My dissertation analyzes the Spanish Nobel Laureate poet’s transatlantic path and his relationship to Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico as expressed in his archival practices from 1916 (his first trip to the U.S.) until his death in 1958. Jiménez went into permanent exile…
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In narrating his 28-chapter story Matthew employs thirteen formula-quotations. Seven—more than half—are crowded into the first four chapters. While great attention has been paid to the evangelist's use of the Old Testament as a means of discovering his sources and their text-for…
Mosaics of Identity: Reading Muslim Women's Memoirs From Across the Diaspora addresses Muslim women's life writing in transit since 9/11. This project follows the memoir boom fueled by many Middle Eastern women writers publishing in the U.S., Australia and Europe. By studying co…
Having reigned only three months, Jehoiachin appears to have been an insignificant king in the tumultuous last days of Judah. But his rehabilitation at the end of 1-2 Kings and the attention he receives in Jeremiah and Ezekiel suggest that his theological significance outweighs …
This study focuses on the degree to which three religious rituals--Sabbath observance, fasting, and circumcision--took on a particular shape for ancient Israel during the period of the Babylonian exile (ca. 6th cent. B.C.E.), and influenced the final shape of the covenant narrat…
The present study examines Paul's use of Isaiah in Rom 11:25–27 and seeks to determine how the apostle's treatment of Scripture in that passage informs his argument in Romans 9–11. Some recent studies have focused on the interpretive role of mystery in specific Pauline texts inv…
This thesis argues that the fictional works of Sarajevan writer Aleksandar Hemon can be viewed as testimonial texts. I examine his novels and collections of short stories in conversation with the literary response to the siege of Sarajevo and as representations of the effects of…
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Iraqi diasporic community in the UK. It is based on two years of fieldwork research I conducted there between 2006–2008. I approach the formation of the diasporic community in light of utopian visions of a past colored by colonia…
Based on the works of three postcolonial Maghrebian writers, this study focuses on different aspects of exclusion and the relevance, of current Western thinkers approaches to the role of intellectuals. While Sartre, Foucault, Gramsci, Bourdieu and others all provide useful categ…
This is a dissertation on Jewish-Christian dialogue and concerns the ways in which that dialogue can take place in a post-Holocaust, post-Christendom world. The argument assumes that any attempt at such dialogue requires that the religious convictions of both Jews and Christians…
This dissertation examines the multiple place narratives in modern Jewish literature from Israel and the United States, showing that the standard tropes of exile and home insufficiently express the Jewish perception of place. Recently, some scholars have overturned the conventio…
Between 1926 and 1943, Benito Mussolini's fascist dictatorship deported 15,000 Italians to island internment colonies and small villages in southern Italy. This institution (confino di polizia) and, more broadly, the experiences of Italians affected by it, is the subject of this…
This thesis examines how the displaced Sudanese in Egypt, Kenya, and the United Kingdom discuss the topic of "Human Rights". Whereas many studies on "Human Rights" are primarily concerned with the opinions of outsiders, an attempt is made here to provide an alternative perspecti…
This dissertation is both a theoretical proposal about exile and identity and an engaged reading of novels by Assia Djebar and Nabile Farès. The gist of my argument is that Djebar and Farès bring together the specificities of the Algerian—and more generally the francophone—write…
Since the late 1960s, Eritreans in the United States have been active participants in ongoing efforts to define the Eritrean nation. They have also contributed extensively to the political-economic viability of the emergent state. During the nationalist revolution war of indepen…
This dissertation will explore the issue of whether the historical Jesus ever spoke or acted on the basis of the ancient Jewish concept of the eschatological tribulation: i.e., the expectation that the age of salvation would be preceded by a final period of extreme suffering, af…
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…
This dissertation examines the thesis that Paul, in Galatians 3:1–14, is making a prophetic statement to the Galatians in which he interprets the story of Israel from Abraham through the Exile to provide an historical example of the fact that entrance into the people of God is g…
The purpose of this study is to carefully examine the “Parable of the Unforgiving Servant” found in Matthew 18:23–35. Specifically this study seeks to show that Matthew presents Jesus' work as bringing an end to the exile which was caused by sin. Those who refused to accept God'…