Biblical Hebrew in Context Oudtestamentische Studiën Old Testament Studies published on behalf of the Societies for Old Testament Studies in the Netherlands and Belgium, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Ireland Editor H. Ausloos (Louvain-la-Neuve) Editorial Board M. Popović (Groningen) H. F. Van Rooy (Potchefstroom) H. G. M. Williamson (Oxford) Volume 74 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/ots Professor Jan P. Lettinga Biblical Hebrew in Context Essays in Semitics and Old Testament Texts in Honour of Professor Jan P. Lettinga Edited by Koert van Bekkum Gert Kwakkel Wolter H. Rose LEIDEN | BOSTON Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bekkum, K. van, editor. | Kwakkel, Gert, editor. | Rose, Wolter H.,  editor. Title: Biblical Hebrew in context : essays in Semitics and Old Testament  texts in honour of Professor Jan P. Lettinga / edited by Koert van Bekkum,  Gert Kwakkel, Wolter H. Rose. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] | Series: Oudtestamentische  studiën/Old Testament studies ; Volume 74 | Includes bibliographical  references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018026309 (print) | LCCN 2018026767 (ebook) | ISBN  9789004380851 (E-book) | ISBN 9789004380844 (hardback : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Semitic languages. | Hebrew language—Grammar. | Bible. Old  Testament—Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Bible. Old  Testament—Language, style. | Lettinga, Jan Pieter, 1921- Classification: LCC PJ3002.Z5 (ebook) | LCC PJ3002.Z5 L48 2018 (print) | DDC  492.4/5—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018026309 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 0169-7226 isbn 978-90-04-38084-4 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-38085-1 (e-book) Copyright 2018 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Contents Abbreviations vii Contributors xiii List of Figures xv 1 A Leiden Semitist in Kampen: Honouring Professor Jan P. Lettinga 1 Koert van Bekkum 2 Hebrew pelīlīm and Old Assyrian palālum 12 Klaas R. Veenhof 3 Keilalphabetische Briefe aus Ugarit: Deutsche Übertragung von KTU3 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.16 und 2.26 28 Willem H.Ph. Römer 4 Remarks on the Verbal Rection in Biblical Aramaic 33 Takamitsu Muraoka 5 A Dutch Grammar of Biblical Hebrew: J.P. Lettinga’s Grammatica van het Bijbels Hebreeuws and Its Revisions 39 Wido van Peursen and Martin Baasten 6 A Paradigm Shift: Reflections on Teaching Hebrew in the Theology Curriculum 54 Wolter H. Rose 7 The ‘Language of Canaan’: Ancient Israel’s History and the Origins of Hebrew 67 Koert van Bekkum 8 Forgiveness of Sin for the Price of a New-born’s Life? 2 Samuel 12:13–15 Reconsidered 89 Willem A.M. Beuken 9 Stilling or Stirring up the Sea? The Translation of Isaiah 51:15 100 Jaap Dekker vi contents 10 ‘But Fear not, O Jacob my Servant!’ Place and Function of the Salvation Oracle Jeremiah 46:27–28 MT 114 Eric Peels 11 Hosea 4:16–19: A Century of Work on an Obscure Text 130 Gert Kwakkel 12 Living Linguistic Legacy. The ‘Sons of God’ in the Non-Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls 156 Jaap Doedens Bibliography Professor Jan P. Lettinga 177 Index of Authors 180 Index of Semitic Words and Phrases 186 Index of Ancient Sources 187 Abbreviations ÄAT Ägypten und Altes Testament ABS Archaeology and Biblical Studies ACEBT Amsterdamse cahiers voor exegese van de Bijbel en zijn tradities AfO Archiv für Orientforschung AIL Ancient Israel and Its Literature AJSL American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures AKT Ankara Kültepe Tabletleri, Ankara, Türuk Tarih Kurumu, 1990– vol. 6. M.T. Larsen, The Archive of the Šalim-Aššur Family, 2010–2014 vol. 8. K.R. Veenhof, The Archive of Elamma, son of Iddin-Suen and his Fam- ily, 2017 AncBib Anchor Bible ANEM Ancient Near East Monographs ANESSup Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement ANYAS Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences AOAT Altes Orient und Altes Testament ArBib M. McNamara (ed.), The Aramaic Bible, Collegeville MN 1987–2008 ARET Archivi Reali di Ebla. Testi AS Assyriological Studies ATD Das Alte Testament Deutsch AThANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research BBB Bonner biblische Beiträge BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research BC Biblischer Commentar über das Alte Testament bce Before the Common Era BDB F. Brown, S.R. Driver, C.A. Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. With an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Based on the Lexicon of Wilhelm Gesenius as Translated by Edward Robinson, Oxford 1906 BHK3 Biblia Hebraica, ed. R. Kittel, Stuttgart 1937, 196614 BHQ Biblia Hebraica Quinta, Stuttgart 2004– BHS Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Stuttgart 1977, 19975 Bib Biblica BibOr Biblica et Orientalia BJER La Bible de Jérusalem BJS Brown Judaic Studies BKAT Biblischer Kommentar zum alten Testament