Thesis (M.A.)--Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [138]-147).

This paper is a comparison of narrative in Genesis and Midrash Genesis Rabbah, using as a sample each text's version of the story of Cain and Abel. The paper begins with a survey of the study of Bible as literature and Midrash as literature, examining the work of Robert Alter, Meir Sternberg, Wesley A. Kort, Isaak Heinemann, Ofra Meir, David Stern and Jacob Neusner. Following this is a close reading and poetic analysis of the two primary texts, then a summary and comparison of narrative conventions and techniques. Narrative is examined according to the considerations of plot, character, narration and meaning. Further conclusions are drawn regarding the different portrayal of God in biblical and midrashic discourse, attitudes toward paradox and ambiguity, and strategies for achieving ideological and rhetorical goals.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the way in which Job 38-42 develops and defends a new theodicy through language of creation and of the created order. This thesis will posit that through the course of the divine speeches, divine justice is shown to be an element of divine rule where chaos is limited and confined to specific boundaries, but not entirely eliminated or defeated. Inherent in this justice is compassionate divine care for all parts of creation, including the farthest reaches of the cosmos and uninhabited lands of exile. The social, political and economic conditions of the fifth century B.C.E. are examined as the context for this critique of retributive justice and the singularly juridical understanding of justice that is represented by Job and his friends. The theodicy presented in Job 38-42 defines for Israel a divine justice, which is boundless, and provides a model for human action that upholds empathy and compassion for the outcasts of society.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [102]-106).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2007. / Appendix I. A syntactical-classification of oblique participles. Appendix II. A structural classification of participles. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-62).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-85).

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Seminary, 1993. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-74).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2007. / Appendix I. A syntactical-classification of oblique participles. Appendix II. A structural classification of participles. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-62).

Thesis (M.A.)--Abilene Christian University, 1999. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-184).

Thesis (M. Div.)--Baptist Bible Graduate School of Theology, 2001. / Abstract. [Katertismena] appears in Greek letters on t.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-60).