This study considers the development of the modern construction of identity as it is enunciated in a specific literary genre. The sonnet, a literary form developed as a vernacular poetry yet meant for private enjoyment, synthesizes cultural and personal identification in a way t…
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Experience is always seen through embodied eyes. Through a clarified way of seeing called, Anmerkungen or “afterwords”, poetry takes note of the truth inherent to subjectivity as reflected in language. These afterwords challenge the reality of “not yet” [ nocht nichts] seeing fr…
Though contemporary Israeli fiction is still dominated by secular writers, an increasing number of writers hailing from the religious community have made their presence felt over the last forty years. This study aims to identify a representative group of the most gifted among th…
My thesis examines knowledge and awareness of the Hebrew language in the Anglo-Saxon period. Because there is minimal evidence of Jews in England or the study of the Hebrew language in this time period, the interest in Hebrew exhibited in Anglo-Saxon writings has rarely been not…
In this dissertation, I critique what I perceive to be a lack in the method of determining meaning currently in use in Biblical Studies in the United States, in that the current dialogical method not only fails to take into account adequately the role of subjectivity in the dete…
This dissertation uses a dialogic sociolinguistic theory (Johnson, 2004) interwoven with the author's personal perspective to explore the relationship between language and ethnic identity in an advanced university Hebrew language classroom in Canada. The study examines three key…
This dissertation fills a gap in the scholarly study of Classical Hebrew grammar and syntax with the first comprehensive study of oath formulae. The difficult and elliptical nature of oath syntax, along with the multitude of diverse formulae employed, has often given scholars an…
Since the introduction of the concept of the compound clause into biblical Hebrew studies in the late nineteenth century, grammars of biblical Hebrew have presented various and often conflicting descriptions of the uses of the compound clause. Various attempts at harmonization h…
Functioning as a verb, adverb, adjective, or noun, the infinitive absolute serves as an element of Biblical Hebrew grammar for which no analogous component exists in modern Indo-European languages such as English. The most frequent employment of the infinitive absolute is in "pa…
This dissertation consists of the first complete critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Numbers 1-18 from all known Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, and Latin sources since the publication of Frederick Field's Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt sive veterum interpretum g…
In the intimate circles of Hebrew and Yiddish culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent writers often became celebrities: writers like S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleykhem, and Itzik Manger were greeted by large crowds across Eastern Europe; others…
This dissertation analyzes two derived Biblical Hebrew verbal forms, the Niphal and the Hitpael. Present scholarship on Biblical Hebrew does not agree on the definition or relationship of these two stems. In chapter 1 I outline the two major problems for the Niphal and Hitpael: …
This dissertation offers a new way of situating the golem legend within twentieth century European culture. Focusing on case studies in German and Hebrew film and literature, my project explores one of the most significant yet neglected historical contexts for the immense popula…
The past several decades have witnessed the steady rise in the number of faith-based educational institutions in the United States. Among the proliferation of Christian and Muslim schools throughout the United States, Jewish day schools of various denominations have emerged as t…
In the scope of this study, we argue that there is a condition within the structure of the verbal system of classical Hebrew (hereafter, CH), interstitiality (i.e., gappiness), which broadens the functional role of the hitpa'el . In this work, interstitiality refers to the absen…
This dissertation aims to show that an analysis of Biblical Hebrew clause types in terms of topicality and functional voice will make a contribution to the task of translating Hebrew into other languages. Hebrew has only two syntactic voice categories. But many other languages, …
American Hebrew literature, a corpus written primarily by Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the first half of the twentieth century, challenges common notions concerning boundaries of land, language and identity. This dissertation interrogates these boundaries by investigati…
This dissertation traces the development of the tarbut 'Ivrit (Hebrew Culture) movement from its origins in fin de siécle Odessa among small circles of writers and intellectuals to its institutional consolidation in pre-State Palestine and interwar Poland. From the 1890s to the …
Published Hebrew inscriptions reveal the names of over 1,200 persons of pre-exilic Israel and Judah. A small number of these appear to be persons who are named in the Hebrew Bible. Until now, it has been difficult to resolve the question of these potential identifications, becau…