The book of Daniel and associated apocrypha in Manuscript Sinai Arabic 1 (henceforth "S1") was edited, selected portions translated, and two discussions included, one describing linguistic phenomena with relation to A Grammar of Christian Arabic by Joshua Blau, and the other pro…
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Given the limited size of the Ugaritic corpus, it is often impossible to establish the meanings of words on the basis of attested usage. Consequently, scholars must resort to the witness of the cognate Semitic languages to help them understand Ugaritic. Arabic has been employed …
This thesis is an English translation and assessment of the Arabic Book of the Maccabees from the London Polyglot Bible of 1657. The text, which was dubbed "The Fifth Book of the Maccabees" in an earlier English translation, is an historical narrative of the Hasmonean and Herodi…
This dissertation gives a comprehensive picture of the theory of governance in Arabic traditional grammar. This theory is based on the change of inflectional markers. This change of inflectional form is shown in the governance relations of the three word classes of nouns, verbs,…
This dissertation examines when and how case endings were lost between the Old Arabic and modern sedentary Arabic dialects, focusing on the extent and role of the fewer than usual three case distinctions in pre- and early Islamic times. It addresses two historical linguistics is…
Addad (plural of didd "opposite") is the term employed by Arab philologists to designate the Arabic words of which each denotes two opposite meanings such as jawn "dark" and "bright". The peculiarity of this phenomenon in Arabic has attracted the attention of scholars of differe…
In the present study, an analysis of the ruling family of Ur III Umma is used to answer questions about patterns of succession and the extent of royal influence on provincial customs as well an attempt to broaden the understanding of the private sphere in opposition to the nonpr…
This Dissertation discusses the cultural, historical, and linguistic influences of Arabic civilization that led to the incorporation of Arabic words into the German language over the period from 700 to 1200 AD, when the Arab and Germanic cultures enjoyed an especially complex re…
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…