Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations"
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Deuteronomy and the Medes
The Jerusalem priesthood produced the Book of Deuteronomy in the late seventh century BCE. It restates concisely and eloquently the teachings of the rest of the Torah in a single volume that is tightly structured around ... -
Die Erforschung der Giza-Nekropole von 1800 bis Heute
(Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2013) -
Discipline and Publish: Jews, the Logic of the State, and the Beginning of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in Eastern Europe (1806-1845)
(2016-09-16)Jews, the Logic of the State, and the Beginning of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in Eastern Europe (1806-1845) investigates and connects two historical phenomena: The rise of modern Jewish literature in Eastern ... -
Egypt and Europe: From French Expedition to British Occupation
(I.B. Tauris, 1972) -
The Emergence of ʿIlm al-Bayān: Classical Arabic Literary Theory in the Arabic East in the 7th/13th Century
(2016-09-12)This dissertation identifies a turning point in the development of literary theory as a discipline in the classical Arabic-Islamic world, starting in the Arabic East in the thirteenth century under the emerging framework ... -
Encyclopaedism in the Mamluk Period: The Composition of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Nuwayrī’s (D. 1333) Nihāyat al-Arab fī Funūn al-Adab
(2012-08-03)This dissertation explores the emergence of a golden age of Arabic encyclopaedic literature in the scholarly centers of Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Empire (1250-1517). At the heart of the project is a study of Shihāb ... -
The Epic of Sasun: Armenian Apocalypse
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Esther and the Politics of Negotiation: An Investigation of Public and Private Spaces in Relationship to Possibilities for Female Royal Counselors
(2012-09-17)The primary question that this dissertation seeks to answer is, “How might we characterize the narrative depiction of Esther’s political involvement in the affairs of the Persian state?” Many scholars have tried to answer ... -
An Examination of the Relationship between Humans and Animals in the Hebrew Bible
(2013-02-08)The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between humans and animals in the Hebrew Bible. Although the Hebrew Bible contains a multitude of different perspectives on animals, I argue that there are ... -
Facing the Limits of Fiction: Self-Consciousness in Jewish American Literature
(2013-03-15)This thesis explores the limits of fictional language by studying the work of Jewish American writer-critics, novelists who significantly engaged with literary criticism, and critics who experimented with the novel or short ... -
Facultative Mimicry ? The Evolutionary Significance of Seasonal Forms in Several Indo-Australian Butterflies in the Family Pierid
(2010)Several Asian pierid butterflies exhibit a pattern of phenotypic plasticity whereby the wing surfaces are more melanized in the wet season than in the dry season. The wet season in the Indo-Australian regions where these ... -
From Mashtots' to Nga'ara
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From Parthia to Robin Hood: The Epic of the Blind Man’s Son.
(Brill, 2017) -
From Permission to Prohibition: Paul and the Early Church on Mixed Marriage
(Rome: Gregorian and Biblical Press, 2011) -
From Siraf to Sumatra: Seafaring and Spices in the Islamicate Indo-Pacific, Ninth-Eleventh Centuries C.E.
(2013-10-08)This dissertation is a study of early Islamicate commerce in natural luxuries of the tropical Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Rim, such as spices, ambergris and pearls, between the ninth and eleventh centuries C.E. I ... -
From the Islamic State to the Messiah's Global Government: Structures of the Final World Order According to Contemporary Sunni and Shiíte Discourses
(2017-10-10)This dissertation exposes a genre of Islamic thought that has remained unstudied in academic scholarship: Islamic conceptions of “final world order.” At the intersection of political and apocalyptic thought, “final world ... -
God and the Devil in the Human Heart: The Dialogic Vision of Abramovitch and Dostoevsky
(2013-02-12)Scholarship on the founder of modern Jewish literature, Sholem Abramovitch (1836-1917), is a rich field of study, yet it has been largely abandoned today, and the author has hardly been studied at all in nineteenth-century ... -
Hārūt and Mārūt: The Armenian Zoroastrian Demonic Twins in the Qur’ān Who Invented Fiction
(Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Nestor-Historia., 2013) -
Heresies: On an Armenian prayer to the sun
(BRILL, 2020-02-03)