This dissertation provides an analysis of the parallelistic structure of the first three poetic chapters of the Book of Job: Job's famous cri de coeur in chapter 3 and Eliphaz's response in chapters 4-5. The methodologies have been drawn largely from those discussed by Dennis Pa…
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The dissertation investigates syntactic and semantic aspects of the indefinite pronoun system in Modern Hebrew and consists of an experimental part and a theoretical part. The experimental part presents the grammaticality judgment task conducted to test three theoretical questio…
Repeated verses and lines occur with relative frequency in the Hebrew text of Proverbs. This study explores how those repetitions are translated in the Septuagint version. Translated repetitions provide unique insight into the decision making process of the translator because th…
This dissertation examines the themes of rape and domestic violence in Zionist literature on the “Arab Question” published in Hebrew from the last years of Ottoman rule in Palestine through to the 1929 riots that erupted during the British Mandate. By bringing to light the impor…
Whether associated with assimilation into the dominant culture or rebellion against it, the German Jew is often portrayed as the paragon of Weimar culture. Yet accounts of Weimar Jewish culture tend to overlook the heterogeneity of Germany's Jewish population, paying short shrif…
Although heritage language teachers' processes of identity formation have been studied in recent years (e.g., Milner, 2007), much of the work on heritage languages has explored foreign language teachers' beliefs (e.g., Nespor, 1987; Pajares, 1992; Williams & Burden, 1997) and pe…
This dissertation studies aesthetic, political and ethical dimensions of the representation of Holocaust perpetrators in Hebrew and Israeli fiction published since the mid-1940s. Drawing on recent scholarship by Holocaust historians, such as Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldh…
This dissertation explores the dynamics of identity construction and nation building in Hebrew and Yiddish literature in Russia and Poland in the decade following the 1905 revolution. It examines these dynamics through a study of the poetry of Yaakov Steinberg between the years …
Well-written narratives communicate more than information. What a story communicates is as important as how the story communicates. The narrative flow of a story engages the reader in the action. Narrative conventions assist the reader in connecting prior knowledge or experience…
This dissertation examined language and literacy development in English-Hebrew emerging bilinguals. During their senior kindergarten year, one group of children participated in a bilingual English-Hebrew program ("early" group; n = 17) while another participated in an English-la…
I propose that William Faulkner's literary imagination is charged by a Jewish sensibility rooted in reverence for the Bible as a text that is as vital and relevant in his time as in any since its composition. The Hebrew Bible's narrative method of compiling, redacting, doubling,…
Four types of ritual hand gestures--raising the hand while making a fist (sometimes with a weapon), raising one hand with open palm, raising both hands with open palms, and clasping hands with another person--are attested in Northwest Semitic textual sources and/or Levantine ico…
This dissertation examines the life and work of the Jewish writer Uri-Nisn Gnesin (1879-1913). Living in Russia, using Yiddish in his daily life, and writing prose in Hebrew, Gnesin was part of a multicultural and multilingual generation, which was too assimilated to live the tr…
This dissertation argues that the biblical writers stylistically represented the speech of Arameans and Trans-Jordanians in biblical prose. Although there are a few obvious examples of style-switching in the Hebrew Bible (Gen 31:47; Judg 12:6), this study argues that there are m…
Jewish day school educators often struggle with choosing whether to focus on content or language in the Ivrit B'ivrit classroom, one in which the Judaic subjects of the curriculum are taught in Modern Hebrew. This qualitative study looks at two schools with reputations for succe…
The Beatitudes have been interpreted in a varying number of ways throughout the history of the Church. Sometimes these sayings have been divorced from Jesus and reinterpreted in a way that strays from their original meaning. In order to rightly understand the Beatitudes, they ne…
The biblical Hebrew D stem (piel) seems to be inconsistent from verb to verb, both in its meaning and in its relationship to the G stem (qal). For example, the D stem has a higher valency than the G stem for some verbs (e.g., [special characters omittted] G ‘to be holy’, D ‘to m…
This dissertation traces the history of mathematics education in Palestine Hebrew secondary schools from the foundation of the first Hebrew secondary school in 1905 until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The study draws on primary sources from archives in Israel…
One of the most interesting fields in cultural studies is that of the relations between reality and fictionality, between the text and the extra-textual world. And of all the elements in a text, the one perceived as the most mimetic is character. Hence, the focus of interest of …