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Studia Antiqua

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Why She Ran: Hebrew Bible Well Symbolism In The Protevangelium Of James 11.1–4, Rachel Huntsman Aug 2020

Why She Ran: Hebrew Bible Well Symbolism In The Protevangelium Of James 11.1–4, Rachel Huntsman

Studia Antiqua

There are aspects of the annunciation scene—as portrayed in the Protevangelium of James—which have not yet been examined by modern scholars. These issues are important when relating to the history of well symbolism in the Hebrew Bible, which symbolism continued in force through the Second Temple period. This paper examines the symbolism of wells, fertility, and marriage and how the author of the Protevangelium of James consciously knew about this symbolism and wrote his narrative in a way that distanced Mary, the mother of Jesus, from any ideas saying that she was less than virginal.


Taking Away The Sin Of The World: Egō Eimi And The Day Of Atonement In John, Jackson Abhau Aug 2020

Taking Away The Sin Of The World: Egō Eimi And The Day Of Atonement In John, Jackson Abhau

Studia Antiqua

The presence of Jewish themes and allusions in the Gospel of John has received much scholarly attention in recent decades. This study follows this trend, exploring several possible connections between the Day of Atonement and the Johannine narrative. In this paper, I argue that these connections—which include John the Baptist’s identification of Jesus with the Lamb of God, echoes of the scapegoat ritual, high-priest-like prayers, and the repeated use of the phrase egō eimi—were deliberately incorporated into the narrative by the author of John as pointed allusions to the Day of Atonement. For the original audience, as well as …


Symbolism Of Temple Gates In Ancient Israel, Talitha Hart Aug 2020

Symbolism Of Temple Gates In Ancient Israel, Talitha Hart

Studia Antiqua

The gates of the city and the temple establish boundaries between inner and outer space, while also allowing access to an area that is clearly separated from its surroundings. Throughout ancient Israel, the city gate was seen as representing economic activity, belonging, justice, and strength. I would argue that the gate of the temple represented many of the same things and was seen in a similar way. I have decided to include the tabernacle, as well as both Solomon’s and Herod’s temples, in this analysis, as they seem to have been seen in a similar light even if they were …


Covenant Peoples, Covenant Journeys: Archetypal Similarities Between The Noah, Abraham, And Moses Narratives, Jeremy Madsen Aug 2020

Covenant Peoples, Covenant Journeys: Archetypal Similarities Between The Noah, Abraham, And Moses Narratives, Jeremy Madsen

Studia Antiqua

The stories of Noah, Abraham, and Moses display remarkable similarities. All three follow a narrative pattern where God appears in theophany to a prophet-patriarch figure, God forms a covenant with this prophet-patriarch and his people to bring them to a new land, and God guides them on a divinely-assisted journey until they reach that land. Rather than being the result of typological shaping or historical resemblance, the narrative similarities between these three stories are most likely indicative of a common narrative archetype, which this paper titles the covenant journey archetype. The thrice-fold repetition of this archetype within the Pentateuch attests …


Malaria Risk On Ancient Roman Roads: A Study And Application To Assessing Travel Decisions In Asia Minor By The Apostle Paul, Daniel C. Browning Jr May 2020

Malaria Risk On Ancient Roman Roads: A Study And Application To Assessing Travel Decisions In Asia Minor By The Apostle Paul, Daniel C. Browning Jr

Master's Theses

This study models malaria risks for travelers on ancient Roman roads with the goal of providing a tool for historical assessment of travel accounts from antiquity. The project includes: identification of malaria risk factors and associated spatial datasets, malaria risk model construction, verification and validation against available pre-eradication data, overlay of ancient Roman road data, and an initial case-study application to the journeys of the Apostle Paul, as narrated in the New Testament book, Acts of the Apostles (Acts). The project is intentionally cross-disciplinary in bringing the technical capabilities of GIS to the task of evaluating nuanced textual sources for …


Editor's Preface, Samuel Mitchell Apr 2020

Editor's Preface, Samuel Mitchell

Studia Antiqua

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Front Matter Apr 2020

Front Matter

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Full Issue Apr 2020

Full Issue

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Synthetic Ignatius: Recovering Pagan And Johannine Influences In The Ignatian Epistles, Samuel Mitchell Apr 2020

Synthetic Ignatius: Recovering Pagan And Johannine Influences In The Ignatian Epistles, Samuel Mitchell

Studia Antiqua

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Josephus's Blunting Of Amalek And Phinehas The Zealot In Jewish Antiquities: A Statement Against Nationalism, Jacob Inman Apr 2020

Josephus's Blunting Of Amalek And Phinehas The Zealot In Jewish Antiquities: A Statement Against Nationalism, Jacob Inman

Studia Antiqua

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Evaluating Deafness In The Hebrew Bible: A Semantic Analysis Of Iiחרשׁ, Tyler Harris Apr 2020

Evaluating Deafness In The Hebrew Bible: A Semantic Analysis Of Iiחרשׁ, Tyler Harris

Studia Antiqua

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Canidia: Meta-Muse Of Anti-Elegy, Hanna Seariac Apr 2020

Canidia: Meta-Muse Of Anti-Elegy, Hanna Seariac

Studia Antiqua

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Judahite Aniconism: A Determining Factor In Tensions Between The Am HāʾĀreṣ And The Haggôlāh, Jacob Fuge Apr 2020

Judahite Aniconism: A Determining Factor In Tensions Between The Am HāʾĀreṣ And The Haggôlāh, Jacob Fuge

Studia Antiqua

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Pomegranate Imagery: A Symbol Of Conquest And Victory, Makayla Bezzant Apr 2020

Pomegranate Imagery: A Symbol Of Conquest And Victory, Makayla Bezzant

Studia Antiqua

No abstract provided.


