Browsing by Subject "Religion, Biblical Studies"
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A New and Living Way: Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews
(2010)The New Testament book known as the epistle to the Hebrews contains little obvious reference to Jesus' resurrection. Modern interpreters generally account for this relative silence by noting that the author's soteriological ... -
Belonging in Genesis: Biblical Israel and the Construction of Communal Identity
(2008-06-25)Genesis is central to both hegemonic and counterhegemonic conceptions of communal identity. Read one way, the book undergirds contemporary assumptions about the nature of communality and the categories through which it is ... -
Continuity and Discontinuity: the Temple and Early Christian Identity
(2008-12-10)In Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, he asks the readers this question: "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells in you?" (1 Cor 3:16). Although Paul is the earliest Christian writer ... -
Divided by Faith: The Protestant Doctrine of Justification and the Confessionalization of Biblical Exegesis
(2010)This dissertation lays the groundwork for a reevaluation of early Protestant understandings of salvation in the sixteenth century by tracing the emergence of the confessional formulation of the doctrine of justification ... -
From Fratricide to Forgiveness: the Ethics of Anger in Genesis
(2008-12-05)<p>In the first book of the Bible, every patriarch and many of the matriarchs have significant encounters with anger. However, scholarship has largely ignored how Genesis treats this emotion, particularly how Genesis functions ... -
Genealogy, Circumcision, and Conversion in Early Judaism and Christianity
(2010)In his important work, The Beginnings of Jewishness, Shaye J. D. Cohen has argued that what it meant to be a Jew underwent considerable revision during the second century B.C.E. While previously a Jew was defined in terms ... -
"See and Read All These Words": the Concept of the Written in the Book of Jeremiah
(2009)Unusually for the Hebrew Bible, the book of Jeremiah contains a high number of references to writers, writing, and the written word. Written during the exilic period, the book demonstrates a key moment in the ongoing integration ... -
Sons, Seed, and Children of Promise in Galatians: Discerning the Coherence in Paul's Model of Abrahamic Descent
(2010)The central portion of Paul's letter to the Galatians consists of three main arguments, each of which invokes a different image of Abrahamic descent: sons (3:7) in 3:6-14, seed (3:16, 29) in 3:15-4:11, and children of promise ... -
The Contradictions of Genre in the Nehemiah Memorial
(2009)The first-person Hebrew narrative of the Persian courtier sent to be governor of Judah, the "Nehemiah Memorial" (or NM: Neh 1-2:20; 3:33-7:3; 13:4-31), is a crucial text for understanding how elements within ancient Judaism ... -
The Limits of Wisdom and the Dialectic of Desire
(2009)It is fair to identify the motive of this dissertation with the paradoxical formulation of Gerhard von Rad, to the effect that the essence of biblical Wisdom is disclosed where the sages articulate this wisdom as inherently ... -
The Practice of the Body of Christ: Human Agency in Pauline Theology After MacIntyre
(2010)This dissertation begins a conversation between "apocalyptic" interpretations of the Apostle Paul and the contemporary revival in "virtue ethics." It argues that the human actor's place in Pauline theology has long been ...
