The composition of Deut 27-28 is shaped by its ritual and performative function and by the narrative device of a script within a speech: the oral and ritual performance of the covenant ceremony by the Levites is framed within the speech-command of Moses. Studies of Deut 28 have …
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One of the most memorable tales in Homer's Iliad is that of Bellerophon, the Corinthian hero sent as courier with a message deceitfully intended to arrange his death. A similar story is related in the Sumerian Sargon Legend of the eighteenth-century B.C.E., which tells of how Sa…
This text linguistic study investigates both the literary device of parallelism and the linguistic theory of the semantic field in ancient Hebrew literature. The purpose of the study is to examine whether or not a semantically related pair of verbs or predicate phrases that impl…
This study focuses on the degree to which three religious rituals--Sabbath observance, fasting, and circumcision--took on a particular shape for ancient Israel during the period of the Babylonian exile (ca. 6th cent. B.C.E.), and influenced the final shape of the covenant narrat…
This dissertation is an examination of terminology for realia in the corpus of Northwest Semitic during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron I and Iron II periods (ca. 1400–600 BCE). In light of developments in the field of contact linguistics, this study first formulates a methodol…
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the African and the Ancient Near Eastern tradition with regard to the ancestral consultation. 1 Samuel 28:3-25 was used as a point of departure. This text was used because it is the only text in the Hebre…
The focus of the paper is to examine the phrases "And YHWH restored the fortunes of Job" and "For all the evil that YHWH had brought upon him" found in Job 42:10–11. Using the method of "inner biblical allusion," the paper argues that the author of Job intentionally alluded to p…
This dissertation focuses on the dissemination and use of texts originally used in royal pyramids during the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom. As late as the reign of Unas (ca. 2375-2345 BCE), the prominent priesthood at Memphis undertook the task of fixing these…
The Sentences of the Syriac Menander is a document which appears in two separate Syriac manuscripts located at the British Library in London. The full version is found in Or. Add. 14.658, and a far shorter version, comprising only a small fraction of the full text, is found in O…
The poetry of the Psalms has a unique place in the Bible and a long history of transmission through both oral and textual media in many languages, as well a rich interpretive tradition. The depth of this tradition becomes evident in this study of Psalm 62.11-12. These two verses…
This study sets forth a new examination of the translation technique evident in Peshitta Zechariah. The study defines translation technique as the translator's process of decision-making employed in the translation project. The most fundamental aspect of this translation techniq…
Primarily, this dissertation provides a critical text of the hexaplaric fragments of Job 22-42, which updates the previous editions of Field (1875) and Ziegler (1982), and which may serve as the fascicle for the second half of Job for The Hexapla Project. The critical text inclu…
Although linguistic Hebraists are dissatisfied with traditional grammatical analysis, this dissertation demonstrates that traditional Semitic grammar--primarily based on Arabic grammar and grammarians--still provides the most simple, clear, and accurate description of biblical H…
The study of quotations and allusions to the Hebrew Bible in religious texts has only recently began to be methodically approached and analyzed. Although previous studies on quotations and allusions to the Hebrew Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls are amply available concerning indiv…
The often fragmentary Aramaic texts preserved by the Qumran community represent a large collection of well edited texts, whose publications have triggered numerous contributions that have brought a significantly clearer understanding of them. Little attention, however, has been …
This dissertation probes one of the central religious ideas in the Hebrew Bible – the concept of sin – through the most pervasive metaphors used to express the notion in Biblical Hebrew. The approach adopted in this study emerged out of a consideration of perspectives coming out…
Egypt’s Late Period (728-341 BC) was a time of frequent political transition where dynasts, many of them foreign, usurped the throne and established new dynasties through a number of different methods. This was a stark contrast to earlier periods in pharaonic Egypt where dynasti…
This dissertation investigates how the agents and organs of the Seleucid Empire explored, bounded, and endowed with meaning its imperial territory. I argue that king and court responded to the enormous opportunities and challenges of such a landscape with a range of ideological …
Two seemingly irreconcilable views compete over the linguistic dating of Biblical Hebrew texts. The traditional view argues that LBH (= Late Biblical Hebrew) was a linguistic body that was distinct from EBH (= Early Biblical Hebrew), so on the basis of their profiles, one can da…