• Absent priests and the Day of the Locusts : inner-biblical interpretation and the scribal prophet’s priestly critique in Joel 1:1–2:17. 

  Scott, Kevin, 1987-; 0000-0003-0348-1156 (2022-04-25)

  Most who study Joel recognize the text’s emphasis on priests and priestly intercession in Joel 1:1–2:17. Despite this consensus, those who study Joel interpret the relationship between the book’s construction of priests ...

• “All their happiness and consolation hang on the resurrection alone” : John Calvin’s Greek doctrine of the beatific vision. 

  Tyra, Steven W., 1985-; 0000-0002-8291-8485 (2022-03-29)

  This study argues that John Calvin developed “Greek” doctrines of the interim state of souls, resurrection, and beatific vision through his reading of ancient Christian sources like Irenaeus of Lyons. “Greek” had been a ...

• A postcolonial analysis of the Markan discourse of power : an argument for the narrative cohesion of Mark 10:1–45. 

  Peek, Stephanie R., 1986-; 0000-0001-6481-3463 (2022-03-24)

  This project offers a postcolonial narrative analysis of Mark 10:1–45. It is argued that Mark 10 serves, not only as a teaching discourse on discipleship, but also as a pivotal chapter in the creation of the Markan Jesus’s ...

• In search of the literal sense : Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531) and the exegetical tradition on Isaiah. 

  Lundeen, Erik Taylor, 1989- (2022-03-11)

  This dissertation explores the hermeneutical diversity of Reformation-era ‘literal’ exegesis of the prophet Isaiah. Using the 1525 Isaiah commentary of Basel reformer Johannes Oecolampadius as a lens, it compares this work ...

• Wealth and poverty and the occasion of First Clement. 

  Bailey, Jeremiah N., 1985-; 0000-0001-5455-5448 (2021-11-02)

  This dissertation investigates the conflict in the Corinthian church described by 1 Clement. Using primarily social, rhetorical, and intertextual methods, it proposes a reading of the conflict that attributes it to root ...

• Ought we kiss the hand that smites us? : Black Protestants in the age of lynching, 1890-1919. 

  Foley, Malcolm B., 1990-; 0000-0002-6419-4735 (2021-10-26)

  The decades-long phenomenon of racialized lynching in the United States took thousands of lives, but beyond the death toll, it also created a culture of terror in Black communities. These communities powerfully resisted ...

• "Gods in human form"? A study of the acclamations of divinity in the Acts of the Apostles. 

  Glover, Daniel B., 1993-; 0000-0003-4621-7099 (2021-08-25)

  This study evaluates five divine acclamations in the Book of Acts by situating them within the broader ancient Mediterranean context of deification. It demonstrates that divine acclamations in Acts do not conform to a ...

• Humor in the midst of Mark : an analysis of incongruity in Mark 4:35–6:6. 

  Carman, Jon-Michael, 1984- (2021-11-17)

  Since the rise of biblical criticism, there has been a steady stream of scholarship exploring the possibility of reading the biblical text as humorous. This has been especially true of Jesus-studies, where scholars and ...

• The shape of faith : creation and theological knowing in early Christian catechesis. 

  Fogleman, Alex, 1986-; 0000-0002-2136-8328 (2021-07-12)

  This dissertation traces the development of catechesis as an educational institution in early Christianity, with a focus on Italy and North Africa from the second to the fifth century. While catechesis has been an object ...

• Political theology and the conflicts of democracy. 

  Norman-Krause, Nicholas J., 1989- (2021-06-10)

  This dissertation is a theological consideration of conflict in pluralist democratic politics. Centering on the relationship between political community and difference, it develops an “agonistic political theology” of ...

• The radical idea of the priesthood of foreigners : understanding the inclusivism in Isaiah 56:1-8. 

  Chae, Moon Kwon, 1979-; 0000-0002-1063-9460 (2021-04-02)

  This dissertation examines how the radical idea of the priesthood of foreigners in Isa 56:1-8 (and 66:18-24) developed in the Persian period by investigating Isa 56:1-8 in relation to its literary context in Isa 56-66 and ...

• Toward a Creole Christ : a theology of language and Christian hybridity. 

  Lee, Nathaniel Jung-Chul, 1982- (2021-04-06)

  Following the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960’s and 70’s, a new tradition of theology was inaugurated, known today as Black Liberation Theology. This tradition attempted to offer an account of Christianity ...

• The veil of the flesh : a phenomenological reading of Gregory of Nyssa. 

  Breedlove, Thomas J., 1988-; 0000-0003-3189-5030 (2021-04-18)

  The aim of this project is to articulate the significance of embodiment in the theological doctrine of the imago Dei. Reading Gregory of Nyssa’s theological anthropology in conversation with three French phenomenologists—Maurice ...

• Reforging history : the divine warrior in Persian period expansions in the Twelve. 

  Swinney, James Kipp, 1989- (2021-04-21)

  In the Persian era, a new phase of the development of the Book of the Twelve began. These developments included the incorporation of new documents along with the expansion of existing documents and inevitably incorporated ...

• The whirlwind and the lynching tree : apocalyptic and liberation theology in the black Waco tradition. 

  Davis, Tyler B., 1988- (2021-04-01)

  This dissertation explores the work of theology in terms of discerning the liberative reality of God in history. At the heart of the dissertation is a black oral tradition emerging and circulating in Waco, Texas which ...

• Visual exegesis of praise and lament in the psalms of individual lament. 

  Parker, Bobby Edward, Jr., 1980- (2020-12-05)

  For most of the twentieth century, the majority of Psalms scholarship has understood the change in mood in lament psalms, or Stimmungsumschwung, to be the result of an oracle of salvation of some sort. The result of this ...

• The development of female Pentecostal missiology in the Middle East : the careers of Josephine Planter, Lillian Trasher, and Margaret Gaines. 

  Yang, Lucinda, 1991- (2020-10-28)

  This dissertation is an investigation into the missionary careers of three Pentecostal female missionaries who served in the Middle East. First, Josephine Slezak Planter (1867-1954) immigrated to the United States from ...

• “The windows of heaven” : temple windows in the Hebrew Bible and in comparative ancient Near Eastern evidence. 

  Crocker Papadakis, Lacy K., 1983- (2020-06-30)

  The description of Solomon’s Temple windows in 1 Kgs 6:4 includes obscure terminology and provides no explicit insight into the function or symbolism of the temple windows. In this dissertation, I examine 1 Kgs 6:4 in its ...

• The restoration of all of God’s children : the Gentile mission and the salvation of black-skinned people in Luke/Acts. 

  Jerkins, Marcus Stephen, 1984-; 0000-0002-3220-6893 (2020-06-11)

  The author of Luke and Acts links his discussion of the salvation of the Gentile nations and even the restoration of Israel to the salvation of black-skinned people. Against the background in which Luke is writing, it ...

• Revivalism and restorationism : the Brownsville Revival and its leaders’ paradoxical defense. 

  Garcia, Yvette D., 1965-; 0000-0002-9385-1140 (2019-12-17)

  This study examines the Brownsville Revival, a Pentecostal revival of religion that took place at the end of the twentieth century at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida. The church belonged to the Pentecostal ...

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