The site of Tell el Ajjul represents one of the most important Middle Bronze Age sites in southern Palestine. This dissertation presents a refined chronology of the site based on a correlation between the destruction of Town I and the Minoan eruption of the Thera volcano. It is …
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This study focuses on what goes on in the writing curriculum at Hebron University and the English Department in relation to the University's goals for teaching writing. The purpose of the study is to describe what actually goes on in the writing skills curriculum and see whether…
This dissertation examines the constellation of forces that precipitated the Zionist movement and Jewish colonization of Palestine. The primary goals are to identify and contrast the aspirations and final objectives of the Biluim and halutzim, the pioneers of the first and secon…
The character of the Anglican church in Palestine changed considerably over the first century of its history. In 1841 King Frederick William IV of Prussia proposed a Protestant bishopric in Jerusalem to bring the Protestant churches of England and Prussia closer together and to …
This Dissertation examines the early, pre-Marxist years of Hashomer Hatzair youth movement from a wider perspective of European intellectual and cultural history. The movement originated in the Habsburg province of eastern Galicia around 1911 and was founded in Vienna in 1916. D…
Rujm el-Hiri: Toward an understanding of a Bronze Age megalithic monument in the Levant is aimed at providing a broad insight into two episodes in the prehistory of the Levant--the construction and usage of the Early Bronze Age ceremonial complex Rujm el-Hiri in the Golan Height…
This dissertation is about why nations make significant foreign policy shifts in protracted bilateral conflicts. For nearly twenty-six years, Israeli foreign policy was largely resistant to negotiations with the PLO over a settlement that would produce an indepent Palestinian st…
This study explores and analyzes the transition from the Palestine Police to the Israel Police. It also examines the circumstances under which the Israeli police force was established, the impact of the Israel Independence War of 1948, and the social changes which followed the b…
This work investigates the Histadrut's picketing campaign demanding the exclusive employment of Jewish workers at Jewish-owned work sites in Palestine, from 1927 to 1936, and the elements of propaganda employed by that campaign. Two chapters examine the picketing confrontations …
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…
This study attempts to place evidence of textile production at Iron Age Timnah (Tel Batash) within broader regional and socioeconomic contexts. Archaeological finds relative to a textile industry at Iron Age Timnah are presented and used to demonstrate the site's continuity with…
Terrorism in the Middle East may be considered an unfortunate but inevitable by-product of revolutionary nationalism. The Jews living in Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s, lived under a mandate system run by the British government. This system was set up after the first World War…
One purpose of this dissertation is to systematize Kathleen Kenyon's interpretation of the history of Old Testament times, utilizing both her published and unpublished materials. A second purpose is to analyze Kenyon's presuppositions and methodological considerations concerning…
Problem. This project was an investigation of Khirbet Nisya (near Ramallah/El-Bireh) for six seasons to describe and interpret the excavation evidence. The excavation and analyses of finds were correlated with biblical data to help clarify certain problems relating to the Israel…
This is a study southern Levantine ceramic industries during the Crusader, Ayyubid, Mamluk, and Ottoman periods (12th-20th centuries A.D.). Initial chapters review the environment of Palestine and Transjordan, and Late Islamic political and economic history. Settlement pattern d…
This thesis is concerned with examining the right of return and compensation, under international law, of Jordanian nationals who are of Palestinian refugee origin exclusively and Jordan's right as their state of nationality to bring claims on their behalf to and against Israel.…
This dissertation investigates the quietly spectacular, particular moment of an inconspicuous Palestinian publication from 1999 entitled D[dotbelow]uy uf al-nar al-da`im una [The Eternal Guests of Fire; EGF ]. A poetry anthology, EGF sparked an immediate debate among commentator…