The dissertation presents a literary historical analysis of an early Ottoman Turkish narrative about Alexander of Macedon. Ahmedi wrote this Iskendername (Alexander narrative) in the late 14th century, the period of the emergence of Turkic political and literary culture in Anato…
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This dissertation offers a study of British colonial legacy in the Arab intellectual tradition, examining in particular the uses made of William Shakespeare (1564–1616) in novels, dramas, poetry and film from 1890–1990. It does not provide a survey of all the translations or eve…
Ce memoire a pour but d'analyser et de comparer les personnages feminins dans quelques romans de deux ecrivaines orientales, Naoual el Saadaoui et Assia Djebar. A travers ces deux regards, nous tentons de voir de quelle facon des femmes orientales analysent leur condition de vie…
The printed version of the Commentary of Rav Hananel to Bava Metsia does not go beyond folio 52 of the tractate, although Bava Metsia is more than twice as long, extending to fol. 119a. Lost portions of the lost commentary may be reconstructed on the basis of Genizah fragments a…
Cette étude qui porte sur l'oeuvre de l'écrivain algérien Rachid Mimouni est traitée selon l'approche sociocritique. En considérant «la somme» des écrits de cet auteur comme un seul et vaste écrit se faisant à lui-même écho de la perceptibilité de la société algérienne, de l'Ind…
This study examines why idolatry was a central theme of Hebrew literature between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, and how texts that engage this theme constitute a lineage. It focuses on the work of Avraham Mapu, Yehudah Leib Gordon, Mordechai Zeev Feierberg, Sau…
Avicenna's theory of final causality stands out as one of the most profound and original achievements of Islamic philosophy. Writing mainly in Arabic in various cities of Persia from the end of the 4th/10th to the beginning of the 5th/11th centuries AH/AD, Avicenna extended the …
The serpent has been the subject of a number of studies, both generic and culture specific. This study investigates the Semitic root nhš , which signifies both the serpent and the practice of magic or divination. It is demonstrated that nhš has a connotation of libation offering…
The thesis of this dissertation is that the campaign by Pharaoh Shoshenq I into Palestine in 926 B.C. E. was aimed solely at the kingdom of Judah with the purpose of supporting Jeroboam in his bid to rule Israel as a separate nation. The evidence for this campaign comes from the…
The story of Koroglu, one of the most widespread of the Turkic destans, is shared not only by nearly all Turkic peoples, but also by some non-Turkic neighboring communities, such as the Armenians, Georgians, Kurds, Tajiks, and Afghans. In general the versions can be separated in…
The distinctive characteristics of Biblical Hebrew poetry have proven difficult to identify. Recently linear terseness has been restated according to linguistic analysis and the nuances of parallelism more stringently classified. Poetry has not, however, been systematically exam…
A curious and poorly understood characteristic of biblical prose narrative is its frequent presentation of songs imputed to central figures from Israel's past. The most prominent examples of this tendency appear in Exodus 15, Deuteronomy 32, Judges 5, 1 Samuel 2, 2 Samuel 22, Is…
Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna in Asia Minor, was executed in the middle of the second century C.E. The so-called Martyrdom of Polycarp was written shortly after his death by members of his Christian community at Smyrna. Much later, a Life of Polycarp was compiled. These two works h…
The genre known as “instructions” or “wisdom literature” is one of the oldest in ancient Egyptian literature. The first instructions appear in the Old Kingdom and wisdom literature continues to be written for over 2000 years into the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. While the conten…
This dissertation examines the duties which were owed to one's parents in the ancient Near Eastern societies, and the context in which these duties must be seen. Such a study is warranted because no comprehensive analysis of these duties has been made or presented until this tim…
The poetry of the Riddah Wars developed during 632-634 A.D., just after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (632 A.D.). This poetry is the product of the religious and political conflict between the Muslims and the murtaddun (apostates). A large number of the Arab tribes who apost…
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…