Acknowledgements
The volume editors would like to thank Klaas Smelik, Editor-in-Chief of Studia Semitica Neerlandica, as well as Brill Publishers, for accepting this volume into the series. Among the terrific staff at Brill we are especially grateful to Elisa Perotti for coordinating the publication at each stage. We also would like to express our profound appreciation to all of the participating authors, who not only came through with such outstanding contributions in a very timely manner, but who were also a genuine pleasure to work with. We are also very grateful to Melissa Rendsburg, who provided us with great moral support, as well as some important information about our honoree. And, of course, we are most grateful to Gary Rendsburg, who has been such a superb teacher and mentor to both of us.