The verbless clause is one of the most basic and central phenomena of the grammar of Biblical Hebrew. Despite the relative simplicity of the construction, many difficulties are encountered by grammarians who seek to describe its structure. This thesis anatomizes four attempts to…
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This dissertation studies selected features of phylacteries and mezuzot in ancient Israel and early Judaism. The first chapter presents a study of the relevant biblical verses, as understood by the ancient versions and other works of antiquity. The second chapter consists of a r…
This thesis about the history of the Philistines during the first quarter of the first millennium B.C.E. has a twofold aim: first to examine in minute detail the ancient texts which can be employed in reconstructing that history, with the object of evaluating each text in its ow…
Biblical Hebrew is a language which requires agreement in gender between a noun and those parts of speech with which it is construed. The biblical text is, however, replete with passages (over 650) in which this rule is apparently broken. These passages are the focus of this stu…
We will demonstrate that there existed two discrete types of oracles in ancient Egypt. One type dealt with juridical matters and was referred to as a bi3yt. The other, which will be the main focus of this dissertation, was completely non-juridical in nature; it was rendered to p…
This dissertation is a synchronic descriptive grammar of the Neo-Babylonian letters in the Kuyunjik Collection of the British Museum published in Harper ABL and Dietrich CT 54. Special attention is given to the relative frequency of occurrences of the various grammatical forms i…
The present study investigates attitudes towards and teachings about the end of life and the soul’s passage to the next world, as expressed in late antique religious tales in Greek, particularly from Egypt and the Sinai. The intellectual setting is that of Chalcedonian Christian…
This research deals with a modern scientific study of the Phoenician and Punic inscriptions. This work contains a brief review of the historical emergence of the Phoenicians and their language, followed by an analysis of twenty-five Phoenician texts which represent all the vario…
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the proposition that the form, composition, and particularly, the literary function of the orations in the Book of Job (Chapters 3-31), may perhaps be better understood through a comparative analysis with the classical apology form, an…
This dissertation consists of two parts. Part I is a systematic descriptive treatment of the Hebrew grammar of Maimonides (1135-1204). The characterization of Maimonides' grammar is based on the analysis of manuscripts and early editions. It covers the major phenomena of orthogr…
This study, which examines Herodotus' use of mythological heroes as historiographical data and as literary devices, establishes two important points. First, Herodotus accepted the historicity of heroes, whom he used as fixed chronological reference points in his reconstruction o…
This dissertation is a prolegomenon and translation of the Paraphrase of St. John attributed to Nonnus of Panopolis. The study argues throughout that the Paraphrase was written by an early follower of Nonnus who composed the Paraphrase in the manner of a cento from the Dionysiac…
This dissertation presents the Coptic (Sahidic) text in diplomatic form and an English translation of the surviving works of Rufus of Shotep. Included also is extensive analysis of his exegetical method and terminology. Rufus was bishop of Shotep, a small town near Assiut in Upp…
Shenoute of Atripe, influential abbot of the famed White Monastery in Egypt during the late fourth and early fifth centuries, was the most productive and significant writer in the Coptic language. His numerous sermons and letters are of value not only as representatives of origi…
Our exhaustive survey of the Semitic root rp' yields the following results: (1) The Grundbedeutung of Hebrew rp' is "to restore, make whole"; "to heal" is a secondary meaning to be derived from this. The biblical usage of this root is decidely literal, even in the poetic and pro…
The purpose of this study is to examine the origin, history, and theology of the image of the hand of God and its various expressions in the Exodus traditions in the Hebrew Bible. This image is first and foremost associated with the Exodus events in contrast with the patriarchal…
The Indo-Europeans had a clearly-formulated network of religious beliefs in their earliest stages. The details of their beliefs about death and the afterlife can be ascertained to a degree by evidence from archaeological, mythological and linguistic sources found in the various …
In the New Testament, adjectives are used either attributively or predicatively. When one speaks of the good word, one uses good as an attributive adjective, but when one says, The word is good, one uses good as a predicate adjective. Frequently the second attributive in the Gre…