This study focuses on the degree to which three religious rituals--Sabbath observance, fasting, and circumcision--took on a particular shape for ancient Israel during the period of the Babylonian exile (ca. 6th cent. B.C.E.), and influenced the final shape of the covenant narrat…
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Violence served to uphold the Egyptian concept of correct order, known as Ma'at. Some violence, such as sacrificial servant burial, did so by ensuring that correct social order continued in the next life. Most violence in the service of order was aimed at the destruction of chao…
Historians of ancient Israel and Judah, like all other historians, come to their work with certain presuppositions and goals in mind. This study will elucidate and examine assumptions about history writing that current historians of ancient Israel and Judah employ. It is underta…
The specific nature of the title šm`yt or “chantress”, which occurred from the Middle Kingdom onward, is investigated through the use of a database cataloging 861 women who held the title. Sorting the data based on a variety of details has yielded patterns regarding their chrono…
This dissertation examines the application of pragmatics (especially, the study of politeness), biblical studies and Semitic philology to a selected group of ancient texts that use a characteristic set of deferential strategies. The following strategies are studied: Vocatives, T…
The thesis is about local authority in ancient Israel. Particularly, it uses the lineage structure and the kinship network as heuristic keys for its description and interpretation of local authority. The members and their social units displayed within the lineage structure are p…
This dissertation investigates literary tropes and metaphors that indicate pleasing scents and spices and explores their transformation in ancient Jewish literature. The project is divided into two parts: Hebrew Bible and rabbinic exegesis (primarily on Song of Songs in Song of …
A multidisciplinary approach is utilized to assess the organization and use of ancient and medieval Near Eastern textual deposits. An elaborate survey of the published material in ancient Near Eastern studies and library and archival studies indicates a general and pervasive ins…
This dissertation analyzes to what extent the biblical treatment of homicide is a result of the borrowing of legal precedents from the cuneiform cultures of the rest of the ancient Near East or a result of independent invention. It concludes that only a few elements in the treat…
Christian authors developed “ethno-political” rhetorics about Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks, and blackness as a discursive strategy for instructing their followers, maligning their opponents, and warning their communities about a number of different types of internal and externa…
Claiming women's use of public rhetorics in Classical Greece and 19 th Century American culture, this dissertation examines the social construction of gender in historical research, doctoral education in the field of rhetoric and composition, faculty/student relationships, and t…
Since its discovery in 1888, the Instruction of Amenemope has become justly famous—not only for its intrinsic value as one of the great instructional texts of ancient Egypt, but also for its indisputable role in the formation of the biblical Book of Proverbs. Amenemope is now a …
This dissertation discusses the syllabic inscriptions of ancient Cyprus, the only area of the Greek speaking world which in antiquity did not practice writing using the Greek alphabet. Cyprus instead had its own rectilinear, syllabic script which remained in use until the early …
Problem. The dilemma of the Syriac version is its mysterious provenance and the direct relationship it may have to the other versions (particularly [special characters omitted] and [special characters omitted]). Thus some scholars have automatically discarded or ignored the Pesh…
This section focuses on the study as a whole. It has been divided into sections. The first section covers the introduction and the rationale of the study, the second section covers the research design. The third section focuses on the tools, fourth and fifth sections focus on th…
A basic problem for scholars in Egyptology concerns ancient Egyptian social organization. Some Egyptologists state that ancient Egyptian society was organized along matrilineal lines, while others argue that the ancient Egyptian society was organized along patrilineal fines. The…
The Hebrew words LYl and LYL, which are especially common in the prose narratives of the Hebrew Bible, are translated by a wide range of English words, which fail to accurately capture the common social location which individuals called by these terms all occupy. Using sociologi…
An explanatory Theory must answer an explanation-seeking “why” question concerning a “what”; e.g. why did a State develop in the Nile valley? Acceptable theories covering Egypt or anthropological theories applicable to the area do not exist. A theory consists of a general regula…
The official cult of the Jerusalem monarchy was one of the governing tools. The principal structures of the official cult of the Jerusalem's monarchy were shaped in conjunction with the royal political agenda. They were in turn heavily conditioned by the contemporary historical …