Thesiss

This dissertation examines ancient conceptions of Near Eastern deities whose names consistently included geographic epithets, which functioned like last names. In Neo-Assyrian (ca. 900-630 B.C.E.) texts, Ištar-of-Nineveh and Ištar-of-Arbela are often included as divine witnesses…

Nursian occasionalism holds, on the one hand, that God is the creator of both cause and effect, and attaches them to each other on a self-imposed habitual pattern. On the other hand, Nursian occasionalism attributes theosophical, epistemological, and ethical functions to seconda…