Massive debris flows devastated Montecito, California, USA on January 9th, 2018. The damage from the flows resulted in 23 deaths and greater than 200 million in property damage. Given this destruction, the community fears the possibility of another event. Prior to this study, th…
This dissertation explores ways in which diverse subtopics in literary studies converge to answer questions about the composition history, reception, and thematic content of several plays by Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd. I first endorse the theory that Shakespeare’s career began i…
Results of I-Xe analyses have been obtained from meteorite samples that experienced different extents of thermal processing in the early Solar System in order to help characterise the movements of iodine and xenon in the early Solar System and constrain the timing of these movem…
The subject of this dissertation is a corpus of 203 Bronze Age anthropomorphic figurines recovered from various archaeological contexts at Umm el-Marra, Syria. Anthropomorphic figurines are an important subject of study because they are common in the archaeological record and ye…
Many historians and biblical scholars have attempted to make sense of the data found in the Hebrew Bible in order to reconstruct the time measuring systems that were in use in ancient Israel. Some have been more successful than others, but all who have tackled the problem have h…
Problem. Bab edh-Dhra' and Numeira have been identified by archaeologists as possible candidates for two of the biblical cities of the plain, but their existence in the Early Bronze Age III is too early to match the biblical narrative (Gen 19) by many chronologies of ancient Can…
A chronology of the Syrtis Major Quadrangle on Mars has been devised using topographic, structural, gravimetric, and magnetic data along with recent narrow-angle images from the Mars Orbiter Camera. The dichotomy boundary and Arabia Terra are two of the major structural features…
The site of Tell el Ajjul represents one of the most important Middle Bronze Age sites in southern Palestine. This dissertation presents a refined chronology of the site based on a correlation between the destruction of Town I and the Minoan eruption of the Thera volcano. It is …
Codex Vaticanus and the Masoretic Text witness to two significantly different texts in 1 Samuel 17–18. Proponents of the MT generally attribute the shorter LXX to the omission of parts of its Vorlage before or during the work of the Septuagint translators. Proponents of LXX B cl…