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Dissertation Titles, 1996 - 2007 |
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Name |
Date of Degree |
Sub-Field | Dissertation Title |
Primary Advisor |
| Rahim Acar | June 2002 | Arabic & Islamic Studies | Creation: A Comparative Study Between Avicenna's and Aquinas' Positions | Robert Wisnovsky |
| Ahmad A. Ahmad |
June 2005 |
Arabic & Islamic Studies | Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law: A Study of Takhij al-Furu ala al-Usul Literature |
Wolfhart P. Heinrichs |
Mark Arnold |
November 2005 |
Semitic Philology | Categorization of the Hitpa'el of Classical Hebrew |
John Huehnergard |
Carolina Aznar |
November 2005 |
Archaeology of the Levant | Archaeology, Exchange Networks in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age II: A Study of Pottery Origin and Distribution |
Lawrence E. Stager |
| Joel Baden | June 2007 | Hebrew Bible | Rethinking the Supposed JE Document | Peter Machinist |
| Chulhyun Bae | March 2001 | Semitic Philology | Comparative Studies of King Darius's Bisitun Inscription | John Huehnergard |
| Tristan J. Barako | June 2001 | Archaeology of the Levant | The seaborne migration of the Philistines | Lawrence E. Stager |
| Pamela Barmash | June 1999 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | Homicide in ancient Israel, the ancient Near East, and traditional societies | Peter Machinist |
| Jason Bembry | November 2004 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | YHWH's Coming of Age | Jo Ann Hackett |
| Eric Lewis Beverley | November 2007 | Indo-Muslim Culture | Muslim Modern: Hyderabad State, 1883-1948 | Ali Asani |
| Kathleen Birney | June 2007 | Archaeology | Sea Peoples or Syrian Peddlers? The Late Bronze – Iron I Aegean Presence in Syria and Cilicia | Lawrence E. Stager |
| Aaron J. Brody | June 1996 | Archaeology of the Levant | Maritime religion of the Canaanites and Phoenicians: Aspects of the specialized sacral beliefs and practices of Levantine seafarers | Lawrence E. Stager |
| Justin Cammy | June 2003 | Yiddish Language and Literature | 'Yung-Vilne': A Cultural History of a Yiddish Literary Movement in Interwar Poland | Ruth R. Wisse |
| Susan L. Cohen | March 2000 | Archaeology of the Levant | Canaanites, chronology, and connections: The relationship of Middle Bronze Age IIA Canaan to Middle Kingdom Egypt | Lawrence E. Stager |
| Yoram Cohen | November 2003 | Akkadian and Sumerian Studies | The Transmission and Reception of Mesopotamian Scholarly Texts at the City of Emar | Piotr Steinkeller |
| Georgios S. Dedes | June 1996 | Turkish Studies | The "Battalname", an Ottoman Turkish frontier epic wondertale | Sinasi Tekin |
| David DiPasquale | June 2002 | Arabic & Islamic Studies | Alfarabi and the Starting Point of Islamic Philosophy: A Study of the Kitab al-Jadal (Book of Dialectic) | Robert Wisnovsky |
| David L. Elias |
June 2005 |
Semitic Philology | Tigre of Habab: Short Grammar and Texts from the Rigbat People |
John Huehnergard |
| John L. Ellison | June 2002 | A Paleographic Study of the Alphabetic Cuneiform Texts from Ras Shamra/Ugarit | Jo Ann Hackett | |
| Allan C. Emery | March 1999 | Weapons of the Israelite monarchy: A catalogue with its linguistic and cross-cultural implications | John Huehnergard | |
| Joshua T. Fox | June 1996 | Semitic Philology | Noun patterns in the Semitic languages | John Huehnergard |
| Bruce G. Fudge | November 2003 | Arabic & Islamic Studies | The Major Qur'an Commentary of al-Tabrisi (d. 548/1154) | William A. Graham |
Chanan Gafni |
November 2005 |
Jewish Studies | The Emergence of Critical Scholarship on Rabbinic Literature in the Nineteenth-Century: Social and Ideological Contexts |
Jay Harris |
| Charles A. Gantt | June 1998 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | Do not let your God deceive you: The idea of divine deception in the Hebrew Bible | Paul Hanson and Peter Machinist |
| Charles G. Haberl | June 2006 | Semitic Philology | The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr | |
| Martien Halvorson-Taylor | June 2006 | Hebrew Bible | The Development of Exile as Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible | |
| Mark W. Hamilton | June 2000 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | The body royal: The social poetics of kingship in ancient Israel | Peter Machinist |
| Rebecca Hasselbach | June 2004 | Semitic Philology | A Historical and Comparative Study of Sargonic Akkadian | John Huehnergard |
