PHD Projects

Completed Dissertations

Syntactic Variation in Clause Structure in Biblical Hebrew
M. Naaijer
Thesis defence: 1 December.

Translating Zephaniah in Context: A Study of Hebrew and Jusu Rhetorical Discourse Analysis
B. R. Willits
Thesis defence: 13 May, full text.
Syntax and Stylistics. In Search for Syntactical Parameters for the Textual Hierarchy of Prophetic Texts
H. J. Bosman
Thesis defence: 29 May, full text.
A Nova Aliança Em Tempos De Juízo. Uma visão aplicada da mensagem de Jeremias (Jeremiah: The New Covenant for life in a context of Judgment)
K. H. Kepler (EST Colleges, Brasil; research stay at ETCBC 2017-2018)
Thesis defence: 24 July, full text.

Participants, Roles and Characters. A Literary, Text-Syntactical and Cultural-Anthropological Study of Genesis 26:34–28:22
C. N. Chebineh
Thesis defence: 10 April, full text.
The Art of Biblical Performance: Performance Criticism and the Genre of the Biblical Narratives
T. M. West
Thesis defence: 29 May, full text.

Verbal Forms in Biblical Hebrew Poetry: Poetic Freedom or Linguistic System?
G. J. Kalkman
Thesis defence: 21 September, full text.
The Self-Enclosing God. John Chrysostom and Ephrem Syrus on Divine Self-Limitation as Gift of Love in Genesis 1–3
R. Hunt
Thesis defence: 14 December, full text.

Syntactic Variation in Non-Verbal Phrase Structure in Biblical Hebrew
M. Kaajan
Verbal Valence in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Syntactic Variation and Linguistic Change
F. P. Siebesma-Mannens
Who is Who in the Psalms? A Computational Analysis of Participants and Their Networks
M. Erwich
The Language and Text of Psalms 1–30 According to the Peshitta Version
J. A. Volkmer (Oxford Oriental Institute)
Discourse in the Book of Ezekiel: Reading the Text from a Non-Linear Approach
B. Kronemeijer-Heyink
Investigating the Text-hierarchical Structures and Composition of Numbers
Jin Gyu Sang.
Readings in the Tiqqune Sopherim: Insights for the Doctrine of Inspiration of Scripture
Kingsley Yorgio
The Grammar and Rhetoric of Leviticus
Christian Højgaard Jensen
The Character of God’s Judgement in the Extermination of the Canaanites through the Case of the Gibeonites
Jack Kawira
Worship in the Book of Exodus: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of עָבָד in the Context of God’s Revelation to Israel
Zeseat Fekadu