Jean-Baptiste Adanson was a French interpreter who spent ten years employed at the French consulate in Egypt between ca. 1775 and 1785. Recognizing a need for accurate copies of genuine Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions, Adanson employed his artistic skill to document a number …
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Among the vast number of texts to have survived from ancient Egypt, the corpus of literary tales forms one of the most well-known and extensively studied groups. Thus far, however, analyses of the tales have focused on individual texts and language phases without examining the r…
Ethnicity was a very important component of the Ancient Egyptian worldview. Scholarship from the last few hundred years has tended to focus on the study of ethnicity as presented in the Egyptian cultural record which has created a simplified picture and colored the current under…
This dissertation examines the household-level economic and social networks at Kenan Tepe, an ancient village community in the upper Tigris region of southeast Turkey, to incorporate the study of daily lives into broader examinations of state formation in Mesopotamia during the …
This dissertation examining ancient texts related to disabilities is an attempt to understand community responses to disabled persons among the peoples of the ancient world. By examining ANE law collections, societal conventions, and religious obligations toward the physically d…
Paul has been seen either as someone from the lower classes because of his status as an artisan, or as someone who because of his citizenship, was a member of the upper classes. In order to determine which is more likely this study focuses on his status and how he attained this …
This is a study of Strabo's conception of the Greeks as an ethnographic subject and the interplay between his ethnographic representation and Greek literary traditions, authorial self-construction and private and communal memory. Six chapters comprise this study. Each of the fir…
This study seeks to assess the impact of architecture on identity and experience in pre- exilic Israel and argues that crucial to this assessment is an interdisciplinary treatment of the iconographic system of the Temple of Solomon. It begins with a look to theoretical approache…
The First Intermediate Period has often been treated as a time of chaos and decline, being accorded little or no importance in the developmental history of ancient Egypt. However, in recent years, scholars have begun to approach the study of this period from the viewpoint that i…
Auctoritas was the foundation of Augustus' legitimacy, success, and survival in Roman politics. The necessary precondition of successfully founding political legitimacy upon auctoritas, however, was that Augustus' auctoritas had to be supreme. This thesis will show that one of t…
This dissertation is a study of petitions concerning interpersonal violence from the first six centuries of Roman rule in Egypt (30 BC–c.540 AD). Through the study of violent conflict scholars can see how different parties are forced to come together to articulate problems and p…
The hypothesis of this dissertation is that republican polities in the ancient world demonstrated a rare form of martial ideology in their citizen armies. Otherwise known as "civic militarism," this martial ideology was directly linked to republicanism's reliance on civic virtue…
This study examines the extant letters written by Christians and provenanced to Oxyrhynchus. Ranging in date from the third through seventh centuries and written primarily in Greek these letters collectively provide an invaluable database from which to consider a number of issue…
This thesis examines the long held assumption that the Göksu Valley was an important prehistoric corridor through the Taurus Mountains connecting the Konya and Cilician Plains of south-central Turkey. Two methods for testing were selected using prehistoric data (6500-2000 B.C.) …
This study is concerned with pervasive literary representations of priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls and what they indicate about the Qumran community. Two images are treated, otherworldly priesthood (part one) and end-time priesthood (part two). It is found that these images a…
Because of their relevance to the modern world, the topics of ethnicity, cultural performance, and civic affiliation are central issues of the current scholarship on the ancient Near East. My dissertation therefore analyzes the formation of Greek civic performances among Syrians…
Material reminiscent of an Aegean-style culture, which was distinct from that of the indigenous population, appeared in southern Canaan some time near the beginning of the 12th century B.C.E. Scholars have long associated this material with the arrival of a group of newcomers, t…
This dissertation seeks to better understand the biblical book of Joshua by utilizing Babylonian kudurrus as a contextual genre. It begins by first assembling a consistent group of kudurrus and then attempting to understand and evaluate them on their own terms. The contextual wo…
This project presents a stratified archaeological sequence spanning the Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom at Tell er-Rub’a, Mendes, in the eastern Egyptian Delta. This sequence, excavated between 1999 and 2005, has provided the longest stratified sequence from these periods …
Biographical note: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Freie Universität Berlin; Joachim Marzahn, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin;Margarete van Ess, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient-Abteilung, Berlin. In diesem interdisziplinären Sammelband, der aus einer Tagung anläßlich der Ber…