Raggedy Men: Masculinity in the <i>Mad Max</i> Films
Raggedy men: masculinity in the Mad Max Films
Raggedy Men: Masculinity in the <i>Mad Max</i> Films
Current studies about Spirit-inspired visions are largely descriptive or overshadowed as they are part of a larger examination on Spirit baptism, pneumatology, or eschatology. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the discussion of Spirit-inspired visions and to inspire …
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 …
Postcolonial theory, while often reserved for analysis of modern political conditions, is often overlooked in biblical studies. The purpose of this thesis is to employ postcolonial analysis to the book of Ezekiel and demonstrate its value in biblical studies. Postcolonialism cri…
Ezekiel 20 retells Israel’s exodus narrative tradition (exodus from Egypt and entry into the land of Canaan) as a means of disorienting traditional understandings of identity in order to prepare the prophet’s audience for a new identity. To explore this chapter more fully and to…
The book of Ezekiel assumes that God has a body, and that it is perceptible to human beings as the kebôd YHWH, the "glory of the LORD." Although Ezekiel's conception of the divine form is influenced by several pre-existing Israelite theological traditions, including (but not lim…
Why is Egypt portrayed as a monster in the book of Ezekiel? Previous scholarship argues that the monstrification of Egypt can be explained either through the memory of the oppressive Egypt and the parting of the sea at the time of the exodus or by the political alliance between …
This dissertation investigates the use of biblical interpretation in the Book of Daniel. It demonstrates the spectrum in which Daniel uses older scriptural texts such as Genesis and Ezekiel in order to accomplish the theological concord with the earlier scriptural traditions of …
In this study, I contend that Ezekiel's portrait of the Glory represents an understanding of Yahweh's earthly presence that is markedly different from how the earthly divine presence is understood in Deuteronomistic Name theology. As formulated in Deuteronomy and maintained in t…
The prophet Ezekiel is universally regarded as a Priestly prophet whose language and theology is steeped in the Holiness Code of Leviticus 17–26. Yet, while scholars increasingly recognize Ezekiel’s allusions to a wide array of Israel’s texts and traditions, most find little inf…
The Gog oracles (Ezekiel 38-39) envision a future battle in the land of Israel between God and the nations of the earth. This study examines the Gog oracles' far-reaching reformulation of Ezekiel's vision of restoration and clarifies the last stages in the book's literary histor…
The purpose of this dissertation is threefold: first, to establish the intertextual connection between Ezekiel 37 and Ephesians 2; second, to provide a fresh understanding of Ephesians 2 against the backdrop of Ezekiel 37; and third, to delineate Paul's hermeneutical practice as…
This dissertation is a comparison of the book of Ezekiel with the well-known city lament genre of ancient Mesopotamia. Nine shared features are analyzed and explained. These features derive from the work of Dobbs-Allsopp 1 and his comparison of biblical Lamentations with city la…
This study concludes that the book of Ezekiel was not an amalgam of visions and oracles compiled with no particular literary strategy but rather is a purposeful literary work, which betrays the compiler's rhetorical intent. The book of Ezekiel shows a masterful literary mind beh…
This dissertation examines the translational goals of LXX Ezekiel 40-48 in the light of two major developments in textual criticism in the past half-century: (1) the recognition that biblical corpora existed in variant literary editions in antiquity, associated with Eugene Ulric…