The Fourth Gospel presents the doctrine of love by repeating the terms for love, such as agape and philos , and their cognate verbs. The Gospel further enriches the doctrine by adopting metaphors and symbols that signify love, lovers, and/or love deities in the first-century Med…
The palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh was discovered one hundred fifty years ago in what is now northern Iraq. Extensively excavated over the intervening one and a half century, the palace has recently become the central focus of art history studies that explain how the wall reli…
This dissertation focuses on David and Solomon's relationship to non-Israelite peoples and countries. This study starts with the premise that David violates one of the deuteronomistic editor/s chief concerns about intermingling with the Canaanite population and thereby prepares …
This dissertation resolves a number of ideological difficulties in 1 Kings 1-11 through use of an adjusted model of the popular Double Redaction theory of the Deuteronomistic History (Db1R). (The Db1R holds that the biblical books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, and …