Thesiss

While the relationship between Yahweh and El has been discussed at great lengths over the years, this dissertation attempts to shed new light on this discussion in several areas. While the prophet Hosea has been traditionally associated with the polemic against Baal, I have atte…

The Aramaic Book of Ahiqar, an ancient instruction that combines a novella and set of wise sayings, was discovered among a cache of papyri dating to the 5th c. B.C.E. belonging to a community of Judeans on the southern Egyptian Nile-island of Elephantine. The text describes a co…