In this study I argue that many of the numerous locutions common to Ezekiel and Lev 17-26 are due to Ezekiel's purposeful and creative use of an earlier text. After establishing the direction of dependence, I demonstrate that the frequency and distribution of these locutions, Ez…
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During the 1630s, congregations began to separate from the established Anglican Church forming new autonomous groups. This study examines separatist and Baptist women s writings from this period, as they struggled under the persecution of the religious authorities and under the …
This study explores the hermeneutical issues raised by critical approaches to the Book of the Twelve and their implications for the concepts of authorial intent, history, and canon. By means of a critical engagement with the Twelve’s modern reception history it seeks to demonstr…
People have become suspicious of authority, including epistemic authorities, i.e., knowledge experts, even on matters individuals are unqualified to adjudicate (e.g., climate change, vaccines, or the shape and age of the earth). This is problematic since most of our knowledge co…
During a string of vicious attacks on religious sites around the world, the True Cross of Christ is stolen, and the Holy See has come to Dr. Noah Rosado for help. Noah is a renowned demonologist and a former Marine. Ten years ago, he was medically discharged after a raid on an i…
Numerous questions put to oracles on papyri survive from Egypt. When considered as a corpus, these provide the opportunity to observe the extent to which religion entered into the Roman administration's relations with the provincial population. Divination had a long and politici…
For years scholars have studied the “quotations” of the New Testament as found in the Apostolic Fathers, in Justin Martyr, or in other early second-century writers as if they were really quotations. When faced to explain why these “quotations” were not very accurate, some schola…
This doctoral dissertation probes Dante's understanding of the potentially explosive clash between theology and history by focusing on the violent act of sacrifice. The introduction surveys the appearance of the word "sacrifice" in all of Dante's works. The rare term is found to…
As a Fifth Monarchist prophet, Trapnel believed it was her duty to spread the word about the ungodly nature of world powers and to warn others about the impending apocalypse, as prophesied in the Bible. Although Trapnel received visions from God as early as 1646, over the next e…
Studies have shown that 6000 to 10,000 churches are dying in North America every year. In addition, the attitudes of the general public toward organized worship is changing, leading to a growing segment of younger population who do not attend church. Yet, the Bible tells us that…
The Scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation, record God continually revealing his plan of salvation to his people and through his people. As Luke records in Acts 2 it was Spirit baptism that constituted the Church and caused it to missionize the world. When one closely examines t…
Research on the Book of Joel has been complicated by a lack of consensus on its compositional history and, in particular, a recent tendency to ignore redactional considerations entirely. This study focuses renewed attention on the history of the book's composition, demonstrating…
The Sabbath as the central commandment of the Law relates all of Judaism to God, to creation, to redemption, and to the final fulfillment of the promises in the eternal Sabbath of the end-time. However, early in the inception of Christianity, Sunday replaced the Sabbath as the d…
This dissertation explores the representation of masculinity and the male body in the Hebrew prophets. Bringing together a close analysis of biblical prophetic texts with contemporary theoretical work on masculinity, embodiment, and prophecy, I argue that the male bodies of the …
Much of Christianity today neglects the role of the prophet. Christians who do acknowledge prophetic ministry commonly limit the impact of prophecy. Pentecostals, who embrace the role, often do not have a full biblical understanding of what a prophet is and what a prophet is to …
This study seeks to achieve two goals: (1) establish the issues in their logical order around which the millennial debate should take place, and (2) demonstrate what each side (amillennialism, postmillennialism, historic premillennialism, and dispensational premillennialism) mus…
Using the sociological methodology which was introduced by Max Weber, particularly his concept of “ideal type,” this study identified eight objective criteria and characteristics which can be applied to a case study to determine whether or not that subject is indeed “prophetic.”…
The present study is a history of interpretation. In that sense it does not fit neatly into the category of Wirkungsgeschichte. Moving through successive periods of the Christian church’s history, we will select representative interpretations of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and theologica…