Perhaps no single biblical verse has been more quoted in the history of Black religious thought than Psalm 68:31. Known widely as “the Ethiopian prophecy,” …
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 …
Abstract of “Early Intertextual Uses of Parallels with the Laozi and Their Role as Source of Authority” by Larson Di Fiori Ph.D., Brown University, May …
In this dissertation, I argue that in climate literature and the popular imagination common affects—in tandem with an under-interrogated acceptance of what I call the …
This dissertation draws attention to the religious lives of Ming eunuchs, who, despite their active engagement in religious activities during the late Ming era, have …
Abstract of “From Learning of the Sage to Learning of the Exemplary Person in a Constant State of Self-Examination: Tasan Chŏng Yakyong’s Restructuring of Confucian …
This dissertation takes up the question, who is Halakhic Woman? Joseph Soloveitchik’s elegant and influential work Halakhic Man describes what it is like to be …
This dissertation examines the ways in which late antique rabbis in Palestine and Babylonia read and discussed reading. It aims to understand the rabbinic orientation …
Abstract of “Kalām as a Way of Life: al-Jāḥiẓ, Natural Philosophy, and the Ontology of Human Difference,” by Michael Lawrence Payne, Ph.D., Brown University, October …
This dissertation explores the generative epistemological potential of medieval Sufism through the radical openness of Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya's (d. 1252) thought. The project reads 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 dissertation sketches the conceptualization and representation of sociopolitical dissent in Central Asia and Iran between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. How might rebels have …
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary work that integrates material from the humanities and social sciences in service of a more sophisticated theory of the relationship …
This dissertation analyzes encounter and exchange between Christianity and Islam in late antiquity and the Middle Ages through the lens of saints’ stories, their textual …
This dissertation aims to demonstrate that the writings of G.W.F. Hegel afford us timely and generative resources for diagnosing, understanding, and addressing ethical and political …
This dissertation investigates the ways in which images of violence found in apocalyptic and related literature affected ancient Judeans. Anthropologists have examined the consequences of …
