2 2 Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 2 Volume 2 2013 Trends in Northwest Semitic, Hebrew, and Aramaic Epigraphy David S. Vanderhooft Trends in Northwest Semitic, Hebrew, and Aramaic Epigraphy 121 – 124 David S. Vanderhooft Wadi el-H . ôl Inscription 2 and The Early Semitic Alphabetic Graph *g ´ , *g ´ull-, ‘yoke’ 125 – 135 Aren Wilson-Wright Interpreting the Sinaitic Inscriptions in Context: A New Reading of Sinai 345 136 – 148 Israel Finkelstein and Benjamin Sass The West Semitic Alphabetic Inscriptions, Late Bronze II to Iron IIA: Archeological Context, Distribution and Chronology 149 – 220 Nadav Na’aman A Sapiential Composition from H . orvat ῾Uza 221 – 233 André Lemaire Remarks about Realia and Other Hebrew Words in the Moussaieff Collection Ostraca 234 – 242 Jan Dušek Aramaic in the Persian Period 243 – 264 Deborah Sweeney The Tel Aviv University Serabit el-Khadem photograph archive 265 – 273 Mohr Siebeck