HEBREW ANNUAL REVIEW

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2 HEBREW ANNUAL REVIEW Volume Biblical and Other Studies Edited by: Reuben Ahroni Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures The Ohio State University

3 Associate Editor Editorial Board SAM MEIER The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio WARREN BARGAD University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida ADELE BERLIN University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland SIMON J. DE VRIES Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Delaware, Ohio MICHAEL FISHBANE Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts DAVID N. FREEDMAN University of Michig&n, Ann Arbor, Michigan ROBERT GORDIS Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, New York EDWARD GREENSTEIN Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, New York LEV HAKAK University of California, Los Angeles, California BARUCH HALPERN York University, Ontario, Canada MENAHEM HARAN The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel RODNEY R. HUTTON Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio J. GERALD JANZEN Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana STUART LASINE Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas

4 STEVEN L. McKENZIE Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee CAROL MEYERS Duke University, Durham, North Carolina CAREY A. MOORE Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania SHELOMO MORAG The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel HERBERT H. PAPER Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio SHALOM M. PAUL The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel LEO G. PERDUE Phillips Graduate School, Enid, Oklahoma WILLIAM SHEA Biblical Research Institute, Washington, D.C. NAOMI SOKOLOFF University of Washington, Seattle, Washington RICHARD C. STEINER Yeshiva University, New York, New York DAVID B. WEISBERG Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio JAMES G. WILLIAMS Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York ZIONY ZEVIT University of Judaism, Los Angeles, California Bibliographic Consultant AMNON ZIPIN The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to thank the Melton Center for Jewish Studies at The Ohio State University for its continued support for the Hebrew Annual Review. Thanks are also due to the following institutions and individuals for their highly appreciated financial contributions to this volume: The Norman and Helen Asher Library of Spertus College of Judaica, Chicago, Illinois The Endowment for Biblical Research, Boston, Massachusetts The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation and its President William Lee Frost, New York, New York The Joseph and Ceil Mazer Foundation, Inc., New York, New York Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nutis, Columbus, Ohio Jack and Joan Wallick, Columbus, Ohio Fred Yenkin, Columbus Jewish Foundation, in memory of Mildred L. Yenkin, Columbus, Ohio Special thanks are due to the Jesselson Foundation and its President, Mr. Ludwig Jesselson, for their generosity and steadfast commitment to diverse aspects of the Humanities. All correspondence relating to the Hebrew Annual Review should be addressed to: The Editor, Hebrew Annual Review Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures The Ohio State University 1841 Millikin Road Columbus, Ohio by Hebrew Annual Review

6 CONTENTS Four Unpublished Poems by Yosef ben-yisra 0 el: A Sixteenth Century Jewish Yemenite Poet Reuben Ahroni "l:libbur haqqonfm" by R. Shimshon hannaqdan David Ben-Menachem Potter, Prophet and People: Jeremiah 18 as Parable Philip R. Davies The Education of Amos Lyle ~Eslinger Land Tenure in the Biblical Jubilee: A Moral World View Jeffrey A. Fager Oracular Cursing in Hosea 13 Paul N. Franklyn The Repentance of God: A Study of Jeremiah 18:7-10 Terence E. Fretheim.... MaPak habberft: The Messenger of the Covenant in Mal 3: 1 Beth Glazier-McDonald The Family Novel as a Reflection of History: Billiards at Half Past Nine (H. Boll) and A Late Divorce (A. B. Yehoshua) Leah Hadorni.... Estranged Nightingales: On Poetry Written by Near Eastern Jews in Israel Lev Hakak "Like a Man in Exile from the Palace of his Father": Dramas of Writing in the Fiction of S. Y. Agnon Anne Golomb Hoffman I

7 Fielding "Why" Questions in Genesis Ronald T. Hyman Evolution and Development of S. Y. Agnon's Y)rea/.l nii{ii. Iii/Un, Stephen Katz.... Haman in the Book of Esther Andre LaCocque Vision and Poetic Speech in Amos Francis Landy Solomon, Daniel, and the Detective Story: The Social Functions of a Literary Genre Stuart Lasine Death Cult Imagery in Isaiah 57 Theodore J. Lewis Beyond Form Criticism: The Relation of Doom and Hope Oracles in Micah 2-6 Lamontte M. Luker Jeremiah's Last Confession: Structure, Image and Ambiguity Jonathan Magonet Y. D. Berkowitz's Rendition of Sholem Aleichem's "Song of Songs": A Study of its Structure and Hebrew Translation Yudith Nave The Composition of Hosea Brian Peckham The Origins of Infant Circumcision in Israel William H. Propp Intercession and the Denial of Peace in l Enoch Jonathan Paige Sisson The Holocaust and the Discourse of Childhood: David Grossman's See Under: Love Naomi Sokoloff

8 Structure and Redaction in Isaiah 2-4 Marvin A. Sweeney Sisera's Mother in Judges 5 and Haim Gouri's 0 /mmo William J. Urbrock Psalm 121 as a Wisdom Poem John T. Willis Instructions for Contributors 453