Since Julius Wellhausen's synthesis of the Documentary Hypothesis—and no doubt owing in part to the Protestant Reformation—dominant portrayals of the Priestly material have described a self-interested legist with little or no concern for those outside the Levitical ranks. Though…
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This dissertation seeks to refine the meaning of [Torah] in Psalms 1, 19, 37, 40, 78, 89, 94, 105, and 119. Through an exegetical analysis of the nine Psalms that utilize the term, the study argues that [Torah] most frequently refers to the written Pentateuch. Chapter 1 introduc…
This dissertation considers the strategies through which Second Temple Jews connected their unredeemed present with a glorious national past. The two works that serve as case studies, the Wisdom of Ben Sira and the book of Jubilees, located the origins of Jewish history in the d…
Problem. In Ezek 36:27, God foretells that he will put his Spirit within his people and he will "do" so that Israel will obey his laws. Ezekiel 36:27 indicates a close relationship between the Spirit of God and Israel in observing the statutes and judgments of God in the Babylon…
The Abrahamic Covenant (Gen 12; 15; 17; 18:1-22) is the beginning of the election of the people of Israel. The manner in which God cuts a covenant with Abraham demonstrates the unconditional love of God. He first condescends down to Abraham's cultural comprehension by physically…
This study addresses the problem of whose interests the Micah story (Judg 17:6–18:31) serves, and finds that they are those of a morality teacher standing in the deuteronomic tradition. The Micah story is a morality tale that depicts the protagonists as idolatrous, immoral, fear…
The biblical books of Kings and Chronicles have puzzled scholars for years. Although they describe roughly the same time period, their versions of history can be divergent. This has led several scholars to dismiss the later accounts in Chronicles as mythic creations of the autho…
The thesis of this dissertation is that the pre-exilic prophets of Israel, when speaking of the nation's future, regularly alluded to the blessings and curses of Deut 27 and 28. This presupposes the existence of such Torah texts either written, or existing as ancient oral tradit…
The present study stems out of a need to consider the other children of Abraham, especially Ishmael and his descendants, in biblical history and theology. One aim is to uncover, if any, their theological heritage, somewhat expected by virtue of their relationships to the great p…
The struggle to read Jer 31:31-34 as Christian Scripture has a long and divided history. Yet remarkably little has been done to grapple with the depth of this struggle in the Christian tradition from the post-Nicene period to the modern era. This thesis attempts to show the valu…
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…
A gradual uncovering of the OT covenant metaphor as background to the Johannine writings can be seen in scholarship on the Gospel according to John in recent decades. To this point, however, there has been no systematic study of the Fourth Gospel as a narrative whole with partic…
This dissertation examines the character of the Mosaic covenant in Paul. I argue that Paul conceives of the Mosaic covenant as a non-eschatological covenant in contrast to the eschatological new covenant. This eschatological contrast creates a distinction between the transitory/…
This study examines the surface structure of the Pentateuch in the Hebrew Bible. Using a combination of form-critical and linguistic methods the dissertation seeks to understand the role of the toledot formula, often translated "These are the generations of Name," in shaping the…
The current interpretation of "to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children" (Luke 1:17) as parent neglect or reconciliation is not satisfactory. The difficulty for interpretation stems from our misunderstanding of "the hearts of the fathers" and our modern methodology. I…
This work seeks to demonstrate that the sermon is imperative and comparative to the commandments. Also, that they are necessary for the life of every believer. Not only are they important but also their requirements are rooted in the heart. The areas that will be compared includ…
This dissertation seeks to fill a major lacuna in the scholarship on Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972), one of the most influential Jewish thinkers in modern times. Although academic study of Heschel's work has burgeoned in recent years, nearly four decades after his death we s…
Environmentally responsible lifestyles are becoming a more mainstream, if not trendy, choice in the United States. However, there is still much room to improve in terms of "green" living. This dissertation sets forth a new theological framework for the Christian church that aims…
In this study selected passages in 1 and 2 Samuel and relevant passages outside those books have been investigated in order to determine their significance as they relate to the developing concept of the Kingdom of God. The study has been presented in three chapters, each of whi…