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This dissertation argues that the biblical writers stylistically represented the speech of Arameans and Trans-Jordanians in biblical prose. Although there are a few obvious examples of style-switching in the Hebrew Bible (Gen 31:47; Judg 12:6), this study argues that there are m…

The "rebordering of the Mediterranean" refers to the extension of European frontiers to include southern European countries in the mid-eighties, and to the construction of new social boundaries in the innerland. This dissertation explores the construction of social difference in…

This dissertation is a case study of cosmopolitan city space. It examines how ethnic, national and religious minorities used spatial settings to forge and negotiate conceptions of foreignness and localness in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Alexandria, Egypt. Using …