This page catalogues the previous Johns Hopkins University HB/NWS (and occasionally broader Near Eastern Studies) alumni and their dissertations. I attempt comprehensiveness, but err on the side of prioritizing research on the dissertations which most interest me. I have in mind a long term research project to write a history of the department, an important part of which are the dissertation experiences of its students.
For recent JHU NES alumni and their dissertations, see here.
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Medill’s dissertation, completed in June 2020, was supervised by Alice Mandell; Theodore Lewis and Jacob Lauinger from JHU NES were also on the doctoral committee. It includes an introduction, eight chapters, and six appendices (572 pp.). The main chapters are as follows: (1) Identifying Goal Constructions; (2) Research Design and Initial Results; (3) Goal Constructions, Time, and the Makers of the Hebrew Bible; (4) Goal Constructions and Protoyptical Semantic Roles; (5) Goal Constructions and Protoyptical Motion; (6) Choosing a Directional Preposition for Goal-Marking in Biblical Hebrew Prose; (7) Differential Goal-Marking in Hebrew and Ugaritic Poetry: A First Look. Her Vita (p. 572) shows that Medill got her B.A. in Biblical Languages and Linguistics (Geneva College), M.A. in General Linguistics (Indiana University), and M.A. in Near Eastern Studies (Johns Hopkins), before completing the PhD.
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Dissertation supervised by Theodore Lewis.
Dissertation supervised by P. Kyle McCarter; dissertation committee consisted of Theodore J. Lewis (second reader), Raymond Westbrook (third reader); Alan Shapiro (external reader and chairman of oral exam); and Demitrios Yatromanolakis (external reader). Abstract: “This dissertation is a text-critical study of the ancient Hebrew and Greek texts of Malachi. Malachi contains 55 verses which are divided into three Hebrew chapters (four chapters in English of the same number of verses). The Hebrew texts consulted are the Masoretic Text B19a (Codex Leningradensis) as printed in Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and 4QXIIa as printed in the Discoveries in the Judean Desert series. For Greek, the Old Greek is published in Joseph Ziegler’s edition of the Twelve Prophets in the Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum Auctoritate Societatis Litterarum Gottingensis editum. This undertaking does not concentrate on other matters such as historical background, archaeology, theology, intertextuality, grammar, syntax, and the like. These matters and interpretations are discussed only when necessary to determine the best reading. The approach taken is stemmatic, that is, the merits of each variant for a given passage are weighed according to established text critical principles. The basic principle is to isolate that reading from which the others are derived. By using this methodology, the intention is to determine the most ancient form of the text of Malachi by going verse by verse and variant by variant. There remain some doubts on the best reading of various passages in the text of Malachi. Since the publication of the Qumran text 4QXIIa, a comprehensive analysis of the variants in Malachi has yet to be made. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to offer a new evaluation of each variant between the Hebrew and Greek texts of the whole book of Malachi. In sum, it was found that when the major witnesses diverge, the MT contains the highest number of original readings. The OG appears to have a Vorlage close to the MT and 4QXIIa agrees with the MT more often than with the OG.” According to the CV (p. 219), Mudliar (b. 1966) is from Mumbai, India, and attended Union Biblical Seminary (BTh, 1992), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MDiv, 1998), and received both the MA (2002) and PhD (2005) at Hopkins.
Advisors: Raymond Westbrook and P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers. Published as Of Courtiers and Kings: The Biblical Daniel Narratives and Ancient Near Eastern Story-Collections. Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations 1. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013.
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers.
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers.
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers. Published as Weep, O Daughter of Zion: A Study of the City-Lament Genre in the Hebrew Bible. Biblica et orientalia. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1993.
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers.
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers. Published as The Genesis and Exodus Citations of Aphrahat the Persian Sage. Monographs of the Peshitta Institute, Leiden, vol. 3. Leiden: Brill, 1983.
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers. Some of her results published as “Toward a Consensus of Opinion on the End of the Early Bronze Age in Palestine-Transjordan,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 237 (1980), 5–34.
V of Macedonia”
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers. Published as The God-List in the Treaty between Hannibal and Philip V of Macedonia: A Study in Light of the Ancient Near Eastern Treaty Tradition. The Johns Hopkins University Near Eastern Studies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers. Published as The Aramaic Proverbs of Ahiqar. The Johns Hopkins University Near Eastern Studies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
the Original Hebrew Text of Baruch 3:9–5:9″
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers. Published as The Poetry of Baruch: A Reconstruction and Analysis of the Original Hebrew Text of Baruch 3:9–5:9. Society of Biblical Literature, Septuagint and Cognate Studies, No. 10. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982.
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers.
Good Gods (Text CTA: 23)”
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers.
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Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers.
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers. Published as Personal Names in Palmyrene Inscriptions. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971.
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers.
Dissertation directed by Delbert R. Hillers. Published as “Philological Studies in Lamentations. I,” Biblica 49 (1968) 27–53; “Philological Studies in Lamentations. II,” Biblica 49 (1968) 199–220.
Dissertation directed by William Foxwell Albright.
Dissertation directed by William Foxwell Albright.
Dissertation advised by William Foxwell Albright. Although the dissertation remained unpublished, a part of it was used in an article, “The Syntax of kl, kl‘, ‘All’ in Aramaic Texts from Egypt and in Biblical Aramaic,” Bib 38 (1957) 170-84; reprinted, A Wandering Aramean: Collected Aramaic Essays (SBLMS 25; Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979) 205-17.
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Dissertation advised by William Foxwell Albright. Republished in Amarna Studies: Collected Writings (Brill: 2003).
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Bright received his B.A. (1928) from Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina as well as B.D. (1931) and Th.M. (1933) at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. He wrote a thesis for the latter degree on “A Psychological Study of the Major Prophets.” After two field excavations with William Foxwell Albright, Bright enrolled in the Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins in 1935 and earned his doctoral degree there in 1940. Bright subsequently taught at Union Theological Seminary and became a defining figure in American biblical scholarship, especially in the biblical theology movement which reached its peak of influence under his stewardship in the 1950s and 1960s.
Bibliography: W. P. Brown, “Bright, John (1908-1995),” in Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters (2007)
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This was W. F. Albright’s first supervised dissertation at Johns Hopkins.
Albright was admitted into the Oriental Seminary of the Johns Hopkins University in 1913 and completed his Ph.D. under Paul Haupt in 1916. His dissertation in Assyriology was never published, and Albright subsequently grew more interested in Levantine (“Biblical”) archaeology, Northwest Semitic philology, and the Hebrew Bible.
This dissertation was advised by Paul Haupt, submitted in 1900, and subsequently published by The Lord Baltimore Press in 1902. From the preface: “This investigation contains an examination of the Hebrew influence on the language of the Authorized Version. The subject was suggested to the author by Professor Paul Haupt in the autumn of 1894. Since that time the Authorized Version has been read a number of times and carefully compared with the Hebrew text. While the list of Hebraisms in the appendix is confined to the Old Testament, the New Testament contains a great number, which the author hopes to present for publication at some future time. He takes this means of expressing his thanks to his teacher, Professor Paul Haupt, for many valuable suggestions, and to Professor James W. Bright, who, during the several interviews granted by him, proved of great assistance to the author. W.R.”
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