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This dissertation examines the role of musical training in scribal education and its implication for Ben Sira’s pedagogy. Chapter One surveys the scholarship regarding the function of hymns in the book of Sirach and their role in Ben...
ABSTRACT Dan P. McAdams has noted that “over the past three decades, a growing number of philosophers, social scientists, and empirical psychologists have developed theories and research paradigms around the fundamental proposition that...
This dissertation explores the different ways in which early Jews understood demonic entities in their ancient and antique historical contexts. Unlike traditional scholarly studies which have often approached the topic primarily from the...
Though previous scholarship has placed emphasis on the anti-familial rhetoric employed by ancient Christians, Christian discourse on motherhood was actually quite mixed. I demonstrate this point by examining specific representations of...
Previous scholarship on abortion in the ancient Mediterranean world has often characterized Christians as absolutely opposed to abortion because of concern for the life of the fetus. By analyzing several of the ancient Greek and Latin...
"The Greatest Blasphemy" analyzes how difference is made meaningful in ancient and modern discourses surrounding the "heresy" of Carpocratianism and demonstrates its role as a symbol of opposition to what would soon become the dominant...
Reviving the Bones of the Prophets: Re-Evaluating the Status of the Hebrew Bible Collection of Smaller Prophetic Writings in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Late Second Temple Period
Recent scholarship on the Hebrew Bible's collection of shorter prophetic writings (often referred to as the "Minor Prophets, The Twelve, or The Book of the Twelve") presents conclusions that rely heavily on the redaction of the...
The Aramaic Book of Ahiqar, an ancient instruction that combines a novella and set of wise sayings, was discovered among a cache of papyri dating to the 5th c. B.C.E. belonging to a community of Judeans on the southern Egyptian Nile...
The ancient historian Josephus records that Palestine witnessed a surge in Jewish sectarianism during the second and first c. BCE, resulting in the proliferation of groups associated with the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran...
While rape and sexual violence is a topic that has been well-covered in the areas of Classics and Biblical Studies, there has been relatively little written about this subject that focuses exclusively on late Antique Christianity....
My dissertation is an attempt to produce an edition of the Latin text that may approximate what was available in early Medieval England. I have collated five manuscripts from that time period in England so as to determine the type of...
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