"Like ʾIlu Are You Wise": Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures in Honor of Dennis G. Pardee

Contributors and Affiliations
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Publications of Dennis G. Pardee
Dissertation Advisees
Abbreviations
Ugaritic Alphabetic Text Cross-References

Part 1 Ugaritic Studies

1. The Further Quest for Ugaritic. Peter T. Daniels
2. A Critique of the Counter-Argument for yaqtul Preterite in Ugaritic. Edward L. Greenstein
3. God [ʾIlu] and King in KTU 1.23. Theodore J. Lewis
4. Patrons, Brokers, and Clients at Late Bronze Age Ugarit. Miller C. Prosser
5. Transmission and Mortal Anxiety in the Tale of Aqhat. Jacqueline Vayntrub

Part 2 Northwest Semitic Inscriptions

6. Where Is the Devourer? A Reappraisal of the Arslan Tash II Plaque in Its ANE Context. Dan Belnap
7. A Revised Interpretation of the Melqart Stele (KAI 201). Jo Ann Hackett and Aren M. Wilson-Wright
8. The Incised ʾIšbaʿl Inscription from Khirbet Qeiyafa: Paleographic, Onomastic, and Historical Notes. Christopher A. Rollston
9. Grammatical and Historical Notes on the Phoenician Text of the Incirli Inscription. Philip Schmitz
10. “And Now” wʿt(h): A Transition Particle in Ancient Hebrew. William M. Schniedewind
11. A Study of the Preposition b- in Samʾalian Aramaic: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach with Ramifications for the Interpretation of the Katumuwa Stele. K. Lawson Younger Jr.

Part 3 Biblical Hebrew Poetry

12. Line Lengths in Poetic Units in Ugaritic and Biblical Hebrew Poetry. Drayton C. Benner
13. Biblical “Alternation” and Its Poetics. Simeon Chavel
14. So-Called “Number Parallelism” in Biblical Poetry. F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp
15. Pronominal Gender Parallelism as a Poetic Device in Biblical Hebrew. H. H. Hardy II
16. On Psalm 1: Structure and Meaning. Koowon Kim
17. Acrostic Style and Word Order: An Examination of Macrostructural Constraints and Local Syntax in the Acrostic Poem of Lamentations 3. Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé and Jacobus A. Naudé
18. Vertical Grammar of Parallelism in Ugaritic Poetry. David Toshio Tsumura

Part 4 Semitic Philology

19. “His Tent”: Pitched at the Intersection of Orthography and Source Criticism. Joel S. Baden.
20. A Brief History of the Phrase “King of Kings.” Samuel L. Boyd
21. Akkadian kaslu, Ugaritic ksl, and Hebrew כסל : A (Very Tardy) Response to Moshe Held. John Burnight
22. The Ugaritic Compound Adjective ʾib ʾiqnʾi “Lapis-Lazuli-Pure” and the Three Special Types of Construction in Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, and Ugaritic, in Which the Nonpredicate Adjective Precedes the Noun. Chaim Cohen (Z″L)
23. The Biblical Hebrew Root bhl in Light of New Ugaritic Evidence. Joseph Lam
24. From Kothar to Kythereia: Exploring the Northwest Semitic Past of Aphrodite. Carolina López-Ruiz
25. The Root GMR and a Shared Divine Epithet in Ugaritic and Classical Hebrew. Nathan Mastnjak
26. Biblical King Og and the Ugaritic Deity Rāpiʾu: Sorting Out Two Figures in Light of the Rephaim and the Toponyms Ashtaroth and Edrei. Matthew McAffee
27. “From the Burrows of Their Lairs . . .”: The Imagery of a Prophetic Utterance in a Mari Letter. Adam E. Miglio
28. The Third Masculine Singular Suffix on Nouns Written with heh mater. Eric D. Reymond
29. Pondering Pandemonium: Reimagining ʾĔlōhîm in 1 Samuel 28:13. Brian B. Schmidt

Part 5 Hebrew Linguistics and Verbal System

30. The Hebrew Verbal System in an Oyster Shell: Egypto-Semitic Notes. David Calabro
31. On Some Syntactic Alternations in Biblical Hebrew. Stuart Creason
32. The Coordinated Perfect. W. Randall Garr
33. Dating the Earliest Hebrew Verbal System: The Role of Dialect Variation in Ancient Linguistic Change. Seth Sanders

Part 6 Comparative Semitics

34. An Aramaic Cognate to Akkadian -iš, Hebrew -ɔ, and Ugaritic -h. Aaron Michael Butts
35. The Origin of the Third-Person Markers on the Suffix Conjugation in Semitic. Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
36. Ugaritic ǵ from Proto-Semitic *θ̣. John Huehnergard

Part 7 Beyond

37. On the Human Mind and Deities. Gary A. Long