Scholars such as C. Westermann, J. Blenkinsopp, J. Muilenburg, B. Childs, and C. Seitz have argued that the term "Zion/Jerusalem" in Isaiah 40–55 has a double meaning, referring to I) the people in Babylonian exile, and 2) the physical city in Judah. Recently, C. Maier and L. Ti…
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This dissertation investigates the State of Israel's practices and policies aimed at excluding Palestinians from Jerusalem. It explores the legal, cultural, and physical policies used to sever Palestinians' long-standing connections to Jerusalem and highlights Palestinians' stra…
The objective of this dissertation is to explore the meanings, significance, and functions of sacred space developed in the Hebrew Bible. A wide range of categories, models, and geographical forms of biblical sacred space will be presented: the cosmos, Mt. Zion, the Land of Isra…
This dissertation is an investigation of the Israeli policies, procedures and laws and how they have contributed to the alienation of the Palestinian community of East Jerusalem. Through examining the network of strategies, Laws and State actions that is enforced by the State of…
This dissertation is an examination of the MT and LXX versions of Nehemiah 11-12. Nehemiah 11-12 includes material that focuses on the people who settled in Jerusalem, a catalog of settlements around the region of Judah, and lists of temple personnel in Jerusalem. These chapters…
On April 18, 1989, the Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem opened to the public with a fanfare of trumpets and fireworks.1 The historical museum was located in the Citadel, an Ottoman fortress, and invited visitors to walk through Jerusalem's history chronologicall…
This dissertation delimits the nature of medieval perceptions about Jerusalem, the Holy Sites, and Jews as manifested in the medium used by Pope Urban II in 1095 to launch the First Crusade, the Latin sermon. It argues that a homiletic tradition shaped by monastic authors influe…
This thesis addresses a longstanding challenge in the history of the religious architecture of late antique Jerusalem, and it attempts to create new theoretical resources for approaching this challenge. Paradoxically, this interpretive problem has to do not with the meaning of a…
Mexico’s contributions to the classical music canon are grossly overlooked and underappreciated in modern academic curricula. This dissertation highlights one such contribution. The primary purpose of this study is to theoretically and interpretively analyze solo arias from the …
This dissertation explores the spatial construction of identity and the politics of difference in contemporary Jerusalem. I trace ethnographically what few studies have, heretofore, examined: namely, the multiple ways in which space, identity, and alterity are experienced, produ…
During the first century, Yeshua (Jesus) and the original Christians viewed the temple as God's dwelling place on earth. Informed by the Hebrew Bible, which they saw as the Holy Scriptures, they continued to hold the temple in high regard. The writings of the New Testament displ…
The City and the Word examines how early modern writers depicted London in the guise of various iterations of Jerusalem and thereby shaped their readers as subjects of a uniquely privileged nation. I argue that discursive parallels between these two capital cities contributed to…
This study explores the help-seeking process of English-speaking Orthodox Jews living in Jerusalem, Israel. There is a belief, backed by some research coming out of public mental health facilities in Jerusalem, that the religious community underutilizes traditional mental health…
When discussing the Old Testament concept that the Lord chose Zion and/or Jerusalem, there is a tendency amongst scholars to do so 1) part and parcel with a discussion of Deuteronomy's Centralization Formula and 2) synonymously with other ideas of the election of Zion and/or Jer…
This project focuses on the impact that Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt had on François-Réné de Chateaubriand's Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. Napoleon's campaign in Egypt set forth an unprecedented imperial ideology that sought to know and thus conquer the Middle East …
In this dissertation, I trace the emergence of Jerusalem as a subject of musical-poetic contemplation after the Six Day War of 1967, when the city was conquered and unified under Israeli rule. Based on ethnographic and archival research conducted in Israel/Palestine between 2010…
This dissertation investigates Iron II Judean pillar figurines and their place in Judean ritual. First, the project identifies major trends in the interpretation of figurines and evaluates them using ancient Near Easter texts, archaeological context, the Hebrew Bible, and iconog…
Scholars have been divided over how to interpret the relationship between Palestinian Jews and the Roman Empire during the Herodian period (40 BCE-70 CE). This thesis attempts to understand this relationship through a model of Romanization based on theories of identity negotiati…
In the period of 1967 to 1993, Palestinian theatre became a major platform for the expression of the Palestinian identity. This dissertation asks the following question: Why and how did Palestinian theatre thrive in Jerusalem during this period? I begin this study by outlining a…