My dissertation is an investigation into various aspects of grammaticalization within the Semitic language family. Grammaticalization is the change whereby a lexical item acquires a purely grammatical function, or a grammatical item develops a new grammatical function. As the on…
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The ancient Egyptian terms [special characters omitted] and nt-` commonly are understood as being technical terms pertaining to the performance of cultic rituals. In using these terms to study ritual in ancient Egypt, a problem arises in that these terms are not always translate…
Only a few fully edited works from the Kashmiri Katha Krsna Yajur Veda School, which was prominent 2200 years ago in the northwest Indian subcontinent, are currently available to the scholastic community. These include two renditions of the Samhitā, various scattered brāhmana fr…
The field of Early Hebrew (Iron Age) palaeography has advanced rapidly during the twentieth century because of the dramatic increase in the number of Early Hebrew epigraphs and the brilliant work of several palaeographers. This dissertation attempts to augment the field of Early…
The purpose of the study is to explain the marking of two Akkadian cuneiform literary texts, Adapa and Ereshkigal, with the red ink points of Egyptian hieratic writing. To understand their marking, the marking with small vertical wedge on Old Assyrian texts (OA) and Ugaritic tex…
This study addresses the enigma of the structure of the Song of Songs. Most structural analyses of the Song have been by-products of an overall interpretation. This study avoids any overall interpretation and analyzes the Song's structure from the bottom up, beginning with minim…
Numerous questions put to oracles on papyri survive from Egypt. When considered as a corpus, these provide the opportunity to observe the extent to which religion entered into the Roman administration's relations with the provincial population. Divination had a long and politici…
This thesis is concerned with the understanding of the finite verb in the poetry section of the Book of Job. More specifically, it analyzes the yiqtōl, the wayyiqtōl, and the qātal. The analysis uses insights from discourse analysis. It pays attention to the larger (con)text whe…
The dissertation Poetry and Grammar in the Works of Eleazar be-rabbi Qillir—A Grammatical Analysis of Selected Liturgical Poems, written under the direction of Professor Lawrence Schiffman, is concerned with investigating a corpus of several thousand lines of poetry, selected fr…
The thesis is intended to be the first step toward providing a reference book of musical terms used in Scripture, based on the original Greek and Hebrew texts, to help ministers and church musicians more accurately and completely study the Scriptures in relation to music. The sc…
The author aims to prove that certain first millennium Mesopotamian rulers exercised a carefully planned--politically motivated--strategy of aggression, strengthened by religious factors, against their neighbors, in pursuit of political gains. The author argues that scholars hav…
This study examines a select group of ritual texts from Graeco-Roman Egypt designated as invisibility spells (P.Oxy. inv. 3931; P.Berol. inv. 5025.222–31, 247–62; P.Lond. inv. 121.620–2; P.Lugd.Bat. inv. J 395 [W] 234–7, 267–9, 270–7). As part of the larger corpus of magical lit…
The first part of this dissertation is a glossary of non-normative Akkadian forms found in the Late Bronze Akkadian texts from Emar. The forms are listed according to the Akkadian spellings, each main entry being followed by a brief philological commentary. The origin of the for…
The text of the early chapters of 1 Kings (3 Reigns in Greek) diverges widely in its two main witnesses, the Masoretic Hebrew text and the Old Greek translation of the Septuagint. In the past divergences of this kind were often attributed to the freedom of the translator. Howeve…
This dissertation uses data from recent archaeological surveys in the upper Tigris river region in southeastern Turkey combined with Neo-Assyrian letters and the annals of the Assyrian kings to investigate the implementation and maintenance of imperialism in three geographic reg…
This study attempted to investigate the chronological issues of Dan 9:24-27. Its main objective was to provide an interpretation based on textual, linguistic, literary, grammatical-syntactical, structural, and contextual study of the major terms and expressions in Dan 9:24-27. C…
The body of this study consists of detailed analyses of the parallel structures in the five chapters of the book of Lamentations. The imagery of suffering emerges as the pervasive imagery conveyed through the interwoven systems of parallelism. The moments of hope often seen as c…
In 1947, a number of papyri from Egypt were bequeathed to the Brooklyn Museum of Art by the family of the American Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour. Wilbour had acquired these papyri in Egypt between 1881 and 1896, the year of his death. Among them was pBrooklyn 47.218.49, a p…
The subject of this dissertation is the Nikol'skij Apocalypse Codex, a 13th-century Russian Church Slavonic manuscript (MS 1 of the Nikol'skij Collection, Fond 32 in the Library of the Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia). This codex is the oldest extant Slavic manuscrip…