The focus of the paper is to examine the phrases "And YHWH restored the fortunes of Job" and "For all the evil that YHWH had brought upon him" found in Job 42:10–11. Using the method of "inner biblical allusion," the paper argues that the author of Job intentionally alluded to p…
This study suggests that tragedy sees human action as synonymous with language and that it uses a method similar to that of a hermeneutic phenomenology to portray man as experiencing spirituality in a confrontation with expression. This confrontation takes the form of a pattern …
This study presents the first systematic investigation of translation technique in the Peshitta of the book of Job (P-Job). By examining representative topics in P-Job from the areas of grammar, syntax, semantics and style, characteristics of the Peshitta in general and the Pesh…
The resurgent question ever-present in the wake of extreme pain, suffering, and inexplicability is “Why?” This question fuels philosophical, scientific, theological, and historical investigation, and the response to this question drives the research of this dissertation. The com…