| Matthias Henze | June 1997 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | The madness of King Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4): The recrudescence and transformation of ancient Near Eastern mythology in late- and post-biblical literature | Gary Anderson |
| Jeremy M. Hutton |
June 2005 |
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | The Transjordanian Palimpsest: The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile and Transformation in the Deuteronomistic History |
Jo Ann Hackett |
| Syed Akbar Adeel Hyder | June 2000 | Indo-Muslim Culture | To die and yet live: Karbala in Urdu discursive landscapes | Ali S. Asani |
| Alireza Korangy Isfahani | March 2007 | Iranian and Persian Studies | Development of the Ghazal and Khaqani’s Contribution:A Study on the Development of Ghazal and a Literary Exegesis of a 12th c. Poetic Harbinger | Wheeler Thackston, Jr. |
| Angela Jaffray | June 2000 | Arabic & Islamic Studies | At the threshold of philosophy: A study of al-Farabi's introductory works on logic | Robert Wisnovsky |
| Vivian L. Johnson |
June 2005 |
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | David in Distress: The Transformation of David through the Historical Psalm Titles |
Jo Ann Hackett |
| Walter Kim | June 2007 | Hebrew Bible | The Language of Verbal Insults in the Hebrew Bible | Peter Machinist |
| Paul D. Korchin | June 2001 | Semitic Philology | Markedness and Semitic morphology | John Huehnergard |
| Selim S. Kuru | June 2000 | Turkish Studies | A sixteenth century scholar: Deli Birader and his "Dafi`ü'l-Gumum ve rafi`ü'l-humum" | Sinasi Tekin |
| John F. Kutsko | June 1997 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | The presence and absence of God in the book of Ezekiel | Peter Machinist |
David Lambert |
June 2004 |
Jewish Studies | Topics in the History of Repentance: From the Hebrew Bible to Early Judaism and Christianity |
James L. Kugel |
| Sergio La Porta | June 2001 | Armenian Studies | "The Theology of the Holy Dionysius," Volume III of Grigor Tat'ewac'i's "Book of Questions": Introduction, translation and commentary | James Russell |
| Mark A. LaRocca-Pitts | June 2000 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | The Day of Yahweh as rhetorical strategy among the Hebrew Prophets | Peter Machinist |
| Karen Lavery | June 2007 | Hebrew Bible | Abraham’s Dialogue with God over the Destruction of Sodom: Chapters in the History of the Interpretation of Genesis 18 | Paul Hanson |
| Zvi Lederman | June 1999 | Archaeology of the Levant | An early Iron Age village at Khirbet Raddana: The excavations of Joseph A. Callaway | Lawrence E. Stager |
| Michael Legaspi | June 2006 | Hebrew Bible | Reviving the Dead Letter: Johann David Michaelis and the Quest for Hebrew Antiquity | |
| Joshua M. Levisohn | June 1999 | Jewish Studies | The early Vilna Haskalah and the search for a modern Jewish identity | Jay M. Harris |
| David R. Lipovitch | March 1999 | Archaeology of the Levant | Can these bones live again? An analysis of the non-canid, mammalian faunal remains from the Achaemenid period occupation of Tel Ashkelon, Israel | Lawrence E. Stager |
| Larry L. Lyke | June 1996 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | "And the two of them struggled in the field": Intertextuality and the interpretation of the mashal of the wise woman of Tekoa in 2 Samuel 14:1-20 | Jon D. Levenson |
| Paul V. Mankowski | June 1997 | Akkadian and trans-Akkadian loanwords in Biblical Hebrew | John Huehnergard | |
| Daniel Master | June 2001 | Archaeology of the Levant | The seaport of Ashkelon in the seventh century BCE: A petrographic study | Lawrence E. Stager |
| John M. Monson | June 1999 | Archaeology of the Levant | The Temple of Jerusalem: A case study in the integration of text and artifact | Lawrence E. Stager |
| Aisha Musa | June 2004 | Arabic & Islamic Studies | A Study of Early and Contemporary Muslim Attitudes toward Hadith as Scripture with a Translation of al-Shafici's Kitab Jimac al-cIlm | William A. Graham |
| Jennie Myers | June 2002 | Akkadian and Sumerian Studies | The Sippar Pantheon: A Diachronic Study | Paul-Alain Beaulieu and Piotr Steinkeller |
| Hindy Najman | November 1998 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | Authoritative writing and interpretation: A study in the history of Scripture | James L. Kugel |
| Judith H. Newman | November 1996 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | Praying by the book: The scripturalization of prayer in Second Temple Judaism | James L. Kugel |
| Na'ama Pat-El | June 2008 | Semitic Philology | Studies in the Historical Syntax of Aramaic | John Huehnergard |
