Kingship in 19ᵗʰ century Ethiopia has received little attention. This study documents the evolution of kingship in the region of Shewa through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The research methodology is based upon indigenous, visual documentation, that traces the histor…
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The Naaman story has been curiously neglected throughout history both in Hebrew Bible and liturgical studies. Scholars have paid little attention to the event of Naaman's conversion through a water rite. In this study, the Naaman story is analyzed in relation to conversion and w…
This Project comprises an experiment in interfaith dialogue with the purpose of bringing reconciliation between a group of Christians and Muslims in Northern Nigeria, whose life was disrupted by violence in 1987. The Project is situated in the village of Wusasa, near the city of…
This dissertation analyzes three types of texts (essays, religious studies, fiction) to illustrate Pardo Bazán's original construction of a Christian feminist model. The first chapters examine her initial efforts to combat the “ángel del hogar” bourgeois stereotype in her essays…
The usual options in the scholarly literature—that Paul derived his behavior instructions in whole or in part either from the Old Testament Law or from contemporaneous Hellenistic moralists, or both, or even from Iranian sources—do not satisfactorily explain his ethic and the co…
The dissertation addresses the question of the social organization of early Christian communities, c. 50 C.E. to c. 260 C.E. I demonstrate that the primary conceptual and behavioral model for early Christian social organization was the surrogate family (Chapter One). The specifi…
This study, conceived as one step toward addressing the American church's struggles over sexual matters, begins with the fact that Leviticus 18 (the chapter covering sexual impurities) addresses itself to "the sons of Israel," not to Christians, yet Christians regard it as Holy …
Currently, very little research and few publications regarding Arabs as immigrants, their children, as second generation born Americans, and their collective experiences exists (Faragallah, Schumm & Webb, 1997). Arab scholars agree that the number of stereotypes which the Arabs …
The Sibylline Oracles are collection of ancient pagan, Jewish, and Christian prophecies which were composed in Greek hexameter and attributed to an ancient Greek prophetess named Sibyl. While few of the pagan Sibylline Oracles survive, an extensive collection of Jewish and Chris…
This is a dissertation on Jewish-Christian dialogue and concerns the ways in which that dialogue can take place in a post-Holocaust, post-Christendom world. The argument assumes that any attempt at such dialogue requires that the religious convictions of both Jews and Christians…
The Jewish/Christian dialogue has achieved a great deal during the past forty years. During the same period the rate of interfaith marriage from within the Jewish community has increased beyond 50% nationally and threatens the long-term vitality of Judaism and the Jewish communi…
In the antebellum United States, the curse of Canaan functioned as one justification for African slavery. Some scholars claim that certain negative references to black skin color in rabbinic literature were repeated in medieval Christian sources and directly contributed to the a…
This dissertation explores the social impact and cultural meaning of Christian conversion among Dayaks, the indigenous people of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The findings are based on eighteen months of fieldwork in Samarinda, East Kalimantan as well as archival research conducte…
The purpose of this dissertation was to analyze the evangelistic strategy used by the FCA from 1963 to 1971. Chapter 1 introduced important background information of the FCA. It provided a brief history of the FCA from its conception in 1954 till the present that served as the b…
In the United States, the recognition and acceptance of those who identity as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) has generally seen an upward trend since the 1980s (Drake, 2013). Despite this trend, conservative Christians who maintain a traditional reading of the Bible are likely …
Embodiment is a faith-based intervention program created to increase positive body image and decrease self-objectification among Christian women through the use of biblical messages about the body. This study was approved by the Protection of Human Rights in Research Committee. …
The purpose of this dissertation research was to investigate the experience of African American gay men who openly acknowledged their sexual orientation (commonly referred to as coming out) in a community that did not accept their gay identity or condone their behavior. Research…
My thesis deals with the larger issues of transformation, continuity, and change which were taking place in the Roman empire of the fourth century C.E. as exemplified in the life and work of Epiphanius, bishop of Salamis (ca. 315–403 C.E.), particularly his work, the Panarion. T…
Baptism as a ritual is not the creation of Jesus, but is introduced by John the Baptist. John's baptism originated in Judaism and his baptism preserved the function and implication of Jewish washing, i.e., ritual cleansing from impurity, by means of repentance and forgiveness. B…