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Full-Text Articles in Near Eastern Languages and Societies
Greatest Among Gods And Men: The Reception Of Xenophanes’S Theology By Anaxagoras And Diogenes, Zakarias D. Gram
Greatest Among Gods And Men: The Reception Of Xenophanes’S Theology By Anaxagoras And Diogenes, Zakarias D. Gram
Studia Antiqua
No abstract provided.
Editor's Preface, Haley Wilson-Lemmón
The Family Of God: A Christian Tradition As A Greco-Roman Phenomenon, Haley Wilson-Lemmón
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
Approaching The Joseph Smith Translation: A Comparative Study Of Matthew 4:1–12, Julia Chiou
Studia Antiqua
No abstract provided.
Editor's Preface, Haley Wilson-Lemmon
Friends, Foes, And Trading Partners: The Exchange Of Architectural Styles Between Herodian Judaea And Nabataean Petra, Rachel Huntsman
Friends, Foes, And Trading Partners: The Exchange Of Architectural Styles Between Herodian Judaea And Nabataean Petra, Rachel Huntsman
Studia Antiqua
No abstract provided.
A Samaritan Temple To Rival Jerusalem On Mount Gerizim, Jolynne Minnick
A Samaritan Temple To Rival Jerusalem On Mount Gerizim, Jolynne Minnick
Studia Antiqua
No abstract provided.
Comparing Greco-Roman Uterus Votives And Byzantine Uterus Amulets, Heta Björklund
Comparing Greco-Roman Uterus Votives And Byzantine Uterus Amulets, Heta Björklund
Studia Antiqua
No abstract provided.
Between The Judean Desert And Gaza: Asceticism And The Monastic Communities Of Palestine In The Sixth Century, Austin Mccray
Between The Judean Desert And Gaza: Asceticism And The Monastic Communities Of Palestine In The Sixth Century, Austin Mccray
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The dissertation focuses on the religious culture of Christian monasticism in sixth-century Palestine. Rather than see the monastic communities of the Judean Desert, just to the east of Jerusalem, and those around Gaza as two independent monastic regions, as much scholarship has done, the dissertation focuses on the common threads that can be seen in the monastic teachings and idealized ascetic practices in the literature of the area. This dissertation reveals ways to redefine the boundaries between the monastic communities of Palestine during the sixth century as well as emphasizes the continuities between the monks of the Judean Desert and …
The Gaze And A Sufi Ethics Of Vision In Majidi’S The Willow Tree: Form, Meaning, And The Real, Cyrus A. Zargar
The Gaze And A Sufi Ethics Of Vision In Majidi’S The Willow Tree: Form, Meaning, And The Real, Cyrus A. Zargar
Journal of Religion & Film
In his 2005 film The Willow Tree (Bīd-i Majnūn), Majid Majidi offers a complex moral commentary on the faculty of sight. To do so, the filmmaker draws from Sufi theories of gazing, in which desire must be for ultimate meaning (maʿnā), as conveyed through the vehicle of perceivable form (ṣūra), a distinction with both metaphysical and ethical implications. Majidi presents sight, when devoid of contemplation, as a sort of voyeurism, especially in contrast to the privacy and immediacy of speech and especially within the context of the modern city. Moreover, his use of a …
The Muslim World In Post-9/11 American Cinema: A Critical Study, 2001-2011, Ali A. Olomi
The Muslim World In Post-9/11 American Cinema: A Critical Study, 2001-2011, Ali A. Olomi
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Kerem Bayraktaroglu's The Muslim World In Post-9/11 American Cinema: A Critical Study, 2001-2011 (North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2018).
