The book of Exodus defines the divine name [special characters omitted], providing a description of God’s character that is fundamental for biblical and theological reflection. Most have found this definition in Exod 3:13–15, in the supposedly original form “Yahweh,” which relat…
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This dissertation studies old age in biblical Israel and Ugarit, a relatively untouched subject. Chapter one examines how senescence was portrayed in the Hebrew Bible. Sometimes old age is a time of wisdom or an occasion for dispensing blessings to descendants; sometimes it is a…
YHWH, the primary deity of the Hebrew Bible, is the basis of the concept of god in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This structured personality assessment study measured the level of health and pathology attributed to YHWH in two selections of the Hebrew Bible, the J and the P …
My exegetical analysis of the book of Haggai offers many new insights about the book's four oracles and the literary composition as a whole. The book is an artistic literary composition in which the narrative and oracular components of the text are well-integrated. This design i…
During the period of the writing of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Tetragrammaton (YHWH ) was so sacred that it had become an ineffable name. This thesis studies alternations in the usage of the Tetragrammaton in non-biblical manuscripts at Qumran through an analysis of scriptural qu…
This dissertation argues that YHWH's eyes were hypostasized in Persian period Yehud, as represented in Zech 4:10b and 2 Chron 16:9. The language of hypostatization is chosen in purposeful contradistinction from the language of demonization that has been previously proposed. The …
This thesis has two primary goals: (1) to analyze the countours and extent of the generic category of deity in the Hebrew Bible, and (2) propose a semantic base for the term. It begins with a description of the fields associated with cognitive theory, and particularly cognitive …