The composition of Deut 27-28 is shaped by its ritual and performative function and by the narrative device of a script within a speech: the oral and ritual performance of the covenant ceremony by the Levites is framed within the speech-command of Moses. Studies of Deut 28 have …
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This dissertation is an examination of terminology for realia in the corpus of Northwest Semitic during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron I and Iron II periods (ca. 1400–600 BCE). In light of developments in the field of contact linguistics, this study first formulates a methodol…
Most colleges require students to take at least one foreign language course in order to graduate. Some students tend to put this requirement off to the end of their program due to language learning anxiety, and attrition rates in these courses are high. This study asks the follo…
Whether there is a one-to-one mapping between semantic categories and their syntactic counterparts has been the subject of extensive research in linguistic theory (e.g. Grimshaw 1979; Pesetsky 1982; Sadock 1991). Degree expressions are a case study for the investigation of the e…
This dissertation probes one of the central religious ideas in the Hebrew Bible – the concept of sin – through the most pervasive metaphors used to express the notion in Biblical Hebrew. The approach adopted in this study emerged out of a consideration of perspectives coming out…
This dissertation presents a quantitative study of the vocalization of the Hebrew inseparable prepositions (beth, kaf, and lamed). Both synchronic and diachronic dimensions are addressed. After a synchronic survey and analysis, a few regularities of the vowels of the inseparable…
This dissertation applies the linguistic theory of grammaticalization to Biblical Hebrew (BH) prepositions, detailing the origin and evolution of these constructions. In this study, grammaticalization is defined as the change whereby a lexical item or a construction comes in cer…
This Ph.D. dissertation focuses on the nostalgic feelings of the Andalusian Arabs and Jews toward the East and on the role that eastern poetic conventions played in the literary composition of al-Andalus. The first chapter introduces a quick survey of nostalgia among Arabs from …
Metalinguistic abilities such as phonological and morphological awareness are important language proficiency components. Three interrelated studies, based on a longitudinal project, investigated the development of phonological and morphological skills in children with English as…
My dissertation, "The Home Front: Literary Engagement with Political Crisis in Israel, 1993-2006," examines how terror, violence and political turmoil have changed and shaped the private territories of home, family, friendship and intimate relationships in turn of the twenty-fir…
This dissertation investigates the translation technique of the Greek Ecclesiastes and proposes the place of the Translator in the history of the transmission of the Greek text. Chapter 1 defines a text of the Greek Ecclesiastes. Since a Göttingen critical edition of the Greek E…
This dissertation builds on and attempts to contribute to the larger stream of research of the past three decades generated by Gerald H. Wilson's seminal work The Editing of the Hebrew Psalter . This stream of research has considered the Psalter in its final form as an intention…
Even the casual reader of the books of Kings and Chronicles will notice that much of the material between the books is parallel. In fact, approximately half of the material in Chronicles has a parallel in the books of Samuel or Kings. This large quantity of parallel material pro…
Chapter one surveys past inquiries into the Song's geographical images and spells out a methodology for examining these contexts in light of contributions offered from hermeneutical studies of metaphorical language. The approach includes discerning the syntagmatic and pragmatic …
This study examines the construct of 'Hebrew labor' -as the ideological, philosophical and strategic underpinning of the Nationalist, Zionist, Socialist settlement in Palestine. The thesis proposes that 'Hebrew labor' was manifest in the institutional structures and buildings of…
This dissertation investigates the prosody-syntax interface in two Hebrew complex nominals. Their meaning is identical but their syntax and phonology differ. The free state (FS) nominal is similar to English (e.g., the coach of the wrestler ). The construct state (CS) nominal la…
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, approximately two million Jews left the Pale of Settlement, fleeing poverty, pogroms, civil war, and revolution. Nearly all of the prominent Hebrew and Yiddish writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emer…
Torah study is the definitive religious activity of Rabbinic Judaism. Earlier, Torah study did not enjoy preeminence, and this difference indicates that a dramatic shift took place in the conception of Torah. The emphasis on Torah study in Psalm 119 is unique within the Hebrew B…
This action research deals with the NETA Hebrew language program and language learning disabled students' ability to answer inference and recall questions. The study was conducted in Orthodox and Conservative Jewish day schools in the New York Metropolitan area. Sixty seven stud…