Theses - Divinity
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Martin Luther’s Hebrew in Mid-Career. The Minor Prophets Translation.
(2018-07-21)This dissertation provides a comprehensive account of Martin Luther’s Hebrew translation in his academic mid-career. Apart from the Psalms, no book of the Hebrew Bible has yet been examined in any comprehensive manner in ... -
Open Proverbs: Exploring Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10:1-22:16
(2018-07-20)This thesis has three main aims. First, I will propose and explain a genre ascription for the sayings in Prov 10:1-22:16 – the ‘didactic proverb’. Second, I will analyse ‘openness’ as a textual feature, and show its ... -
Takkanot Kandiyah – A collection of legislative statutes as a source for the assessment of laymen’s legal authority in a Jewish community in Venetian Crete
(2016-04-23)The dissertations offers an analysis of Takkanot Kandiyah, a corpus of communal statutes from the Jewish community in Candia, the capital of Venetian Crete. These texts were written between 1228 and 1583 and collected as ... -
Producing an Islamic institution: a London case study
(2018-07-20)This thesis constitutes a case study of how an Islamic institution in London is produced as an object of knowledge. It develops an argument by Maussen about mosques in Western Europe, which suggests that they ‘do not have ...
