This dissertation traces the creation and negotiation of dynastic succession ideologies between the emperors and their subject populations between 193 and 313 CE, particularly through the advertisement of imperial women. Julia Domna, Otacilia Severa, and Galeria Valeria occupy w…
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Did Roman presence have long-term impacts? I exploit plausibly exogenous differences across the Roman frontier in Northern England. Through a Regression Discontinuity Desing (RDD), I show that zones just South of the Roman wall still have significant advantage in luminosity and …
This dissertation is a study of the intellectual practice of the Platonic character, Socrates, with emphasis on the presentation of dialectical engagement with authority. I argue that authority, conceptually and in practice, constitutes a serious problem for Socrates. On my read…
It is people who throughout the ages developed and achieved, those people, I celebrate in my art. Their lives throughout the ages, living, loving and warring, and by doing so populating the lands. I am from the West European Low Lands, and the focus of my art is first on those o…
The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a model that can explain and thereby generally predict the most likely government responses to civil unrest in the Roman Empire and to apply that model to the study of selected NT texts. The guiding question of the research is, What…
The present dissertation reconstructs the practice of viticulture in Israelite agriculture from analysis of the biblical traditions of the vine, vineyards, and wine, and the archaeological evidence of wine presses, jugs, epigraphic notations, and paleobotanical finds from Iron A…
The book of Deuteronomy turns out to be very interesting for the study of passing on religious traditions within family. On the one hand, with a canonical approach—i.e. an approach where the function of a biblical text within the canon is emphasised over the history of this text…
Although the third century has been characterised by modern scholars as a period of crisis from which only a few historical data have survived, I have been able to establish that the numismatic evidence found at excavated sites or in coin hoards is adequate for a detailed examin…
This thesis considers ritual as it was used by the Classic Maya at Baking Pot, Belize, during the site’s abandonment circa 800–900 CE. Ritual was deeply woven into the daily life of the Classic Maya. This study reviews Classic Maya rituals and problematic deposits in order to ad…
This dissertation provides the first systematic overview and analysis of the ritual scenes decorating the interior walls of the forecourt of Ramesses II at Luxor Temple, completed in the third year of Ramesses’s reign (c. 1279-1213 B.C.E.), and their relationship to this monumen…
A concern throughout the centuries has been handling and disposal of the dead. Addressing this concern over the ages, people with a multitude of names (death crier, grave digger, mortician, undertaker, and funeral director) performed different practices such as mummification, sh…
This dissertation examines the interrelation between concepts of masculinity among the laity and the clergy in the Merovingian era of Gaul, fifth to seventh centuries. In doing so, the work aims to fill a gap in current scholarship by examining the relationship between religious…
This dissertation asserts that Oscar Cullmann's claim that the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body are mutually exclusive principles in early Christianity is incorrect. Further, it demonstrated that conditional immortality (resulting in the annihilation of t…
Early Christian martyr literature was composed in an ancient Mediterranean world in which a variety of literary and performance genres abounded across porous group boundaries. Noting this cultural vibrancy, a number of scholars have emphasized that martyr texts exhibit generic h…
In the classical Christian tradition, personhood is a concept employed to distinguish the members in the Trinity while simultaneously affirming their oneness of being. Yet, this is a term applied to both human beings and God. At minimum a person is a being that exists in defined…
İnsan, tarihin ilk dönemlerinde ölümün bilinmezliği karşısında kendinden üstün güçlere sığınmıştır. Bu güçleri tanrısal addedip onlardan yardım dilemiştir. Zaman içerisinde doğayı, dünyayı ve kendisini tanıdıkça sığındığı odak noktası kısmen değişmekle beraber çözümü kendinde bu…
During archaeological excavations over the last century, fifty-seven separate coin deposits have been found in ancient synagogues from Late Antique Palestine and the Diaspora. This project provides an overview of these deposits, the buildings they were discovered in, and the spe…