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The broad objective of this dissertation is an interdisciplinary study uniting historical linguistics, classical philology, and comparative poetics in an attempt to investigate archaic Greek poetic texts from a diachronic perspective. This thesis consists of two parts. The first…

The present study discusses the influence of Philo of Alexandria (ca. 15 B.C.E.–45 C.E.) on the Tura commentaries of the Christian author Didymus the Blind (ca. 313–398 C.E.). In the Tura commentaries of Didymus, the name of Philo appears a total of ten times. Seven of these can…

The book of Exodus defines the divine name [special characters omitted], providing a description of God’s character that is fundamental for biblical and theological reflection. Most have found this definition in Exod 3:13–15, in the supposedly original form “Yahweh,” which relat…

Since its heyday in the early 1960s, diction has fallen out of the critical conversation. Today diction is talked about, if at all, as a matter of praxis and thus is relegated almost exclusively to workshops; and when this diction becomes poetic, it offers a clear way not to pro…