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The Southern Africa Society for Near Eastern Studies (SASNES) has its own journal, Journal for Semitics, first published in 1989. The journal is accredited by the South African Department of Education and is published twice a year. Occasionally a special third number may be published in a volume.

Journal for Semitics (ISSN 1013-8471) is published for SASNES by Unisa Press and printed by the Production Department, University of South Africa.

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Members of SASNES receive the journal as a membership benefit.

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Contents of issues 1(1) - 12(2)
Contents of issues 13(1) - 15(1)
Contents of issue 15(2)
Contents of issue 16(1)
Contents of issue 16(2)
Contents of issue 16(3)
Contents of issue 17(1)
Contents of issue 17(2)

Contents of issue 18(1)
Contents of issue 18(2)
Contents of issue 19(1)
Contents of issue 19(2)
Contents of issue 20(1)

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Contact details:

Editor/Redakteur                     

Prof W S Boshoff

Department of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies

P.O. Box 392

Unisa 0003

boshows@unisa.ac.za

Fax +27124294570

 

Assistant Editor/                      

Assistent Redakteur

Dr S I Cronjé

sicronje@mweb.co.za

 

Editorial Committee/Redaksionele Komitee

(SASNES Executive/SAVNOS Bestuur)

Prof J Cook (University of Stellenbosch)

Prof J S du Toit (University of the Free State)

Prof H J M van Deventer (Northwest University)

Dr M A J Dockrat (University of Johannesburg)

Mr A Lamprecht (Northwest University)

 

International Advisory Board/Internasionale Adviesraad       

Prof Najib al-Soudi (Yemen)

Dr E Bloch-Smith (USA)

Prof Y Gitay (Israel)

Prof Jamal Abu Hassan (Jordan)

Prof JA Loader (Austria)

Prof M Smith (USA)

Dr Emmanuel Usue (Nigeria)

Prof E Wendland (Zambia)

Mr J Woodhead (Scotland)

                                                                                                 

Typography and Treasurer/Tipografie en Tesourier           

Mr A Landman

andre.landman@uct.ac.za

 
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TYDSKRIF VIR SEMITISTIEK

JOURNAL FOR SEMITICS

 

Jaargang 20 Nommer 1 2011

 

Volume 20 Number 1 2011

 

Inhoud

 

 

Contents

General articles

H.F. van Rooy: A short history of Early Hebrew: cases, articles, alphabets

and some early texts.....................................................................................................1-17

Lee Roy Martin: The Spirit of Yahweh in the Book of Judges................................18-43

C.J. Ginsberg: End of an era? Forty years of Dorem Afrike  and Yiddish Kultur

in South Africa...........................................................................................................44-86

A. Groenewald: Isaiah 1:4-9 as a post-exilic reflection.........................................87-108

P.S. Vermaak: A new interpretation of the playing objects

in the Gilgamesh Epic............................................................................................109-138

C. Lombaard: Argumentum ex (fere) silentio. Reconsidering the (almost)

silence on the patriarchs in the Psalter...................................................................139-151

N. Voges: A historical perspective to Egypt’s protests.........................................152-175

L. Maré, J. Coetzee and W. Minnaar: The concept of הוהי תארי as

Wisdom motif in the Book of Ruth........................................................................176-191

F. Hoosen: The qirāʾa adopted by the authors of Tafsīr Al-Jalālayn and its

significance in understanding their exegetical notes..............................................192-212

LXX Articles

J. Cook: In search of the old Greek of Job............................................................213-232

A. Evans: “And Mordekhai’s order Esther obeyed”. Comparison of structural delimitation of the narrative flow in MT and LXX Esther 2.................................233-249

G.R. Kotzé: LXX Lamentations 4:7 and 4:14. Reflections on the Greek

renderings of the difficult Hebrew wordings of these verses.................................250-270

H.F. van Rooy: Ezekiel 33:12-16 in Papyrus 967................................................271-282

L. Lincoln: The Septuagint: the origin debate revisited........................................283-299

H. Efthimiadis-Keith: On the Egyptian origin of Judith, or Judith

as Anath-Yahu........................................................................................................300-322



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