Dan 7:9-27 has exercised considerable influence on apocalyptic texts. Its descriptions of the "Ancient of Days", "one like a son of man", and the "holy ones of the Most High" influenced many Middle Jewish documents and resurface in later Rabbinic and Christian literature. The be…
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This dissertation investigates how an eleventh-century ideal of religious and political universality, found in sources of the Charlemagne legend, shaped the origins of and response to the First Crusade. Eleventh-century authors saw in Charlemagne's reign an exemplar of Christian…
A millennial narrative, created by an amalgamation of various apocalyptic and millenarian movements, has had a defining influence on the evolution of cultural identity in the United States. This study argues that evangelicals, as key guardians and interpreters of that paradigm, …
The Book of Tobit is an erudite text that draws upon many forms and traditions from Second Temple Judaism and the wider culture. The book addresses the problem of undeserved evil. In the estimation of most scholars, the book recommends a so-called Deuteronomistic theology, one t…
In the mid 1990's, Aarhus University's Per Bilde detailed a new hypothesis of how Judaism, Christianity and Gnosticism were connected. Bilde suggested that Christianity acted as a catalyst, propelling Jewish Apocalypticism into Gnosticism. This dissertation applies the epistle o…
The Naqshbandi-Haqqaniyya are one of the most well known and researched tariqas in the West. Until May 2014 the leader of the tariqa was Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Qubrusi al-Haqqani (1922-1914) who somewhat unusually among modern Sunni Sufi shaykhs taught consistently that the world …