The alphabetic cuneiform texts from the coastal city of Ugarit unveiled a previously unknown world of Syrian culture from the second millennium B.C.E., and these finds have dominated most recent study of ancient Syrian religion. Excavations in the 1970s at Emar, a 13th-century B…
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This dissertation seeks to show that by employing a textlinguistic methodology, one can establish with a fair degree of objectivity much of the meaning that is "encoded" via the language and structure of an ancient text, as it is studied in its historical context. The book of Ma…
An objective method for dating passages in the Old Testament has not yet been developed. In response to this problem, the goal of this research is to discern diachronic changes in the language of the extra-biblical Hebrew sources which date from 925 before the common era to 100 …
Conditional sentences are present in almost every known language, and Hebrew is no exception. These "if-then" structures form an integral part of Hebrew syntax. A proper analysis of these forms is vital for accurate translation, exegesis, and interpretation. Although many Hebrew…
This dissertation is about the history of Islamic art in 16 port cities of Southeast Asia, dating from the 9th to the 16th centuries. Each chapter deals with Champa, Patani, Trengganu, Pahang, Johore, Malacca, Perak, Kedah, Pasai/Acheh, Cerbon, Japara, Tuban, Ternate, Jolo, and …
This investigation studied the use of the Greek term \piαρ oιμ\acute\iotaα in the Gospel of John. In chapter 1 modern and ancient writers who wrote about the \piαρ oιμ\acute\iotaα are reviewed as a background study. The discussions are mostly limited to the area of popular prove…
This study examined the lexicon and grammar of Ecclesiastes in an effort to determine the date when the book was written. Sixty-six lexical items were chosen because of the possibility that they might be indications of lateness. Each of these items was traced through the biblica…
This study attempts to investigate the two temporal expressions be'ahari t hayyami m (the latter days) and ʿ\bar et q\bar e\ s (the time of the end) in the book of Daniel. Its main objective is to determine the precise meanings of these phrases and the relationship between them.…
There are fourteen words in the hierolyphic tradition of ancient Egyptian which translators have rendered as "to anoint." An analysis of of these terms was undertaken using methods from the field approach to semantics as well as the methods of structural semantics. The scenes of…
The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate and describe elements of the linguistic structure of Classical Hebrew Narrative. The main corpus of data comprised the Succession Narrative (II Sam. 9-20; I Kgs. 1-2). Other data was used for control purposes and included the J…
A metaphor is a statement which applies to a principal subject a word which properly pertains to a subsidiary subject. Metaphor transfers to the principal subject attributes commonly associated with the subsidiary subject, and simile is a variety of metaphor which makes explicit…
The period between the death of Rav Ashi (427 CE) and that of Rabina the latter, bar Rav Huna (500 CE) is still beset with serious historical and literary uncertainties. In addition, the very identification of the period's personalities is at times bound up in serious difficulti…
The stem T'B in the Hebrew Bible is represented exclusively in the noun TO'EVAH and the verb TE'EV, usually translated as "abomination" and "to abhor" and understood as implying some kind of negative response. A survey of the 116 appearances of the noun and the 26 passages where…
This study attempts to focus the meaning of the Niphal verbal forms in some 4100 examples found in Biblical Hebrew. Beginning with a survey of the major grammarians' understanding of the Niphal, chapter one notes significant omissions and discrepancies among these grammarians, a…
The idea of sacredness appears to be central to all religious systems. The religion of Mesopotamia is no exception. A culture's rituals are a particularly valuable source of information regarding its concept of the sacred, because it is during the performance of ritual that huma…
Since the flowering of scientific criticism of the Bible in the 19th century, Psalms 104, 65, and 29 have each been the subjects of dozens of interpretive studies. That none has been completely successful is made clear by the continuing, often widely divergent, attempts to find …
By coins and texts this dissertation explores the theory, structure, and technique of monetary policy south of a line running from the Black Sea to the Himalaya mountains from its invasion by the Mongols with Chingiz Khan in 616/1220 to the mid-reign of Uljaytu in 709/1309. Sinc…
The corpus of biblical literature contains some passages and sections that were recorded more than once. These multiple records are preserved both internally within the Massoretic text in such examples as 2 Sam. 22 and Psalm 18, 2 Kings 18:13-20:11 and Isa. 36:1-38:8, and Psalms…