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In the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, America was reeling on multiple fronts. While experiencing a collective wave of bereavement, Americans struggled to understand a phenomenon that they had been uniquely shielded from--that of holy war or the Islamic variant, jihad. De…

The dissertation "The Genres of the Dead Sea Scroll" investigates the various literary forms that are contained within the War Scroll, 1QM. This investigation seeks to determine the dependence of the War Scroll on the biblical text, the date, origin, and history of the scroll, t…

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the Exodus motif and its topicalization in the book of Haggai. In this dissertation, we demonstrate that Haggai used themes from Exodus 14–15. The themes of glory, temple, and holy war confirm the continuity of the post-exilic c…

Ring composition is a literary form found throughout the ancient world. In it, a series of elements advances, one after the other, until it reaches a center point, whereupon the sequence is reversed and returns to its beginning in inverted order. Hence, the first element is pair…

The fact that wars are pervasive throughout Israel's biblical history is not surprising since it is in harmony with the socio-political and economic milieu of the ancient Near East. Sacral wars are wars that Yahweh sanctions or wars in which he directly intervenes to defeat his …