This dissertation attempts to demonstrate a viable alternative to accepting the large numbers of the Old Testament at face value. The hypothesis that this viable alternative is seen in the area of literary hyperbole is introduced by means of a cursory examination of the problems…
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Normal word order within the non-quotational clauses of the Pentateuch is waw-imperfect verb- subject -object. However, within the same corpus of materials 160 clauses possess the word order waw-subject-perfect verb WSP . Such constructions repre- sent an inversion of the normal…
This study focuses on the development of marriage as a social institution in the Bible. The comparative philological method is utilized to examine Hebrew as well as cognate literature, including ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts and cuneiform documents from Sumer, Bablylonia, …
The aim of this dissertation is to make a contribution to the study of biblical Hebrew (BH) syntax, especially in poetry. Everyone recognizes that difficult verb forms occur in BH poetry; it is at times asserted that verb forms are used indiscriminately. The point of this study …
The purpose of this dissertation was to study the use of vowel letters in pre-exilic Palestinian inscriptions. It brought together all published inscriptions belonging within those limits. The study then analyzed the vowel letters from the inscriptions and drew conclusions from …
Most studies of curse in early Israel and the ancient Near East has focussed on formal and thematic aspects, attempting to reconstruct the historical and linguistic origins of Israelite maledictions. But literary-critical and philological methods have been unable to throw much l…
Word order in Imperial Aramaic has been called 'free' and has not been adequately described in previous studies. The study attempts to explain the varied clause-level orders in narratives of Biblical and Imperial Aramaic. An examination of word order in Old Aramaic inscriptions,…
Problem. In scholarly debates on the origin of DA, the corpus of OA texts has not received full attention. Thus, there is a lack of comparative studies between DA and OA. This type of study serves a twofold purpose: It contributes to providing an answer to the questions of origi…
The Eloquent Peasant is one of the two longest literary texts preserved from ancient Egypt. It is also one of the most difficult to interpret. Perhaps for this reason no comprehensive study of the text has been undertaken since Vogelsang's text edition, Kommentar zu den Klagen d…
This dissertation presents a systematic collection of numerical writings for Akkadian and Sumerian words. Two categories of substitution cipher, i.e. the replacement of letters (or comparable graphemes) by prearranged substitutes, existed. Syllabic substitution cipher is represe…
This dissertation provides the reader with: (1) a previously unavailable overview of Old Testament Hebrew lexicography from its origin to the present, combined with the corresponding developments in Semitic linguistics; (2) an appreciation of the need for every Old Testament exe…
This study examines the similarities and distinguishing characteristics of all known dialects spoken in Syria-Palestine from the rise of the Israelite monarchy to the fall of Jerusalem. It develops a system of linguistic classification by isolating the features which differentia…
Ancient Egyptian culture fostered a strong belief in the afterlife. That the dead could and would influence the daily lives of the living was a generally held principle. The custom of the living writing letters to the dead, entreating their intercession in practical matters, spa…
This is an exegetical paper investigating the concept of the New Covenant in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The concept of the New Covenant plays an important role in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The phrase "New Covenant" appears three times with the modifier "in the land of Damascus." This par…
The dissertation demonstrates that there existed in Biblical times a spoken Hebrew different from the written Hebrew used to compose the Bible. The theoretical basis for the thesis is twofold: (1) many languages, Arabic foremost among them, exhibit the use of distinct written an…
The purpose of this dissertation was to determine under what conditions the Hebrew roots sk15 and sk15 can be understood to mean "repent" in the Book of Jeremiah. An examination of the Hebrew words sk15 and sk15 was conducted in chapter I. The philological backgrounds of the two…
The purpose of the researcher in this dissertation was to analyze the soteriology of the Epistle to the Hebrews through an examination of its soteriological terminology. For the sake of convenience, the terminology was divided into the broad categories of sacrificial and non-sac…