The primary purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the Book of Nehemiah stands as a unified independent literary work with specific themes and a definitive message. A literary analysis of Nehemiah will show that the book stands alone as a historical narrative. The book, as…
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While scholars uniformly recognise John 13–17 as a unique literary unit within the Fourth Gospel, these chapters contain various difficulties that distract from their cohesive integrity. Some argue that the problems result from an incomplete or careless editorial redaction, and …
John Buchan (1875-1940) has a literary reputation as a minor novelist, based mainly on his success as a popular fiction writer, the inventor of the spy thriller in his best-known novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915). Although there has been considerably increased scholarly intere…
'Immediate Passage: The Narrative of Joel H. Brown' is an original work of fiction. The protagonist and narrator, Joel Brown, is preparing to set sail for a singlehanded circumnavigation. As he readies his boat and counts down the days until his departure, he reflects on his pre…
Northwest Semitic syntax has been explored extensively on a phrasal and clausal level. This has contributed much to our understanding of the languages in this linguistic family. There have also been numerous studies on micro level, and isolated occurrences of literary devices wi…
This dissertation explores embodiment in space through the narration of war, focusing on war novels written in French by authors from sub-Saharan Africa during the period from 1974 to 2001. This spatial approach comes from my finding that the majority of the texts focused on sit…
Various literary texts written by African American authors, specifically from the 1920s through the 1960s, portray the purposes and effectiveness of blacks and whites working in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Communist Party of the Un…
The sun-god of ancient Mesopotamia, Utu/Šamaš, was widely represented in both literature and iconography. In order to better understand the theology of this deity in ancient Sumer and Babylon, these two representational forms should be studied together. This dissertation asks ho…
This dissertation is an analysis of the literary structure of the Book of Hosea. It demonstrates that the prophetic speech types or literary forms and its numerous rhetorical devices are woven together into successively developing rhetorical units that effectively present Hosea'…
The Eagle and the Crescent explores American Barbary tales of the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries, including novels---Peter Markoe's The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania (1787), Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive (1797), and the anonymous Humanity in Algiers (1801)---a…
A post-radical literary investigation of this type reveals aspects of Paul's thought in Rom 9–11 and its context that have not been recognized in the section's long history of exegesis. Most notably, “Israel”, as a collective term, has the meaning of either “whole Israel” or “al…
How can we responsibly and usefully read literatures from a variety of cultural positions? The metaphors of fractal geometry can help us conceptualize the complexity of the cultural situation of a text or an author in regard to social vectors such as race, gender, sexuality, and…
The poetry of the Riddah Wars developed during 632-634 A.D., just after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (632 A.D.). This poetry is the product of the religious and political conflict between the Muslims and the murtaddun (apostates). A large number of the Arab tribes who apost…
Adele V. Holden adds her creative voice to the numerous other Black women who focus and narrate the experiences, the stories, memories, family relationships, the social life, and customs of a people who have endured and survived living in America while Black. Holden's literary c…
This research explored influence processes and intermediary elements during multilevel transitions to aid traditional organizations to simultaneously transition the leadership and the organization. Although members are not often evaluated in leadership research, the findings of …
This dissertation investigates the different strategies which Arab American writers used in their writings in English in order to express or convey Arab culture. I used a combination of linguistic and literary analyses. Within the linguistic analysis I use discourse analysis as …
Copyright and the infrastructure for literary creativity in Kenya are suboptimal. I evaluated this through three related hypotheses. First, the public, private and non-profit sectors do not efficiently support training of authors, writing, publishing, distribution and access to …