Isaiah 24–27, the mislabeled ‘Isaiah apocalypse,’ forms one of the latest literary layers in the Book of Isaiah. An integral part of its literary strategy is the reuse and evocation of earlier texts from the Hebrew Bible. This dissertation examines those literary connections und…
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How did the authors of the Hebrew Bible perceive the Cushites? The answer to this question provides insight into the way differences that modern scholars would classify as “racial” were understood in ancient Israel/Judah. By examining explicit biblical references to Cush and Cus…
This dissertation is a study of four prophetic texts that employ an image of the god of Israel sacrificing his enemies. In Isaiah 34, YHWH places Edom under the war hērem; in Jeremiah 46, Egypt is the sacrifice; in Ezekiel 39, the figure Gog is the victim; in Zephaniah 1, the el…
This dissertation examines the Pentateuchal laws concerning witnesses and their testimony in court. It conducts its analysis within a comparative-historical context established mainly by the Neo-Babylonian trial records from the mid-first millennium, B.C.E. The primary thesis of…
“The Use of the Infinitive Absolute in the Hebrew Bible,” a dissertation supervised by Stephen A. Kaufman, classifies the over eight-hundred occurrences of the infinitive absolute in the Hebrew Bible into six main categories. In addition, Septuagintal renderings of the infinitiv…
This study is a comprehensive examination of William Blake's epic poem Jerusalem in relation to the forms, styles, and structures of the Hebrew Bible. I utilize techniques developed by biblical scholars and literary critics to analyze Jerusalem form-critically and demonstrate th…
This dissertation contributes to contemporary understandings of the problem of poverty in ancient Israel through a comparative, cross-cultural, and sociological investigation of poverty in traditional Africa. The methodology not only reveals similarities between these two cultur…
This dissertation examines eighth-sixth centuries B.C. Moab through integration of data from the oracles against Moab in the prophets of the Hebrew Bible, from the Neo-Assyrian texts concerning Moab, and from the socio-archaeological evidence of the Iron Age IIC. Information is …
Christian baptism and Jewish ritual bathing are related and many assume that Christians transformed and rejected Jewish bathing practices. Most studies have considered textual and archaeological evidence separately. This dissertation examines these sources together to outline a …
What exactly is the meaning of the Hebrew term sara'at? Is it appropriate to still accept the traditional translation of "leprosy" or does it refer to something completely different? In order to answer these and other related questions, the following work seeks to explore the an…
This dissertation is an intertextual study of the book of Job in general and the first cycle of poetic speeches (chapters 3–14) in particular. It addresses the dialogical character exhibited by the speeches of the book of Job, a subject that past Joban scholarship has failed to …
For all its plot twists, multifaceted characters, and complex chronology, the narrative landscape of the Hebrew Bible, when read as a whole, is fairly smooth and consistent in at least one area: there are heroes and villains, and God sides with the heroes against the villains. W…
The present work investigates the lion imagery and metaphor of the Hebrew Bible in the light of its ancient Near Eastern context. Chapter 1 begins with recent discussions concerning language for God and argues that the non-anthropocentric metaphors for God found in Scripture are…
This dissertation is an exegetical exploration of the prophetic rhetoric of Jer 3.1-4.4. The chapter moves back and forth from metaphors produced by a quotation of a law, also included in the deuteronomic law code (Dt 24. 1-4), to appeals to the audience based on these metaphors…
This thesis seeks to understand the difficulty the people of Israel had ridding their land of high places of idol worship before the destruction of the First Temple. The history of the people of Israel is littered with polytheism, despite assurances from God that He was the only…
The Tsene-rene is a Yiddish text first published in the early 1600s that some have described as a Bible for women. Attributed to Ya’akov ben Yiẓḥak of Yanov, a figure we know little about, the Tsene-rene is a seamless compilation of Bible stories, commentaries, and folktales arr…
David said, “The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me; and his word was on my tongue” (2 Sam. 23:2). This speaking “through” the authors of Scripture, utilizing their personalities, educational levels, and individual idiosyncrasies of thought and expression, is possibly no better…
References to Egypt are twice as dense in the Pentateuch as elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible. This dissertation explored and analyzed the ideological significance of the references to Egypt in the Pentateuch within the historical context of the production of the Pentateuch's final …
My dissertation examines the historical circumstances by which the Jerusalem priesthood played a role in the political affairs of Judah. Specifically, I have traced the vicissitudes in the relationship between the kings of pre-exilic Judah on the one hand and the Jerusalem pries…