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Jewish Paideia in the Hellenistic Diaspora: Discussing Education, Shaping Identity.
(2016)
While the integral role of paideia in Greek, Roman, and early Christian history has been widely recognized, the place of paideia in Jewish thought and the resultant influence on late antique Christianity, and thus on Western ...
The Cultural and Economic Composition of Late Hellenistic Upper Galilee: A Case Study of the Squatters at Tel Kedesh.
(2012)
In 1999 a large building was discovered at Tel Kedesh that had been the administrative
center for northern Upper Galilee in the Persian, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid periods. The
building had been partially destroyed and ...
Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, Revisited
(2022)
Ancient Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, located in modern Iraq, was a multiethnic imperial capital city in Mesopotamia. Founded by Seleucus I Nicator in the late fourth century BCE, the city was conquered by the Parthians in 141 ...
Concepts of Emperorship from the Ancient Near East to Medieval Bulgaria
(2022)
This dissertation is about the history of two intertwined concepts, observed from their original appearance until their interplay in the diplomatic experience of Medieval Bulgaria. The first of these concepts is the idea ...
Identity, Burial Practice, and Social Change in Ptolemaic Egypt.
(2013)
This dissertation critically examines accepted ideas of ethnic identity in Ptolemaic Egypt through an archaeological analysis of patterns in mortuary behavior. Since the representation of individuals in death is intentionally ...
Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome: (An)Iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus.
(2009)
This dissertation investigates the discourse on images embedded in the writings of the
Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, focusing especially on his numerous accounts of a
contentious, and at times iconoclastic, relationship ...