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…
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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…
Previous investigation of 2 Kings 18-20 has been dominated by event and literary historical reconstruction. Recent interest in the "final form" function of the parallel Isaiah 36-39 has not been matched for 2 Kings 18-20 in relationship to Kings as a whole. This study addresses …
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…
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…