Thesiss

This study in biblical theology proceeds from a basic curiosity: why do the foundational literature of many religions, Jewish and Christian ones in particular, enshrine stories of highborn individuals who (for one reason or another) are alienated from their inherited context of …

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the process of losing power by members of Egypt's former ruling dynasty who were abruptly extricated or dislodged from their social location in society in the aftermath of the July 1952 nationalist revolution in Egypt. It is an anthr…

The Fourth Gospel asserts that Jesus is king and Messiah and underscores the royal status of Jesus especially in the passion narrative. There is a recent tendency in Johannine scholarship to divorce Jesus' kingship from his messiahship, on account of the dearth of explicit David…