When compared with compositional works of Koiné Greek, the syntax of the Septuagint can appear peculiar in some ways and quite familiar in others. In order to provide an approach that accounts for this peculiarity and enables rigorous syntactical interpretation of the Septuagint…
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The deuteronomic corpus comprises an intentional hybridization of discourse types incorporating a composite structure analogous to the Hittite subordination treaty in its interdiscourse relationships. Deuteronomy's synchronic form encapsulates this composite genre in parenetic a…
This dissertation seeks to find Christ in the Old Testament by examining the targumic passages in which Memra, Shekinah, or Yeqara occur as God's agent or manifestation. Chapter 1 demonstrates that scholars view the Memra, Shekinah, and Yeqara as agents for God or manifestations…
During the reign of Claudius, in the eastern frontier region of the Roman Empire, a young Iconian woman named Thekla embraced the message of Christ as proclaimed by St. Paul, rejected traditional values and, after escaping martyrdom, embarked upon a life of compassionate service…
The cycle of Syriac madrāšê on the fourth-century ascetic, Abraham Qîdunāyâ, has suffered long neglect because scholars generally doubted its attribution to Ephrem the Syrian. Examination of the cycle's rhetoric and theological themes, however, proves beyond a reasonable doubt t…
This dissertation applies the linguistic theory of grammaticalization to Biblical Hebrew (BH) prepositions, detailing the origin and evolution of these constructions. In this study, grammaticalization is defined as the change whereby a lexical item or a construction comes in cer…
This study initiates a fresh approach to the study of Biblical Hebrew poetry by exploring the Biblical Hebrew poetic line as a perceptual phenomenon that functions within the bounds of human cognitive constraints. The primary theoretical framework is drawn from the Cognitive Poe…
Jezebel is an infamous character of the Hebrew Scriptures; she is well known, her villainy legendary, and her name, perhaps excessively, used as a typology in the Church today. Jezebel is the quintessential evil woman. However, the Church, as well as current feminist theologians…
Modern scholarship has shown that Callimachus' poetics is a poetics of reinvention, one that demands to be read against other specific literary works. In the past, scholars have focused on Callimachus' relationship to his poetic antecedents, while studies of the poet's engagemen…
The topic of the dissertation is a study on the Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus, a document that was discovered together with other papyri and funerary objects in a late Middle Kingdom tomb in Ramses II's funerary temple on the West bank of Luxor. The thesis will cover an analysis of…
The morphological marking, or non-marking, of the definiteness of a noun phrase in the Aramaic language has changed over time. At the time of Imperial Aramaic (IA) the emphatic state of the noun was used to indicate definiteness, a usage that was passed on to other dialects due …
In this study, I examine official epistolary traditions in pre-Islamic Iran, under the Achaemenids (550 – 320 BCE), the Seleucids (312 – 129 BCE), the Arsacids (129 BCE – 224 CE) and the Sasanians (224 – 650 CE). Each dynasty had a different official language; The Achaemenid Emp…
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…
Evidence for violence is found in all periods of Mesopotamian history. Kingship, which was divine in origin, included the exercise of power and the legitimate use of violence. Mesopotamian violence reflects the culture's understanding of ontology, order, and justice. Although th…
The dissertation proposes an alternative approach to analyzing an Old Greek ([Special characters omitted.] <math> <f> <ge>G</ge></f> </math> ) translation. It reviews past studies on [Special characters omitted.] <math> <f> <ge>G</ge></f> </math> translation technique as: (1) le…
This dissertation investigates the translation technique of the Greek Ecclesiastes and proposes the place of the Translator in the history of the transmission of the Greek text. Chapter 1 defines a text of the Greek Ecclesiastes. Since a Göttingen critical edition of the Greek E…
The study of linguistic contacts in ancient societies can be described as an inverse sociolinguistic problem. When one is dealing with modern languages, it is frequently easier to gather information about the ecology of their development than to elicit the relevant linguistic da…
The tale of Setne II has a notorious reputation of being a text full of mistakes, misspellings, and careless omissions. It was first transcribed, translated, and published by F. Ll. Griffith in 1900 in the Stories of the High Priests of Memphis. Although much work has been done …
This dissertation explores the working of the organizational apparatus evinced in the Old Babylonian Mesopotamian divination collections from the divinatory technique known as extispicy (the examination of a sacrificed sheep's exta, or entrails: in the main the liver, but also t…