A First Course In Information Theory

I. Biblical studies in honour of Paul-Eugène Dion. Paul-Eugène Dion: an appreciation / John William Wevers. From many texts to one: the formation of the Hebrew Bible / Stephen Dempster. La bʻrît entre Laban et Jacob (Gn 31.43-54) / José Loza Vera. Midian and Ishmael in Genesis 37: synonyms in the Joseph story / E.J. Revell. The organization of the judiciary in Deuteronomy (Deut. 16.18-20; 17.8-13; 19.15; 21.22-23; 24.16; 25.1-3) / Alexander Rofé. Les premiers rois araméens dans la tradition biblique / André Lemaire. Les 'Prophètes Écrivains' étaient-ils des nbʼyʼm? [romanized] / Francolino J. Gonc̜alves. The taking of nothing: 2 Kings 14.25, Amos 6.14 and the geography of the Deuteronomic history / Baruch Halpern. Psalm 8.5 and Job 7.17-18: a mistaken scholarly commonplace? / Raymond C. Van Leeuwen. In Abraham's footsteps / Douglas Frayne. Aram and Aramaean in the Septuagint / John William Wevers. The place of origin of the Old Greek Psalter / Albert Pietersma. L'arameo errante e le origini di Israele / Felice Israel -- II. Studies in history and archaeology in honour of Paul-Eugène Dion. Paul-Eugène Dion: an appreciation / John William Wevers. Phoenicians and Aramaeans: the literary and epigraphic evidence / Brian Peckham. Aramaica Haburensia V: Limu-Datierungen in aramäischen Urkunden des 7.Jh.v.Chr. / Wolfgang Röllig. The bytdwd-inscription and Israelite historiography: taking stock after half a decade of research / Carl S. Ehrlich. Quelques observations sur le bytdwd de la stèle araméenne de Tel Dan / Guy Couturier. Tell Afos and the Luʻash in the Aramaean period / Stefania Mazzoni. Tell Taʻyinat and the kingdom of Unqi / Timothy P. Harrison. A new weight from Hamath and trade relations with the south in the ninth-eighth centuries BCE / Michael Heltzer. Toward a new paradigmatic understanding of long-distance trade in the ancient Near East: from the Middle Bronze II to Early Iron II--a sketch / John S. Holladay, Jr. Family religion: evidence for the paraphernalia of the domestic cult / P.M. Michèle Daviau. Les plus anciens témoignages sur le dieu Eshmoun: une mise au point / Paolo Xella. Un nouvel autel à encens de Palmyre / Emile Puech. Iron Age settlement in Edom: a revised framework / Piotr Bienkowski. Aramaic funerary practices in Egypt / Bezalel Porten, John Gee -- III. Paul-Eugène Daviau: an appreciation / John William Wevers. Compositional strategies in the Aramaic Sayings of Ahikar: columns 6-8 / William Morrow. A Neo-Babylonian tablet with an Aramaic docket and the surety phrase pūt šēp(i)...našu / Grant Frame. What ever happened to Vidranga?--a Jewish liturgy of cursing from Elephantine / James M. Lindenburger. A propos de l'Inscription de Meshaʻ: deux notes / Pierre Bordreuil. Tales about Sennacherib: the contribution of the Syriac sources / Amir Harrak. Phoenician inscriptions from Tell el-Maskhuta / R. Theodore Lutz. Dialektvielfalt und Sprachwandel in frühen Aramäischen Soziolinguistische Überlegungen / Josef Tropper. Ugaritic science / Dennis Pardee. Observations on the date of the Syriac Cave of treasures / Clemens Leonhard.