While the Early Christian world may have stood in essential agreement on the value of asceticism, the ascetical life itself took on a multitude of forms as evidenced by the various Early Christian ascetics. In this dissertation I argue that Early Christian ascetics did not hapha…
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Christianity originated in what has often been described as an honor-shame culture. In Mediterranean antiquity, society, rather than the individual, defined both worthy behavior and a person's worth. While who and what was honored varied according to location and community, the …
In this study, I contend that Ezekiel's portrait of the Glory represents an understanding of Yahweh's earthly presence that is markedly different from how the earthly divine presence is understood in Deuteronomistic Name theology. As formulated in Deuteronomy and maintained in t…
This dissertation seeks to bring balance to existing trends in Johannine scholarship that either appropriate a virtually exclusive Christocentric reading to the Fourth Gospel or focus on reconstructing the Gospel’s history and audiences. These two tendencies overlook important q…