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…
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For nearly two millennia, Church and Synagogue have conceived of each other using characterizations of Israel and the nations that are drawn from the book of Exodus, the central narrative of Israel's liberation and establishment as God's people. This dissertation examines two la…
This dissertation consists of the first complete critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Numbers 1-18 from all known Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, and Latin sources since the publication of Frederick Field's Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt sive veterum interpretum g…
Primarily, this dissertation provides a critical text of the hexaplaric fragments of Job 22-42, which updates the previous editions of Field (1875) and Ziegler (1982), and which may serve as the fascicle for the second half of Job for The Hexapla Project. The critical text inclu…
This dissertation provides a critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Number 19-36, including (1) Aristarchan signs, (2) attributions to Aquila (α'), Symmachus (σ'), and Theodotion ([straight theta]'), and (3) other materials traditionally included among hexaplaric materi…
The rise in production and distribution of Christian Hagiography in the Early Byzantine Empire points towards a unique moment in Christian History. The role of the saint was moved from the margins to a central and dynamic position within the church hierarchy and broader religiou…
This thesis proposes that Genesis 28:12 functioned in similar ways in both Jewish and Christian communities in the third century. Chapter one describes the Hebrew text as it appears in the context of Gen 28:10-22, the Jacob cycle, and the book of Genesis as a whole. The second c…