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Qumran Cave 4(1st Edition)
XVII, Parabiblical Texts, Part 3 (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, Vol. 22)
by George J. Brooke, Torleif Elgvin, John Collins, Peter W. Flint, Jonas Carl Greenfield, Erik Larson, Carol Ann Newsom, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Émile Puech, Contributor-James Vanderkam, Michael E. Stone, Julio Trebolle Barrera, Geroge Brooke, Emile Puech, James " Vanderkam, Emanuel Tov
Hardcover, 396 Pages, Published 1997 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-826936-6, ISBN: 0-19-826936-6

"This volume contains a collection of compositions from Cave 4 at Qumran, written during the Second Temple period and linked to biblical texts through characters, themes, or genre. Some of these, such as the Levi Aramaic Document, Testament of Naphtali, and Prayer of Nabonidus, were known previously from Greek and Aramaic manuscripts of the Apocrypha. The additional documents include PseudoDaniel, the Commentaries on Genesis, Commentar ..."

Studia Aramaica(1st Edition)
New Sources and New Approaches (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement)
by M. J. Geller, V. T. Mathias, J. C. Greenfield, M. P. Weitzmann, Markham J. Geller, Jonas Carl Greenfield, Michael P. Weitzman, England. Conference
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1995 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-922194-3, ISBN: 0-19-922194-4

"This volume represents the latest work by leading scholars in the field of Aramaic studies. The contributions range over the entire Aramaic era, from the earliest Persian period of the fifth century B.C.E. to Babylonian Aramaic of the fifth century C.E, offering new insights into the language and texts of the Hellenistic and Byzantine Near East."

Solving Riddles and Untying Knots
Biblical, Epigraphic, and Semitic Studies in Honor of Jonas C. Greenfield
by Ziony Zevitn, Seymour Gitin, Michael Sokoloff, Michael Sokoloff Eds., Jonas C. Greenfield, Jonas Carl Greenfield, Editor-Adele Berlin
Hardcover, 668 Pages, Published 1995 by Eisenbrauns
ISBN-13: 978-0-931464-93-5, ISBN: 0-931464-93-5

"but in our text Istar invites the young men to the shadow of the wall, a place of prostitutes. Text 1. risdtum[ma] 2. dTelitum [8-12 signs?] -da-a-nim 3. i-sa[-7-9 signs 4. ku[lmasitum?4-6 signs 5. et[lutum 5-7 signs 6. ar[d]a[ turn 5-7 7. i-sa-x[7- 9 signs 8. isten il[likassimma 9. alki mugr[i]nni [3-4 signs 10. u sanu illikassimma 1 1 . alki lulappit hurdatki 12. istuma amangurukunusi 13. etlut dlikunu puhhirdnimma 14. ana silli d ..."

The Aramaic Levi Document(Updated)
Edition, Translation, Commentary (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha,)
by Editor Esther Eshel, Jonas Carl Greenfield, Michael Edward Stone, James M. Greenfield, A.J. Brown, Dr Michael Stone
Hardcover, 281 Pages, Published 2004 by Brill
ISBN-13: 978-90-04-13785-1, ISBN: 90-04-13785-8

"The Aramaic Levi Document is a collection of larger and smaller fragments identified in Aramaic, Greek and Syriac. The discovery of Aramaic fragments among at Qumran confirmed its antiquity and it is now considered to be one of the oldest Jewish works outside the Hebrew Bible. It presents surprising ideas about the priesthood, sacrifice, wisdom and ideals of piety. Greenfield, Stone and Eshel, each expert in their field, have for the fi ..."

The Documents from the Bar Kokhba period in the Cave of Letters
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Nabatean-Aramaic Papyri (Judean Desert studies)
by Ada Yardeni, Baruch Levine, Jonas C. Greenfield, Jerry Rabow, Andrew Gross, Naphtali Lewis, Jonas Carl Greenfield
Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2002 by Shrine Of The Book
ISBN-13: 978-965-221-046-3, ISBN: 965-221-046-3

"2 volumes : illustrations ; 32 cm. [v. 1] No special title. -- [v. 2] Plates. ' "Over forty years have passed since the discovery of the artifacts and documents in the Cave of Letters in Nahal Hever by the Yigael Yadin expedition. We have succeeded only now in concluding the publication of these discoveries with this, the long-awaited third and final volume in this series"--Page ix.'"

'al Kanfei Yonah
(2 Vols.): Collected Studies of Jonas C. Greenfield on Semitic Philology
by Jonas Carl Greenfield, Shalom M. Paul, Michael E. Stone, Avital Pinnick, Dr Michael Stone
Hardcover, 1,005 Pages, Published 2001 by Brill Academic Pub
ISBN-13: 978-90-04-12170-6, ISBN: 90-04-12170-6

"These volumes contain most of the papers of the late Jonas C. Greenfield written in English, with source and lexeme indexes, and is intended for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East, Aramaic, Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Semitic philology. Greenfield published numerous articles in a wide range of journals, some of them fairly inaccessible. He himself had begun to collect his papers, with the aim of revising and republis ..."

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