Nazirites are a well-documented phenomenon within the context of the Hebrew Bible. The bulk of research has focused mainly on the role of Samson as a lifelong Nazirite, but little has been done concerning the role of women within the context of the Nazirite Vow. The goal of this…
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Over the past few decades, researchers have firmly established that a wide range of nonhuman animals exhibit some form of numerical competence. The focus of this research was to define further the extent of numerical ability in rhesus monkeys and to investigate the underlying re…
This dissertation examines the place of chapters 3 and 4 in the larger argument of Hebrews, particularly the relationship of the people of God in Heb 3:7–4:13 to the surrounding discussion of the high priest. The connection between the great high priest and the people of God pro…
The thesis of this project is that efficient representation of ordinal information in symbolic numbers (e.g., Indo-Arabic numerals) is a crucial link between one's fundamental sense of quantity and more complex mathematics. In Chapter 1, we show that the meaning of symbolic numb…
When compared with compositional works of Koiné Greek, the syntax of the Septuagint can appear peculiar in some ways and quite familiar in others. In order to provide an approach that accounts for this peculiarity and enables rigorous syntactical interpretation of the Septuagint…
While the book's order seems strange to the modern Western mind, Numbers is by no means the literary jumble it is purported to be. Using rhetorical criticism, one may divide Numbers into three major divisions which describe in turn the obedience and purity of Israel at Sinai (ch…
Although the Septuagint translation of the Balaam account is in many ways similar to that found elsewhere in the LXX Pentateuch, two aspects of the translation are distinctive in the LXX and important indicators of the translator's interpretation of the text. First, the translat…
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…