Gary A. Rendsburg

Articles, 2000-2009

  1. "Word Play in Biblical Hebrew: An Eclectic Collection," in Scott B. Noegel, ed., Puns and Pundits: Word Play in the Bible and in Near Eastern Literature (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2000), pp. 137-162.
    [PDF used with permission granted by CDL Press.] [volume now available through Eisenbrauns]
  2. "Šimuŝ Bilti Ragil ŝel Kinnuy ha-Remez ba-Miqra': 'Edut Nosefet le-'Ivrit Cefonit bi-Tqufat ha-Miqra'," Shnaton 12 (2000), pp. 83-88.
    Available at JSTOR (for those with access) here:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/i23411952
  3. "Literary Devices in the Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor," Journal of the American Oriental Society 120 (2000), pp. 13-23.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the American Oriental Society.]
  4. "Notes on Israelian Hebrew (II)," Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 26 (2000), pp. 33-45.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of the Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages.]
  5. "Is Linear A Semitic?" Biblical Archaeology Review 26:6 (November-December 2000), pp. 60-61.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society (http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/), publisher of Biblical Archaeology Review; my contribution appears on pp. 11-13 of the pdf file, as the sidebar to the lead article.]
  6. "Reading David in Genesis: How We Know the Torah Was Written in the Tenth Century B.C.E.," Bible Review 17:1 (February 2001), pp. 20-33, 46.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society (http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/), publisher of Bible Review.]
  7. "Cyrus H. Gordon, 1908-2001," Biblical Archaeology Review 27:4 (July/August 2001), p. 18.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society (http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/), publisher of Biblical Archaeology Review.]
  8. "Biblical Hebrew," in Jane Garry and Carl Rubino, eds., Facts About the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, Past and Present (New York: H. W. Wilson, 2001), pp. 291-295.
    [PDF used with permission granted by EBSCO Information Services.]
  9. "An Additional Note to Two Recent Articles on the Number of People in the Exodus from Egypt and the Large Numbers in Numbers i and xxvi," Vetus Testamentum 51 (2001), pp. 392-396.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  10. "Hebrew Philological Notes (II)," Hebrew Studies 42 (2001), pp. 187-195.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, publisher of Hebrew Studies.]
  11. "Cyrus H. Gordon (1908-2001): A Giant Among Scholars," Jewish Quarterly Review 92 (2001), pp. 137-143.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Jewish Quarterly Review.]
  12. "Some False Leads in the Identification of Late Biblical Hebrew Texts: The Cases of Genesis 24 and 1 Samuel 2:27-36," Journal of Biblical Literature 121 (2002), pp. 23-46.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Society of Biblical Literature.]
  13. "The Literary Approach to the Bible and Finding a Good Translation," in Frederick W. Knobloch, ed., Biblical Translation in Context (Bethesda, MD: University Press of Maryland, 2002), pp. 179-194.
    [PDF used with permission granted by University Press of Maryland.] [volume now available through Eisenbrauns]
  14. "Once More the Dual: With Replies to J. Blau and J. Blenkinsopp," Ancient Near Eastern Studies 38 (2001), pp. 28-41.
  15. "Eblaite and Some Northwest Semitic Lexical Links," in Cyrus H. Gordon and Gary A. Rendsburg, eds., Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. 4 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002), pp. 199-208.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Eisenbrauns, publisher of this volume.]
  16. "Hebrew Philological Notes (III)," Hebrew Studies 43 (2002), pp. 21-30.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, publisher of Hebrew Studies.]
  17. "Unlikely Heroes: Women as Israel," Bible Review 19:1 (February 2003), pp. 16-23, 52-53.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society (http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/), publisher of Bible Review.]
  18. "Beasts or Bugs? Solving the Problem of the Fourth Plague," Bible Review 19:2 (April 2003), pp. 18-23.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Biblical Archaeology Society (http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/), publisher of Bible Review.]
  19. "Hurvitz Redux: On the Continued Scholarly Inattention to a Simple Principle of Hebrew Philology," in Ian Young, ed., Biblical Hebrew: Studies in Chronology and Typology (London: T & T Clark, 2003), pp. 104-128.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Continuum International Publishing Group, publisher of this volume - note that this pdf file is a pre-final version (with internal page numbers only), but that only the most minor changes were made before official publication.]
  20. "נגדה נא לכל עמו (Psalm cxvi 14b, 18b)," Vetus Testamentum 53 (2003), pp. 328-336 [co-authored with Jan P. Fokkelman].
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  21. "A Comprehensive Guide to Israelian Hebrew: Grammar and Lexicon," Orient 38 (2003), pp. 5-35.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Orient, published by the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan.]
  22. "The Geographical and Historical Background of the Mishnaic Hebrew Lexicon," Orient 38 (2003), pp. 105-115.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Orient, published by the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan.]
  23. "Writing and Scripts (with Special Reference to the Levant)," in Suzanne Richard, ed., Near Eastern Archaeology: A Reader (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003), pp. 63-70.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Eisenbrauns, publisher of this volume.]
  24. "Semitic Languages (with Special Reference to the Levant)," in Suzanne Richard, ed., Near Eastern Archaeology: A Reader (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003), pp. 71-73.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Eisenbrauns, publisher of this volume.]
  25. "Millat ha-Qiyyum 'iš" (= The Particle of Existence 'iš), Meḥqarim be-Lašon 9 (2003-04), pp. 251-255 (with English abstract on pp. xv-xvi).
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Mehqarim be-Lašon.]
