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…
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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…
The liturgical elements in the literature of early Jewish mysticism are examined through a form-critical study of the text known as Ma'aseh Merkavah. This text was published by Gershom Scholem in Jewish Gnosticism, Merkavah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition and by Peter Schafer …
This dissertation is designed to trace the influence of Ephrem the Syrian on the Greek-speaking Christianity through the corpus of the Greek Ephrem. Despite Hemmerdinger-Iliadou's extensive study and Géerard's classification (CPG), studies of the Greek Ephrem has been meager. Th…
Among the translations of the Hebrew Bible which have appeared in the United States in the last half-century are three modern Jewish versions, each representing a distinctly different approach to translating, which are the subjects of this evaluation: Tanakh The Holy Scriptures:…
The starting point for this dissertation is the observation that Second Temple literature reflects a great interest in prayer. In contrast to pre-exilic and exilic literature, characters in Second Temple narratives are more frequently depicted as praying. There is also a prolife…
This thesis is an attempt to contribute to the study of Aramaic epistolography in the Persian period through a detailed analysis of the Hermopolis Letters, the Padua Papyrus, the Berlin 23000, and six selected ostracon letters. The text, translation and full-scale commentary of …
Scholars have heretofore noted only in passing selected instances in which the Persians of Herodotus' Histories do not act in accordance with the Persian nomoi, or customs, which Herodotus reports. In this dissertation, I argue that the discrepancy between Persian action and nom…
This dissertation attempts to identify the influence of the Old Persian language on the Biblical Aramaic of Daniel. After an introduction to the topic, four possible calques (loan translations) were examined and rated. The first involved the common narrative concatenators be'day…
In this work the three oldest translations of the Gospels into Syriac are minutely compared in five passages, one from each Gospel and one common to the Synoptics, in order to ascertain their translation methods and linguistic differences. In the conclusion guidelines are set fo…
The present study deals with three MSS in Khotanese, a Middle Iranian language, found in Tun-huang, Chinese Turkestan. They are: P2786 (250 lines) preserved at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, Or8212.186 (80 lines) and part of Or8212.162 (45 lines), both preserved at the Bri…
More than a simple study of the words, phrases, or sentences of a biblical text, this thesis demonstrates that the edition of a text has important consequences for its reading and interpretation. The division of a text into paragraphs, sections and larger divisions can not be do…
Do the words of the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament mean what they say? Although biblical scholarship differs over the actual word content of the original languages and their original meaning in cultural context, in general the conclusion is yes, the Bible as or…
This study is a descriptive grammar of two groups of Akkadian texts found in the archives of Ras Shamra-Ugarit, Syria: texts written by scribes in the city of Carchemish and sent to Ugarit; texts written in Ugarit proper. The two groups are examined independently, in the traditi…
Johann Buxtorf was a pivotal figure in the history of Hebrew studies. He composed grammars and lexicons of biblical Hebrew both for beginning students and for researchers. He was committed to establishing Hebrew as a full-fledged humanist language within the academic world and c…
The Aramaic documents from Egypt in the Persian period have been variously studied, particularly with regard to the Jewish community of Elephantine. The presence of women in these texts has been, however, overlooked and neglected in the previous scholarship, where women were tre…
The study of grammar emerged as Arabic became the language of the Islamic empire. Scholars realized that the language of the Arabian Peninsula had started to change, posing a threat to the understanding and correct pronunciation of the Qur'an. The science of grammar started, acc…
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…
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 …