Saul was anointed the first king of Israel, but it was a failed kingship, and it is a wonder that God's first anointed could fail. Apparently, the unforgivable sin of disobedience was the cause of Saul's disgrace; he did not exterminate the tribe of Amalakites and destroy all th…
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This project/dissertation describes and identifies false prophets referred to in the three occurrences in the Gospel of Matthew. As an act of ministry, the candidate conducted three seminar sessions with twenty-two individuals—leaders and lay members—to determine if the studies …
The thesis of this dissertation is that the pre-exilic prophets of Israel, when speaking of the nation's future, regularly alluded to the blessings and curses of Deut 27 and 28. This presupposes the existence of such Torah texts either written, or existing as ancient oral tradit…
This study offers a narratological and intertextual reading of Jeremiah 37:1–40:6. This text features the interaction of and relationship between the prophet Jeremiah and King Zedekiah just before and immediately following the fall of Jerusalem. The stories are narrated in a liv…
The Hebrew Bible says relatively little directly about the inner thoughts and emotions of the prophets, yet it does use a variety of techniques to portray the prophets' distinct personal characteristics. Most prophetic books use a combination of third person narration and the pr…
The dissertation has two parts (chaps. 1–4 and 5–11). Chaps. 1–3 deal with the theological and hermeneutical question regarding how it is possible to understand the central biblical confession that God acts in history. The biblical portrayal of God as an agent in history and cre…
This dissertation explores how a number of romantic writers, Wordsworth and Whitman especially, presented themselves as prophets, claiming to speak for nature. Like biblical prophets narrating prophetic calls, these writers relate how nature called them to poetry, which raises k…
The fact that scholars depict Sheol either as the underworld where the dead continue their existence or simply the grave has resulted in contradictory conclusions, fierce polemic, and unremitting disputes. This lack of consensus makes it imperative to justify another approach, w…
The prophet as a religious functionary with an intermediating role has been presented in the academic literature of the post-Enlightenment West largely as a category that is exclusive of the category "woman." Biblical scholarship has produced definitions of prophecy that are so …
Examining allusions to Isaiah in the book of Daniel historical-critically and poetically, this work demonstrates that the allusions contribute uniquely to the narrative's theological representation of the exilic and post-exilic rule of the nations over the people Israel. Daniel …
The Gog oracles (Ezekiel 38-39) envision a future battle in the land of Israel between God and the nations of the earth. This study examines the Gog oracles' far-reaching reformulation of Ezekiel's vision of restoration and clarifies the last stages in the book's literary histor…
This work concentrates on locating and studying female prophets throughout the Biblical tradition. Our chronological quest for female prophetism begins first in Hebrew Scripture. In early Israel there are dramatic examples, but in the time of the kingdoms, hardly one. By the lat…
This dissertation identifies an intertextual relationship between the prophetic books of Hosea and Malachi, which creates a literary frame around the Minor Prophets and indicates that the twelve books should be read as a unified Book of the Twelve. Using literary criticism, the …
This dissertation attempts to break the stalemate in current scholarly discussion of the relation of the ancient marzeah institution and rites for the dead by juxtaposing three areas of study. The three currently competing views are: maximalist (connection), minimalist (non-conn…
This dissertation is a study of four prophetic texts that employ an image of the god of Israel sacrificing his enemies. In Isaiah 34, YHWH places Edom under the war hērem; in Jeremiah 46, Egypt is the sacrifice; in Ezekiel 39, the figure Gog is the victim; in Zephaniah 1, the el…
The diversity of Hosea 4–14’s metaphors for God has long challenged interpreters. How can God be a bereaved parent, a devouring lion, life-giving dew, and all the other portrayals offered in this prophetic book? The present study seeks to construct a Hosean metaphorical theology…