This dissertation looks at the scriptural images of angel and temple, as they occur in key works by John Damascene: on the Heresies, chapter 100 "On the Ishmaelites;" Three Treatises on the Divine Images, and on the Orthodox Faith. Angelic and temple imagery forms an important c…
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The purpose of this study is to show how meteorological imagery is used in Isaiah 40-55 by describing the internal consistency of the imagery and its relationship to the autumn weather of ancient Palestine. In each of four main chapters the specific occurrences of the imagery ar…
The main purpose of this monograph was to trace the temple motifs in the book of Revelation vis-a-vis those of the Old Testament, and then to assess the degree to which temple in pre-A.D. 70 non-canonical Jewish literature "influenced" these same themes in Revelation apart from …
The Peloponnese has only begun to be considered a single region of artistic exchange or interaction. Scholarship has maintained strict boundaries between Medieval West and Byzantine East, treating Greek Orthodox Mistra as distinct from the Latin Principality of Achaea. The few t…
Imagery related to the vineyard provides a fertile source of significant metaphors that enrich the literature of the Hebrew Scriptures. The identification of Israel with the vineyard of God serves to establish and perpetuate a perception of the nations's origin, identity, and fu…
The present study proposes that the Song of Songs contains an inclusio and an implicit paradigm of nuptial images representing the ANE bridal chamber which functions as an interpretive framework for understanding the nature of the Song's erotic love. This proposal is based upon …
This dissertation examines the significance of Exodus typology upon the conclusion of Scripture, namely, John's Apocalypse. After a brief introduction to the project in chapter 1, chapter 2 focuses on intertextuality, defining key terminology including typology. Chapter 3 examin…
This study is an attempt to trace the evolution of the medieval phoenix icon and its attendant symbolism (e.g., numbers, meanders, chevrons, olive branches) and meaning (e.g., resurrection, inconquerable spirit, self-regeneration, androgyny). The study follows these attendant sy…
Poetry gives voice to poet and reader through language woven with metaphor, imagery, and symbolic meaning. Throughout history poetry endures as an ever-changing messenger of the times and shared humanity. Poets craft their medium with a capacity to portray the quintessential ele…
What is the ancestral shadow, and how can an imaginal exploration help an individual to heal and integrate the shadow of multiple generations? Drawing on Carl Jung’s theory of the shadow, the ancestral shadow is explored in this thesis as being a part of the unconscious that hol…