  26. "Cyrus H. Gordon, the First American-Born, American-Trained Jewish Bible Scholar to Accede to a University Position: In Commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of Jews in North America," electronic version, on the web at http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=343.
  27. "The Vegetarian Ideal in the Bible," in Leonard J. Greenspoon, Ronald A. Simkins, and Gerald Shapiro, eds., Food and Judaism (Studies in Jewish Civilization, volume 15; Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2005), pp. 319-334. [see also no. 174 below] 
    [PDF used with permission granted by Leonard Greenspoon on behalf of Creighton University Press.]
  28. "Investiture Address," in The Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair in Jewish History, Separatum published by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2005), pp. 5-10.
  29. " The Genesis of the Bible," The Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair in Jewish History, Separatum published by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2005), pp. 11-30. [see also no. 135 below]
  30. "Israelian Hebrew in the Song of Songs," in Steven E. Fassberg and Avi Hurvitz, eds., Biblical Hebrew in Its Northwest Semitic Environment: Typological and Historical Perspectives (Publications of the Institute for Advanced Studies 1; Jerusalem: Magnes Press; and Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006), pp. 315-323.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Magnes Press.]
  31. "Moses as Equal to Pharaoh," in Gary M. Beckman and Theodore J. Lewis, eds., Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion (Brown Judaic Studies 346; Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2006), pp. 201-219.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Saul Olyan on behalf of Brown Judaic Studies / Brown University.]
  32. "Aramaic-like Features in the Pentateuch," Hebrew Studies 47 (2006), pp. 163-176.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, publisher of Hebrew Studies.]
  33. "Ebla", in Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Edition, vol. 6 (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House; Detroit: Thomson-Gale, 2007), pp. 85-87.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Gale, a division of Thomson Learning, publisher of the 22-volume Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Edition.]
  34. "The Biblical Flood Story in the Light of the Gilgameš Flood Account," Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Supplement 21 = J. Azize and N. Weeks, eds., Gilgameš and the World of Assyria: Proceedings of the Conference held at Mandelbaum House, The University of Sydney, 21-23 July 2004 (Leuven: Peeters, 2007), pp.115-127.
    [Used with permission granted by Peeters (Leuven), the publisher of this volume, in accordance with its Open Access policy available here:  http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=CMS.php&section=open_access.]peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=CMS.php&section=open_access.]
  35. "Ancient Hebrew Morphology," in Alan S. Kaye, ed., Morphologies of Asia and Africa (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2007), pp. 85-105.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Eisenbrauns, publisher of this volume.]
  36. "No Stelae, No Queens: Two Issues Concerning the Kings of Israel and Judah," in Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCullough, eds., The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the "Other" in Antiquity: Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers (The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 60-61; Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2007), pp. 95-107.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the American Schools of Oriental Research.]
  37. "Israel Without the Bible," in Frederick E. Greenspahn, ed., The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship (Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century Series; New York: New York University Press, 2007), pp. 3-23.
    [PDF used with permission granted by New York University Press, publisher of this volume.]
  38. " ואשב in Mesha Stele, Line 12, " Maarav 14:1 (2007), pp. 9-25.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Maarav.]
  39. "Alliteration in the Exodus Narrative ," in C. Cohen, A. V. Hurowitz, A. Hurvitz, Y. Muffs, B. J. Schwartz, and J. H. Tigay, eds., Birkat Shalom: Studies in the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism Presented to Shalom M. Paul on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2008), pp. 83-100.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Eisenbrauns, publisher of this volume.]
  40. "The Two Screens: On Mary Douglas's Proposal for a Literary Structure to the Book of Leviticus," Jewish Studies Quarterly 15 (2008), pp. 175-189.
    [PDF used in accordance with the policy of Mohr Siebeck, publisher of this journal.]
  41. "Qeta' ha-Yovel be-Sefer Vayyiqra' (25:8-24) ke-Hibbur Tsefoni," Mehqarim be-Lašon 11-12 (2008) = Sefer ha-Yovel le-Avi Hurvitz, pp. 297-308.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Mehqarim be-Lašon.]
  42. "A Proper View of Arabic, Semitic, and More," Journal of the American Oriental Society 128 (2008), pp. 533-541 [co-authored with Aaron Rubin and John Huehnergard].
    [PDF used with permission granted by the American Oriental Society.]
  43. "Linguistic and Stylistic Notes to the Hazon Gabriel Inscription," Dead Sea Discoveries 16 (2009), pp. 107-116.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Dead Sea Discoveries.]
  44. "Israelian Hebrew Features in Deuteronomy 33," in Nili S. Fox, David A. Glatt-Gilad, and Michael J. Williams, eds. Mishneh Todah: Studies in Deuteronomy and Its Cultural Environment in Honor of Jeffrey H. Tigay (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009), pp. 167-183.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Eisenbrauns, publisher of this volume.]
  45. "Lashon Mebulbelet ke-Takhsis Sifruti ba-Sippur ha-Miqra'i," in Shmuel Vargon, et al., eds., ʿIyyune Miqraʾ u-Farshanut 9 (5769) = Menaḥot, Yedidut, ve-Hoqra le-Moshe Garsiel (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009), pp. 27-43.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Bar-Ilan University Press.]
  46. “ From the Desert to the Sown: Israel’s Encounter with the Land of Canaan,” in Leonard J. Greenspoon, ed., The Mountains Shall Drip Wine: Jews and the Environment (Studies in Jewish Civilization, volume 20; Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2009), pp. 105-128.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Leonard Greenspoon on behalf of Creighton University Press.]

