Thesiss

This thesis addresses a longstanding challenge in the history of the religious architecture of late antique Jerusalem, and it attempts to create new theoretical resources for approaching this challenge. Paradoxically, this interpretive problem has to do not with the meaning of a…

This thesis sheds light on the struggle to define Jerusalem which is occurring through its growing tourist industry, land use issues, collective memory, and historical conflicts by studying the cultural and political struggles surrounding the Western Wall tunnel and the recently…

This paper probes the history of the Temple Mount complex during the British Mandate for Palestine. Approaching this sacred space from three different perspectives--British, Arab, and Jewish--the paper examines how people and events surrounding the site contributed to the evolut…