A provocative work that seeks to overturn many of the consensus positions in Philistine studies. Niesiołowski-Spanò’s basic thesis is that the Philistines had a much greater and longer impact on Israelite history and culture than previously supposed. Indeed, he attributes to the Philistines th...
In that Studies in Yiddish Linguistics includes some works on standard linguistic topics, it reflects a partial lessening of the emotional, nonscientific attitude toward Yiddish that even self-proclaimed scientists of the language have traditionally harbored. In that it also includes a number of ...
wherein “factual belief and religious credence both exist and are distinct cognitive attitudes; and 2) the imagination thesis, that “religious credence differs from factual belief in many of the same fundamental ways that fictional imagining
Special consideration will be given to papers that offer theological reflection on the theme “Divine Justice in Response to Evil and Tyranny.” We are interpreting “theological reflection” to include the following: biblical studies; theological readings of Scripture; historical, systematic, philosophica...
The central thesis of this class is that understanding the physical setting where much of the Bible is set will make you a better reader of the Bible. Genesis: Abraham and Jacob the Nomadic Patriarchs This week we examine the first mention of the Land of Israel in the entire Bible, the ...
(2019), The Eusebian Canon Tables: Ordering Textual Knowledge in Late Antiquity, Oxford Early Christian Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Crawford, Matthew R. and Nicholas J. Zola (eds) (2019), The Gospel of Tatian: Exploring the Nature and Text of the Diatessaron, The Reception of...
Fourth, two poems will be analyzed and compared as case studies. Finally, conclusions will be drawn and topics for further study will be presented. The general thesis of this study is that there is no specific form-critical genre or discourse type into which all the Hebrew alphabetic ...
One could be pardoned for assuming that this book is a study of a single operatic work, Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play. It is, however, much more than that. This book presents a series of essays dedicated to charting the history of ... ...