Having reigned only three months, Jehoiachin appears to have been an insignificant king in the tumultuous last days of Judah. But his rehabilitation at the end of 1-2 Kings and the attention he receives in Jeremiah and Ezekiel suggest that his theological significance outweighs …
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Postcolonial theory, while often reserved for analysis of modern political conditions, is often overlooked in biblical studies. The purpose of this thesis is to employ postcolonial analysis to the book of Ezekiel and demonstrate its value in biblical studies. Postcolonialism cri…
Ezekiel 20 retells Israel’s exodus narrative tradition (exodus from Egypt and entry into the land of Canaan) as a means of disorienting traditional understandings of identity in order to prepare the prophet’s audience for a new identity. To explore this chapter more fully and to…
Building on existing motive clause research, this work extends the analysis of motive clauses by examining statements of divine motive across the whole of the Hebrew Bible. Anscombe's three motive categories: backward-looking motives, motives-in-general, and intentions are used …
The purpose of this study is to determine the rhetorical functions of citations of popular sayings in the book of Ezekiel. The study focuses specifically on the popular sayings quoted in 8:12; 9:9; 11:3,15; 12:22, 27; 18:2; 33:10, 17, 20, 24, 30, and 37:11. Chapter 2 reviews pre…
This dissertation examines the teaching function of the Israelite priests in the Old Testament. Chapter 1 presents a history of the research concerning the Israelite priests in general and their relationship to tôrâ in particular. Chapter 2 offers an overview of the various prie…
Problem. The dilemma of the Syriac version is its mysterious provenance and the direct relationship it may have to the other versions (particularly [special characters omitted] and [special characters omitted]). Thus some scholars have automatically discarded or ignored the Pesh…
The biblical book Ezekiel, often castigated by its critics, has in recent years found those who draw comparisons between the literary descriptions in the book and the art of the ancient Near East. But while drawing such parallels is helpful, it does not illuminate the intense pr…
The Hebrew Bible says relatively little directly about the inner thoughts and emotions of the prophets, yet it does use a variety of techniques to portray the prophets' distinct personal characteristics. Most prophetic books use a combination of third person narration and the pr…
The objective of the dissertation is to probe Ezekiel's perspective of judgment and deliverance in the light of temple ideology. The focus of the investigation is the role of the temple in the formation of the theology of judgment and deliverance in the temple visions of Ezekiel…
This study explores the topic of menstruation in the Hebrew Bible. The main texts examined include ritual-legal material (Leviticus 15), narrative (Genesis 31 and 2 Samuel 11) and prophecy (Ezekiel 7, 16, 18, 22, 36). For the most part this study employs the historical-literary …
Land is required for human existence. Land also has a symbolic aspect that goes beyond its necessity for food production and living space. Drawing on models and methods used in cultural geography this study examines the key role played by the land of Israel in the book of Ezekie…
This dissertation examines the translational goals of LXX Ezekiel 40-48 in the light of two major developments in textual criticism in the past half-century: (1) the recognition that biblical corpora existed in variant literary editions in antiquity, associated with Eugene Ulric…
The Book of Ezekiel, composed in response to the devastating events of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E. and the resulting exile of the Judeans, confronts readers with a wide array of intricate, strange, and disturbing imagery. Drawing on a conversation with c…
This dissertation is a comparison of the book of Ezekiel with the well-known city lament genre of ancient Mesopotamia. Nine shared features are analyzed and explained. These features derive from the work of Dobbs-Allsopp 1 and his comparison of biblical Lamentations with city la…
This study concludes that the book of Ezekiel was not an amalgam of visions and oracles compiled with no particular literary strategy but rather is a purposeful literary work, which betrays the compiler's rhetorical intent. The book of Ezekiel shows a masterful literary mind beh…
In this study I argue that many of the numerous locutions common to Ezekiel and Lev 17-26 are due to Ezekiel's purposeful and creative use of an earlier text. After establishing the direction of dependence, I demonstrate that the frequency and distribution of these locutions, Ez…
The Gog oracles (Ezekiel 38-39) envision a future battle in the land of Israel between God and the nations of the earth. This study examines the Gog oracles' far-reaching reformulation of Ezekiel's vision of restoration and clarifies the last stages in the book's literary histor…
The purpose of this dissertation is threefold: first, to establish the intertextual connection between Ezekiel 37 and Ephesians 2; second, to provide a fresh understanding of Ephesians 2 against the backdrop of Ezekiel 37; and third, to delineate Paul's hermeneutical practice as…