Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-49).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-118).

Thesis (M.A.)--Harding Graduate School of Religion, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 274-295).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Regent College, 2004. / Abstract and vita. This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #048-0297. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-228).

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Concordia Seminary, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-113).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Bonn, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-452).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Regent College, 2004. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-228).

The dissertation draws largely on the Old Testament to examine the function of the veil as a means of determining the reason for its rending (Matt 27:51a), as well as the association of the veil with the heavenly firmaments in Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. These key elements are incorporated into a compositional exegesis of the rending text in Matthew, with some consideration given to parallel texts as well. I am concluding that the rending of the veil is an apocalyptic assertion like the opening of heaven. What follows, then, is the content of what is revealed drawn largely from apocalyptic images in Ezekiel 37. Moreover, when the veil is torn Matthew depicts the cessation of its function, articulating the atoning function of Christ's death allowing accessibility to God not simply in the sense of entering the Holy of Holies (as in Hebrews), but in trademark Matthean Emmanuel Christology: "God with us." This underscores the significance of Jesus' atoning death in the first gospel.

M.A. (Biblical Studies) / The aim of this study is idiom, personification, and book of Lamentations. to investigate the use thereof the metaphorical as found in the The method that has been justified combination of exegetic steps. Work has chapters, but the book as followed in this investigation is a both the synchronous and diachronic primarily been done on the first two a whole has also been implicated. Within the use of personification as poetic language functioning in the respective lamentations, the poet highlights the sorrow of Jerusalem to the reader. Jerusalem is 'presented to the reader by means of personification figures, e.g. widow, empress, conscript and daughter of Zion. Personification creates stress and expectations on the part of the reader. The personified Jerusalem enters into conversation with God as well as the passersby, and this prompts the forming of dialogue. The attention of the reader is drawn and kept by the use of the direct as well as the indirect speech of the poet. The reason for the fall of Jerusalem, viz. her sins, is discovered by means of dialogue which is formed with the help of personification. The destruction is God's way of punishing her for her sins. perand upon reader The characteristics of the different personalities of sonification, e.g. mourn, loneliness, conversation, eye mouth, allow the reader to experience the grief imposed Jerusalem. The grief of Jerusalem is described to the in terms of human characteristics (personification). By using personification, the poet highlights the relationships between the widow and, respectively, God, friends and enemies. It is mentioned how these relationships had been in the past, as well as the way they are now after the destruction of Jerusalem. The poet's use of personification as poetic idiom results in the reader becoming involved in the grief inflicted upon Jerusalem and in this way the grief is accentuated strongly.

Thesis (M.A.)-- Vanguard University of Southern California, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.