Gerald Wilson and Walter Brueggemann each propose that the Hebrew Psalter has a dominant theological shape that was created by redactors. Wilson argues that the Psalter moves from reliance on human kings to reliance on Yhwh as king and that the Psalter pivots from the old positi…
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Biblical scholarship has reached a consensus with respect to the presence of a divine assembly of gods in Israel's faith. Prior to the sixth century B.C.E., Israelite religion underwent an evolution from an initial polytheism to a firm monolatry, where the other gods of the divi…
This dissertation is a canonical analysis of Exod 34:6-7 and its major parallels. The central thesis of this dissertation is that the parallels mark a canonical movement from an emphasis on the intimate covenantal relationship between YHWH and ancient Israel towards an expressio…
The goal of this dissertation is a study of Abraham's portrait as well as an investigation of those Old Testament hopes that were anchored on God's promises given to Abraham as they are portrayed and interpreted in the canonical Scriptures of the Old Testament. The focus of the …
This dissertation argues that Book IV of the canonical Hebrew Psalter (Pss 90-106) sustains the hope that God will keep his covenant with David by installing a future king from David's line. Chapter 1 introduces the debate, states the thesis, surveys the history of psalmic inter…