The goal of this dissertation is to take generalizations made in a variety of phonological and morphological theories and account for them in a piece-based syntactic theory of morphology. The theories discussed are Cyclic phonology, Lexical Phonology (and Stratal Optimality Theo…
Missiologists have realized that the Church must contextualize the gospel to make its message relevant to the receptors. Contextualization of Christian faith enriches, encourages, and dynamically empowers any people group to respond meaningfully to the Scriptures. This study att…
A gradual uncovering of the OT covenant metaphor as background to the Johannine writings can be seen in scholarship on the Gospel according to John in recent decades. To this point, however, there has been no systematic study of the Fourth Gospel as a narrative whole with partic…
This interdisciplinary dissertation investigates the relationship between the form and the function of the fully decorated pages of the Book of Durrow, a seventh-century Insular illuminated Gospel book. As indicated in the literature on the subject thus far, the answer to the qu…
This dissertation examines the doctrine of the Word and the Spirit in the theology of two important Reformed pastors and theologians of the seventeenth century Francis Turretin (1623–1687) and Jean Claude (1619–1687), who ministered respectively in Geneva and France. For the Ref…
This project is about the sentential structure, the variety of word order, and the two types of subject and verb agreement in Standard Arabic. A detailed description is provided about verbal and nominal sentences, and a distinction is made between two types of nominal sentences,…