SHNATON XXII: CONTENTS

SHNATON: An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies • XXII

Edited by NILI WAZANA

CONTENTS

Nili Wazana Preface

Alan Cooper Professor Matitiahu Tsevat ז"ל

Gabriel Birnbaum Professor Menahem Zvi Kaddari ז"ל

Biblical Studies

Ronnie Goldstein More on the Story about Nahash in 4Qsam^a, Its Purpose and Diffusion

David Frankel The Image of God in the Book of Job

Sara Japhet The Ritual of Reading Scripture (Nehemiah 8:1–12)

The Bible in Relation to the Ancient Near East

Yoram Cohen Mesopotamian Lexical Lists: Compositions for Reading, Writing, and

Interpreting the Cuneiform Script

Dan’el Kahn The Historical Background of a Topographical List of Ramesses III

Noga Ayali-Darshan The Cedar Forest’s Tradition in the Egyptian Tale of the Two Brothers and

Genesis 2–3

History of Exegesis

Eran Viezel Rashbam on Moses’ Role in Writing the Torah

Miriam Sklarz Contending with the Disparity Between Peshat and Derash:

Nachmanides in the Footsteps of Ibn Ezra

Yechiel Tzeikin Rabbi Yitzchak De Lattes – A Maimonidean Provençal Author and His

Manuscript Torah Commentary

Book Reviews

Jonathan Jacobs [On: Sara Japhet and Eran Viezel (eds.), To Settle the Plain Meaning of the Verse: Studies in Biblical Exegesis, Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute [and] Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies,

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2011, 345 pp. (in Hebrew)]

Kathleen Avraham The Settling of Disputes in Babylonian Courts (7^th–5^th Centuries B.C.E.)

[On: Shalom E. Holtz, Neo-Babylonian Court Procedure (Cuneiform Monographs 38), Leiden:

Brill, 2009, xviii + 335 pp.]

Haggai Misgav From Scribal Culture to the ‘People of the Book’ [On: Aaron Demsky, Literacy in

Ancient Israel (The Biblical Encyclopaedia Library xxviii), Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute,

2012, כג + 489 + xv pp. (in Hebrew)]