Articles, 1990-1999

  1. "The Internal Consistency and Historical Reliability of the Biblical Genealogies," Vetus Testamentum 40 (1990), pp. 185-206.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  2. "Redactional Structuring in the Joseph Story (Genesis 37-50)," in Vincent L. Tollers and John Maier, eds., Mappings of the Biblical Terrain: The Bible as Text = Bucknell Review 33:2 (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1990), pp. 215-232.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Associated University Presses, copyright holder for this volume.]
  3. "Monophthongization of aw/ay > ā in Eblaite and in Northwest Semitic aw/ayMonophthongization of aw/ay > ā in Eblaite and in Northwest Semitic āMonophthongization of aw/ay > ā in Eblaite and in Northwest Semitic ," in Cyrus H. Gordon and Gary A. Rendsburg, eds., Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. 2 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1990), pp. 91-126.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Eisenbrauns, publisher of this volume.]
  4. "Targum Onqelos to Exod 10:5, 10:15, Numb 22:5, 22:11," Henoch 12 (1990), pp. 15-17.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Silvio Zamorani Editore (Turin), www.zamorani.com, publisher of this journal.]
  5. "The Northern Origin of Nehemiah 9," Biblica 72 (1991), pp. 348-366.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Biblica.]
  6. "Baasha of Ammon," Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 20 (1991), pp. 57-61.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society.]
  7. "Parallel Developments in Mishnaic Hebrew, Colloquial Arabic, and Other Varieties of Spoken Semitic," in Alan S. Kaye, ed., Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau, Vol. 2 (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1991), pp. 1265-1277.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Otto Harrassowiz, publisher of this volume.]
  8. "A Further Note on Purple Dyeing," Biblical Archaeologist 54 (1991), p. 121.
    [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.]
  9. "The Strata of Biblical Hebrew," Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 17 (1991), pp. 81-99.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of the Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages.]
  10. "Notes on Genesis XV," Vetus Testamentum 42 (1992), pp. 266-272.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  11. "Eblaite sa-su-ga-lum = Hebrew ss'gr ," in Cyrus H. Gordon and Gary A. Rendsburg, eds., Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. 3 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1992), pp. 153-155.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Eisenbrauns, publisher of this volume.]
  12. "Shibboleth," in David Noel Freedman, ed., The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Volume 5 (New York: Doubleday, 1992 / New Haven: Yale University Press 2008), pp. 1210-1212.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Yale University Press.]
  13. "The Dead Sea Scrolls," Cornell Alumni News 94:8 (April 1992), pp. 21-25.
    [PDF captured from eCommons: Cornell's Digital Repository:  https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/28080.]
  14. "The Galilean Background of Mishnaic Hebrew," in Lee. I. Levine, ed., The Galilee in Late Antiquity (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1992), pp. 225-240.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Jewish Theological Seminary, publisher of this volume.]
  15. "Morphological Evidence for Regional Dialects in Ancient Hebrew ," in Walter R. Bodine, ed., Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1992), pp. 65-88.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Eisenbrauns, publisher of this volume.]
  16. "The Date of the Exodus and the Conquest/Settlement: The Case for the 1100's," Vetus Testamentum 42 (1992), pp. 510-527.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  17. "Kabbîr in Biblical Hebrew: Evidence for Style-switching and Addressee-switching in the Hebrew Bible,"
