This study classifies Biblical Hebrew verbs with respect to semantic class, i.e., those aspects of a verb's meaning which are expressed formally or which potentially interact with formal categories in Biblical Hebrew. Such a classification is based on two kinds of semantic infor…
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The study of ancient Egyptian funerary art tends to focus almost exclusively on objects of the royalty and high elite, ignoring works created for lower classes. There was, in fact, social and religious pressure on most, if not all, levels of Egyptian society to prepare and displ…
This study offers a semantic analysis of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system with respect to the parameters of tense, aspect, and modality. As linguistic understanding of these universal categories increases, the way is opened up to reevaluate past work on the Biblical Hebrew verb…
In the past two and a half decades rhetorical criticism has been employed extensively to examine individual psalms, and in more recent studies the canonical shape or structure of either the entire Psalter or books therein have been the focus of attention. This dissertation utili…
This dissertation analyzes the transmission and reception of Mesopotamian scholarly texts at the city of Emar in Syria at the close of the Late Bronze Age. It begins by setting the wide socio-historical context, explaining that Mesopotamian scholarly texts were transmitted all a…
This is an analysis of the Pesh text of Hosea. This dissertation looks at the Syriac Peshitta text of Hosea in three ways: Text critically, exegetically, and in terms of translation technique. The first task is to determine what variations from the MT in the Peshitta of Hosea ar…
This dissertation explores the theology and worldview of Habakkuk as represented by the Old Greek (OG) text form according to the Gottingen edition. While the primary focus is upon the OG, the information obtained is subsequently compared to the Massoretic (MT) text form accordi…
Many theological scholars have contributed to the process of interpreting the Psalms. However, most of them have done so based upon pre-determined genre classified by taxonomical categories, the historical socio-religious setting, and assumed theological messages. While these fa…
The aim of the present work is to investigate the linguistic data of Aramaic, Biblical and extra-biblical, with a view to establishing the date and place of composition of the book of Daniel. The late features of ReA, which are frequently met in its orthography and phonology, ha…
This study is a historical comparison of the use of gendered metaphors in the recording of the Israelite/Assyrian encounter (9th –7th centuries BCE). Beginning with the assumption that gendered language is a tool of ideology expressed metaphorically, the study examines the manip…
This dissertation examines Assyrian and Hebrew military conquest accounts utilizing comparative historiography. Assyrian historiography has been vigorously studied in the last decade. Royal inscriptions were examined for Assyriological historiographic techniques. Hebrew conquest…
The first half of this century saw several attempts to outline how the minds of the Israelites worked differently than those of people in the Western tradition of civilization. These attempts were based on anthropological ideas current at the beginning of the century but already…
The purpose of the research in this dissertation was to analyze the significance of ν\omegaθρ o\varsigma for the interpretation of Heb. 5.11-6.12 based upon its semantic domain in the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. The semantic analysis followed the methodology presented by Johannes…
This dissertation explores the spatial aspect of the Hebrew word ' ôlām in the Bible. This word serves as a name for the netherworld, when it occurs in references to the world of the dead. The expressions that contain the word in construct chains include the inhabitants of the n…
In the historical-critical analysis of the Hebrew Bible, the so-called "Yahwist" ("J") source of the Pentateuch has been regarded by most scholars as the oldest of the four major sources of the Pentateuch. Most scholars since Wellhausen have dated "J" to the pre-exilic period, p…
This dissertation presents a descriptive analysis of the southern Mesopotamian city of Larsa during the Neo- and early Late-Babylonian Periods (sixth and early fifth centuries B.C.E.). Following an introductory chapter in which the scope of the project is outlined, Chapter Two p…
The purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate previous research regarding non-Judahite dialects within the Hebrew Bible, and to evaluate the actual evidence suggested by that research. Studies which place various parts of the Hebrew Bible outside of Judah were discussed and e…
The following is a study of dialectal variations in the Masoretic text and classification of selected variations. Introductory material includes discussion of the use of "dialect" for regional, chronological, and stylistic distinctives. This study is presented in two parts. Part…
The distinctive characteristics of Biblical Hebrew poetry have proven difficult to identify. Recently linear terseness has been restated according to linguistic analysis and the nuances of parallelism more stringently classified. Poetry has not, however, been systematically exam…