My dissertation examines the historical circumstances by which the Jerusalem priesthood played a role in the political affairs of Judah. Specifically, I have traced the vicissitudes in the relationship between the kings of pre-exilic Judah on the one hand and the Jerusalem pries…
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This dissertation investigates the political and commercial relations among Israel/Judah, Aram-Damascus, and Tyre/Sidon in the ninth and eighth centuries scBCE. The work consists of five chapters, organized according to the reigns of the Assyrian kings prior to the capture of Sa…
This study examines the individual relationships of the kings of Israel and Judah with Israelite and non-Israelite peoples of Transjordan with special emphasis on the biblical evidence. Having identified these relationships, this study argues that the Israelite constituency loca…
This thesis situates Hosea within the religious traditions of Israel and Judah. A comparative method is used to identify some of the differences and similarities Hosea shares with other Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern texts. The goal is to gain a better understanding of Hosea …
The thesis of this work is that the diverse perceptions of the exile preserved in the Book of Jeremiah present to us genuine options within ancient Israel, mainly post-destruction, for understanding and responding to the events of the Babylonian Exile. One cannot assume that the…
The Iron Age has long been pinpointed by biblical scholars as the period during which the earliest versions of several texts now preserved in the Hebrew bible were composed in Judah. This study finds that the epigraphic evidence can support the latter half of the Iron II period …
Three distinctive forced migrations of the Southern Kingdom of Judah to Babylon (597 BCE, 587/6 BCE, and 582 BCE), otherwise known to biblical scholars as "exile," were pivotal events in biblical history. Since the beginning of critical biblical scholarship, the exilic period ha…
This project highlights an alternative method for reading the biblical presentation of Jerusalem temple leadership in the cultural and historical context of Achaemenid Judah. This study provides further nuance to Hebrew Bible studies by stressing close attention to the Persian i…
This research seeks to determine the socioeconomic impact that Hezekiah's preparations for rebellion had on Judah in the late eighth century B.C. In 705 B.C. Hezekiah rebelled against the Assyrian Empire. While the biblical texts focus on Hezekiah's preparations in Jerusalem, th…