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As the first part of its title suggests, the purpose of this dissertation is to elucidate foundational principles for a systematic account of the nature of Sacred Scripture. In view of achieving this end, it looks to Joseph Ratzinger's 1988 "Method C" hermeneutics proposal for g…

Ephrem's liturgical poems, the madrāšē, rarely have been studied as an exegetical genre. This study presents an analysis of his scriptural interpretation in two sets of madrāšē , or hymns: Hymns on Paradise, and Hymns on Unleavened Bread. Scholars tend to isolate Ephrem's indivi…

In theory, all that are involved in same-sex practices in Islam based on the common and mainstream interpretation of the story of the people of Lut are treated the same. In reality, however, and in the Arab world today, the penetrated and penetrator are not equally abnormal and …