This study is an exploration of the magico-religious dynamics of the spoken word in Antiquity. To limit the parameters of the discussion to a manageable size, I have chosen to focus on the use of words and speech in acts of Creation from ancient Near Eastern myths. By researchin…
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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 …
This study treats the stories of Hagar and Sarah as they appear in the texts of Genesis, Galatians, and the Qur'an. It assesses the constructions of female subjectivity, voice and agency in the various textual strata in order to produce gender-nuanced readings which may serve as…
This dissertation presents a reading of the Genesis 3 narrative as a myth that was symbolically understood in Iron Age Israel as relating the triumph of Yahweh, and his followers, over the Levantine goddess Asherah, and her followers. This study places Genesis 3 (part of the "Ed…
In this dissertation, my primary aims are (1) to acknowledge how hermeneutical and methodological presuppositions affect reading and interpretation of texts and (2) to demonstrate this claim by looking closely at Gen 31-33 from a perspective that is oriented toward the narrative…
This dissertation investigates the use of biblical interpretation in the Book of Daniel. It demonstrates the spectrum in which Daniel uses older scriptural texts such as Genesis and Ezekiel in order to accomplish the theological concord with the earlier scriptural traditions of …
This study suggests that tragedy sees human action as synonymous with language and that it uses a method similar to that of a hermeneutic phenomenology to portray man as experiencing spirituality in a confrontation with expression. This confrontation takes the form of a pattern …
The patriarchal narratives of Genesis 11-50 have traditionally been considered a fragmented collection of orally transmitted stories, compiled long after their inception by redactors. Analyses of these stories have focused primarily on individual strands of the accounts to deter…
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…
Genesis 32:23–33 has intrigued students of the Bible for centuries. Fraught with difficulties and written in ambiguous style, this is truly a challenging passage. It has evoked a multitude of articles and books, yet many issues continue to elude definitive resolution. The purpos…
This dissertation explores the nature, purpose, and impact of ' sb “pain, difficulty,” on humanity with special reference to Genesis 3. Chapter One is an introductory chapter that briefly delineates the rationale for and the methodology of the dissertation. The dissertation incl…
This dissertation establishes a novel historiography of hysteria framed as a wide study of Genesis. Specifically exploring and reading together the genesis of ontology, subjectivity, discipline, medicine, psychoanalysis, psychology, neurology, photography, and artificial intelli…
Through the intersection of discourse analysis and plot analysis a proposed microplot for Genesis is developed from the formal structure of the narrative. The macrostructure of Genesis is determined to consist of eleven sections marked by transitional toledot headings. These hea…
In the Book of Genesis, the motif of restoration is developed progressively and is an integrative part of its theological message. After the Garden narrative (Genesis 2-3), the author unveils the initial steps of God’s restoration of humanity and creation, which will culminate u…
The account of Adam’s fall in Genesis 2:15-17 remains a persistently debated topic among scholars. This debate includes differing interpretations of the nature of death and its effect on humanity after the fall in Genesis 3. The debate centers on whether the nature of the divine…
The story of Genesis serves as the creation myth for the major religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. It has been interpreted and reinterpreted as a universal origin tale of religion and humanity. This thesis is an architectural retelling of the first eleven chapters of …
This study aims to further scholars’ understanding of the complex relationship between Priestly and non-Priestly narrative texts of the Pentateuch. It supports the Documentary Hypothesis’ view that the Priestly and non-Priestly corpora originally enjoyed a compositional independ…
The telling of stories is an integral part of every culture, the medium by which values and worldviews are passed down through the generations. In this dissertation, I trace the history of interpretation and adaptation of a story that many readers first encounter as children—the…
“Woven World: The Creation Tapestry of Girona” interrogates the function and meaning of the medieval map. Works of art like the eleventh-century Creation Tapestry of Girona, Spain redefine our modern definition of the word “map.” Medieval artists, like the exegetes of the time, …