Greatest Among Gods And Men: The Reception Of Xenophanes’S Theology By Anaxagoras And Diogenes, Zakarias D. Gram Apr 2020

Greatest Among Gods And Men: The Reception Of Xenophanes’S Theology By Anaxagoras And Diogenes, Zakarias D. Gram

Studia Antiqua

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Editor's Preface, Haley Wilson-Lemmón Apr 2020

Editor's Preface, Haley Wilson-Lemmón

Studia Antiqua

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Apr 2020

Front Matter

Studia Antiqua

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Full Issue Apr 2020

Full Issue

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The Family Of God: A Christian Tradition As A Greco-Roman Phenomenon, Haley Wilson-Lemmón Apr 2020

The Family Of God: A Christian Tradition As A Greco-Roman Phenomenon, Haley Wilson-Lemmón

Studia Antiqua

No abstract provided.


Approaching The Joseph Smith Translation: A Comparative Study Of Matthew 4:1–12, Julia Chiou Apr 2020

Approaching The Joseph Smith Translation: A Comparative Study Of Matthew 4:1–12, Julia Chiou

Studia Antiqua

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Editor's Preface, Haley Wilson-Lemmon Apr 2020

Editor's Preface, Haley Wilson-Lemmon

Studia Antiqua

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Apr 2020

Front Matter

Studia Antiqua

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Full Issue Apr 2020

Full Issue

Studia Antiqua

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Friends, Foes, And Trading Partners: The Exchange Of Architectural Styles Between Herodian Judaea And Nabataean Petra, Rachel Huntsman Apr 2020

Friends, Foes, And Trading Partners: The Exchange Of Architectural Styles Between Herodian Judaea And Nabataean Petra, Rachel Huntsman

Studia Antiqua

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A Samaritan Temple To Rival Jerusalem On Mount Gerizim, Jolynne Minnick Apr 2020

A Samaritan Temple To Rival Jerusalem On Mount Gerizim, Jolynne Minnick

Studia Antiqua

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Comparing Greco-Roman Uterus Votives And Byzantine Uterus Amulets, Heta Björklund Apr 2020

Comparing Greco-Roman Uterus Votives And Byzantine Uterus Amulets, Heta Björklund

Studia Antiqua

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Divining Gospel. Oracles Of Interpretation In A Syriac Manuscript Of John, Jeff Childers Mar 2020

Divining Gospel. Oracles Of Interpretation In A Syriac Manuscript Of John, Jeff Childers

Graduate School of Theology

Ancient manuscripts of John’s Gospel containing hermeneiai have long puzzled scholars, provoking debate about their origins, purpose, and use. The fragmentary nature of the early evidence has impeded progress towards a better understanding of these specialized books. The present study shows that these books are "Divining Gospels"—editions of John’s Gospel incorporating lot divination materials for use in fortune-telling. The study centers on material presented here for the first time: the text and translation of a unique sixth-century Syriac manuscript, the earliest and most complete example of a hermeneia Gospel. An analysis of the Syriac along with evidence from Greek, Coptic, …


A Bridge Between Earth & Sky: How The Natural World Shaped The Civilizations Of Ancient And Early-Modern Persia, Sophia Cabana Dec 2019

A Bridge Between Earth & Sky: How The Natural World Shaped The Civilizations Of Ancient And Early-Modern Persia, Sophia Cabana

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This project seeks to investigate the ways in which nature shaped the culture of ancient Persia through technology, architecture, agriculture, and art. Furthermore, this project investigates how the symbols and mentalities of ancient Persia were carried forward into the early-modern period. Achaemenid Persia and Babylon are studied as societies which influenced one another and combined to create the foundation of Persian culture as it is currently understood, which then combined in later centuries with other Middle Eastern and Central Asian cultural movements to produce the Safavid and Mughal Empires. The Safavids and Mughals imitated and revived Persian culture in order …


What Was So Attractive In Artemis/Diana Worship, And What Was The Rationale For Christians Not To Follow Pagan Ideology?, Georg Filippou Feb 2019

What Was So Attractive In Artemis/Diana Worship, And What Was The Rationale For Christians Not To Follow Pagan Ideology?, Georg Filippou

Seminary Scholarship Symposium

The last few decades of archaeological research in Ephesus have revealed new insights into the context of Paul’s writings. In the past many commentators have assumed that the Artemis cult was sex-saturated at the time of Paul, and therefore interpreted the biblical texts from that perspective. However, more recent scholarship has suggested the opposite. Mystery religions elevated the status of women. In the creation narrative of Artemis, the woman was born first. In refraining from everything that is part of a marriage, women could reach salvation. It is therefore not surprising that Paul addressed issues connected to women (creation, marriage, …