Once a year on the Day of Atonement before entering the most holy place, the high priest brought to the door of the tabernacle two goats and cast lots over them. One lot was L'Adonai (to the LORD) and the other was L'Azazel (to or for Azazel). For over two thousand years student…
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This dissertation analyzes the coexistence of realist and modernist prose in early and mid-twentieth century Hebrew fictional texts. The first chapter focuses on Y. Ch. Brenner's 1911 novel, Mi-kan u-mi-kan (From Here and There). On the one hand, this novel engages the specific,…
Telecommunications and Personal computers have enhanced communication throughout the world, The software market is global and, to compete, a company must design software for worldwide customers. Customers demand that quality standards be the same in Asia, Eastern Europe, the Uni…
This dissertation examines Emmanuel Lévinas's Talmudic readings and the hermeneutics employed to translate the Talmud into modern language. Lévinas claims to be translating “Hebrew” into “Greek” by rendering into a universal, philosophical language (“Greek”) the ethical structur…
This dissertation deals with the Septuagint's translation of the verbs of Chronicles. It slices through two diachronic developments: the development of the Hebrew verbal system and the trend towards a more literal translation of the Bible. Firstly, the way the translator of Chro…
The association between reading problems and behavior problems has been established for children learning to read English (see Gellert & Embro, 1999). To date, however, little research has examined this relationship in bilingual situations. The goal of the current study was to i…
This dissertation is a study of the rhetorical interaction between Hebrew literature, Hebrew literary criticism, and Zionist political writings. Focusing on key terms of Zionist discourses, the dissertation explores formal contradictions within the Zionist subject through a clos…
Ancient Israel and Judah developed from an agrarian culture and were often vassals of an extended agrarian empire. The ethos of the Israelites thus reflected or included the worldview of what has been described as the oppressed classes. This ethos became a formative element in t…
Problem. The purpose of this study was to empirically develop a curriculum on the book of Psalms for readers of the English text that would bridge historical, theological, cultural, and linguistic distance, as well as overcome literary challenges associated with Hebrew poetry in…
This dissertation examines the application of pragmatics (especially, the study of politeness), biblical studies and Semitic philology to a selected group of ancient texts that use a characteristic set of deferential strategies. The following strategies are studied: Vocatives, T…
This thesis examines the so-called "enigma" of the "tenseless" Biblical Hebrew verbal system as a problem in generative grammar, specifically in the articulation of a theory of tense and aspect for Universal Grammar. The model integrates phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics …
World War One has evoked a prodigious and sustained literary response from Jewish writers in Eastern and Western Europe, America and Israel. For some, it was their formative literary experience; for others their culminating one. Some wrote as soldiers or veterans, others as refu…
St. Jerome wrote his Vulgate translation from the Hebrew under considerable duress. Early Church figures such as Justin Martyr, Pseudo-Justin, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Eusebius of Caesarea, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Epiphani…
This thesis is a transcription, translation, and annotation of a previously unpublished medieval Hebrew polemic, Machazik Emunah. In this text, the thirteenth century southern French rabbi, Mordechai ben Joseph, defends doctrines of Judaism against opposing Christian claims. The…
Many theological scholars have contributed to the process of interpreting the Psalms. However, most of them have done so based upon pre-determined genre classified by taxonomical categories, the historical socio-religious setting, and assumed theological messages. While these fa…
Esther Raab was the first woman poet of the modern era who was born in Eretz-Israel. Author of five poetry collections published between 1930 and 1981, Raab has nevertheless suffered from critical neglect and misinterpretation. This research proposes a reassessment of her life a…
Every scholar acknowledges that the prophet Hosea came from Northern Israel and conducted his ministry in the North too. The bases for this conclusion have been theological, geographical, and literary considerations, as well as, the toponyms in the book of Hosea. The text of Hos…
The following is a study of dialectal variations in the Masoretic text and classification of selected variations. Introductory material includes discussion of the use of "dialect" for regional, chronological, and stylistic distinctives. This study is presented in two parts. Part…
The Peshitta and Syro-Hexapla are two translations of the Old Testament into Syriac. The Peshitta is a translation From the Hebrew, received by a Syriac-speaking Jewish or Christian Community in the 1st or 2nd Century CE. The Syro-Hexapla is a translation from the Greek, made fo…