The following research is a grammatical analysis of the Ethio-semitic language Kistane, including a corpus of texts taken from audio recordings of mother-tongue speakers. Since Kistane has been a little-studied representative of the Semitic family, this dissertation aims to brin…
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Theodotion-Daniel (Θ-Dan) is the name generally given to one of the Greek forms of the Book of Daniel. Though this version is attributed to Theodotion, the second century A.D. reviser of the Greek Old Testament, Theodotion-Daniel must antedate the work of this revision. Some tim…
The present research examines the morphological and syntactical features of forms used in the modal systems of the languages of the Northwest semitic corpus (Ugaritic, El-Amarna Canaanite, Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite, Edomite, Ammonite) from 1500–500 BCE. The study focuses of th…
This dissertation builds on the insights of the “Italian school” (e.g., Liverani, Fales, Zaccagnini, Younger) concerning the ideological shaping of historical narratives. It engages in a literary-ideological analysis of nine West Semitic royal inscriptions from the ninth to the …
The present research is an attempt to combine the linguistic approaches of discourse analysis and comparative linguistics in the study of ancient Semitic languages. More specifically, this study compares the expression of sequentiality in narrative prose among various Northwest …
This thesis examines Arabic and Hebrew causatives and their implications to the morphology-syntax interface and aspecuality. There are two types of causatives in Arabic and Hebrew: verbal and de-adjectival causatives. It is argued that Li's Lexical Mapping Hypothesis (LMH) (fort…
The field of Early Hebrew (Iron Age) palaeography has advanced rapidly during the twentieth century because of the dramatic increase in the number of Early Hebrew epigraphs and the brilliant work of several palaeographers. This dissertation attempts to augment the field of Early…
The kingdom of God/heaven is a basic concept of the New Testament and of the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Generations of Christian scholarship and commentary have identified the “kingdom of God” in the Gospels of Luke and Mark with the “kingdom of Heaven” in the Gospel of Mat…
The following study examines the manner in which nineteenth-century British novels use a Semitic discourse to imagine and construct Christian English people as racially pure. One result of the growing presence of assimilated Jewish people living in England in the nineteenth cent…
A long history of studies exists of how Hebrew and Aramaic influenced NT Greek. Many deal specifically with the Semitic background to the Fourth Gospel. These are flawed, however, by (1) a lack of precision in selection of Greek and Semitic sources used for comparative purposes,…
The present research endeavors to demonstrate that in Biblical Hebrew (BH) different verbs follow different morpho-semantic patterns because the very situations they describe are different in their internal constitution (i.e. their internal aspect). As such, the study is an appl…
This dissertation fills a gap in the scholarly study of Classical Hebrew grammar and syntax with the first comprehensive study of oath formulae. The difficult and elliptical nature of oath syntax, along with the multitude of diverse formulae employed, has often given scholars an…
This dissertation investigates depictions of divine and human radiance in the Hebrew Bible and in Northwest Semitic and Mesopotamian literatures. It focuses specifically on the meanings of the following Akkadian terms: melammu; puluhtu; rašubbatu; namurratu; namrirrū; and šalumm…
Tigre is spoken by between 10 and 20 percent of the approximately 3.8 million inhabitants of Eritrea (East Africa). While there are a dozen Tigre-speaking groups, only one dialect, that of the Mensa' ethnic group, has been recorded grammatically, lexically, and textually. The re…
This dissertation constitutes a comprehensive review and analysis of incantations of West Semitic provenience, extra-biblical and biblical, from the second and first millennia B.C.E. Recent discoveries and publications of texts from Syria-Palestine have furnished an ancient samp…
This dissertation explores the peculiarity that though the river term (nāru(m)/nhr/ nāhār) occurs 119 times, in the Hebrew Bible there are no rivers in Israel. The meaning of wadi (nahallu( m)/nhl/nahal), the torrential flow from winter rains or the gorge that remains when the w…
Uncovered in 1975, the Tell-Mardikh-Ebla archive was the first large collection of cuneiform tablets discovered in the age of the personal computer. Starting with the Ebla texts of Cybernetica Mesopotamica , and using the software program WordCruncher, I modified the format in w…
Greek-Aramaic bilingualism was wide-spread throughout Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamia. Among the various Aramaic dialects, Syriac underwent a particularly intense and prolonged period of contact with Greek. This contact led to changes in both languages. The present study prov…
This thesis seeks to provide a systematic study of question formation in Mehri, a Modern South Arabian Language for which many syntactic facts remain largely undescribed. The thesis has three main goals: First, a presentation of a sketch grammar of the Ben Zabinut dialect of Meh…