This dissertation provides an analysis of verb-initial (V1) constructions in Modern Hebrew (MH). The two main foci of the analysis are the grammatical function of the postverbal NP in V1 and the licensing condition of the constructions. Subjects in MH are generally assumed to ap…
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Milgroym/Rimon (1922-1924) was a bilingual, Yiddish/Hebrew modernist magazine of art and literature published in Berlin from 1922 to 1924 by the historian Mark Wischnitzer (1882-1955) and the art historian Rachel Wischnitzer-Bernstein (1885-1989). I argue that the central purpos…
This thesis examines the reception and translation relationships between Hebrew and Spanish in the sixteenth century. It focuses on Zarfati's reception of La Celestina, the fragment of Guevara's Relox de príncipes translated in Shevet Yehudah and Yoseph Ha-Kohen's translation of…
Collective nouns in Biblical Hebrew can take either singular or plural verbs. Previous biblical studies have tended to explain that the variation is intentional on the part of the writer, expressing either a difference in meaning or some stylistic emphasis. This dissertation exa…
The study is an examination of words occurring in Biblical Hebrew that are of Akkadian origin or transmitted via Akkadian into the Hebrew lexicon. The data relevant to 101 alleged Akkadian loans are presented and evaluated, of which seventy-two (excluding Babylonian month names)…
This dissertation studies the intricate connection between conceptual structure, meaning, and grammar, through an analysis of a general cognitive operation (conceptual blending). I develop an analysis of sentence processing as a case of conceptual and linguistic blending: senten…
This dissertation examines translation technique in the Peshitta of Micah. The study analyzes and characterizes the Syriac translation of this prophetic book. The model integrates grammatical and lexical data from the book, and then applies the results toward a textual commentar…
The present research is an attempt to combine the linguistic approaches of discourse analysis and comparative linguistics in the study of ancient Semitic languages. More specifically, this study compares the expression of sequentiality in narrative prose among various Northwest …
In March 1952 scholars discovered two brittle copper rolls in Qumran Cave 3 in the Desert of Judah near the Dead Sea. When cut open in England in 1956/57, the two rolls turned out to be a single document, and it was named as Copper Scroll - 3Q15. It is currently in the Museum of…
This dissertation tests and evaluates four current theories of the verse structure of biblical Hebrew poetry. These theories are: the counting of minimal units, such as poetic feet, stresses or syllables, practiced in various forms since antiquity, and recently employed by D. N.…
Contemporary choral music in general and George Rochberg's in particular present challenges to the conductor well beyond the traditional repertoire including complex harmonies and rhythms, tone clusters, sprechstimme , and unconventional notation. In addition, the conductor must…
This study offers a semantic analysis of the vocabulary of ‘fear’ terms in Biblical Hebrew. Biblical scholarship, including the area of semantics, has lagged behind some of the advances made in modern linguistic theory. In particular, semantic studies of the meanings of biblical…
This study examines all uses of the word XXX ("rock") in the Hebrew Bible, both metaphorical and non-metaphorical. It identifies the content domains of the physical XXX and the models of God underlying references to God as XXX, and juxtaposes those content domains to note the po…
This study was an initial effort to examine the applicability of Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) procedures to measure reading in a language other than English, and more specifically, in Hebrew. Participants included 416 regular education students from grades 1–5 from 3 eleme…
The Mishnah depends on the Bible for its authority, vocabulary, and much of its contents. Nearly six hundred Bible citations are distributed in fifty-three of the Mishnah's tractates and are quoted from all but six biblical books. Most citations are from the Torah and are used f…
This study identifies the literary forms used in the admonitions of 4QInstruction to better assess the relationship between that text and both biblical wisdom and the broader wisdom tradition. This study determines that the admonitions rely on traditional wisdom forms for their …
This ethnography of communication seeks to identify the factors that contribute to second-language acquisition and production in an environment, a residential summer camp, considered conducive to learning. Although English is the native tongue of ninety-five percent of the parti…
This dissertation, an ethnographic and sociolinguistic case study of Israeli feminist practices, investigates the relationship between language use, language ideology, and the socio-cultural construction of gender and gender identity. Taking the definition of language use presen…
A long history of studies exists of how Hebrew and Aramaic influenced NT Greek. Many deal specifically with the Semitic background to the Fourth Gospel. These are flawed, however, by (1) a lack of precision in selection of Greek and Semitic sources used for comparative purposes,…