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-…
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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 …
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…
This dissertation is the first account of a previously undocumented dialect of Neo-Mandaic, a Semitic language belonging to the Eastern subgroup of Aramaic. It is the most detailed description of any dialect of Neo-Mandaic. The data contained within this dissertation was collect…
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…
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 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 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…
In this dissertation I clarify the significance of verb form selection in the Qumran sectarian texts by determining the extent to which the semantic value of the Hebrew finite verb is temporal, aspectual, or modal in the selected corpus. Standard grammars claim Hebrew was aspect…
My dissertation has two goals: the first is to prove that historical syntax has a value in subgrouping; the second is to reconstruct parts of the syntax of the Aramaic dialect groups. The work focuses on three topics: the development of adverbial subordination, nominal modifiers…
The economic structure and administration of Egypt's Old Kingdom remain unevenly understood, partly as a result of assumptions formed based on the reliance on material from later periods of Egyptian history, as well as through the improper application of contemporaneous evidence…
The Syriac chant traditions of the Chaldean and Antiochene rites reached South India at various stages in the history of the St. Thomas Christians. In spite of attempts by the Portuguese missionaries to suppress the Syriac tradition in the sixteenth century, and the voluntary ef…
Addad (plural of didd "opposite") is the term employed by Arab philologists to designate the Arabic words of which each denotes two opposite meanings such as jawn "dark" and "bright". The peculiarity of this phenomenon in Arabic has attracted the attention of scholars of differe…