Research on the Book of Joel has been complicated by a lack of consensus on its compositional history and, in particular, a recent tendency to ignore redactional considerations entirely. This study focuses renewed attention on the history of the book's composition, demonstrating…
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This study seeks to achieve two goals: (1) establish the issues in their logical order around which the millennial debate should take place, and (2) demonstrate what each side (amillennialism, postmillennialism, historic premillennialism, and dispensational premillennialism) mus…
Numerous questions put to oracles on papyri survive from Egypt. When considered as a corpus, these provide the opportunity to observe the extent to which religion entered into the Roman administration's relations with the provincial population. Divination had a long and politici…
Using the sociological methodology which was introduced by Max Weber, particularly his concept of “ideal type,” this study identified eight objective criteria and characteristics which can be applied to a case study to determine whether or not that subject is indeed “prophetic.”…
During the 1630s, congregations began to separate from the established Anglican Church forming new autonomous groups. This study examines separatist and Baptist women s writings from this period, as they struggled under the persecution of the religious authorities and under the …
The present study is a history of interpretation. In that sense it does not fit neatly into the category of Wirkungsgeschichte. Moving through successive periods of the Christian church’s history, we will select representative interpretations of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and theologica…
The oracles of Isa. 30:1--5, Jer. 2:14--19, 13:20--22, and Ezek. 17:1--10 evoke an identity construction process in response to perceived socio-political and cultural changes of their periods. Previous studies have analyzed contending social groups through the use of social move…
This dissertation explores what it means to speak of "space" in the age of empire, arguing that geographical practices are key to understanding the political and poetic practices of the Romantic period. Though I treat a number of writers whose relation to Romantic literature is …
This dissertation attempts to analyze prophetic activity in early Christian communities (defined as through the mid third century, CE) with an eye toward understanding the psychological states which lay behind it. Most modern categorical systems fail to adequately describe the b…
Through verbal threats and graphic images of destruction, the prophet Jeremiah employs a rhetoric of horror in order to convince his audience that doom awaits an unrepentant and unreformed nation. This study is a rhetorical analysis of designated horror texts found in the book o…
This study argues that women prophets would have existed in the time of the Omride monarchy and would have been valued, to some extent, by Omride monarchs. The study defines "prophet" as an intermediary of divine information, and it focuses on Omride monarchs' need for such info…
In this study I argue that many of the numerous locutions common to Ezekiel and Lev 17-26 are due to Ezekiel's purposeful and creative use of an earlier text. After establishing the direction of dependence, I demonstrate that the frequency and distribution of these locutions, Ez…
This dissertation aims to show how literacy has impacted religion, in particular by examining the invention of the concept of prophecy by Judean scribes around the 6th century B.C.E. Belief in prophecy, which is a form of communication with superhuman agency, has been one of the…
This dissertation argues that the earliest level of the biblical book of Amos was composed after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel to the Assyrians, not before, as traditionally assumed. This earliest layer consisted of most of the current book of Amos, with major excep…
In 1349, the Aquitanian Franciscan John of Rupescissa (d. 1364) stood trial for heresy because he exhibited visionary behavior. To prove his innocence, which he gained, he wrote a work entitled the Liber Secretorum Eventuum or The Book of Secret Events. Rupescissa related how he…
From fourteenth century medieval literature to contemporary American and African American literature, researchers have singled out and analyzed writing from every genre that is prophetic in nature, predicting or warning about events, both revolutionary and dire, to come. One twe…
The Sabbath as the central commandment of the Law relates all of Judaism to God, to creation, to redemption, and to the final fulfillment of the promises in the eternal Sabbath of the end-time. However, early in the inception of Christianity, Sunday replaced the Sabbath as the d…
In contrast to the Greek concept of prophecy as a form of prediction, Romantic prophecy rehabilitates a version of Hebrew prophecy that involves a more ambivalent relationship to history and time. That is, while the rise of prophecy in Romanticism might—like the rise of historio…