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Jonathan Paradise

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faculty photoJonathan Paradise

Professor Emeritus
tel.: 612-625-5353
email: jparadis@umn.edu

Education

B.A. University of Minnesota (1960)
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1972)

Statement of Interests

Modern Hebrew Language and Literature; Hebrew Poetry; Language Pedagogy; Biblical Studies; Cuneiform; Lexicography.

Selected Publications

What Did Laban Demand of Jacob?  A New Reading of Genesis 31:50 and Exodus 21:10,"  Tehillah le--Moshe, Biblical and Judaic Studies in Honor of Moshe Greenberg, Eisenbrauns, 1997.

"Marriage Contracts of Free Persons at Nuzi," Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 39/1 (1987).

"Daughters as 'Sons' at Nuzi," Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, Vol. 2, Eisenbrauns, (1985).

"A Daughter and her Father's Property at Nuzi," Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 32/4 (1980).

 

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