B. S. Childs has argued convincingly that “in the great majority of cases, the formula, ‘until this day,’ has been secondarily added as a redactional commentary on existing traditions” (“A Study of the Formula ‘Until This Day’,” JBL 82 [1963] 292). Yet, his conclusion that “unti…
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A number of texts in the Hebrew Bible portray the God of Israel as engaging in deceptive practices. This dissertation examines what the ancient Israelites thought about the idea of divine deception and the implications of this reflection for understanding their worldview. The id…
Worship, service, and work are important components of the Christian life. Christians frequently worship on Sunday through song, teaching/instruction, and fellowship. Generally the assumption is that worship forms the basis out of which flow service, and at times, even work. How…
Aramaic morphology involves the Semitic non-linear interdigitation of separate consonantal and vocalic segmental morphemes. I show that the verbal morphology derives from meta-templates (CCCC), which specify the number of syllable margins, and Optimality Theoretic constraints. T…
This study proposes a document typology of lawsuit records for legal texts of the Old Babylonian era. Using this 'core' of texts and additional selected documents, the role of the DI.KU\sb5.MES/dayyanu (judges) is examined vis a vis the proliferation of additional adjudicating e…
Of all the manuscripts discovered in the Judaean Desert, the Psalms are represented more than any other book; one or more Psalms are found in thirty-six scrolls from Qumran and three from other sites. The purpose of this study is twofold: to make available in one place much of t…
The goal of this study was to reconstruct the archive of an individual by name of Abum-waqar known to us from numerous cuneiform documents of the Old Babylonian Period purported to originate from the ancient city of Larsa during the reign of Rim-Sīn I. The primary corpus to be a…
Erchempert, a ninth-century Lombard monk attached to the monastery of Monte Cassino in Southern Italy, wrote the History of the Lombards of Benevento around 889, a history intended to contrast with Paul the Deacon's earlier History of the Lombards by including the Carolingian co…
The New Testament boldly announces the resurrection (i.e., returning to life from death) of Dorcas, Eutychus, Lazarus, Jairus's daughter, and, especially, Jesus Christ. Moreover, in this context New Testament writers credit the Old Testament as an earlier source of the resurrect…
Shenoute of Atripe (ca. 350-465 C.E.) is Coptic Egypt's foremost ancient author. His writings are both a towering monument in the history of Coptic literature and a valuable resource for historical, linguistic, and biblical research. But the study of Shenoute's works is hampered…
The dissertation is a catalogue of the artifacts of hand-held weapons which have been excavated in the southern Levant in Iron Age II contexts and which were published with an accompanying drawing or photograph. The intent has been to place in one easily accessible volume repres…
This study is an analysis of the alphabetic cuneiform script found on the tablets discovered at the Late Bronze Age city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra). The study of these texts has been hampered by an incomplete understanding of the script, resulting in a large number of variant…
This thesis consists of a commented translation of an excerpt from a ninth century C.E. letter by the celebrated Arabic translator Hunayn Ibn Ishaq. The epistle is addressed to one of his patrons, 'Ali ibn Yahya, and gives an account of the works of the Greek physician Galen as …
The use of Palaeo-Hebrew in the Dead Sea Scrolls is intrinsically connected to the history of the Qumran community. Many scholars attempted the reconstruction of the history of the Qumran community. Others suggested it was a futile undertaking. None of the attempts considered th…
When the Persians conquered Lydia in the mid-sixth century B.C., they had to incorporate this large and wealthy province into the empire so that it might function as an integral part of the larger whole. Such a transition affected culture as well as commerce, people as well as p…
This thesis examines the so-called "enigma" of the "tenseless" Biblical Hebrew verbal system as a problem in generative grammar, specifically in the articulation of a theory of tense and aspect for Universal Grammar. The model integrates phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics …
The ancient Egyptians at times employed a non-standard list of signs and phonetic values, and the resulting texts may be termed "cryptographic" or "enigmatic." Inscriptions based upon these alternate sign lists, attested already during the Old Kingdom, proliferate during the New…
New external evidence is presented in a best fit solution to date the military campaign directed by Amosis I against the capital of the kings of the Hyksos at Avaris in the Nile delta. Recent precise dating of the volcanic eruption on Thera by bristlecone pine frost ring, oak tr…
The present research examines the morphological and syntactical features of forms used in the modal systems of the languages of the Northwest semitic corpus (Ugaritic, El-Amarna Canaanite, Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite, Edomite, Ammonite) from 1500–500 BCE. The study focuses of th…