The D stem verbal conjugation has traditionally been understood to express an intensive function compared to the G stem, which is considered the most basic conjugation in Semitic verbal systems. However, scholars have increasingly recognized that the actual uses attested for D s…
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Statement of the Problem and Background Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306-373) is one of the most well-known of Syriac writers. He is celebrated in the Eastern Churches not only for his theology and biblical commentary, but also for his achieved popularity as a proto-monastic figure. Af…
Rebellion has been an incessant feature of human history and every society has had to struggle with it. The states of Israel and Judah were no different in this regard. These two societies, insofar as they are represented in the Hebrew Bible, discussed the topic of rebellion wit…
This dissertation applies Afrocentric methods of decipherment to a sacred symbol selected from the ancient Egyptian language of Mdw Ntr (Words of God). The chosen symbol is transliterated by Egyptologists as neb and translated ideographically as lord, master. My purpose is to de…
Aramaic offers some of the richest sources of dialectal variation within the Semitic language family. Yet comparative dialectal studies in Aramaic syntax are virtually non-existent. The purpose of this dissertation is to exploit the fact of multiple Aramaic translations of the b…
In 1786, Sir William Jones announced that through the comparison of cognates (meaning pairs/sets of words descended from a common ancestor) he had discovered that Sanskrit was related to Greek and Latin, giving rise to the science of linguistics in its present form. Since that t…
The wealth of evidence for the study of the economy of Late Bronze Age Ugarit in Syria has long been recognized. Attempts to investigate the Ugaritic economy have been hampered, however, by the application of rigid models to incomplete datasets. It is argued that previous questi…
Many of Egypt's monuments exhibit multiple stages of expansion, rebuilding, and redecoration extending over the centuries in which they remained in use. Often archaeologically traceable, these modifications were also frequently recorded in propagandistic dedicatory inscriptions.…
The Introduction of this work provided background, historical, and textual information about Leviticus 26 as well as a detailed outline of this text. This Bible chapter revealed the corporate human responsibility of the chosen nation to obey Yahweh's covenant and the plan of a S…
The ancient Egyptian fascination with the deities and events during the twelve hours of the night dwindled only with the demise of Egyptian religion itself. A corpus of large stone sarcophagi produced during the Thirtieth Dynasty, decorated with excerpts from the Underworld Book…
The book of Wardā is a collection of liturgical hymns, called ʿonyātā, appointed for various feasts and seasons of the ecclesiastical year of the East Syriac churches. The vast majority of these hymns are attributed to Gīwargīs Wardā, an otherwise unknown author said to hail fro…
The purpose of this dissertation is to explicate the role of donkeys in the symbolism and ceremonies of the biblical world. This requires an analysis of the relevant archaeological and textual materials from the ancient Near East as well as a fresh look at the biblical passages …
Uncovered in 1975, the Tell-Mardikh-Ebla archive was the first large collection of cuneiform tablets discovered in the age of the personal computer. Starting with the Ebla texts of Cybernetica Mesopotamica , and using the software program WordCruncher, I modified the format in w…
In the biblical narrative of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah found in the Deuteronomistic History, the end of a king's rule is summed up in a series of stock statements that begins with the poetic idiom for death: "and [the king] lay with his fathers." The summary statements al…
In this dissertation I draw on the Nessana papyri corpus and relevant comparable material (including papyri from Petra and Aphrodito and inscriptions from the region) to argue that ethnic, linguistic and imperial identities were not significant for the self-definition of the res…
This dissertation investigates depictions of divine and human radiance in the Hebrew Bible and in Northwest Semitic and Mesopotamian literatures. It focuses specifically on the meanings of the following Akkadian terms: melammu; puluhtu; rašubbatu; namurratu; namrirrū; and šalumm…
The Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, houses a collection of ca. 2000 papyri from Egypt inscribed in several different languages, principally Greek. In this dissertation, I edit thirty-four previously unpublished Greek documents, offering for each papyrus a transcr…
In the scope of this study, we argue that there is a condition within the structure of the verbal system of classical Hebrew (hereafter, CH), interstitiality (i.e., gappiness), which broadens the functional role of the hitpa'el . In this work, interstitiality refers to the absen…
This study treats the historical and administrative geography of the regions of southwestern Iran around the Achaemenid Persian palace complex at Persepolis during the fifth century BC. It relies on the evidence of two groups of administrative documents excavated at Persepolis b…