This study examines the experiences of Afghan American women balancing traditional roles with contemporary Western values. There has been limited empirical research on mental health with Afghan Americans. Most of the existing literature has examined the history and people of Afg…
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This dissertation provides an analysis of the parallelistic structure of the first three poetic chapters of the Book of Job: Job's famous cri de coeur in chapter 3 and Eliphaz's response in chapters 4-5. The methodologies have been drawn largely from those discussed by Dennis Pa…
This work treats the oral Palestinian poetry duel, a genre performed most commonly at weddings in Northern Palestine and Israel. It begins by tracing the history of poetry dueling both in Arabic generally and within the Palestinian dialect. The historical sketch is followed by a…
Following the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BC Egypt experienced a gradual transition from an Egyptian to a Hellenistic administration. Egyptian law was recognised by the Ptolemies, but not by the Romans who adopted Hellenistic practice wholesale. This had major implica…
Ancient Israel and Judah developed from an agrarian culture and were often vassals of an extended agrarian empire. The ethos of the Israelites thus reflected or included the worldview of what has been described as the oppressed classes. This ethos became a formative element in t…
This dissertation concerns the interpretation in antiquity of Gen 6.6, “and the Lord repented that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him to His heart” (RSV), specifically the phrase v'yinachem Adonaí, “and the Lord repented,” in early rabbinic and patristic tradition.…
As the hereditary leader of the Safavid Sufi Order, Shah Ismail founded the Safavid dynasty in 1501. This study goes beyond Shah Ismail's historical legacy, however, to examine the pious and literary sources which have shaped a permanent place for him within the Alevi-Bektashi c…
Zari-embroidered velvets (ZEVs), i.e., plain velvet embroidered in gold or silver, have been produced in India for the Nigerian Kalabari market for at least 100 years. I researched their contemporary design in the context of their Indian production and export and publications on…
“Phallic/ies and His(s)tories: Masculinity and the Black Nationalist Tradition, from Slave Spirituals to Rap Music” explores Black nationalism as an embodied-social politics, highlighting the ways in which its discourse has been informed not only by a politics of race, but by a …
By the late sixth century B.C., the monumental tombs of Asia Minor regularly contained couches, or klinai, for the placement of the dead. These furnishings served both as eternal beds for the deceased and as symbolic banquet couches, often accompanied by tables and vessels for e…
Professor and Playwright Dr. Tess Onwueme is a powerful literary voice focusing on the issues affecting women and families in Africa and its diaspora. With the publication of her first play, A Hen Too Soon (1983), a fresh voice was added to challenge traditional beliefs that end…
This dissertation is an exploration into the continued significance of the call in the Black ministry. In the African-American Christian tradition, the call is considered a personal encounter with God that compels an ethical and spiritual responsibility to enter ministry. Contem…
This dissertation investigates the material and symbolic production of Unani (Greco-Arab) medicine in contemporary India. Unani is a system of medicine derived from the humoral theory of Hippocrates (460–370 B.C.), and makes use of plant, animal and mineral-based drugs to cure c…
Ibn Sīnā's al-Mubāhatāt has attracted uneven attention in modern scholarship. The textual problems associated with this collection of private correspondence between Ibn Sīnā and his students and colleagues have presented a barrier to evaluations of the Mubāhatāt as a source for …
In assessing historical influences on contemporary American Jewish writing, I take into account both Judaic and American historical paradigms. The central contrast between the Judaic emphasis on memory and on continuity of tradition, and the American enthrallment with novelty an…
My dissertation focuses on the two best-known works by Clara Reeve, the novel The Old English Baron (1777) and the critical treatise The Progress of Romance (1785), reading The Progress of Romance as Reeve's effort to outline a feminine, Christianized narrative tradition to serv…
This study examines the traditions about the prophet Elijah in the Hebrew Bible and in the post-biblical literature of the Second Temple period. The author's main concern is with the development of the belief in the prophet's future return to earth and the role that he will play…
A crucial issue for research on rabbinic literature is the interaction between speech and writing as modes for creating and transmitting early rabbinic tradition. Whereas the chirographic aspects of early rabbinic manipulation and transmission of tradition have been championed b…
The dissertation argues that in 1 Corinthians 1-4, Paul draws upon and transforms Jewish sapiential traditions in his correction of the Corinthian misconception of wisdom. Paul's argumentation displays several affinities with Jewish wisdom thought as well as several areas of mod…