A basic problem for scholars in Egyptology concerns ancient Egyptian social organization. Some Egyptologists state that ancient Egyptian society was organized along matrilineal lines, while others argue that the ancient Egyptian society was organized along patrilineal fines. The…
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This dissertation examines the application of pragmatics (especially, the study of politeness), biblical studies and Semitic philology to a selected group of ancient texts that use a characteristic set of deferential strategies. The following strategies are studied: Vocatives, T…
A multidisciplinary approach is utilized to assess the organization and use of ancient and medieval Near Eastern textual deposits. An elaborate survey of the published material in ancient Near Eastern studies and library and archival studies indicates a general and pervasive ins…
This dissertation discusses the syllabic inscriptions of ancient Cyprus, the only area of the Greek speaking world which in antiquity did not practice writing using the Greek alphabet. Cyprus instead had its own rectilinear, syllabic script which remained in use until the early …
This dissertation analyzes to what extent the biblical treatment of homicide is a result of the borrowing of legal precedents from the cuneiform cultures of the rest of the ancient Near East or a result of independent invention. It concludes that only a few elements in the treat…
Problem. The dilemma of the Syriac version is its mysterious provenance and the direct relationship it may have to the other versions (particularly [special characters omitted] and [special characters omitted]). Thus some scholars have automatically discarded or ignored the Pesh…
This section focuses on the study as a whole. It has been divided into sections. The first section covers the introduction and the rationale of the study, the second section covers the research design. The third section focuses on the tools, fourth and fifth sections focus on th…
The ancient Egyptians and Dogon conceive that all elements of the universe operate in harmony. Therefore, the manner in which the Egyptians and Dogon express and experience their cosmologies must agree with this harmony. Using an African-centered approach, this study examines th…
The subject of this dissertation is the use of supplemental graphic conventions (scribal auxiliary marks) in the Amarna corpus and in the cuneiform alphabetic texts discovered at Ugarit. Following an overview of the purpose of supplemental graphic conventions in written communic…
Violence served to uphold the Egyptian concept of correct order, known as Ma'at. Some violence, such as sacrificial servant burial, did so by ensuring that correct social order continued in the next life. Most violence in the service of order was aimed at the destruction of chao…
Historians of ancient Israel and Judah, like all other historians, come to their work with certain presuppositions and goals in mind. This study will elucidate and examine assumptions about history writing that current historians of ancient Israel and Judah employ. It is underta…
We will demonstrate that there existed two discrete types of oracles in ancient Egypt. One type dealt with juridical matters and was referred to as a bi3yt. The other, which will be the main focus of this dissertation, was completely non-juridical in nature; it was rendered to p…
One of the most significant problems in historical and archaeological investigations of ancient Israel's early Iron Age is a great disparity between text and artifact. Our most extensive written source, the Hebrew Bible, is frequently at odds with our other primary source of inf…
This study focuses on the degree to which three religious rituals--Sabbath observance, fasting, and circumcision--took on a particular shape for ancient Israel during the period of the Babylonian exile (ca. 6th cent. B.C.E.), and influenced the final shape of the covenant narrat…
Christian authors developed “ethno-political” rhetorics about Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks, and blackness as a discursive strategy for instructing their followers, maligning their opponents, and warning their communities about a number of different types of internal and externa…
Claiming women's use of public rhetorics in Classical Greece and 19 th Century American culture, this dissertation examines the social construction of gender in historical research, doctoral education in the field of rhetoric and composition, faculty/student relationships, and t…
Since its discovery in 1888, the Instruction of Amenemope has become justly famous—not only for its intrinsic value as one of the great instructional texts of ancient Egypt, but also for its indisputable role in the formation of the biblical Book of Proverbs. Amenemope is now a …
Medicine in the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible is studied predominantly in two ways: the biological or the Biblical perspective. From a biological standpoint, the studies use paleopathology in combination with an analysis of symptoms reported in medical and literary acco…