A number of texts in the Hebrew Bible portray the God of Israel as engaging in deceptive practices. This dissertation examines what the ancient Israelites thought about the idea of divine deception and the implications of this reflection for understanding their worldview. The id…
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This thesis is a narratological and rhetorical study of the speeches made by leaders in the <em>Anabasis</em> as attempts at persuasion. It aims at interpreting the function of the speeches by linking a leader's use of rhetoric to the success or failure of his leadership. This t…
There is an increasing gap between the progress of technological systems and the successful exploitation of these systems through cyber-attack. Whilst the mechanism and scope of cyberspace is progressing with each passing day, risk factors and the ability to process the required…
Modern cyber attacks have evolved considerably. The skill level required to conduct a cyber attack is low. Computing power is cheap, targets are diverse and plentiful. Point-and-click crimeware kits are widely circulated in the underground economy, while source code for sophisti…
The study makes a narrative ethical assessment of intrigue contained in the Jacob story (Gen. 25:19--35:29). Following Paul Ricoeur's theory of narrative, it presents (1) the configuration of more or less heterogenous elements in the narrative, (2) ethical refigurations of the s…
Why do leaders in democracies resort to deception when initiating the use of force? What are the consequences? These questions have taken on renewed importance with the controversies surrounding the Iraq War. My argument is that it is the democratic process that is to blame. Spe…
In 2009, the Pakistani Supreme Court began granting rights to gender ambiguous people who are locally known as khwaja siras. The Court organized this population into taxonomic groups and ordered the government to 'mainstream' them. These actions were based on certain cultural as…
Strategic denial and deception (D&D) is an advanced tool of statecraft that not only aims to influence the minds of key decision-makers in target countries, but more importantly, results in actions by the deceived that favor the deceiver. As history has shown, when strategic D&D…
This dissertation is a study of the role of lying in biblical narrative. While the ideal of truth is conveyed in biblical wisdom literature as well as elsewhere in the Bible, in biblical narrative lying was not considered a moral issue of absolutes. Rather, deception was conside…
The present study analyzes the phenomenon of deception in Genesis. While this phenomenon has been dealt with in a piecemeal fashion in the past by studies devoted to individual or small clusters of incidents, no comprehensive treatment has hitherto been performed. The present st…