The study of linguistic contacts in ancient societies can be described as an inverse sociolinguistic problem. When one is dealing with modern languages, it is frequently easier to gather information about the ecology of their development than to elicit the relevant linguistic da…
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This dissertation examines cultural parallels as found in the literature of Greece, Mesopotamia and Anatolia. Of specific interest is the question of cultural influence exerted by these ancient civilizations on each other. One of the geographic points of intersection common to t…
This dissertation studies the direct discourse in selected biblical and ancient Near Eastern texts in order to compare the agency of intercessors attempting to avert divinely decreed doom, or what can be called “apotropaic intercession.” Eleven narratives from the Hebrew Bible (…
The deuteronomic corpus comprises an intentional hybridization of discourse types incorporating a composite structure analogous to the Hittite subordination treaty in its interdiscourse relationships. Deuteronomy's synchronic form encapsulates this composite genre in parenetic a…
The glyptic of the Old Assyrian Colony period in Anatolia offers the first view of an elaborate native Anatolian religious imagery. The largest portion of the Cappadocian glyptic occurs as cylinder seal impressions on clay envelopes of documents concerned with the business and t…