| Contents | 6 |
| Preliminary Note | 8 |
| Solomon Birnbaum’s Life and Work | 10 |
| Scholarly Articles by Solomon Birnbaum | 28 |
| A. The Palaeo-Hebrew Script | 30 |
| 28. Table of Semitic Alphabets. 10th – 5th Centuries B.C.E. | 32 |
| 29. On the Possibility of Dating Hebrew Inscriptions | 36 |
| 30. The Dates of the Gezer Tablet and of the Samaria Ostraca | 42 |
| 31. The Palaeo-Hebrew Ostraca Sherds and a Fragment of a Stele, all from Samaria | 46 |
| 32. The Lachish Ostraca | 82 |
| 33. The Leviticus Fragments from the Cave | 108 |
| B. The Hebrew Script | 118 |
| 34. The Development of the Hebrew Scripts | 120 |
| 35. Methodology in Hebrew Palaeography | 166 |
| 36. Notes on the Internal and Archaeological Evidence Concerning the Cave Scrolls | 176 |
| 37. The Dates of the Cave Scrolls | 182 |
| 38. How Old Are the Cave Manuscripts? – A Palaeographical Discussion | 186 |
| 39. The Qumran Scrolls and Palaeography | 208 |
| 40. The Date of the Isaiah Scroll | 220 |
| 41. The Date of the Habakkuk Cave Scroll | 226 |
| 42. The Date of the Covenant Scroll | 236 |
| 43. The Age of the Cave Scrolls: Two Letters to the London Times | 246 |
| 44. The Date of the Hymns Scroll | 248 |
| 45. The Date of the Incomplete Isaiah Scroll from Qumraˆn | 260 |
| 46. Bar Kosba (Kokhba) and Akiba | 270 |
| 47. Akiba and Bar Kosba (Kokhba) | 282 |
| 48. The Beth Mashku Document | 286 |
| 49. A Fragment in an Unknown Script | 302 |
| 50. An Unknown Aramaic Cursive | 306 |
| 51. The Negeb Script | 328 |
| 52. The Kephar Bebhayu Conveyance | 362 |
| 53. The Kephar Bebhayu Marriage Deed | 392 |
| 54. A Sheet of an Eighth Century Synagogue Scroll | 406 |
| 55. Die Vielfalt der hebräischen Schrift im Mittelalter | 414 |
| 56. Die Schrift des Dukus Horant | 416 |
| 57. Manuscripts in Old Yiddish | 424 |
| 58. Design for an Ornamental Ashkenazic Printing Type | 430 |
| 59. Das Datum des Codex Zimt Sand (Maase Bukh) | 432 |
| 60. Palaeographical Examination of the ‘Klein Manuscript’ | 438 |
| 61. A Scrap from a Hebrew Manuscript of a Kitab al-Malah. im / {Kitab fi ilm al-jafr} | 446 |
| 62. The Etymology of the Term Mashait | 454 |
| Index of Persons (in Chapters 28–62) | 484 |
