Contents -- Preface -- A Colleague's Appreciation -- A Student's Appreciation -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography of the Publications of Jeffrey H. Tigay -- Deuteronomic Studies -- A Deuteronomic Voice in the Joseph Story -- Textual Harmonizations in the Ancient Texts of Deuteronomy -- The Visit of Jethro: A Case of Chronological Displacement? The Source-Critical Solution -- Gender Transformation and Transgression: Contextualizing the Prohibition of Cross-Dressing in Deuteronomy 22:5 -- Dinah, ºInnah, and Related Matters -- Sex and the Single Girl in Deuteronomy 22 -- Taking Interest in Taking Interest -- "My Father Was a Wandering Aramean" (Deuteronomy 26:5) or "Edom Served My Father"? -- Rewritten Deuteronomy in 1QS and in m. Sotah 7:5 -- The Lost Meaning of Deuteronomy 33:2 as Preserved in the Palestinian Targum to the Decalogue -- Israelian Hebrew Features in Deuteronomy 33 -- Revealed and Concealed: The Status of the Law (Book) of Moses within the Deuteronomistic History -- Deuteronomy in the Temple: An Exercise in Historical Imagining -- Deuteronom(ist)ic Influences on Deutero-Isaiah -- The Scribal Concern for the Torah as Evidenced by the Textual Witnesses of the Hebrew Bible -- Three Midrashim Concerning Our Great Leaders, Moses and David: The Doctrine of Grace in Sifre Deuteronomy -- Ancient Israelite Religion and Its Near Eastern Context -- One God for Many: Philological Glosses on Monotheism -- The Divinity of Humankind in the Bible and the Ancient Near East: A New Mesopotamian Parallel -- Does God Deceive? An Examination of the Dark Side of Isaiah's Prophecy -- The Unique Features of Ezekiel's Sanctuary -- On the Place of Psalm 21 in Israelite Royal Ideology -- Myth and Syntax in Psalm 93 -- The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job -- Ancient Israelite Literary Tradition -- Examples of Restatement in the Laws of Hammurabi.

Literary-Critical Issues in the Hebrew Bible from an Assyriological Perspective: Additions and Omissions -- Biblical Naming Reports with -- The Ancient Critical Misunderstanding of Exodus 21:22-25 and Its Implications for the Current Debate on Abortion -- Linen and the Linguistic Dating of P -- A New Approach to Metaphor in Biblical Poetry -- The Four Private Persons Who Lost Their Share in the World to Come: The Judgment of m. Sanh. 10:2 -- Hermeneutical Freedom and Constraint in Jewish Bible Exegesis -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture.