This dissertation is an interpretation of Hebrews 10:32–12:13 from the perspective of classical rhetorical compositional theory. The dissertation argues that Hebrews 10:32–12:13 is deliberative rhetoric advancing a set of four responses to a significant problem facing the commun…
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The broad theoretical objective of this dissertation is to explore the potential union of archaeological and linguistic perspectives in the study of material culture. The specific focus of the study is the architecture of the late third millennium BC Mesopotamia. The first half …
Ephrem the Syrian (309-373), known by his contemporaries as the "Harp of the Holy Spirit", was highly praised throughout the early Christian world. While Ephrem wrote only in Syriac, translations were made, perhaps beginning even in his own lifetime, into nearly every language o…
Can information theory provide concepts and methods to aid in the analysis of Biblical Hebrew and Syriac texts and language? The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate the usefulness of information theory concepts in the study of Semitic phonology, morphology and lexicology…
Collective nouns in Biblical Hebrew can take either singular or plural verbs. Previous biblical studies have tended to explain that the variation is intentional on the part of the writer, expressing either a difference in meaning or some stylistic emphasis. This dissertation exa…
The study is an examination of words occurring in Biblical Hebrew that are of Akkadian origin or transmitted via Akkadian into the Hebrew lexicon. The data relevant to 101 alleged Akkadian loans are presented and evaluated, of which seventy-two (excluding Babylonian month names)…
One of the most challenging Pauline statements is Romans 10:4. [special characters omitted]. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. The exegesis of this one verse has been challenging to scholars, and the debate seems endless. The purpose of…
This dissertation examines translation technique in the Peshitta of Micah. The study analyzes and characterizes the Syriac translation of this prophetic book. The model integrates grammatical and lexical data from the book, and then applies the results toward a textual commentar…
This thesis discusses for the first time the reception of higher level Greek in everyday prose in second- to sixth-century Egypt. It offers insights into the strategies of composition in stylistically ambitious non-literary sources, and investigates the use of select high-level …
This is a critical edition of the Apotelesmatika which is attributed to Manetho and includes an Introduction, Critical Apparatus, Notes, Translation and Selected Bibliography. The text is based upon an examination of photographs of the manuscript.
This thesis is an edition of 19 literary papyri containing parts of Iliad Books 3 and 8 (Part A) and 24 unpublished documents written on papyrus (Part B). All these papyri were found in Egypt, at the village Bahnasa, Oxyrhynchos of the Graeco-Roman period. Their dates vary from …
“Piyyutim” (synagogal poems), composed for liturgical use, creatively intersect with traditions of interpretation familiar from other aggadic sources. However, as poetry composed for public recitation, these texts reflect unique aesthetic and practical impulses. This dissertatio…
The present research is an attempt to combine the linguistic approaches of discourse analysis and comparative linguistics in the study of ancient Semitic languages. More specifically, this study compares the expression of sequentiality in narrative prose among various Northwest …
This study emerges out of a need to provide a new interpretation and critical analysis of what is considered "classical rhetorical theory." In most cases, what is termed "classical" are traditions and ideals derived from the ancient Greco-Roman world. In response to the overwhel…
Late antique asceticism is a desert, filled with the hidden and unknown, the mysterious and undiscovered. Modern scholars have turned this desert into a library, with a ready-made card catalogue listing all the categories into which late antique asceticism should so neatly fit. …
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine various questions surrounding the Greek translation of the Book of Enoch and to provide a description of the translation technique in the light of the Aramaic original recently recovered at Qumran. Chapter 1 describes the discovery …
This study offers a semantic analysis of the vocabulary of ‘fear’ terms in Biblical Hebrew. Biblical scholarship, including the area of semantics, has lagged behind some of the advances made in modern linguistic theory. In particular, semantic studies of the meanings of biblical…
This study examines all uses of the word XXX ("rock") in the Hebrew Bible, both metaphorical and non-metaphorical. It identifies the content domains of the physical XXX and the models of God underlying references to God as XXX, and juxtaposes those content domains to note the po…
Transcriptions of Hebrew words into Greek have long interested students of the Hebrew language. Because the Hebrew writing system was primarily consonantal until Islamic times, Greek transcriptions provide a valuable window into an early pronunciation of Hebrew. The oldest subst…