 1980-1999
  2. Review Essays
  3. Articles, 2026-Present
  4. Articles, 2010-2019

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