Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this project was to educate and empower church leaders to utilize their spiritual giftedness in concert with the Triune God’s purposes for their service in the church—the Body of Christ. This project evaluated biblical, theological, and …
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This study examines various notions of divine presence as integral to the depiction of Israel's apostasy at Mount Sinai within the redacted Pentateuch as well as to interpretations of that composite text by ancient Jews and Christians. The concepts of presence articulated by anc…
During the eighth and ninth centuries, in the Islamic empire governed from 'Abbāsid Baghdad, a new body of Christian literature appeared: theological treatises written in Arabic rather than in Syriac or Greek, and composed with the express purpose of articulating Christian doctr…
This dissertation explores two areas of human experience that have been criticized as potentially dangerous and uncontrollable almost consistently since Late Antiquity: violence and those who engage in it, and emotions. However, it will be seen that in the Western Mediterranean …
This paper will conduct a comprehensive case study of Iraq’s displaced Christians in Jordan. It will analyze the living standards of this vulnerable population in the context of Jordanian policies. It will also highlight the differences between Iraq’s displaced Christians and it…
'Race' and "ethnicity" name prominent, potent, pervasive social constructs in popular culture, public life, and other realms of society in the United States. They underpin standard frames of social reference ostensibly rooted in objective biological structures; their facticity i…
My dissertation is a critical edition, translation and analysis of the opening chapter of Sefer Milhamot Hashem (1170), Jacob ben Reuben's philosophical polemic against Christianity. This groundbreaking text, possibly the first of its kind in Europe, emerged seemingly out of the…
ABSTRACT During the Middle Ages, Jews, Christians and Muslims coexisted (often uneasily) on the Iberian Peninsula. These three religious groups were in a constant process of defining and preserving their identities, which were often constructed in terms of the relationships with…
This dissertation examines the ritual use of scriptural incipits (i.e., opening lines of biblical books and texts) on apotropaic devices (e.g., amulets) from late antique Egypt. There are three primary objectives of this study. First, I develop a typology of the scriptural incip…
This dissertation investigates the development of the Christian tradition of using passages from the Jewish Hebrew scriptures to express and define the Christian faith, the interaction of this tradition with Jewish/Christian social relationships in the first, second, and third c…
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…
This dissertation explores the social impact and cultural meaning of Christian conversion among Dayaks, the indigenous people of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The findings are based on eighteen months of fieldwork in Samarinda, East Kalimantan as well as archival research conducte…
The Sibylline Oracles are collection of ancient pagan, Jewish, and Christian prophecies which were composed in Greek hexameter and attributed to an ancient Greek prophetess named Sibyl. While few of the pagan Sibylline Oracles survive, an extensive collection of Jewish and Chris…
This is a dissertation on Jewish-Christian dialogue and concerns the ways in which that dialogue can take place in a post-Holocaust, post-Christendom world. The argument assumes that any attempt at such dialogue requires that the religious convictions of both Jews and Christians…
This study, conceived as one step toward addressing the American church's struggles over sexual matters, begins with the fact that Leviticus 18 (the chapter covering sexual impurities) addresses itself to "the sons of Israel," not to Christians, yet Christians regard it as Holy …
Currently, very little research and few publications regarding Arabs as immigrants, their children, as second generation born Americans, and their collective experiences exists (Faragallah, Schumm & Webb, 1997). Arab scholars agree that the number of stereotypes which the Arabs …
The Jewish/Christian dialogue has achieved a great deal during the past forty years. During the same period the rate of interfaith marriage from within the Jewish community has increased beyond 50% nationally and threatens the long-term vitality of Judaism and the Jewish communi…
This dissertation sets out to prove that when the church ignores Pauline orthopraxy in cross-cultural mission, especially in the area of finances, it places unnecessary obstacles in the path of the missio Dei. To do so, an investigation into Paul's socio-economic status is under…