This dissertation is a critical Hebrew edition, annotated English translation, and detailed study of Rabbi Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona's kabbalistic exposition on the meaning of the biblical commandments (early thirteenth-century). Rabbi Ezra's text is a major component of his cl…
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This dissertation explores the nature, purpose, and impact of ' sb “pain, difficulty,” on humanity with special reference to Genesis 3. Chapter One is an introductory chapter that briefly delineates the rationale for and the methodology of the dissertation. The dissertation incl…
This dissertation argues for priming as a tool to test the reality of phonological analyses. I examine alternations in two types of weak verbs (verbs that surface without one of their traditional root consonants) in Modern Hebrew. In the cases examined here, consonant loss is ph…
The thesis presents a thorough investigation of major aspects of pronominal syntax and interpretation. The main goal of the study is to motivate multiple dimensions of pronominal analysis, including morphosyntactic and structural properties, and to delineate their significance t…
This dissertation is an attempt to update the theory of prosody and integrate it within recent developments in literary criticism. At the core of this study is the assumption that the sound of discourse transfers the text from its silent fictional existence to an independent ent…
The book of Job is analyzed as Hebrew theodicy centering in a debate over divine justice with the sides forming two major themes—law versus cosmology. The book may be viewed as providing a solution to the problem of divine justice and human suffering in a natural step forward in…
This dissertation examines aspects of the reception of Judah Halevi's Sefer ha-Kuzari in European culture and scholarship from the late Middle Ages through the nineteenth century. This “classic” Jewish theological treatise is an important example of medieval Jewish apologetic as…
This dissertation examines the motif of the vindication of the divine reputation in the book of Ezekiel. A study of the specific language of the motif, along with its meanings and functions, reveals that the motif is vital to the rhetorical strategy of the entire book: it fulfil…
Between the years 1903 and 1914, nationalist activists inside and outside the Jewish Yishuv (pre-state community) of Palestine devoted considerable resources to the creation of a new Jewish national culture. The very first foundations for this culture had been laid in the two pr…
My dissertation is an investigation into various aspects of grammaticalization within the Semitic language family. Grammaticalization is the change whereby a lexical item acquires a purely grammatical function, or a grammatical item develops a new grammatical function. As the on…
The field of Early Hebrew (Iron Age) palaeography has advanced rapidly during the twentieth century because of the dramatic increase in the number of Early Hebrew epigraphs and the brilliant work of several palaeographers. This dissertation attempts to augment the field of Early…
This study addresses the enigma of the structure of the Song of Songs. Most structural analyses of the Song have been by-products of an overall interpretation. This study avoids any overall interpretation and analyzes the Song's structure from the bottom up, beginning with minim…
Researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in the field of foreign language study in higher education in the United States are familiar with the phenomenon of declining numbers among learners in advanced foreign language courses. The studies that have examined this phenomenon…
Contemporary scholars generally translate the Hebrew stem znh as “prostitute” or “cultic prostitute” and understand it as a metaphor for Israel's alleged apostasy. However prostitution in the Biblical texts is neither punished nor censured making this a weak metaphor for prophet…
The purpose of this study is to investigate the connection(s) between concepts of leadership and the theocentric world perspective. This is done by focusing on Hebrew leadership prior to 600 B.C.E. Thus, this investigation concentrates on discovering what leadership meant, how i…
This thesis is concerned with the understanding of the finite verb in the poetry section of the Book of Job. More specifically, it analyzes the yiqtōl, the wayyiqtōl, and the qātal. The analysis uses insights from discourse analysis. It pays attention to the larger (con)text whe…
This dissertation is part of a larger goal to provide a set of reference books of musical terms used in Scripture, based on the original Hebrew and Greek texts, to help ministers and church musicians more accurately and completely study the Scriptures in relation to music. The s…
This dissertation examines the intertextual relations between classic literature of the Rabbis, the Talmud and Midrash, and the fiction of three early modernist Hebrew writers—Uri Nissan Gnessin, David Fogel, and Dvora Baron. My attempt is to show that intertextual strategies an…
The text of the early chapters of 1 Kings (3 Reigns in Greek) diverges widely in its two main witnesses, the Masoretic Hebrew text and the Old Greek translation of the Septuagint. In the past divergences of this kind were often attributed to the freedom of the translator. Howeve…