Divining Gospel. Oracles Of Interpretation In A Syriac Manuscript Of John, Jeff Childers
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, …
Adam And The Early Mesopotamian Creation Mythology, Saad D. Abulhab
Adam And The Early Mesopotamian Creation Mythology, Saad D. Abulhab
Publications and Research
The first monotheist human, Adam, was likely a god, in the Mesopotamian mythology, just as the Hebrew Genesis reluctantly revealed, and the assertive Quran slightly hinted. Specifically, he was the pre-monotheist, Sumerian god, Idim, who was also called GodEa and many other nicknames over the millenniums. The names Idim and Adam are even linguistically related, according to early Arabic root words analysis. As a Mesopotamian god, Idim was the creator of the first human, and the father of his immediate generations, as he was sometimes referred to in the ancient literature. He was the preserver of life on earth, and …
Political Religious Extremism And Its Impact On Social Security: A Study At Gaza Strip, Palestine, Abumarzouq Mona J.M
Political Religious Extremism And Its Impact On Social Security: A Study At Gaza Strip, Palestine, Abumarzouq Mona J.M
Student Works (2020-2029)
This study, named 'political religious extremism and its impact on societal security: A Study at Gaza Strip, Palestine ', approaches its types, causes, manifestations, effects, attitude of interpreters and how university students in Gaza Strip perceive its reality and impact. Moreover, the role of lecturers in approaching it, and detecting of statistical differences in how the sample’s individuals realize reality of the phenomenon, attributed to the variables: (gender - university - governorate). The researcher follows the descriptive, applied, analytical approach, by extrapolating texts related to the topic comprehensively, extracting a base from contemporary interpretations, an applied study that combines interviews …
A Bridge Between Earth & Sky: How The Natural World Shaped The Civilizations Of Ancient And Early-Modern Persia, Sophia Cabana
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 …
The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics In The Maghreb [Table Of Contents], Hoda El Shakry
The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics In The Maghreb [Table Of Contents], Hoda El Shakry
Literature
The novel, the literary adage has it, reflects a world abandoned by God. Yet the possibilities of novelistic form and literary exegesis exceed the secularizing tendencies of contemporary literary criticism. Showing how the Qurʾan itself invites and enacts critical reading, Hoda El Shakry’s Qurʾanic model of narratology enriches our understanding of literary sensibilities and practices in the Maghreb across Arabophone and Francophone traditions.
The Literary Qurʾan mobilizes the Qurʾan’s formal, narrative, and rhetorical qualities, alongside embodied and hermeneutical forms of Qurʾanic pedagogy, to theorize modern Maghrebi literature. Challenging the canonization of secular modes of reading that occlude religious epistemes, practices, …
John The Solitary's Epistle To Marcianus: Edition, Translation, And Analysis, Ethan K. Laster
John The Solitary's Epistle To Marcianus: Edition, Translation, And Analysis, Ethan K. Laster
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis presents an edition, translation, and analysis of the heretofore unpublished Epistle to Marcianus, an early fifth-century letter attributed to Mar John the Solitary of Apamea. Mar John has long remained a somewhat shadowy figure in Syriac studies, given the complexities of his writings, confusion about what texts should be attributed to him, and his condemnation as a heretic by later Syriac writers. However, scholars have recently begun suggesting that Mar John was in fact quite influential in the development of Syriac ascetic theology. The Epistle to Marcianus (EpMar) considers the passion of lust, which is …
Syriac Chant And The Limits Of Modality, Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Syriac Chant And The Limits Of Modality, Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Yale Journal of Music & Religion
A book review is presented for Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo, by Tala Jarjour. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 250 pp. ISBN: 978-0-190-63525-1.
