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This dissertation examines the roles Edom played in the Hebrew Bible. The oracles against the nations included in the prophetic books anticipate the complete destruction of the Edomites by Yahweh and connect that destruction to the divine plan for the restoration of Israel. The …

The oracles of Isa. 30:1--5, Jer. 2:14--19, 13:20--22, and Ezek. 17:1--10 evoke an identity construction process in response to perceived socio-political and cultural changes of their periods. Previous studies have analyzed contending social groups through the use of social move…

We will demonstrate that there existed two discrete types of oracles in ancient Egypt. One type dealt with juridical matters and was referred to as a bi3yt. The other, which will be the main focus of this dissertation, was completely non-juridical in nature; it was rendered to p…