    Journal of the American Oriental Society 112 (1992), pp. 649-651.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the American Oriental Society.]
  18. "Israelian Hebrew Features in Genesis 49," in R. J. Ratner, L. M. Barth, M. L. Gevirtz, and B. Zuckerman, eds., Let Your Colleagues Praise You: Studies in Memory of Stanley Gevirtz (Part 2) = Maarav 8 (1992), pp. 161-170.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Maarav.]
  19. "Physiological and Philological Notes to Psalm 137," Jewish Quarterly Review 83 (1993), pp. 385-399 (co-authored with S. L. Rendsburg).
    [PDF used with permission granted by the editors of the Jewish Quarterly Review.]
  20. "The Inclusio in Leviticus xi," Vetus Testamentum 43 (1993), pp. 418-421.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  21. "The Dialect of the Deir 'Alla Inscription," Bibliotheca Orientalis 50 (1993), cols. 309-329.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editiorship of Bibliotheca Orientalis and the Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, publisher of this journal.]
  22. "Talpiyyôt; (Song 4:4)," Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 20 (1994), pp. 13-19.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of the Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages.]
  23. "On the Writing bytdwd in the Aramaic Inscription from Tel Dan," Israel Exploration Journal 45 (1995), pp. 22-25.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the Israel Exploration Society, publisher of this journal.]
  24. "Lasûah in Gen. xxiv 63," Vetus Testamentum 45 (1995), pp. 558-560.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  25. "An Essay on Israelite Religion," in Jacob Neusner, ed., Approaches to Ancient Judaism, New Series, Volume 8 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995), pp. 1-17.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Jacob Neusner, editor of this volume.]
  26. "Ha-Kena'anit ba-'Elef ha-Riŝon Lifne ha-Sefira," Ha-'Enṣiqlopedya ha-'Ivrit, Supplementary Volume 3 (Tel-Aviv: Sifriyat Po'alim, 1995), cols. 1017-1019.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Hakkibutz Hameuchad Publishers - Sifriat Poalim.]
  27. "Linguistic Variation and the 'Foreign' Factor in the Hebrew Bible," Israel Oriental Studies 15 (1995), pp. 177-190.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Israel Oriental Studies.]
  28. "'Someone Will Succeed in Deciphering Minoan': Cyrus H. Gordon and Minoan Linear A," Biblical Archaeologist 59 (1996), pp. 36-43. [with Corrigenda printed in BA 59 (1996), p. 134].
    [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]
  29. "Biblical Literature as Politics: The Case of Genesis," in Adele Berlin, ed., Religion and Politics in the Ancient Near East (Bethesda, MD: University Press of Maryland, 1996), pp. 47-70.
    [PDF used with permission granted by University Press of Maryland.]
    [This is also available on the web at http://aroumah.net/agora/rendsburg01-politics.php.].
  30. "Hebrew Language," in Jacob Neusner and William Scott Green, eds., Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period, Volume I (New York: Macmillan, 1996), p. 280.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Jacob Neusner, editor of this volume.]

66-74. The following entries in R. J. Zvi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997):

  1. "Abraham," pp. 5-6.
  2. "Ammon and Moab," p. 44.
  3. "Book of Jashar," p. 138.
  4. "Book of the Wars of the Lord," pp. 138-139.
  5. "Genesis, Book of," pp. 267-268.
  6. "Pharaoh," p. 528.
  7. "Philistines," p. 529.
  8. "Phoenicians," p. 531.
  9. "Song of Songs, Book of," p. 652. 
These entries are all reprinted in Adele Berlin, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, 2nd edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011); also available online at the Oxford Reference website, by subscription:
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199730049.001.0001/acref-9780199730049

[The pdf files are posted here with permission granted by Oxford University Press, per their official policy available at http://global.oup.com/uk/academic/rights/permissions/AutPerm/.]

