NELC PhD theses from the University of Chicago

THE AWOL BLOG: Dissertations from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Knowledge@UChicago. This is a collection of free PDF versions of University of Chicago disserations on the full range of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt up to the Ottoman era. Have a look at the whole list. These two in particular are of interest to PaleoJudaica:

Literary Genres in Poetic Texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls
Pickut, William Douglas
William Douglas Pickut,Literary Genres in Poetic Texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls,Abstract,December 8, 2016,Among the texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are four literar [...]
2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation

Innovation in Post-Biblical Hebrew Poetry: A Stylistic Analysis of the Hymns of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Jobe, Eric Paul
Amidst the various disputes and controversies in the history of Qumran scholarship, scholars have generally neglected the stylistic study of the poetic texts of the Dead [...]
2015 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | Dissertation

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