The relationship between tectonic environment and human activity has a long history that intimately involves the Ancient Near East and Levant. Texts from the third millennium onward attest to earthquake imagery while records of actual earthquakes cluster in two periods in the Mi…
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This study examines the traditions about the prophet Elijah in the Hebrew Bible and in the post-biblical literature of the Second Temple period. The author's main concern is with the development of the belief in the prophet's future return to earth and the role that he will play…
In answer to the question "Why Paul was persecuted by his contemporaries who were law-observing Jews?" this study proposes that it was because they viewed him as a false prophet. This study first examines relevant texts in the Old and New Testaments and in ancient Jewish and Chr…
Traditionally scholarship has viewed the book of Hosea as originating in eighth-century Israel before being taken to Judah, where it underwent one or more redactions in later centuries, making it applicable to a Judahite audience. However, several lines of evidence suggest inste…
Much of Christianity today neglects the role of the prophet. Christians who do acknowledge prophetic ministry commonly limit the impact of prophecy. Pentecostals, who embrace the role, often do not have a full biblical understanding of what a prophet is and what a prophet is to …
This dissertation is on the citations in early Islamic sources of documents said to have been written or dictated by the Prophet Muh[dotbelow]ammad (∼570-632 CE). These documents include contracts, grants of land, and diplomatic and personal letters. While documentary evidence f…
This dissertation offers a thematic study of narratives of the Prophet Muh[dotbelow]ammad's ascension (mi`raj ) and the variety of images such narratives engendered between 1300 and 1600 in Arab, Persian, and Turkic lands. It proves that ascension tales exited the realm of the b…