Browsing by Subject "Early Christianity"
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Authorship of 2 Timothy: Neglected Viewpoints on Genre and Dating
(2017-05-04)This thesis will explore the authorship, genre, and date of Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy. 2 Timothy, alongside 1 Timothy and Titus, constitute what scholars term the “Pastoral Epistles”. The Pastoral Epistles identify ... -
Cyril Against Julian: Traditions in Conflict
(2021)When the Roman Emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus—better known to many as Julian the Apostate—perished on a Persian battlefield in 363 CE, his efforts to turn back the Christianizing currents of the Roman Empire died with ... -
Haunted Paradise: Remembering and Forgetting Among Ascetics of the Egyptian Desert
(2012)My dissertation explores how constructions of memory, space, and violence intersected in the history of early Christianity. It analyzes the crucial roles of memory and space/place in the formation, practice, and understanding ... -
Sexing the Jew: Early Christian Constructions of Jewishness
(2008-12-10)My dissertation analyzes early Christian representations of Jewish sexuality and explores how early Christian writers attacked opponents by depicting them as subjects of perverse or excessive sexual desires. Beginning with ... -
Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity
(2017)This dissertation examines ancient conceptualizations of female virginity. Giving particular attention to early Christian sources, I challenge the common assumption that virginity was a uniform concept in antiquity. In ... -
Virginity Discourse and Ascetic Politics in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan
(2010)Ambrose, bishop of Milan, was one of the most outspoken advocates of Christian female virginity in the fourth century C.E. This dissertation examines his writings on virginity in the interest of illuminating the historical ...
