The biblical Hebrew D stem (piel) seems to be inconsistent from verb to verb, both in its meaning and in its relationship to the G stem (qal). For example, the D stem has a higher valency than the G stem for some verbs (e.g., [special characters omittted] G ‘to be holy’, D ‘to m…
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This dissertation is a study of paronomasia, or plays on words, in the narrative portions of the books of the Hebrew Bible known as the Former Prophets. The author first presents a summary of the history of the study of paronomasia in the Hebrew Bible. He then offers a taxonomic…
This dissertation is an edition with commentary of the administrative tablets dated by the year-eponymy of Habil-kinu found at Tell Leilan during the 1987 season. Tell Leilan is situated in the Habur triangle in northeastern Syria. The tablets are part of an Old Babylonian archi…
This dissertation makes an analysis of Josephus' Tabernacle account, found in The Jewish Antiquities 3. 99-207, with the goal of: first, shedding further light on his Biblical text; second, determining what non-Biblical sources, both rabbinic and classical, he used; and third, e…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the institution of adoption in Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian period (c. 1900-1600 BCE). The primary source material for this study are the ninety-nine adoption contracts attested for the Old Babylonian period. Although these…
The purpose of this work will be to elucidate problematical Ugaritic vocables through the use of the Akkadian lexicon. Although scholars have utilized other Semitic tongues in attempts to explain difficult Ugaritic words, the two most popular languages for this exercise have bee…
The subject of this dissertation is the rhetorical theory of Abu Bakr 'Abd al-Qaahir Ibn 'Abd al-RaHmaan al-Jurjaanii an eleventh century Muslim scholar of Arabic grammar and rhetoric, as presented mainly in his book Dalaa'il al-'I'jaaz (Proofs of Inimitability), and to a lesser…
The purpose of this dissertation is to catalog the personal names, place names, and divine names which are found in the published Tell el-Amarna cuneiform texts. Chapter One examines the concept of the proper name, surveys studies on this subject, and suggests the importance of …
We cannot assume the most ancient linguistics derives from Greece, India, or Egypt. Actually the earliest systematic linguistic inquiry appears in Mesopotamian cuneiform documents, fully a thousand years older. Akkadian scribes, working to preserve the unique Sumerian language, …
This study was undertaken in an effort to identify the fratriarchal aspects within the patriarchal family structure in the Old Testament. The Hebrew text of the Old Testament was examined for evidence of this institution. Using the comparative philological method, cuneiform and …
Among the more enigmatic passages in the Hebrew Bible are those which appear to describe a rebellion against Yahweh, god of Israel, by one or more members of his celestial court. These include Genesis 6:1-4, Isaiah 14:4b-20a, Ezekiel 28:1-10, 11-19, Psalm 82, and Daniel 11:21-45…
This dissertation is a scientific edition of the ancient rabbinic work Baraita d-Melekhet ha-Mishkan (BMM), concerning the desert tabernacle described in the Hebrew Bible (Ex. 25-30,35-39, Num. 3-4). The dissertation consists of a diplomatic transcription of MS Oxford Bodleian 3…
The purpose of this dissertation was to study blessing and curses in all published alphabetic inscriptions from Iron II Syria-Palestine. Inscriptions having either blessing, curse, or both were collected and sorted according to the presence therein of deity names. Those inscript…
This dissertation presents a diachronic analysis of selected grammatical and lexical features of a post-exilic Biblical Hebrew (BH) prose composition--the Book of Esther. The theoretical basis of this study is that Esther's language elements and place in the linguistic milieu of…
The chronological relationship of the Old Testament prophetic book of Malachi to the other post-Exilic prophets, namely Haggai and Zechariah, has long been the subject of much discussion among biblical scholars. Biblical research over the years, concentrating on thematic similar…
The aim of this morphological study is to present a comprehensive view of broken and double plural formations in Biblical Hebrew. A broken plural consists of an internal alteration of the singular stem. Doubles plurals have two indications of plurality; they may be internal plur…
This dissertation examines the place of liminal animals in the thought of ancient Rome. Rather than attempt a systematic overview of this subject, I have written what amounts to three independent studies, each devoted to some particular liminal creature. Chapters One and Two are…
The dissertation examines the revolution in Sanskrit poetics (Alamkarasastra) initiated by the ninth century Kashmiri Anandavardhana. Anandavardhana replaces the formalist aesthetic of earlier poeticians with one stressing the unifunctionality of literary texts. For Anandavardha…