Divining Gospel: Classifying Manuscripts Of John Used In Sortilege, Jeff Childers
Divining Gospel: Classifying Manuscripts Of John Used In Sortilege, Jeff Childers
Graduate School of Theology
The texts of Christian scripture find their way into a variety of ancient artifacts. The manuscript form has been the most widespread, yet manuscripts manifest distinct patterns of organization and structure according to their different purposes. Many include companion texts sharing the page with that of scripture—texts that gloss, provide commentary, give liturgical direction, or otherwise assist the reader in understanding or using scripture. In many instances, pages containing scripture have acquired additional texts over the years–e.g. marginal notes, corrections, claims of ownership, prayers, and fragments of other texts. One of the least well-studied phenomena is the sort of artifact …
"Some Dreamers Of The Golden Dream": The Construction Of The Golden Age Myth(S) In The Age Of Ottoman Decline, Ian Mclaughlin
"Some Dreamers Of The Golden Dream": The Construction Of The Golden Age Myth(S) In The Age Of Ottoman Decline, Ian Mclaughlin
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing
This paper considers the role and construction of golden age myths in seventeenth-century debates about how to renew the flagging Ottoman Empire. Policymakers and preachers prescribed radically different solutions based on which golden age they idealized—whether the time of the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century or the reign of Sultan Suleiman in the sixteenth. Throughout most of the 1600s, the pendulum swung back and forth violently depending on which faction had the sultan’s ear. Charismatic mosque preachers like Kadizade Efendi whipped up Istanbul crowds against coffee, while advice writers such as Koçi Bey urged expelling “outsiders” from the military …
Reaching Thai Buddhists And Those With A Background In Thai Buddhist Beliefs, Warren A. Shipton, Jared Wright, Tonya Wright, Nilubon Srisai
Reaching Thai Buddhists And Those With A Background In Thai Buddhist Beliefs, Warren A. Shipton, Jared Wright, Tonya Wright, Nilubon Srisai
Journal of Adventist Mission Studies
"One of the greatest challenges for those working across cultures is to understand the unique features of the host culture and the dominant religious beliefs and practices found in the society represented. If this is to be done acceptably, the written and spoken language must be mastered and personal friendships formed with community members. Much damage has been done by Western missionaries arriving with preconceived ideas on evangelism taken from their home country and with an attitude of being holders of superior knowledge in many areas of thought beyond that held by the host culture. Catholic missionary activity has been …
Education And The Arab Spring: Resistance, Reform, And Democracy, Mohammed Abullatif Alharbi
Education And The Arab Spring: Resistance, Reform, And Democracy, Mohammed Abullatif Alharbi
Faculty Publications
The Arab Spring has brought about major changes in the Arab region in many aspects, including education. The researchers aim to present the state of education after the Arab Spring revolutions and compare it with what was before these revolutions. The book has been divided into three main sections. The first section discussed the state of education before the Arab Spring by highlighting some of the teachers’ practices in the classroom. The second section presents some calls for reforming youth education in countries such as Egypt, Yemen, and Tunisia. The last section, which contains three chapters, explores the education of …
Using Wikipedia In Israel Studies Courses, Shira Klein
Using Wikipedia In Israel Studies Courses, Shira Klein
History Faculty Articles and Research
Instructors of Israeli history or literature, like professors in other areas, complain about students’ use of Wikipedia—and with good reason. Unlike peer-reviewed scholarship, many Wikipedia articles contain information that is both incomplete and wrong. Most instructors will warn their students that relying on Wikipedia is a sure recipe for failing assignments. Yet there is a way to mobilize this giant encyclopedia for pedagogical purposes. When students in Israel Studies classes are assigned to edit Wikipedia articles, they achieve multiple goals: they gain critical reading skills, shape public knowledge about Israel, and engage in active learning. This article explains how to …
This Is Home, John C. Lyden
This Is Home, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of This is Home (2018), directed by Alexandra Shiva.
How To Learn To Read The Hebrew Bible, Without Points. With Exercises., William Penn
How To Learn To Read The Hebrew Bible, Without Points. With Exercises., William Penn
ATS Digital Resources
No abstract provided.
Preliminary Report On The 2016 Season Of The Madaba Plains Project: Tall Jalul Excavations 2016, Paul Ray, Paul A. Gregor, Robert D. Bates, Constance E. Gane, Randall Younker
Preliminary Report On The 2016 Season Of The Madaba Plains Project: Tall Jalul Excavations 2016, Paul Ray, Paul A. Gregor, Robert D. Bates, Constance E. Gane, Randall Younker
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.