| Eugen J. Pentiuc | March 1998 | Studies in the Emar lexicon | John Huehnergard | |
| Gil Perl | December 2006 | Jewish Studies | ‘Emek ha-Neziv: A Window into the Intellectual Universe of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin |
Shaye Cohen |
| Michael David Press | June 2007 | Archaeology | Philistine Figurines and Figurines in Philistia in the Iron Age | Lawrence E. Stager |
| Alyssa P. Quint | November 2002 | Yiddish Language and Literature | The Botched Kiss: Abraham Goldfaden and the Literary Origins of the Yiddish Theatre | Ruth R. Wisse |
| Bazat Tahera Qutbuddin | June 1999 | Arabic & Islamic Studies | Al-Mu'ayyad fi al-Din al-Shirazi: Founder of a new tradition of Fatimid da'wa poetry | Wolfhart P. Heinrichs |
| Asher Ragen | March 2007 | Jewish Studies/Assyriology | The Neo-Babylonian sirku A Social History | Paul-Alain Beaulieu |
| Sandra L. Richter | June 2001 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | The Deuteronomistic History and the place of the Name | Jo Ann Hackett |
| Gidon G. Rothstein | June 2003 | Jewish Studies | Writing Midrash Avot: The Change that Three Fifteenth Century Exegetes Introduced to Avot Interpretation, Its Impact and Origins | Jay M. Harris |
| James T. Robinson | November 2002 | Jewish Studies | Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Commentary on Ecclesiastes | Bernard Septimus |
| Aaron D. Rubin | June 2004 | Semitic Philology | Studies in Semitic Grammaticalization | John Huehnergard |
| Stephen D. Ryan | November 2001 | Studies in Bar Salibi's commentary on the Psalms | James F. Coakley | |
| Tonia M. Sharlach | November 1999 | Akkadian and Sumerian Studies | Bala: Economic exchange between center and provinces in the Ur III state | Piotr Steinkeller |
| Rahim Shayegan | March 2000 | Iranian and Persian Studies | Aspects of early Sasanian history and historiography | P. Oktor Skjaervo |
| Ariel Sheetrit | November 2007 | Arabic and Islamic Studies | Writing the Family in Modern Arabic Autobiographical Texts | William Granara |
| Kathryn E. Slanski | November 1997 | Akkadian and Sumerian Studies | A study in the form and function of the Babylonian kudurrus |
Peter Machinist and Piotr Steinkeller |
| Matthew Smith | June 2006 | Iranian and Persian Studies | Literary Courage: Language, Land, and the Nation in the Works of Malik al-Shu'ara Bahar | |
| Scobie Smith | March 2007 | Assyriology | Hurrian Orthographic Interference in Nuzi Akkadian: A Computational Comparative Graphemic Analysis | Piotr Steinkeller |
| Jonathan Smolin | June 2007 | Arabic and Islamic Studies | Moroccan Noir: The Genesis of the Arabic Police Procedural | William Granara |
| Benjamin Studevent-Hickman | March 2006 | Akkadian and Sumerian Studies | The Organization of Manual Labor in Ur III Babylonia |
Piotr Steinkeller |
| Stephanie Thomas | June 2000 | Arabic & Islamic Studies | The concept of Muhadara in the adab anthology with special reference to al-Raghib al-Isfahani's "Muhadarat al-udaba'" | Wolfhart P. Heinrichs |
| Fikret Turan | June 1996 | Turkish Studies | Old Anatolian Turkish: Syntactic structure | Sinasi Tekin |
| David S. Vanderhooft | June 1996 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | Neo-Babylonian imperialism and Babylon in the Latter Prophets | Peter Machinist |
| Yuhan Vevaina | June 2007 | Iranian and Persian Studies | Studies in Zoroastrian Exegesis and Hermeneutics witha Critical Edition of the Sudgar Nask of Denkard Book 9 | Oktor Skjaervo |
| Nargis Virani | June 1999 | Arabic & Islamic Studies | "I am the nightingale of the merciful": Macaronic or upside-down? The mulamma'at of Jalal al-Din Rumi | Annemarie Schimmel and Wolfhart P. Heinrich |
| Shafique Virani | June 2001 | Indo-Muslim Culture | Seekers of union: The Ismailis from the Mongol debacle to the eve of the Safavid revolution | Ali S. Asani |
| Henrietta L. Wiley | November 2004 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | Gather to My Feast: YHWH as Sacrifier in the Biblical Prophets | Jo Ann Hackett |
| Abraham (Avi) Winitzer | June 2006 | Akkadian and Sumerian Studies | The Generative Paradigm in Old Babylonian Divination | |
| Christopher E. Woods | June 2001 | Akkadian and Sumerian Studies | The deictic foundation of the Sumerian language | Piotr Steinkeller |
| Edwina M. Wright | November 1996 | Semitic Philology | Studies in Semitic historical semantics: Words for 'man' and 'woman' | John Huehnergard |
| Hikmet Yaman | March 2008 | Arabic & Islamic Studies | The Concept of Hikmah in Early Islamic Thought | Wolfhart Heinrichs |