Socio-cultural diversity and ethnicity are key themes in the archaeological research of the Near East. Faunal remains are an important source of knowledge regarding the herd maintenance and subsistence strategies which supported ancient populations and often reflected informatio…
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The purpose of this dissertation is to present a more comprehensive study of newness, as conveyed by the Hebrew term ḥādāš (חדשׁ; "new") than has previously been offered from an Old Testament perspective. My aim is to better understand the terminology and concept of the adjective…
This dissertation explores the relationship between rewriting and redaction by comparing common models and assumptions in diachronic studies with documented cases of scribal activity. I make the case that the latter can be subdivided into examples of \Continuing Composition. or …
The opening words of Isaiah 40:1 consist of the verb [special characters omitted] which means 'comfort'. The study was undertaken due to the fact that the literature about the verb [special characters omitted] is rare. The dictionaries give a summary about the verb and its root …
In narrating his 28-chapter story Matthew employs thirteen formula-quotations. Seven—more than half—are crowded into the first four chapters. While great attention has been paid to the evangelist's use of the Old Testament as a means of discovering his sources and their text-for…
This dissertation examines to what extent the transmission history of Codex Bezae's Greek text of Acts shows awareness of the explicit quotations' Old Testament origin, and to what extent this awareness played a role in the final formation of this manuscript's text. The disserta…
The Hebrew verbal system is riddled with difficulties that have caused Hebraist much consternation for centuries. The study of the Hebrew verb system is complicated further because no living informant of the language exists. Without a living witness of the language, uncovering t…
This dissertation is an analysis of the Old Testament usage of the Hebrew word ['ôt] with a particular emphasis on Isaiah 7:14. A basic translation of the word is "sign." The writer focuses on the way the authors of the books of the Old Testament used the word in their writings …
When discussing the Old Testament concept that the Lord chose Zion and/or Jerusalem, there is a tendency amongst scholars to do so 1) part and parcel with a discussion of Deuteronomy's Centralization Formula and 2) synonymously with other ideas of the election of Zion and/or Jer…
This dissertation will explore the extent to which key poetic features in the book of Lamentations work together to bring cohesion or dissonance to the message in this book. More specifically, the dissertation observes how these features function in relation to one another in th…
In the plains of Moab before Israel entered the land God had promised, the LORD made a promise to His covenant people that He would raise up a prophet like Moses as Moses declared, "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, y…
The divine warrior is an important motif in the Old Testament, leading many to study profitably the motif in its most prominent manifestations in poetic texts. This study will build on that foundation by examining the divine warrior in detail in the exodus narrative to construct…
Past investigations of Israel's "murmurings" in the wilderness of Sinai have typically concluded that these "complaints" were acts of faithlessness and rebellion. In his work Rebellion in the Wilderness: The Murmuring Motif in the Wilderness Traditions, George W. Coats populariz…
By the second half of the twentieth century studies in the book of Joshua had reached an impasse. Avenues of interpretation proposed by historians, archaelologists, sociologists and literary critics seem to have exhausted all of the possibilities for understanding the book of Jo…
The focus of this study is biblical interpretation in the Wisdom of Solomon: how does Ps-Solomon understand the biblical texts he discusses or alludes to, and where do his ideas come from? Although this issue has not been entirely neglected in previous scholarship, most commenta…
Though Irenaeus of Lyon thought the Old Testament covenants were “important” (Haer. 1.10.3), the use of the biblical covenant narratives in his writings is not often noticed. This dissertation is a study of the covenants in Irenaeus's two major surviving texts, the Adversus Haer…
Drawing from D. J. McCarthy's findings on the family-properties of covenants, Part One analyzes various OT covenants between God and his people in terms of the father-son relationship as a basic interpretive category. Three covenant-types are differentiated (kinship, treaty, gra…
The method known as "content analysis" is used to examine God as One who acts and receives activity in some prophetic literature. Six prophetic texts are examined: Isaiah 1:1-4:1; Hosea 4-8; Joel; Nahum; Malachi; and Zechariah 12-14. Joel is highlighted, comparing and contrastin…
Problem. Middle Egyptian has played an increasingly important role in Biblical Archaeology and Old Testament studies. Much of biblical chronology is closely connected to Egyptian chronology; many biblical events record Egyptian involvement, and some of these are included on Egyp…