Sacred space is a prominent feature of Old Testament theology and is recognizable through structures such as the tabernacle, temple, and other places where God chooses to uniquely reveal Himself. New Testament scholarship, however, has a less uniform consensus in the way sacred …
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This dissertation concerns the ways in which the ritualized materials and ritualized practice of the Neo-Assyrian temple, through their culturally valued and prioritized visual and experiential characteristics, created and marked the special status and divine aspect of the house…
This dissertation looks at the scriptural images of angel and temple, as they occur in key works by John Damascene: on the Heresies, chapter 100 "On the Ishmaelites;" Three Treatises on the Divine Images, and on the Orthodox Faith. Angelic and temple imagery forms an important c…
During the first century, Yeshua (Jesus) and the original Christians viewed the temple as God's dwelling place on earth. Informed by the Hebrew Bible, which they saw as the Holy Scriptures, they continued to hold the temple in high regard. The writings of the New Testament displ…
The Jewish "proto-apocalyptic" literature has been understood both as a reflection of other texts, on which it depends for its authority, and as a reflection of its original social context. Such approaches are problematic. "Exegetical" approaches make broad assumptions regarding…
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…
The primary focus of this dissertation is an exegetical analysis of the temple imagery in the epistle of 1 Peter (1:18–19; 2:4–10; 3:19–20; 4:14–17; 5:10) in light of the Second Temple Jewish framework of the “lingering exile” as an interpretive matrix. The focus will be on 1 Pe…
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the Exodus motif and its topicalization in the book of Haggai. In this dissertation, we demonstrate that Haggai used themes from Exodus 14–15. The themes of glory, temple, and holy war confirm the continuity of the post-exilic c…
This dissertation attempts to give answers to the question how Matthew did view the Jerusalem temple. As the question indicates, this dissertation deals with Matthew's Sitz im Leben. Chapter 1 discusses the history of research on this topic, presuppositions inherent in the study…
This dissertation is an examination of the Emperor Constantine's religious building program as presented in the writings of Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea. I seek to redescribe the range of Constantine's construction and destruction activities in a way that addresses some limitatio…
Scholars have long recognized the salient place held by the temple in Mark's narrative. What remains to be examined is why Mark gives the temple such a conspicuous place. There is also in Mark a significant connection between the temple and eschatology that has never been examin…
Current research attempts to trace three levels of historiography in the second Temple period through investigation of Ezra 3:1-4:5 and its parallel, 1 Esdras 5:46-70. Ezra 3:1-4:5 may be the most suitable text for a study of the historiography of the mid-second Temple period, s…
The present dissertation investigates the function of the heavenly sanctuary/temple and its relationship to the earthly counterparts, as reflected in forty-three passages of Hebrew Bible. Following an introductory chapter, the second chapter of this dissertation is devoted to a …
Many of Egypt's monuments exhibit multiple stages of expansion, rebuilding, and redecoration extending over the centuries in which they remained in use. Often archaeologically traceable, these modifications were also frequently recorded in propagandistic dedicatory inscriptions.…
This dissertation addresses the importance of the archeological history within the Osiris Temple Enclosure in North Abydos, Egypt prior to and including excavations undertaken by the University of Pennsylvania Museum-Yale University-Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Ex…
Despite the ceaseless flood of publications on the origins of monotheism, and its alleged "refinement" in the exilic period (especially Deutero-Isaiah), attention to the varieties and functions of monotheistic discourse in the Persian/early Hellenistic period literature is scant…
The objective of this dissertation is to explore the meanings, significance, and functions of sacred space developed in the Hebrew Bible. A wide range of categories, models, and geographical forms of biblical sacred space will be presented: the cosmos, Mt. Zion, the Land of Isra…
This study examines the meaning of the symbol of Jerusalem in selected samples of literature. In Scripture Jerusalem is represented as the place chosen by God. This chosen status has made the city of Jerusalem a significant symbol of the fulfillment of God's promises. Jerusalem …