Cross-national empirical research consistently suggests that, on average, former British colonies are both more democratic and have more stable democratic transitions. I argue that former British colonies are distinct not because Great Britain was a democracy—so were France and …
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This dissertation deals with the biblical scholarship of Jerome of Stridon (347–419), in particular with his commentaries on the Prophets. It argues that Jerome developed his commentarial method in the context of an attempt to present biblical exegesis as a mode of ascetic self-…
The dissertation is mainly concerned with Paul M. van Buren's contribution to the Jewish-Christian dialogue. Nevertheless, the work traces van Buren's theological development from his earliest period as a student of Karl Barth, to what he himself referred to as his analytic phil…
Although both Jews and Christians consider the Hebrew Bible sacred scripture, they often differ on the interpretation of this text. In fact, throughout history it has been common for Christians to interpret Hebrew Bible passages in order to criticize or condemn Jewish religious …
A typological reading of Rudy Wiebe's My Lovely Enemy and A Discovery of Strangers reveals an implicit witness to the Christ of the Incarnation and a sustained critique of both church and state. His method of indirection favours parabolic form in a promotion of meaning. The diss…
This work explores the use of athletic (agonistic) metaphors in the extant literature of the earliest Christian communities, particularly exploring athletic metaphors that appear in the writings associated with Paul (both in the undisputed letters such as Corinthians and Philipp…
This dissertation is a study of the formation of ethnicities among the Toba Batak Christians in a transnational community in a process of modernization. Immigrant Toba Bataks from Sumatra established this community in Singapore after World War II. The center of the community is …
The Holocaust and the rebirth of the State of Israel serve as a catalyst for Western Christian awareness of its seventeen centuries of contempt and persecution of the Jews and false testimony that Judaism is dead. This book tells the story of the theological and spiritual develo…
The interplay of religion and politics has been a consistent theme in the comparative politics of identity, and more specifically with regard to Middle Eastern politics. Yet coverage of religion and politics in the region is generally focused on the Muslim majority and neglects …
This dissertation is a study of the lives of Christian captives in the later Middle Ages (14th–15th centuries), in Iberia and the Western Mediterranean. The Muslim invasion of Spain in 711 was the first act in a long struggle as the two competing religious groups fought each oth…
Scholarship on the question of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity has evolved radically over the past few decades. The earliest research assumed an early break between the two faiths. To speak in familial terms, Christianity was seen as the daughter of Judaism. Th…
This dissertation paints a picture of the Christian life as it flows out of the covenant relationship which God has established with his people through his Word, the dbr-YHWH, spoken initially and prophetically to Israel, and with finality in the incarnation of the dbr-YHWH, Jes…
Cannibalism is the ultimate breaking of taboos—what Peter Hulme has called “the mark of unregenerate savagery.” Yet accounts of this topos of horror, mythological, historical and contemporary, were particularly popular in Europe during the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance…
This dissertation presents an introduction to Consolacao and to its historical context; provides a study of two major sources, pastoral literature and the Bible; and offers an in-depth analysis of the text. The aim of this thesis is to reveal the message and artistry of the text…
This dissertation investigates the development of the Christian tradition of using passages from the Jewish Hebrew scriptures to express and define the Christian faith, the interaction of this tradition with Jewish/Christian social relationships in the first, second, and third c…
This dissertation is an analysis of the ways in which early Christians employed the idea of Jerusalem in their literary and ideological constructions. Jerusalem is understood to be a symbol that was a useful tool in the hands of early Christian authors who were in the process of…
In 1085 C.E., when Alfonso VI of Castile-León conquered the Muslim city of Toledo, he became the ruler of the single largest concentration of Arabized Christians in Iberia. These Christians, called Mozarabs, had, over the course of a dozen generations under Muslim rule, maintain…
This dissertation extends the ancient Hebrew and Christian ethic of hospitality to vulnerable strangers. The dissertation develops a mutually critical correlation between the fact of the Christian ethical centrality of hospitality and the contemporary situation of geographical a…
This dissertation analyzes the education of Muslim leaders in accredited North American institutions. Currently, the only accredited programs that train Muslim leaders in the United States and Canada are Protestant Christian seminaries. Based on ethnographic research conducted a…