This dissertation attempts to displace contemporary approaches to the anthropological study of Islam and in so doing offers a historically more grounded conceptual alternative to the existing literature on Islam and women. This is achieved by focusing on the discourses and pract…
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The closely related theories of democracy and democratic transitions provide a general framework for studying the Palestinian case of nation-state building and transition to democracy. By developing a theoretical framework from these theories, and testing the generated hypothese…
The Israeli military court system is an exemplary context to analyze the articulation of law, politics and identity in Israel and the occupied territories. As an institution, this system is part of the Israeli military administration over the territories. Its politico-legal func…
This dissertation builds on the insights of the “Italian school” (e.g., Liverani, Fales, Zaccagnini, Younger) concerning the ideological shaping of historical narratives. It engages in a literary-ideological analysis of nine West Semitic royal inscriptions from the ninth to the …
This dissertation on domestic architecture in Galilee and Golan during the Roman and Byzantine periods examines the archaeological data of the region in light of talmudic sources. The quality and quantity of archaeological and documentary evidence connected to the sites, the cit…
The Epipalaeolithic of Palestine, lasting from ca. 18'000 to 10'500 BP, spans a series of archaeological cultures characterized by tool kits dominated by microliths, whose various shapes are the basis of cultural classification. At the end of this period, agriculture - in partic…
Purpose. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the status of health conditions and services in the West Bank and Gara Strip since 1967 and to determine the needs of the Palestinian people. Methodology. The study utilized focused synthesis design to gather various data and to …
This is a study of the interpretation of archaeological data by Anglo-American Bible scholars, though the emphasis is primarily American, in scholarly and popular publications from 1900-1930. The major archaeological research interest for many Anglo-American biblical scholars wa…
This work represents an examination of the events and history surrounding the issuance of the Balfour Declaration in 1917. The history revolves around the key relationship that was to develop between the Zionist movement, its representatives, and the British government during th…
During the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961), development became an essential part of the strategic vision of containment in the Middle East. In 1953, Eisenhower attempted to use a plan created by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United Nations c…
The purpose of this dissertation is to establish the contents of the library of Eusebius (ca. 260–339) of Caesarea in Palestine. Founded by Origen to support his biblical criticism and teaching, the library survived to furnish Eusebius with materials for his own scholarship. Its…
The problem. Greenberg has recently stated that isolating temporal ceramic indicators for the Early Bronze II–III periods is “one of the thorniest issues in the archaeology of Palestine” (2000: 183). Part of the problem stems from the homogenous nature of ceramic assemblages fro…
This dissertation seeks to put in sociological perspective the recent introduction and usefulness of public opinion polling in Palestine. In tracing attempts, over several decades, by the Palestinians to make themselves heard and understood and to gain international recognition,…
Until recently, the possibility of multiple understandings of post-colonial conflicts had not received proper attention in the field of post-colonialism. Colonial theorists, in their effort to bring to our consciousness the evils of colonialism, have all too quickly subsumed the…
In describing the experience of British Empire soldiers in the First World War, most scholars have focused only on the Western Front, ignoring the most important secondary theaters of Britain's war: the Sinai and Palestine. In these campaigns against the Ottoman Empire, there ca…
This dissertation is concerned with the political culture of Palestinian Israelis--Palestinians who are citizens of Israel. Through ethnographic and literary analysis, it explores the interlocking of local, state and global processes and the ways in which Palestinians move betwe…
The thesis of this dissertation is that the campaign by Pharaoh Shoshenq I into Palestine in 926 B.C. E. was aimed solely at the kingdom of Judah with the purpose of supporting Jeroboam in his bid to rule Israel as a separate nation. The evidence for this campaign comes from the…
Using a game that explicitly models the price-matching decision process, I examine the conventional wisdom that advertised guarantees to match or beat a rival firm's prices facilitate collusive outcomes. When the cost of implementing price-matching policy is relatively low these…
The end of the Middle Bronze Age in Palestine during the 16th century B.C.E. coincides with the expulsion of the Hyksos and the rise of the 18th Dynasty in Egypt. During the transitional period between the Middle Bronze Age and the Late Bronze Age in Palestine (circa. 16th∼15th …