The purpose of the dissertation was to further the research of R. Alan Streett’s answer to the criticism of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s objection to the public invitation. His objections were based on his knowledge and interpretation of the Bible, his Reformed theology of regenerati…
Saul was anointed the first king of Israel, but it was a failed kingship, and it is a wonder that God's first anointed could fail. Apparently, the unforgivable sin of disobedience was the cause of Saul's disgrace; he did not exterminate the tribe of Amalakites and destroy all th…
The research assumption is that the story of David and the Gibeonites does not praise David's behavior and actions in the story, as many scholars think, but rather criticizes him. The study's method is one of literary analysis according to Meir Weiss' method and Moshe Garsiel's …
This dissertation focuses on David and Solomon's relationship to non-Israelite peoples and countries. This study starts with the premise that David violates one of the deuteronomistic editor/s chief concerns about intermingling with the Canaanite population and thereby prepares …
This study examines the interaction between the Gospel of Mark's passion narrative (Mark 14–16) and the Psalms of Individual Lament (PssLam) evoked in the Markan passion narrative. First, I argue for the evocation of four PssLam (LXX Psalms 21, 40, 41–42, and 68) in six places i…
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…
This study addresses the problem of the composition of 2 Sam 21-24. In the first part of the study, a review of the history of scholarly opinion on the problem helps bring a refined definition to the term "composition," which is taken in this study to refer to the particular arr…