The primary focus of this dissertation is to demonstrate how Hebrews represents, in view of its historical and religious context, human fidelity to God. Reciprocity was one primary dynamic in the ancient Mediterranean world for establishing fidelity to a relationship and has bee…
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The specific nature of the Appeal to the living texts in ancient Egypt is investigated from the Old Kingdom through the New Kingdom. A data set has been collected of some 294 Appeal texts divided chronologically into (1) Old Kingdom (45 texts), (2) First Intermediate Period (47 …
Northwest Semitic syntax has been explored extensively on a phrasal and clausal level. This has contributed much to our understanding of the languages in this linguistic family. There have also been numerous studies on micro level, and isolated occurrences of literary devices wi…
This study deals with Ancient Egyptian and Yoruba of West Africa, an enduring historical problem in African historiography. This dissertation builds upon Lucas's book (Lucas 1948). The central argument of Lucas's book is that Yoruba originated from Ancient Egypt. A lot of Africa…
The Book of the Earth belongs to the genre of ancient Egyptian compositions known as "Underworld Books," depicting the locales and beings encountered by the sun god during his nightly travels. The Book of the Earth was employed exclusively in royal burial chambers during Egypt's…
This dissertation constitutes a comprehensive review and analysis of incantations of West Semitic provenience, extra-biblical and biblical, from the second and first millennia B.C.E. Recent discoveries and publications of texts from Syria-Palestine have furnished an ancient samp…
Many historians and biblical scholars have attempted to make sense of the data found in the Hebrew Bible in order to reconstruct the time measuring systems that were in use in ancient Israel. Some have been more successful than others, but all who have tackled the problem have h…
This dissertation explores the peculiarity that though the river term (nāru(m)/nhr/ nāhār) occurs 119 times, in the Hebrew Bible there are no rivers in Israel. The meaning of wadi (nahallu( m)/nhl/nahal), the torrential flow from winter rains or the gorge that remains when the w…
The presence of giants in the Hebrew Bible has puzzled commentators and scholars. Explication of these monsters has focused upon rationalizing the presence of such clearly mythological creatures or simply concluding that their presence is explained through religious syncretism. …
Material remains and textual sources from throughout the Mediterranean World (Greece, North Africa, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Levant) are examined in order to reconstruct ancient perspectives on the practice of human sacrifice. Chapter one begins the dissertation by present…
The prophet as a religious functionary with an intermediating role has been presented in the academic literature of the post-Enlightenment West largely as a category that is exclusive of the category "woman." Biblical scholarship has produced definitions of prophecy that are so …
This dissertation examines the evidence for foundation rituals in post-Bronze Age Greece while investigating their function and meaning in ancient Greek culture. Foundation rituals are prescribed rites known throughout the ancient Mediterranean that marked the initiation of a bu…
The main concern of this dissertation is the reasons for the condemnation of the nations in Lev. 18. The research is based on the hypothesis that the origin of incestuous practices in this text is erroneously attributed to the Canaanites and Egyptians. We did an exegetical study…
This study is concerned with "eating" metaphors employed in ancient Jewish literature to describe a visionary encounter with God. "Feasting one's eyes" upon the divine presence or receiving nourishment from the splendor of the shekhinah is a motif that appears frequently both in…
Writing a history of the development of the ancient Egyptian mind, wrote the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt a century and a half ago, "is an impossibility." While the ancient Egyptian civilization came to an end thousands of years ago, traces of their environment, art, archite…
Egypt was incorporated into the Islamic empire in 20 AH/641 CE. Like so many conquerors before them, early Muslim settlers faced the challenge of defining their own civilization in the shadow of the country's ancient monuments. Egypt was the first province in the Islamic empire …
Hooked on Pharaonics: Literature and the Appropriations of Ancient Egypt, explores European colonialism in Egypt--and Egyptian nationalist responses--through a critical focus on the modern aesthetic regimes that sought to administer Egyptian antiquities. It isolates several poin…
Robert Parker offers a provocative and wide-ranging entrance into the world of ancient Greek religion, focusing especially on the interpretive challenge of studying a religious system that in many ways remains desperately alien from the vantage point of the twenty-first century.…
From the sixth century BCE onwards there occurred a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as such as that understanding the inner self is both vital for human well-being and central to understanding the universe. This intellectual transformation is sometimes called the be…