This dissertation argues that, contrary to popular conceptions and the current scholarly consensus, rabbinic Jewry did not become a people of the book, or even the people of the Book, until the high middle ages. For in the classical rabbinic period, many rabbinic authorities app…
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Approaching the poem from the perspective of reception history, the present dissertation seeks to show that the Bible's role in The Faerie Queene is far more pervasive than has usually been recognized. Rather than see the biblical material as the domain of only certain sections—…
My dissertation will investigate the manner in which the Pentateuch was received by later biblical authors, its reception history. There are various content-related discrepancies between the Pentateuch's presentation of the early history of Israel and that same history depicted …
This dissertation attempts to reconstruct the reception-history of the Book of the Watchers by exploring the influence of its account of the fallen angels (esp. 1 Enoch 6-16) on Jewish and Christian literature from the Second Temple period to the early Middle Ages. Towards this …
Joshua son of Nun is an iconic figure of Israelite cultural memory described at length in the Hebrew Bible and venerated in numerous religious traditions. My dissertation is both a text study and a cultural memory study. As such it tackles reception as well as redaction history,…
Contradiction has been widely used to describe the work of the artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957–1996); however, it does not fully encapsulate the complexity of the artist’s oeuvre. This thesis turns to the German director Bertolt Brecht’s notion of dialectical theater, which h…
Psalm 88’s unmitigated cry of anguish, despair, and abandonment has presented a unique theological problem for commentators. From a form critical perspective, the psalm’s most distinctive feature is the absence of a closing vow of praise or certainty of hearing that is a definin…