This work examines the ongoing conflict on Cyprus between Greek and Turkish ethnic groups in the context of the accumulated memories and historical injuries which each has experienced at the hands of the other. This is a critique of the traditional approaches to the Cyprus confl…
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The dissertation is an edition of the Greek text and English translation of Olympiodorus' commentary on the biblical book of the prophet Jeremiah. Olympiodorus was a deacon who lived in Alexandria, Egypt during the last part of the fifth century and the first half of the sixth c…
The Peshitta and Syro-Hexapla are two translations of the Old Testament into Syriac. The Peshitta is a translation From the Hebrew, received by a Syriac-speaking Jewish or Christian Community in the 1st or 2nd Century CE. The Syro-Hexapla is a translation from the Greek, made fo…
This dissertation examines the social construction of ethnic identities among Greek Cypriot children aged nine to twelve attending elementary school in Cyprus. More specifically, it examines how children construct and negotiate their identities in the social domains of everyday …
The purpose of this study was twofold: to explore the acculturative experiences of Greeks in Toronto, Canada, and also to learn more about the nature of and assessment of “acculturative stress”, a construct used in the field of cross-cultural psychology to assess the adjustment …
In this dissertation, I discuss three interrelated issues: Greek, ethnographic writing in the period known as the Second Sophistic, the use of an archaizing past in this writing, and the way in which early Imperial, Greek speaking intellectuals deployed ethnographic ideas in the…
This dissertation studies the more than 1300 Greek and Latin inscriptions referring to divine communications received by individual worshipers in their dreams or waking visions, or else through unspecified divinatory media. Precisely 1300 of these—623 Greek, 677 Latin—are inscri…
This study examines a select group of ritual texts from Graeco-Roman Egypt designated as invisibility spells (P.Oxy. inv. 3931; P.Berol. inv. 5025.222–31, 247–62; P.Lond. inv. 121.620–2; P.Lugd.Bat. inv. J 395 [W] 234–7, 267–9, 270–7). As part of the larger corpus of magical lit…
The text of the early chapters of 1 Kings (3 Reigns in Greek) diverges widely in its two main witnesses, the Masoretic Hebrew text and the Old Greek translation of the Septuagint. In the past divergences of this kind were often attributed to the freedom of the translator. Howeve…
Theodotion-Daniel (Θ-Dan) is the name generally given to one of the Greek forms of the Book of Daniel. Though this version is attributed to Theodotion, the second century A.D. reviser of the Greek Old Testament, Theodotion-Daniel must antedate the work of this revision. Some tim…
This dissertation analyzes character-portrayal in the Fourth Gospel within the context of Greek and Hebrew methods of character-depiction. Two previous studies serve as points of departure for this examination. One is R. Alan Culpepper's chapter on characterization in Anatomy of…
This dissertation examines inscriptions from the Roman and Late Antique Near East that ask the gods for salvation (hyper sôtêrias or pro salute) from the pre-Roman to the Christian period (100 BC–AD 800). The first part of the dissertation distinguishes between two types of insc…
This study concerns itself with the syntactic and semantic behavior of the reduplicated presents primarily of Homeric Greek, but with frequent references to other ancient Indo-European languages as well. The Dissertation consists of 10 Chapters: Chapter 1 gives a brief account o…
This study presents the first systematic investigation of translation technique in the Peshitta of the book of Job (P-Job). By examining representative topics in P-Job from the areas of grammar, syntax, semantics and style, characteristics of the Peshitta in general and the Pesh…
The unique puzzle to be solved in this research effort was to use the concept of philomythy as a tool to ascertain how a central set of Kemetic (Egyptian) ideas were disseminated to Greece from Kemet (Egypt). The research effort defined philomythy in the context of philosophy to…
This dissertation presents a new chapter in the story of Christian culture's engagement with classical literary culture. The Codex of Visions , part of the Bodmer Papyri discovered in upper Egypt in 1952, provides the material for my study. This codex contains previously unknown…
In the classical Western philosophical tradition, wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance are considered to be the "four cardinal virtues." Of this list of virtues only one, courage, or andreia in Greek, was derived from the same root (andr) that the Greeks used for the English…
Ben Sira (ca. 245–175 B.C.E.) was a Jerusalem scribe, among whose functions was the instruction of young men. Near the end of his life Ben Sira collected his notes and reflections into a long Hebrew poem, that came to be known as the Wisdom of Ben Sira (the Apocryphal/Deuterocan…
This dissertation will translate and comment upon one of Theodoret's previously untranslated works, Commentary on Jonah. Theodoret of Cyrrhus, a key player in the political and theological controversies between Alexandria and Antioch in the fifth-century CE, produced massive amo…