In this dissertation, A Black (Human)ist Homiletic: A Literary Exegetical Response and Hermeneutic Case Study about the Life and Experience of Prince Kaboo as Samuel Morris; the Angel Ebony, I courageously excavate the literary art of texts written about Samuel Morris through a …
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The topic. This dissertation seeks to ascertain the meaning and referent of the “seed” and its related pronouns in Gen 3:15. The purpose. The meaning and referent of “seed” and its related pronouns in Gen 3:15 have been discussed throughout the history of Jewish and Christian in…
The word “Dan” is unique in the Hebrew Bible because it alone refers not only to an eponymous ancestor and tribe of Israel (and its territory), but also to a city. In addition, there are important narratives about individual Danites, among them, Samson, and an anonymous blasphem…
One of the keys to understanding the book of Revelation is recognizing John's dependence on and his transformation of the Old Testament. Several studies have focused on various Old Testament sources and their impact on Revelation, but no investigation has been made of John's use…
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…
The contemporary situation in biblical criticism is one that raises questions concerning the nature of the task of exegesis. A number of voices have identified texts as conceptual entities that require a focus on their underlying concepts. The problem addressed in this dissertat…
The dissertation has two parts (chaps. 1–4 and 5–11). Chaps. 1–3 deal with the theological and hermeneutical question regarding how it is possible to understand the central biblical confession that God acts in history. The biblical portrayal of God as an agent in history and cre…
This dissertation explores the meaning of five psalms in the Septuagint version (104, 105, 110, 111, 112), not as interpreted in their reception history but as intended by their translator. The basis for distinguishing the production of a translated document from its reception h…
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