American Christian travelers to the Holy Land sought to see at first hand the places they knew of through Bible study, photographic views, archaeological reports, and the eyewitness accounts of preachers and popular authors. Most studies of travel accounts have focused on their …
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On November 29, 1947 the newly established United Nations passed by a majority vote a resolution to partition Palestine into three entities: a Jewish state of Israel, an Arab state of Palestine and an International Territory of Jerusalem to remain under United Nations control. T…
This Project Demonstrating Excellence may be summarized as reflections on unity and difference which I have gathered together into a Theology of Culture. These reflections have grown out of my work towards the development of new protocols for the religious and civil governance o…
In the world of museums it is the management of holdings that allows the museum to fulfill its pedagogic and preservation missions. A museum that can gear its cataloguing for the easiest and most comprehensive access will enable its curators, researchers and the public to intera…
The Jerusalem Question has remained an unresolved element in the Arab-Israeli conflict for more than fifty years. What part do identity and ideology play in preventing or promoting a resolution between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on the final-status issue of Jerusalem? …
Computers and communication technology are changing the nature of education around the world. This was a study of the implementation of an Internet-based model of global curriculum within the context of an eighth grade social studies classroom at St. Dimitri School, a private Gr…
Various sources attest to the significance of the incense celebration in Second Temple Jerusalem. Scholars disagree as to when this ceremony, on a specific golden altar, was instituted. The scriptural command in Exodus 30:1-10 seems to be a late interpolation. This ceremony is a…
In view of the pressures accompanying modern life and population growth, there is great need and importance in the preservation of historic sites, which can create balance between the past and future and strengthen the sense of stability and cultural continuity. This study criti…
The twelfth-century rulers of Jerusalem had a singular opportunity to construct kingship. Although they were reges novi (upstarts who did not come from royal families), they ruled in a realm with no pre-existing traditions of western kingship. Representations of kingship in Jeru…
English literature about pilgrimage and crusade was written by and for people who defined themselves both as a religious community and as a nation in competition with older, more firmly established European kingdoms. These discourses of national English identity and Christian id…
This study is a comprehensive examination of William Blake's epic poem Jerusalem in relation to the forms, styles, and structures of the Hebrew Bible. I utilize techniques developed by biblical scholars and literary critics to analyze Jerusalem form-critically and demonstrate th…
Discovered during the 1932 excavations of the city, the Synagogue in Dura-Europos revealed an assembly room whose walls contained narrative paintings inspired by biblical and extra-biblical Jewish literature. Found in a nearly complete state is the sacred Jerusalem-facing west w…
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of how end-of-life decisions are made in Jerusalem, Israel. The primary focus of my study is what factors have the greatest influence on how these decisions are made. What cultural beliefs and values are involved, and how did they come …
The present dissertation shows that Cyril of Jerusalem's text of the New Testament had varying affinities, but that it was for the most part moving from the Alexandrian toward the Byzantine text-type. Chapters 1 and 2 contain the background for understanding Cyril's life and the…
This dissertation is an analysis of the ways in which early Christians employed the idea of Jerusalem in their literary and ideological constructions. Jerusalem is understood to be a symbol that was a useful tool in the hands of early Christian authors who were in the process of…
Multidisciplinary research and philosophical discourse have long explored the complex relationship between the objective environment and subjective human perception. No two humans perceive, experience, and form attitudes about the same phenomenon in exactly the same way. Individ…
The beauty of Jerusalem has always been in the citys rich religious significance to the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Since the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans under Titus in the first century, the temple mount has undergone many …
The purpose of this study was to locate the source from which the Western Christian Church borrowed the practice of ringing bells at Christian shrines that is evident at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome in the mid-eighth century C.E. Four major religious shrines, the fifth-century B…
Our examination of Josephus' use of heimarmene was to help explain why he would use a Greek philosophical term to explain Jewish tenets. We discovered that he employed the term not for traditional philosophical argument, but to focus attention on a life-style among the Jews that…