This study concerns itself with the syntactic and semantic behavior of the reduplicated presents primarily of Homeric Greek, but with frequent references to other ancient Indo-European languages as well. The Dissertation consists of 10 Chapters: Chapter 1 gives a brief account o…
This work follows in the tradition of three previous dissertations under the same adviser. The aim of this study was to thoroughly investigate for the first time the history and unknown pre-history of First and Second Thessalonians in Syriac. The method employed was to examine i…
The primary purpose of this dissertation is to examine both the Akkadian royal hymns and prayers. Based on the cuneiform texts, analyses are given. Themes and motifs of both royal hymns and prayers are closely studied. The structure of both royal hymns and prayers is analyzed. C…
The intention of this study is to shed further light upon the language, history and culture of pre-Islamic North Arabia, in particular upon the people known as the Safaitic bedouin. These tribesmen, closely related to the later Arab bedouin, inhabited the north Arabian desert du…
Building on the recent studies in Hebrew poetry and on continuing work in "rhetorical criticism" (following Muilenburg), the dissertation develops a method of poetic analysis and applies it to Isaiah 2-12 as an example of prophetic rhetoric within a complex literary corpus. The …
This dissertation investigates the role of syntax in the composition of poetic units (i.e., bicola, tricola, etc.) in Hebrew poetry through a comprehensive study of a continuous text, Jeremiah 1-10. Prophetic material was selected for the study because of the broad spectrum of p…
The study relates the syntactic phenomena of word order displacement and pleonastic pronouns with finite verbs to emphatic constructions in Biblical Hebrew. After a compilation of the word order patterns in a database of all (non-waw consecutive) main clauses in Gen 12-25, Dt 1-…
This study is an examination of all the ky clauses in the Pentateuch, the Psalms and the alphabetic cuneiform texts of Ugarit. Each instance of particle ky is classified according to its semantic function. In addition the syntax of particle ky within each clause and the syntax o…
The purpose of this first comprehensive and systematic description of the syntax of the Apocalypse is basic and practical: to understand the language. It is the initial step in a project to describe the syntax of the various books in the NT. With a computer, syntactical phenomen…
Ephrem the Syrian is the single most influential figure in the history of Syriac-speaking Christianity. His literary legacy testifies to catechetical, exegetical, and liturgical activities which had an inestimable impact on the churches of the Syrian East. In spite of the format…
The Biblical Hebrew verbal system has long puzzled scholars. The Suffix Form (or Perfect) is supposed to mean "past" or "completed," while the Prefix Form (or Imperfect) is supposed to mean "future" or "incompleted," that is, present, future, or habitual. But when the conjunctio…
In a pair of separate studies, which originally appeared in the J. Alexander Kerns Memorial Vol. (1981) and Scripta Mediterranea III (1982) respectively, here provided with an "Introduction" and "Conclusion," the author undertakes to examine and determine who the "Hittites" of t…
Are the literary texts of the Hebrew Bible organized in any way by the forms of the language? This dissertation is a search for methods which will produce answers to this question. A Hebrew database for the book of Judges was developed to test my hypotheses. A new system of Hebr…
This study presents the first systematic investigation of translation technique in the Peshitta of the book of Job (P-Job). By examining representative topics in P-Job from the areas of grammar, syntax, semantics and style, characteristics of the Peshitta in general and the Pesh…
This dissertation is a study of the translation technique of the Greek Septuagint of the Book of Psalms. The Septuagint is a primary witness for the Hebrew text of the Book of Psalms. The determination of the text of the Hebrew original of the Septuagint is contingent on the nat…
Due to their importance for the history of religions and their relevance to Old Testament studies, the Ugaritic epic texts have been the object of intensive study. The prose material has received less attention. These texts--the letters and administrative documents--are for the …
This dissertation presents a study of the toponymies of the Umayyad estates and establishments in the area between the desert and the sown in the Bilad al-Sham. The toponymies of the Umayyad sites have received scant attention from scholars studying the Umayyad period. In the pa…