Jewish Life in Medieval Spain is a detailed exploration of the Jewish experience in medieval Spain from the dawn of Sephardic society in the ninth century to the expulsion of 1492. An important contribution of the book is the integration of the rise and fall of Jewish life in Mu…
Admirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes and puzzles he devises in his fiction. Nabokov himself spoke a number of times…
This dissertation explores nineteen occasions where Ezra–Nehemiah uses the language of Deuteronomy, either through allusion or quotation. The study considers how the law contributed to the identity of the post-exilic community, especially in relation to their ongoing exile while…
This study is a commentary on the shepherd and sheep metaphor in the prophetic (exilic and post-exilic) and Synoptic Gospel literature. It discusses the cognitive dimension of the metaphor and what is revealed about God and his relation to his people through the presence of this…
This dissertation examines the motif of the vindication of the divine reputation in the book of Ezekiel. A study of the specific language of the motif, along with its meanings and functions, reveals that the motif is vital to the rhetorical strategy of the entire book: it fulfil…
Since the late 1960s, Eritreans in the United States have been active participants in ongoing efforts to define the Eritrean nation. They have also contributed extensively to the political-economic viability of the emergent state. During the nationalist revolution war of indepen…
Living in “exile,” Vietnamese Americans suffer a deep sense of loss, politically, socially and culturally. Learning to adapt, to adjust, and striving to achieve and to survive, in America, they are American citizens but not “Americans.” In Vietnam, they are Vietnamese but not Vi…
The purpose of this study is to carefully examine the “Parable of the Unforgiving Servant” found in Matthew 18:23–35. Specifically this study seeks to show that Matthew presents Jesus' work as bringing an end to the exile which was caused by sin. Those who refused to accept God'…
This dissertation explores comparative representations of displacement, exile, and diaspora in twentieth-century writing by women. While numerous studies have addressed the particularities of modernist exile for male writers from Europe and the United States, far less has work h…
This dissertation will explore the issue of whether the historical Jesus ever spoke or acted on the basis of the ancient Jewish concept of the eschatological tribulation: i.e., the expectation that the age of salvation would be preceded by a final period of extreme suffering, af…
Based on the works of three postcolonial Maghrebian writers, this study focuses on different aspects of exclusion and the relevance, of current Western thinkers approaches to the role of intellectuals. While Sartre, Foucault, Gramsci, Bourdieu and others all provide useful categ…