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Fokkelman presents the Hebrew and the English text of Job in its original contours and proportions (412 strophes, 165 stanzas), weighs the poet's precision (who counted his syllables on all text levels) and redraws the portrait of the hero: integrity vindicated.

In Understanding Participant-Reference Shifts in the Book of Jeremiah methodological reflections lead to a text-phenomenological investigation of the origins and functions of participant-reference shifts.

In this volume twelve contributions discuss the relevance, accuracy, potential, and possible alternatives to a literary reading of ancient Jewish writings, especially the Hebrew Bible.

In this book, Godwin Mushayabasa employs a frame semantics approach to analyse the linguistic level of translation as well as the faithfulness with which the translation was handled.

In this volume, Ken M. Penner uses an empirical method to establish that the Qumran authors' selection of finite verb forms is determined not by aspect, but by tense or modality.

The peculiarity of Ezekiel is that kābôd is used almost exclusively as a hypostasis of YHWH. This study highlights the dual and paradoxical nature of the divine kābôd as both defying verbal description and being potentially visible.