In "'You Divided Sea by Your Might': The 'Conflict Myth' and the Biblical Tradition," I analyze the ancient west Asian theme of divine combat between …
This dissertation focuses on a unique corpus of cuneiform tablets from southern Babylonia written during the Seleucid period (roughly 3rd- 2nd c. BCE) that preserve …
This dissertation examines the category of “human” in an ancient West Asian context in order to better define the term. Many scholars have studied nonhuman …
My dissertation is a study of imperial dynamics and borderlands of the Hittite Empire. The Hittite Empire dominated parts of what is now modern Turkey …
This dissertation explores how Israelites regarded foreign lands, relates this to the debate about biblical categorizations of pollution and purification, and points to larger questions …
"Non-Anthropomorphic Gods? Manufactured Entities and Divine Qualities and Attributes Characterized As Gods in the Textual Evidence from Ancient Mesopotamia, Syria, North Arabia, Palestine, and Elephantine" …
This dissertation examines biblical and Mesopotamian texts that use caricatures of ethnic foreigners’ social practices to disparage them, with a special focus on how the …
This dissertation examines the power relationships between the hegemons of the Late Bronze and Iron Age and their subjects in the Levant through the lens …
This study explores the Myth of Destruction in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean context, focusing on the Sumerian, Akkadian, Greek and Latin sources, with occasional recourse …
This doctoral dissertation investigates linguistic processes associated with verbal derivation, namely affixation (i.e., adding of a morpheme to a word) and reduplication (i.e., doubling of …
This dissertation investigates the treatment of eclipses in early Chinese astronomy and astrology. It discusses the practice of eclipse divination, mathematical astronomy theories, and the …
