Browsing by Author "Amy-Jill Levine"
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McDowell, Liz (2012-04-13)Department: Nursing ScienceWhile researchers have found written emotional disclosure to be beneficial for psychological health, physical health, and overall functioning in certain populations, no one has definitively ascertained how or why this ...
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Mayo, Maria Anne (2013-12-04)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores the problem of pressuring victims to forgive in three contexts. The restorative justice movement views responding to crime as a question of restoring relationships rather than—or sometimes in ...
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Barker, James William (2011-07-29)Department: ReligionThe relationship of the Gospel of John to the Synoptic Gospels has been a perennial question since the patristic era, and yet there has been little sustained focus on John's connection to Matthew. Scholars have predominantly ...
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Schaser, Nicholas James (2017-03-27)Department: ReligionThe Gospel of Matthew and the rabbinic compilation Genesis Rabbah draw on Scripture in order to portray individuals as symbols of biblical Israel that respond to present concerns about sin and forgiveness. Matthew’s Vineyard ...
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Miracles and the Kingdom of God in Mark and Q: Christology and Identity Among Jesus’ Early Followers Shinall, Myrick Clements Jr. (2016-07-25)Department: ReligionMark and the hypothetical gospel source Q both portray Jesus as a miracle worker and as proclaimer of the coming kingdom of God. Comparing the ways Mark and Q depict Jesus in these roles demonstrates two distinct ways of ...
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Dickerson, Febbie Claudina (2017-08-10)Department: ReligionMost readers classify the widow in the “Parable of the Widow and the Judge (Luke 18.2-5)” as a righteous victim of a corrupt legal system; they similarly regard the judge as unrighteous and immoral. The message of the ...
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"The Roar of Thunder and the Sweetness of a Woman" Gender and Twentieth-Century American Revivalism Payne, Leah Louise (2013-03-29)Department: ReligionThis project examines gender and revivalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century America. I use gender and ritual theory to explore how women became powerful female revivalist ministers during the 1890s-1920s ...
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Jovanovic, Ljubica (2008-06-06)Department: ReligionThe Hellenistic period witnesses the expansion of ancient science encompassing many diverse schools of thought. Similarly, multiple interpretations of biblical texts thrived, promoting the simultaneous continuation of ...