This study focuses on the legal formularies used in Aramaic deeds of conveyances from antiquity and asks the following two questions: (1) based on these documents, can we speak of a discrete Aramaic legal tradition, and (2) if we can do so, whence and how did this tradition aris…
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The study of the Vaticanus umlauts is still in its infancy. It is the intention of this work to advance the field of study in a handful of key areas. In accomplishing this study, five conclusions have been reached. First, the umlauts mark places of textual variation between Vati…
The fact that scholars depict Sheol either as the underworld where the dead continue their existence or simply the grave has resulted in contradictory conclusions, fierce polemic, and unremitting disputes. This lack of consensus makes it imperative to justify another approach, w…
My thesis examines knowledge and awareness of the Hebrew language in the Anglo-Saxon period. Because there is minimal evidence of Jews in England or the study of the Hebrew language in this time period, the interest in Hebrew exhibited in Anglo-Saxon writings has rarely been not…
In this dissertation, I critique what I perceive to be a lack in the method of determining meaning currently in use in Biblical Studies in the United States, in that the current dialogical method not only fails to take into account adequately the role of subjectivity in the dete…
The study examines the function and properties of the cognate object (CO) construction in Biblical Hebrew (BHeb). A distinction between the argument-CO and the adverbial-CO provides the framework for the argument that the adverbial-CO in the infinitive absolute form is a prepose…
4Q543-547 are four copies of one Aramaic document found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. This work stems from the pre-Hasmonean period and is further evidence of a highly variegated society in early Judaism. This dissertation will provide a new reading of all the fragments and an in-…
In the Hindu Tantric traditions, the emanation of the universe holds within its manifestation the hidden truths leading to resorption. Yet these truths are not as hidden as one might think. In fact, they are constantly present through the concept of vac , "word," in the form of …
This thesis is a new edition of the Hittite letter CTH 176 dealing with a royal wedding. Although the names of the author and the addressee are not mentioned, the palaeographical, philological and historical evidence will be presented to support the generally accepted view that …
This dissertation fills a gap in the scholarly study of Classical Hebrew grammar and syntax with the first comprehensive study of oath formulae. The difficult and elliptical nature of oath syntax, along with the multitude of diverse formulae employed, has often given scholars an…
Since the introduction of the concept of the compound clause into biblical Hebrew studies in the late nineteenth century, grammars of biblical Hebrew have presented various and often conflicting descriptions of the uses of the compound clause. Various attempts at harmonization h…
This dissertation examines the function of subject-before-finite-verb clauses in the book of Genesis based on traditional, understanding. Chapter 1 presents an introduction, thesis, and methodology of the project. The research of this dissertation, following the understanding of…
Aramaic was one of the most widely used languages of the ancient Near East. Although most of the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran are written in Hebrew, a small number use a variety of Aramaic. All of Qumran Aramaic (QA) has reached published form, though a few minor manuscripts hav…
Functioning as a verb, adverb, adjective, or noun, the infinitive absolute serves as an element of Biblical Hebrew grammar for which no analogous component exists in modern Indo-European languages such as English. The most frequent employment of the infinitive absolute is in "pa…
This dissertation consists of the first complete critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Numbers 1-18 from all known Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, and Latin sources since the publication of Frederick Field's Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt sive veterum interpretum g…
In this dissertation, I explore the 2nd century C.E. reality through the writings of Lucian of Samosata, a native Syrian who wrote in Greek and was a Roman citizen. Lucian wrote a large volume of works that cannot be filed under one specific genre, including Satires, admonitory …
This dissertation examines the KRT text, three clay tablets, from Ras Shamra/Ugarit in the second millennium B.C. and provides a paleographic overview of the scribal patterns. Surveying previous publications related to the KRT text, the study concludes that the collative and tra…
This dissertation analyzes two derived Biblical Hebrew verbal forms, the Niphal and the Hitpael. Present scholarship on Biblical Hebrew does not agree on the definition or relationship of these two stems. In chapter 1 I outline the two major problems for the Niphal and Hitpael: …
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…