This dissertation examines the multiple place narratives in modern Jewish literature from Israel and the United States, showing that the standard tropes of exile and home insufficiently express the Jewish perception of place. Recently, some scholars have overturned the conventio…
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This dissertation is both a theoretical proposal about exile and identity and an engaged reading of novels by Assia Djebar and Nabile Farès. The gist of my argument is that Djebar and Farès bring together the specificities of the Algerian—and more generally the francophone—write…
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…
Between 1926 and 1943, Benito Mussolini's fascist dictatorship deported 15,000 Italians to island internment colonies and small villages in southern Italy. This institution (confino di polizia) and, more broadly, the experiences of Italians affected by it, is the subject of this…
This thesis examines how the displaced Sudanese in Egypt, Kenya, and the United Kingdom discuss the topic of "Human Rights". Whereas many studies on "Human Rights" are primarily concerned with the opinions of outsiders, an attempt is made here to provide an alternative perspecti…
This thesis argues that the fictional works of Sarajevan writer Aleksandar Hemon can be viewed as testimonial texts. I examine his novels and collections of short stories in conversation with the literary response to the siege of Sarajevo and as representations of the effects of…
The primary focus of this dissertation is an exegetical analysis of the temple imagery in the epistle of 1 Peter (1:18–19; 2:4–10; 3:19–20; 4:14–17; 5:10) in light of the Second Temple Jewish framework of the “lingering exile” as an interpretive matrix. The focus will be on 1 Pe…
This dissertation examines the thesis that Paul, in Galatians 3:1–14, is making a prophetic statement to the Galatians in which he interprets the story of Israel from Abraham through the Exile to provide an historical example of the fact that entrance into the people of God is g…
My dissertation analyzes the Spanish Nobel Laureate poet’s transatlantic path and his relationship to Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico as expressed in his archival practices from 1916 (his first trip to the U.S.) until his death in 1958. Jiménez went into permanent exile…
This dissertation examines the fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie and Sara Suleri to show how their writings disturb and reconfigure representations of the nation by positing new fictions of transit, migrancy, and dispersal. In all three writers, hybridity fissures the…
The dissertation is an interdisciplinary study which combines the insights of human geography and rhetoric with exegesis of Ezekiel 40-48 in an effort to read the whole as a rhetorical response to the social and theological crises of exile. The thesis of the dissertation is that…
Can culture be at the same time a creative and hegemonic or counter-hegemonic process? This question is discussed in relation to the culture of the rural society of Olymbos of the Greek island Karpathos. The focus is on a central dimension of Olymbitian culture, the ritual poetr…
The dissertation examines exile in the book of Daniel as an ideological concept. The book portrays the exile as continuing beyond the initial return of the Jewish exiles in 538 B.C.E. into the period of Second Temple Judaism. By asserting exile as its own location, the Danielic …
This dissertation explores the representative works of several contemporary Iraqi women's writing and the themes of war and exile employed in their narratives. Iraqi women focus their fictional narrative discourse and themes on the Iraqi war(s) and the political situation their …
As the Palestinian community in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has transitioned from having a political leadership in exile to the localized governing of the Palestinian Authority over the past twenty years, the relationship and conceptions of the role of the exile have s…
In narrating his 28-chapter story Matthew employs thirteen formula-quotations. Seven—more than half—are crowded into the first four chapters. While great attention has been paid to the evangelist's use of the Old Testament as a means of discovering his sources and their text-for…
Mosaics of Identity: Reading Muslim Women's Memoirs From Across the Diaspora addresses Muslim women's life writing in transit since 9/11. This project follows the memoir boom fueled by many Middle Eastern women writers publishing in the U.S., Australia and Europe. By studying co…
Having reigned only three months, Jehoiachin appears to have been an insignificant king in the tumultuous last days of Judah. But his rehabilitation at the end of 1-2 Kings and the attention he receives in Jeremiah and Ezekiel suggest that his theological significance outweighs …
This study focuses on the degree to which three religious rituals--Sabbath observance, fasting, and circumcision--took on a particular shape for ancient Israel during the period of the Babylonian exile (ca. 6th cent. B.C.E.), and influenced the final shape of the covenant narrat…