Browsing by Author "Annalisa Azzoni"
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Williams, Jennifer Johnson (2015-04-09)Department: ReligionAmbiguity, Liminality, and Unhomeliness in the Book of Judges: An Analysis of the Gendered Pairs and Families by Jennifer Johnson Williams Dissertation under the direction of Professor Jack M. Sasson This dissertation ...
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Taylor, Robert Jonathan (2006-04-14)Department: ReligionCelestial divination may be understood as the interpretation of celestial phenomena as signs portending the occurrence of future events. In ancient Mesopotamia, schools of professional diviners and scholars existed as ...
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Redding, Jonathan David (2018-11-13)Department: ReligionOne question guides this dissertation: what is a text? Answering this question pushes the boundaries of biblical studies, prompting more considerations: is a text limited to the words written on pages and inscribed in ...
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Russaw, Kimberly Dawn (2016-04-12)Department: ReligionRELIGION Dissertation under the direction of Professor Herbert R. Marbury Biblical daughters - female members of the household who are not yet mothers - execute particular tactics to navigate antagonistic systems ...
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McCullough, Lori Theresa (2007-01-26)Department: ReligionStudies of the Solomonic Temple rely on the descriptive account found in 1 Kings 5-9 as the most extensive source available for understanding the form of the ancient temple. Although the description is superfluous by ...
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Davis, Ryan Conrad (2010-04-13)Department: ReligionThis thesis investigates the notion of divine inscrutability as expressed in Wisdom Literature of Ancient Israel and Mesopotamia. Working with a definition that Wisdom Literature is a group of texts that advocates a way ...
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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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Harkins, Robert Justin (2010-04-13)Department: ReligionThis study argues that the story of the book of Jonah may be interpreted as a transformation of a familiar topos in which the protagonist undergoes a rite de passage during a quest that takes him towards a foreign land. ...
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Christian, Mark Alan (2011-12-05)Department: ReligionThis project offers comprehensive theory to explain the origin of certain Pentateuchal passages that though few in number contrast sharply with the dominant traditions regarding the divine revelation at Mt. Sinai/Horeb. ...
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Lerner, Ellen Renee (2014-07-17)Department: ReligionThis study focuses on biblical Manasseh as a tribal entity, a territorial region, and a literary construct to explore facets of ancient Israel’s history and the ways in which it (re)constructed this history in the biblical ...
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Pumphrey, Nicholaus Benjamin (2009-04-10)Department: ReligionSecret names are a common folkloristic concept found in the Ancient Near Eastern society. The thesis examines four stories of various cultures in the Ancient Near East in search of secret names and how they relate to the ...
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Paris, Christopher T (2012-03-31)Department: ReligionNarrative critics of the Hebrew Bible can describe the biblical narrators as “laconic,” “terse,” or “economical.” The narrators generally remain in the background, allowing the story to proceed while relying on characters ...
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Whitcomb, Kelly Ann (2013-04-11)Department: ReligionDissertation under the direction of Professor Douglas A. Knight The story of Esther has a complex history of transmission and interpretation. This project examines the Hebrew (Masoretic Text) and Greek versions (Septuagint ...
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Fisher, Daniel Shalom (2008-07-17)Department: ReligionStructurally and substantively, the two ancient Near Eastern folktales The Poor Man of Nippur and The Eloquent Peasant have a great deal in common. Both tales tell the stories of lower stratum protagonists whose livelihoods ...
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Pressner, Daniella (2010-04-10)Department: ReligionRELIGION RIGHTEOUS GENTILE AND DIVINE DAUGHTER: AN ANALYSIS OF BAT PHARAOH’S CHARACTER AND IDENTITY IN ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL, AND MODERN TIMES DANIELLA PRESSNER Thesis under the direction of Professor Annalisa Azzoni This ...
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Tamber-Rosenau, Caryn (2015-04-06)Department: ReligionIn recent decades, feminist exegesis has had a profound and wide-ranging effect on biblical studies. Many scholars have treated the accounts of Jael in Judges 4 and 5 from a feminist perspective, examining the interplay ...
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The Middle Voice of Love in I Corinthians: Reading Singularity and Plurality from Different Cultures Goh, Meng Hun (2014-12-05)Department: ReligionThis dissertation highlights the modes of existence (autonomy, relationality, and heteronomy) of the threefold contextual choices that readers privilege in their perception of the self and the other/Other. Examining Paul’s ...
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Wong, Sonia Kwok (2017-07-24)Department: ReligionAlthough many biblical scholars agree that Deuteronomy-Kings emerged from imperial contexts as a literary production of the subjugated Judeans or Yehudites, the effects of imperialism on the psychology of the imperialized ...
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Weitze, Andrew Ronald (2018-04-02)Department: ReligionThis thesis analyzes the use of the term gēr, meaning “resident alien” in the Hebrew Bible, and more specifically in the legal and prophetic materials. Through an examination of the biblical text within the context of ...
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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 ...