This work is a discussion of the development of the objective pronominal suffixes used on the perfect, imperfect and imperative verbal forms in Aramaic. It covers the time period from the earliest attestations of Aramaic through the Late Aramaic dialects. The chapters are arrang…
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In 1958 Wolfgang Helck published Zur Verwaltung des Mittleren und Neuen Reichs, a work not only on the bureaucratic administration of the ancient Egyptian state, but also on the men who held the top positions of civil government. Since the publication of this seminal work much n…
A critical edition of the Leviticus scroll and its fragments (under the siglum 11QpaleoLev) of the Rockefeller collection (Jerusalem) is presented. 11QpaleoLev consists of miscellaneous, useless bits; fifteen fragments, one of which remains unidentified; and one scroll of seven …
Hebrew grammarians understand passive clauses to function syntactically: Direct objects of active clauses correspond to subjects of passive clauses and subjects of active clauses correspond to prepositional agent-phrases in passive clauses. Passive verb stems are morphological m…
Although righteousness is central to the ethics of the Hebrew Bible, it has not been studied as a concept in its own right. Rather, most inquiries in the past were sociological or semantic in nature, focusing on either social justice or the semantic field of righteousness. The p…
In this study I argue that many of the numerous locutions common to Ezekiel and Lev 17-26 are due to Ezekiel's purposeful and creative use of an earlier text. After establishing the direction of dependence, I demonstrate that the frequency and distribution of these locutions, Ez…
This dissertation is a case study in Christian identity in the pre-Constantinian era based on papyrus fragments found at the site of the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Using the image of the city marketplace, a place of social interaction, the study asks whether Christian…
This thesis situates Hosea within the religious traditions of Israel and Judah. A comparative method is used to identify some of the differences and similarities Hosea shares with other Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern texts. The goal is to gain a better understanding of Hosea …
This thesis is a study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia. This historiographical work was written in Greece in the IV century B.C. and it is preserved in three different fragments of papyri. The subject of the work is Greek history in the late V century and the early IV century B.C. …
Scholars have given the study of Biblical Hebrew words, and especially verbs, a great amount of attention. Work on lexicons of Biblical Hebrew, theological dictionaries and various articles in journals give important details about individual verbs that appear in the Hebrew Bible…
The site of Alalakh (modern Tell Atchana) has provided us with approximately 300 cuneiform tablets and fragments that date to the late Old Babylonian Period/Middle Bronze Age II. Despite the scholarly attention that these tablets have received, no study has investigated their ar…
The tautological use of the infinitive absolute in Biblical Hebrew has drawn attention as a linguistic phenomenon unique to Biblical Hebrew. However, it has not received a coherent treatment in ancient and modern translations, nor has its function been clearly defined by modern …
This study is an analysis of verbal insults in the Hebrew Bible. Beginning with the conviction that language is a social phenomenon, the study recognizes that insults are acts of rudeness and insolence, which are deeply rooted in the symbolic world of ancient Israel. Some featur…
In this thesis I have attempted to show evidence for a rise of influential women on Kos during the Hellenistic period in the Greek East. I gathered my evidence from sculptural inscriptions and portraits to count the number of females who either were the honorand or the agent in …
The aim of this research is to delimit the units of the Book of Micah. After a brief survey of scholarship on the structure of Hebrew poetry (chapter 1), a text-linguistic approach that seeks to analyze the structure of a text in general terms and categories that are part of the…
This dissertation will translate and comment upon one of Theodoret's previously untranslated works, Commentary on Jonah. Theodoret of Cyrrhus, a key player in the political and theological controversies between Alexandria and Antioch in the fifth-century CE, produced massive amo…