  1. "Ancient Hebrew Phonology," in Alan S. Kaye, ed., Phonologies of Asia and Africa (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1997), pp. 65-83.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Eisenbrauns, publisher of this volume.]
  2. "Double Polysemy in Proverbs 31:19 ," in Asma Afsaruddin and A. H. Mathias Zahniser, eds., Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East: Studies in Honor of Georg Krotkoff (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1997), pp. 267-274.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Eisenbrauns, publisher of this volume.]
  3. "Eblaites," in Eric M. Meyers, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), Vol. 2, pp. 183-184.
    [PDF used in accordance with Oxford University Press's self-archiving policy.]
  4. "The Early History of Israel," in Gordon D. Young, Mark W. Chavalas, and Richard E. Averbeck, eds., Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons: Studies in Honor of Michael C. Astour on His 80th Birthday (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1997), pp. 433-453.
    [PDF used with permission granted by CDL Press.] [volume now available through Eisenbrauns]
  5. "The Guilty Party in 1 Kings iii 16-28," Vetus Testamentum 48 (1998), pp. 534-541.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  6. "On the Potential Significance of the Linear A Inscriptions Recently Excavated in Israel," Aula Orientalis 16 (1998), pp. 289-291.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the general editorship of Aula Orientalis.]
  7. "Notes on Israelian Hebrew (I)," in Yitzhak Avishur and Robert Deutsch, eds., Michael: Historical, Epigraphical and Biblical Studies in Honor of Prof. Michael Heltzer (Tel-Aviv: Archaeological Center Publications, 1999), pp. 255-258.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Archaeological Center Publications.]
  8. "Psalm cx 3b," Vetus Testamentum 49 (1999), pp. 548-553.
    [PDF used with permission granted by Brill, publisher of Vetus Testamentum.]
  9. "Down with History, Up with Reading: The Current State of Biblical Studies," McGill University Jewish Studies 30th Anniversary Conference (1999), electronic version, on the web at http://jewish30yrs.mcgill.ca/rendsburg/ .
  10. "Confused Language as a Deliberate Literary Device in Biblical Hebrew Narrative," Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, vol. 2 (1999) — reprinted in Ehud Ben Zvi, ed., Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures I (Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts 1; Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2006), pp. 197-213.
  11. "Hebrew Philological Notes (I)," Hebrew Studies 40 (1999), pp. 27-32.
    [PDF used with permission granted by the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, publisher of Hebrew Studies.]

Articles, 1980-1989

  1. "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. "Laqṭîl 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 RḤM = '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. " 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.]

Books Edited

  1. Co-Editor, The Bible World: Essays in Honor of Cyrus H. Gordon (New York: Ktav, 1980).
  2. Co-Editor, Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. 1 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1987).
  3. Co-Editor, Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. 2 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1990).
  4. Co-Editor, Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. 3 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1992).
  5. Co-Editor, Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. 4 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002).
  6. Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, 4 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 2013):
    http://www.brill.com/encyclopedia-hebrew-language-and-linguistics
  7. Co-Editor, “Did I Not Bring Israel Out of Egypt?”: Biblical, Archaeological, and Egyptological Perspectives on the Exodus Narratives (Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement 13; Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2016).
  8. Co-Editor, Le-maʿan Ziony: Essays in Honor of Ziony Zevit (Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, 2017).
  9. Co-Editor,  James S. Diamond, Scribal Secrets: Extraordinary Texts in the Torah and Their Implications (Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick, 2019).
  10. Sub-Editor, Thanksgiving Hymns and Related Documents (The Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project, vol. 5A; Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2022).
  11. Co-Editor, Rethinking the Composition of the Pentateuch (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2026).

Books Authored

  1. The Redaction of Genesis (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1986) (reprinted, with a new Foreword, 2014).
  2. Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew (American Oriental Series 72; New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1990).
  3. Linguistic Evidence for the Northern Origin of Selected Psalms (Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series 43; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990).
  4. The Bible and the Ancient Near East,, co-authored with Cyrus H. Gordon (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997). Limited preview available at Google Books

    Polish translation: Biblia i starożytny Bliski Wschód (Warsaw: Proszynski I Ska, 1998).

    Hungarian translation: A Biblia és az ókori Közel-Kelet, translated by Ágnes Kmilcsik (Debrecen: Gold Book, 2006).

  5. Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Kings (Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University 5; Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2002).
  6. Solomon’s Vineyard: Literary and Linguistic Studies in the Song of Songs, co-authored with Scott B. Noegel (SBL Ancient Israel and Its Literature; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009 / Leiden: Brill, 2009).
    See book description
  7. How the Bible Is Written (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2019). HowTheBibleIsWritten Cover thumbnail
  1. Caesaria Image
  2. Genesis Folio
  3. Meggido Photo
  4. Publications of Gary A. Rendsburg

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