Während es eine ganze Reihe großer, mitunter mehrbändiger wissenschaftlicher Wörterbücher zum biblischen Hebräisch und Aramäisch gibt, existieren nur sehr wenige Taschenwörterbücher, die Studierenden einen schnellen Überblick über die wichtigsten deutschen Übersetzungsäquivalent…
This volume honours Professor H.G.M. Williamson, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University through a collection of essays by colleagues and former students from across the globe. The various contributions intersect with the previous work of Professor Williamson related to …
The portrayal of the divine character in a literary context shows the God in the narrative as he is perceived by the narrator. The chapters which follow focus on the pericopes within the narrative which are concerned with the portrayal of God as a character in the story. The pre…
This thesis explores the relationship between the books of Kings and Chronicles and considers the value of having two different versions of the same monarchic history within the Tanak. It furthermore explores how these books are read in relation to one another. To be more specif…
The socio-religious regulations of Leviticus offer little-explored perspectives from which to reflect on the relationship between humanity and the non-human creation. The cosmological framework upon which the worldview expressed in Leviticus is constructed places humanity at the…
Among the translations of the Hebrew Bible which have appeared in the United States in the last half-century are three modern Jewish versions, each representing a distinctly different approach to translating, which are the subjects of this evaluation: Tanakh The Holy Scriptures:…
Although righteousness is central to the ethics of the Hebrew Bible, it has not been studied as a concept in its own right. Rather, most inquiries in the past were sociological or semantic in nature, focusing on either social justice or the semantic field of righteousness. The p…
This work traces changes in the form of marriage gifts, and thus of marriage, in the region of ancient Palestine over the course of a millennium. The evidence for preexilic Israel strongly implies that bridewealth—what many biblical scholars call "brideprice"—was not only the mo…
This is an inquiry into the history of scholarship of the Hebrew Bible in Germany in the mid-eighteenth century. Its central concern is the rise of an historical and scientific philology in this period and the extent to which a philology oriented toward a critical recovery of th…
Scholars have given the study of Biblical Hebrew words, and especially verbs, a great amount of attention. Work on lexicons of Biblical Hebrew, theological dictionaries and various articles in journals give important details about individual verbs that appear in the Hebrew Bible…
This dissertation explores the occurrences and the functions of various poetic devices within the four alphabetic acrostic psalms found in Book I of the Psalter. These psalms are: Pss 9/10; 25; 34: and 37. These acrostics are four out of a total of eight alphabetic acrostic poem…
This dissertation contributes to the disciplines of both rhetoric and biblical criticism. Through rhetorical analysis of the Book of Hosea, it shows how the multivocal composition of the Book of Hosea constitutes a dialogue that takes place in a community over time. As such it h…
In the historical-critical analysis of the Hebrew Bible, the so-called "Yahwist" ("J") source of the Pentateuch has been regarded by most scholars as the oldest of the four major sources of the Pentateuch. Most scholars since Wellhausen have dated "J" to the pre-exilic period, p…
This study employs Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) royal art to contextualize the literary imagery and rhetoric of the Royal Psalms (RPss). The study begins by arguing for the relevance of artistic data for interpreting the rhetoric of the RPss and noting the dearth of attention to a…
Persian Yehudite society was fraught with issues related to reconceptualizing individual and social identities. The exile of the elite from Judah, the desecration of the temple, and the loss of both God's land-gift and their political autonomy were only exacerbated by the re-ent…