This dissertation is an intertextual study of the book of Job in general and the first cycle of poetic speeches (chapters 3–14) in particular. It addresses the dialogical character exhibited by the speeches of the book of Job, a subject that past Joban scholarship has failed to …
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This dissertation is a literary examination of the Israelite request for kingship in 1 Samuel 8 with satire in view as its genre. Chapter 1 begins by introducing the problem and shows how scholars have interpreted 1 Samuel 8 and the initiation of Israelite kingship through time.…
Examining allusions to Isaiah in the book of Daniel historical-critically and poetically, this work demonstrates that the allusions contribute uniquely to the narrative's theological representation of the exilic and post-exilic rule of the nations over the people Israel. Daniel …
The dissertation studies Luke's appropriation of the Abraham motif in Luke-Acts, which plays an indispensable role in the formation of Luke's narrative as a whole. Abraham appears most prominently in Luke's writings among the NT books, evidenced by its frequency, strategic place…
This intertextual study explores the interrelationship between some modern and postmodern Hebrew writers and kabbalistic texts. The premise is that some early mystical-theosophical texts have certain fundamental poetic characteristics that became a fertile source for later Hebre…
Following the publication of his first novel in 1968. Ahmadou Kourouma was ranked among African's most prestigious authors. The prominence of his works on school and university syllabi, the array of literary awards to his credit, as well as the countless scholarly papers inspire…
Scholars have long recognized the salient place held by the temple in Mark's narrative. What remains to be examined is why Mark gives the temple such a conspicuous place. There is also in Mark a significant connection between the temple and eschatology that has never been examin…
My dissertation explores rewritings of orientalism in contemporary Algerian Francophone literature. Examining nineteenth-century French and contemporary Algerian texts, I argue that Assia Djebar and Kateb Yacine's respective references to Eugène Fromentin and Gustave Flaubert ar…
Multidiscipline has definitely marked the journey of Assia Djebar. The Algerian French writer has devoted interest in literature as well as the arts. Her infatuation with the arts hasn’t been without influence towards her writing. The fact is above all remarkable in the level of…
Ms. Cowhey, I have a text to world connection!-Gabriella, first grader, is a critical ethnographic account of a highly successful and nationally visible white teacher, and her first grade students who named themselves the Peace Class during the autumn of 2002 when the United Sta…
The thesis of this dissertation is that New Testament authors employ Habakkuk 2:4b in their arguments in a way that is consistent with its original contextual meaning. The main body of the dissertation comprises four chapters. The first of these, chapter 2, examines Habakkuk 2:4…
Throughout the Bible, God deals with people by covenants. Covenant is the root metaphor for divine-human relationship in salvation history. Through covenant, God speaks and God redeems. The NT recognizes a new covenant, inaugurated at Christ's passion to be consummated at the Pa…
My dissertation will investigate the manner in which the Pentateuch was received by later biblical authors, its reception history. There are various content-related discrepancies between the Pentateuch's presentation of the early history of Israel and that same history depicted …
In the twentieth century, the nationalist alignment of oral traditions with cultural authenticity and autonomy is revised by a series of writers: W.E.B. Du Bois, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Alejo Carpentier, Derek Walcott, Maryse Condé, and Toni Morrison. …
This text follows the major turns in the terms history, and clearly explains how intertextuality is employed in structualism, post-structuralism, semiotics, deconstructivism, reader response, Marxism, feminism and psychoanalytic theory.