Most approaches to the history of Mozarabs (Christians with lineal roots in Muslim-ruled Iberia) in Castilian Toledo are framed within linear narratives of assimilation, treating the fates of their communal linguistic, legal, and liturgical traits—that is, the use of Arabic, the…
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“Piyyutim” (synagogal poems), composed for liturgical use, creatively intersect with traditions of interpretation familiar from other aggadic sources. However, as poetry composed for public recitation, these texts reflect unique aesthetic and practical impulses. This dissertatio…
The Song of Moses of Deuteronomy 32:1–43 has had a distinguished history in both Jewish and Christian liturgy. The purpose of the dissertation is to highlight features of the Song which account for its liturgical prominence and then to study that prominence in depth. The dissert…
That the biblical text was intended to be performed publicly and not read privately is an axiom in biblical scholarship, and yet, until recently, with the emergence of performance criticism, scholars have essentially ignored this axiom. As an interdisciplinary methodology borrow…
A unique moment in Sephardic music is emerging in the Republic of Serbia. Since 2000, a small but vibrant Sephardic music scene has been formed through the efforts of a small group of individuals. The scene keeps alive a repertoire that has survived many upheavals: the Holocaust…
The subject of this dissertation is the intertextual relationship between the Siddur and the Bible. It analyzes the ways in which thirteen prayers found in the Siddur quote the Bible. A strong resemblance was found between the techniques employed by the Siddur in this process an…
This dissertation focuses on developments in the Ashkenazic rite, the liturgical rite of most Central and Eastern European Jewry, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is an especially interesting period in the development of the Ashkenazic rite, for it witnessed …
The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it retrieves from obscurity Philoxenos of Mabbug, an influential figure in the religious politics of late antiquity whose place in the historiography has been eclipsed by his “heretical” status as a so-called “monophysite.” Secondly, …
This is a project in intertextuality. Intertextuality is basically a methodology whose goal is to find quotes, allusions, and echoes of a literary antecedent embedded in the writings of a particular author. In this case, those authors are Ben Sira and Paul who both echo the wisd…
Christian environmental ethics, and the philosophy of Deep, Ecology are assumed by many of their respective adherents to be incompatible, primarily because they reflect different anthropologies. Deep Ecology posits an "ecological self," whose foremost characteristic is nonanthro…
The author argues that the mosaic of Justinian and Constantine offering gifts to the enthroned Virgin and Child in the southwest vestibule of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, presents the viewer with an image of salvation. Previous interpretations of the mosaic focused on the offerings o…
Emerging from her early western obscurity, St. Anne became one of the major cult figures of Latin Christianity by the turn of the sixteenth century. Her later cult has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies, but little attention has been given to the surviving evidence f…
This dissertation continues the discussion, begun in this century, on the significance of the cult of martyrs in the early church and proposes, in addition, that the celebration and theology of the cult of the martyrs is itself influenced by christological concerns in the sixth …
Ephrem's liturgical poems, the madrāšē, rarely have been studied as an exegetical genre. This study presents an analysis of his scriptural interpretation in two sets of madrāšē , or hymns: Hymns on Paradise, and Hymns on Unleavened Bread. Scholars tend to isolate Ephrem's indivi…
In recent decades, biblical scholars, liturgical theologians, and church musicians (among others) have called for the recovery of lament in Christian worship, praising the stark honesty, authentic relationship, and stubborn hope characteristic of this ancient practice of prayer.…
The origin of the sanctus as a constituent element in the eucharistic prayer is one of the unsolved mysteries of Christian liturgy. In a Prolegomena, certain specific older theories are rejected. The use of the qeduasah in Judaism, from its biblical setting to its use in Jewish …
Since its 1824 premiere at the St Petersburg imperial court, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Op. 123 has only ever been performed in secular concert settings. This performance history is reflected in critical trends in Missa solemnis scholarship. Following Adorno’s 1959 essay that c…
This project will encompass the equipping of Biblical Studies and Christian Ministry students at Blue Mountain College with a biblical theology of corporate worship. Chapter 1 discusses the context, rationale, and research methodology for the project. Chapter 2 deals with the bi…
The anointing of the sick with blessed oil is an ancient Christian custom, attested to in the apostolic age and present in the liturgical practices of both East and West. The established celebration of Holy Unction in the Churches of the Byzantine Rite (also known as the Euchela…