This dissertation seeks to refine the meaning of [Torah] in Psalms 1, 19, 37, 40, 78, 89, 94, 105, and 119. Through an exegetical analysis of the nine Psalms that utilize the term, the study argues that [Torah] most frequently refers to the written Pentateuch. Chapter 1 introduc…
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Taking a holistic approach to individual psalms as distinct and complete poems, this study explores the topic of divine protection in the Psalter. Specifically, three psalms are analyzed: Psalms 5, 91, and 140. The study is a contribution to a growing body of research that syste…
The shape and message of the Psalter has been of central interest for many Old Testament scholars during the last thirty years. At the core of shape scholarship stands the issue of hope. Often this is related to what is commonly considered a major hope-shift in the Psalter, whic…
The Hebrew verbal system is riddled with difficulties that have caused Hebraist much consternation for centuries. The study of the Hebrew verb system is complicated further because no living informant of the language exists. Without a living witness of the language, uncovering t…
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures (Luke 24:45). According to Litwak, these words imply that the reader of the OT needs a "hermeneutical key" in order to understand the OT. Dupont likewise argues that the Scriptures are a "riddle" that cannot be understood u…
The thesis of the dissertation is that ideas communicated by the term, hasah and a host of related words affect to a large degree the literary structure of the Hebrew Psalter. The project is unique in that it identifies an ongoing editorial interest in the book that appears in a…
This dissertation examines a twelfth-century Christian's use of Jewish exegetical materials in his literal commentary on the Book of Psalms, a text central to both Judaism and Christianity. The study situates Herbert of Bosham (d. 1194?) within the wider context of twelfth-centu…
Some scholars maintain a relationship exists between Psalm 119 and Deuteronomy. This work investigates and evaluates that connection. Using the tools of Rhetorical Criticism and the New Rhetoric, the research strongly links the vocabulary and structure of Psalm 119 to the parene…
The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate and discover the function of fifteen Hallelujah Psalms (Pss. 104-106; 111-113; 115-117; 135; and 146-150) in the context of the Hebrew Psalter. Their form and setting-in-worship were examined in chapter 2. They are typical of t…
This dissertation asserts that within the canonical shape of the Psalter are footprints of the postexilic Israelite community which shaped it into its final form. Using James Sanders's method of canonical criticism, I explore the process by which the community selected, appropri…
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam and the Bible's Book of Psalms both serve as manifestos for their respective communities. The Jewish people of the Old Testament, as a whole, suffered together, wandering, often defeated and even made captive by their enemies; they felt isolat…
This dissertation suggests that the time reference of verbs in Hebrew poetry can be determined from a combination of form (aspect) and Aktionsart (stative vs. fientive). Specifically, perfective forms of stative verbs have past or present time reference. Perfective forms of fien…
This dissertation is part of a larger goal to provide a set of reference books of musical terms used in Scripture, based on the original Hebrew and Greek texts, to help ministers and church musicians more accurately and completely study the Scriptures in relation to music. The s…
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…
The question to be considered in this thesis is: should the Canaanite elements in the Psalter be classified as evidence of syncretism or, rather, as evidence of another process called contextualization? Contextualization is a process of communicating from one context to another …
The purpose of this study is to investigate the generic identification of Psalm 78 as political accession justification for the Davidic dynasty. Typically attempts to identify the genre of the psalm are based on data and/or characteristics found in limited portions of the psalm …
In Biblical Hebrew poetry the common bipartite line-form is sometimes varied to become tripartite, producing lines commonly designated ‘tricola’. Studies of the form or function of tricola have been limited in their value by inconsistent or ambiguous approaches to the colometry …
Psalm 82--a text notorious of its brevity, yet profound complex concepts is the subject of this thesis. Since the last two extensive works which were published in the late 1960s by James. S. Ackerman and Hans-Winfried Jüngling, there are several other pieces which develop from t…
The current thesis examines the use of Ps 62:13 (61:13 LXX) in the context of judgment according to works in early Jewish literature and the NT. The objective of this thesis is to challenge the majority view about the theme of judgment according to works in early Judaism and the…