The academic treatment of the field of spirituality is a relative newcomer to the field of biblical studies. In particular, the field of Old Testament spirituality has received limited attention, and the number of contributions to the academic study of Old Testament spirituality…
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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…
The divine warrior is an important motif in the Old Testament, leading many to study profitably the motif in its most prominent manifestations in poetic texts. This study will build on that foundation by examining the divine warrior in detail in the exodus narrative to construct…
This dissertation examines the role of the American Jewish community in achieving the mass exodus of Soviet Jews during the Gorbachev period, 1985–1991. It reviews the dynamics of American Jewry's decisive part during these critical years for Soviet Jewry, when over one million …
The use of Isaiah in the Lukan writings has long been recognized. While previous studies have focused mainly on isolated quotations and allusions, the present study seeks to examine the wider relationship between Isaiah and the theological program of Acts. As the Isaianic progra…
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 purpose of this dissertation was to examine the knowledge of Yahweh motif in the Book of Exodus in order to determine its significance in the overall design of the book. The problem arose out of the observation that in a reading of the biblical text, one's attention is drawn…
In response to the scarcity of biblical scholarship analysing the function of the Hebrew Bible’s exodus stories as persuasive communication, this dissertation investigates how these mnemonically dense stories were capable of creating and maintaining a long-term collective identi…
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…
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study about a marginalized narrative in the Francophone postcolonial and Jewish historical and literary discourse. Voices that are just now starting to be heard as defining the silenced narrative of the forgotten refugees and exiled peop…
This dissertation examines the relationship between the golden calf texts of Exod 32:7-20 and Deut 9:12-21. It argues that the two passages are part of an innertextual strategy making up the composition of the Pentateuch. The term, innertextuality, is understood as an intentiona…
This dissertation addresses the literary character and function of the principal portraiture of Moses in the Pentateuch. Pentateuchal authors adapted tropes and traditions, well-attested elsewhere in biblical and other ancient Near Eastern sources, to identify Moses as an exalte…
This study offers a paradigmatic shift in understanding the development of the biblical traditions about Egypt. It challenges the dominant scholarly view that the traditions about Egypt and the exodus are monolithic. It instead emphasizes the differing regional portrayals of Egy…
Exodus 34:29-35 contains an ambiguous Hebrew phrase that describes the peculiar condition of Moses' face after his encounter with God on Mt. Sinai. The iconographic tradition of Moses in religious art includes many depictions of him as "horned," yet the early exegetes described …
In this study, I contend that Ezekiel's portrait of the Glory represents an understanding of Yahweh's earthly presence that is markedly different from how the earthly divine presence is understood in Deuteronomistic Name theology. As formulated in Deuteronomy and maintained in t…
In Exodus 34:6–7, God claims to be “a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty.” This claim to coexist…
Well-written narratives communicate more than information. What a story communicates is as important as how the story communicates. The narrative flow of a story engages the reader in the action. Narrative conventions assist the reader in connecting prior knowledge or experience…
Ideological point of view used as a hermeneutical tool makes interpretation of the book of Revelation clearer, more precise, and more logical than other interpretive approaches. This is made evident as ideological point of view more clearly identifies the book of Revelation as a…
This thesis will consider the possibility of an epistemological process described in the narratives and teaching of the Pentateuch and the Gospel of Mark. The specific nature of this epistemological process will be explored upon the priorities constrained by the texts themselves…