O presente trabalho centra-se na perícope lucana 19, 1-10, explorando a história e o contexto literário, bem como a componente de pesquisa, consolidada principalmente na pessoa de Zaqueu, e seus interlocutores, como Jesus e a multidão. O texto é examinado na sua origem grega e i…
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Understanding how the Renaissance rhetorical curriculum taught style as behavior makes it possible to unite the study of women writers' identities with formal criticism. Nancy L. Christiansen shows that early modern humanists built on the Isocratean tradition of teaching rhetori…
This thesis identifies key aspects of the nature of holiness present in the life of seventh-century Saint Aldhelm present in three fifteenth-century Middle English versions of versions of the Legenda aurea. From its first inception in thirteenth-century Genoa the Legenda aurea’s…
This ethnographic study explores the ways in which religion impacts the lives of those who live and visit the Isle of Lewis, an island off the northwest coast of Scotland. The churches on the island are, predominantly, of conservative Presbyterian denominations; the island has o…
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this project was to educate and empower church leaders to utilize their spiritual giftedness in concert with the Triune God’s purposes for their service in the church—the Body of Christ. This project evaluated biblical, theological, and …
The problem underlying this study is the slow but steady decline in membership in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Numerous missionary efforts in the past have not been able to change this trend. However, an approach that summarizes…
The focus of the paper is to examine the phrases "And YHWH restored the fortunes of Job" and "For all the evil that YHWH had brought upon him" found in Job 42:10–11. Using the method of "inner biblical allusion," the paper argues that the author of Job intentionally alluded to p…
In examining the interrelationships of humankind, animals and plants in the Old Testament, issues such as the relative status and the functioning interconnections among these three realms are central. The primary foci for these interrelationships involve (1) the creation texts (…
Ezekiel 20 retells Israel’s exodus narrative tradition (exodus from Egypt and entry into the land of Canaan) as a means of disorienting traditional understandings of identity in order to prepare the prophet’s audience for a new identity. To explore this chapter more fully and to…
This dissertation provides an analysis of the parallelistic structure of the first three poetic chapters of the Book of Job: Job's famous cri de coeur in chapter 3 and Eliphaz's response in chapters 4-5. The methodologies have been drawn largely from those discussed by Dennis Pa…
It is the aim of Part I of this thesis, the Introduction, to introduce David Zvi Hoffmann (1843-1921) in his capacity of a Bible scholar and a critic of 19th century German biblical criticism. Ample attention will be devoted to Hoffmann's own background, his German environment a…
This dissertation argues that, contrary to popular conceptions and the current scholarly consensus, rabbinic Jewry did not become a people of the book, or even the people of the Book, until the high middle ages. For in the classical rabbinic period, many rabbinic authorities app…
The Old Testament stories illustrated in Islamic miniature paintings came largely from the Bible, but the Islamic interpretation often developed new motifs. These new motifs first appeared in the Koran and later were elaborated in the Islamic poetry and literature. Therefore the…
This comprehensive examination of the Syriac Peshitta of Hosea (P-Hosea) is the first study of the Peshitta conducted via insights and methods from the discipline of Translation Studies. It uses in particular Andrew Chesterman's Causal Model and Gideon Toury's descriptive approa…
Rivers play a symbolic role in the story of Israel's formation as a people found within the Hebrew Bible. From the primeval period to the return from exile, Israel's history and understanding of themselves as a people with shared identity and collective memory is tied to their i…
Sacred texts authored in antiquity present a challenge for contemporary religious practitioners because there is always a question regarding how to interpret and apply the message today. Prominent Pentecostal theologian and disability theorist Amos Yong faces this challenge conc…
This dissertation examines the ritual use of scriptural incipits (i.e., opening lines of biblical books and texts) on apotropaic devices (e.g., amulets) from late antique Egypt. There are three primary objectives of this study. First, I develop a typology of the scriptural incip…
The topic. This dissertation seeks to ascertain the meaning and referent of the “seed” and its related pronouns in Gen 3:15. The purpose. The meaning and referent of “seed” and its related pronouns in Gen 3:15 have been discussed throughout the history of Jewish and Christian in…
Problem. Compared with the effort to interpret other parts of the book of Hosea, especially the first three chapters, the final chapter has been rather neglected. Additionally, the variety of explanations offered for certain biblical images in Hos 14 indicates a necessity to cla…