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This volume celebrates Rendsburg’s extraordinary contribution to the scholarship for the last 43 years by offering 25 excellent essays in three subject areas, namely, Hebrew language (Part 1), Hebrew Bible (Part 2) and Hebrew manuscripts (Part 3). The preface details his journey, including his publications and teaching at various places throughout his career. The contributors are close colleagues and former students. Part 1, Hebrew Language: S.E. Fassberg, ‘On Third Person Masculine Plural Pronouns in Hebrew’; E.L. Greenstein, ‘Out of the Sweet Came Good: A Study in Semitic Etymology’; C.G. Häberl, ‘Hebraisms in Mandaic’; G. Khan, ‘The Phasal Narrative Function of Long yiqt.ol and weqat.al in Biblical Hebrew’; F.H. Polak, ‘Windows, Walls, and Terebinths: The -ōn Morph in וּנינֵוֹלּחַ h.allōnēnū (Jer. 9.20) and Beyond’; A.D. Rubin, ‘On the Biblical Hebrew Preposition min’; A. Yadin-Israel, ‘Historical Linguistics and Language Change: The Rabbinic Hebrew Deponent’; Z. Zevit, ‘The Etymology and Meaning of Kuntillet ʿAjrud: An Experimental Inquiry’. Part 2, Hebrew Bible: D.S. Ballentine, ‘םידִשֵׁ šēd-īm: Shades of Difference between “Demons”, Deity, and ידַּשַׁ šadday’; A. Berlin, ‘Greek Eros in Song of Songs 8.6-7’; C.M.M. Brady, ‘Month Names in the Bible’; J.K. Hoffmeier, ‘Further Reflections on Egyptian Influences on the Early Hebrews—Priestly Matters’; A. Koller, ‘The Akedah in a Different Voice’; C.E. Morrison, ‘Targum Jonathan in the Critical Apparatus of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta in 1 and 2 Samuel’; S.B. Noegel, ‘Hidden Waters: The Sounds of Sinking in the Song of the Sea’; E. Robar, ‘Sound Play in the Song of Hannah’; W.M. Schniedewind, ‘Northern Refugees in Jerusalem: The Case of Menah.em, Son of Yawbana’; B.D. Sommer, ‘Transformation and Continuity in Liturgical Poetry: The Case of Psalm 20’; J.H. Tigay, ‘Two Notes on the Rescue of Moses in Exodus and in the Dura-Europos Synagogue Mural’; H.G.M. Williamson, ‘Isaiah 15.9’; I. Young, ‘The Joy of Secondary Texts: The “Little Horn” in Masoretic Text and Old Greek Daniel 7–8.’ Part 3, Hebrew Manuscripts: V.D. Beiler, ‘Who Wrote Acrostic Signatures in Early Masoretic Bible? The Case of H.ananya ha-Levi ben Shelomo’; J. Olszowy-Schlanger, ‘Christian Scholarship and Jewish Prayer in 13th-Century England: Oxford, MS Arch. Selden A. 3’; B.M. Outhwaite, ‘The Curious Case of the Corresponding Colophons in Codex Cairo 3’; S. Schorch, ‘A Letter from the Chief of the Samaritans, with a Little Present’. This new volume will inspire readers and be treasured by those who would like to work their way into the topics of the 25 essays which all give fresh insights and allow a clear entry into Rendsburg’s journey and his significant contribution to the field.