This dissertation is a study of the political history of the Mesopotamian kingdom of Larsa in the Early Old Babylonian Period, from the end of the Third Dynasty of Ur to the conquest of Larsa by Hammu-rāpi of Babylon (c. 2003–1762 B.C.). It is clear that the rulers of Larsa were…
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Natural resources are easy for governments to tax, as they embody high amounts of windfall profit or “economic rent.” According to resource economics, it is optimal for governments to collect as revenues nearly all of the economic rent earned by resource extractors. For example,…
This study demonstrates that one of the ways Luke redefines the idea of the people of God in his two-volume work is by redefining the opponents of the people of God. Employing a historically-informed narrative-critical approach to Luke-Acts, this work illuminates Luke's portraya…
Ethnicity was a very important component of the Ancient Egyptian worldview. Scholarship from the last few hundred years has tended to focus on the study of ethnicity as presented in the Egyptian cultural record which has created a simplified picture and colored the current under…
This dissertation investigates cases of authoritarian regime breakdown and persistence in the Arab world, a region where political regimes are typically considered to exhibit exceptional durability. Chapter two presents a deductive model linking variations in opposition movement…