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"I Received an Inward Showing of Truth"
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Author
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Mesibov, Sally
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, Religion, Literature, Medieval
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Description
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SALLY JO MESIBOV. "I Received an Inward Showing of Truth." (Under the direction of DR. WILLIAM SHERMAN) This paper analyzes the changes in language between two texts, written by Julian of Norwich, that reportedly describe the same religious vision...
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A Thick Cloud of Forgetting: The Functions of Unknowing in the Cloud of Unknowing
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Author
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Staton, Jonathan
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Religion, Literature, Medieval, Philosophy
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Description
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The exercise of mystical unknowing is central to the contemplative process prescribed in The Cloud of Unknowing. This thesis argues three distinct but interrelated claims about how unknowing works and what unknowing does in The Cloud of Unknowing....
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Elijah the Tishbite: The Zealous He-Prophet's Gender Performance in 1 and 2 Kings
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Author
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Argonauta, Matthew
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Bible, Sex role, Religion
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Description
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The prophet Elijah is known for his zealousness on behalf of the Israelite deity, Yhwh. This zeal particularly manifests itself as Elijah defends the exclusive worship of Yhwh in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab, after ...
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Identifying the Voice of the Teacher in the Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot) of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Author
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McElveen, Viola
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, Judaism--Study and teaching, History, Ancient
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Description
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ABSTRACTVIOLA L. MCELVEEN. Identifying the Voice of the Teacher in the Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot) of the Dead Sea Scrolls(Under the direction of DR. JAMES D. TABOR) The central purpose of my thesis is to attempt to identify the methods and crite...
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Title
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Mark: A Messianic Post-War Gospel
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Author
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Beaumont, Jenny
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Area studies, Bible, Theology
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Description
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The Gospel of Mark, understood as our earliest post-70 CE early Christian/Jewish writing, can provide a new interpretive lens for setting forth the parameters of an understanding of spirituality for Mark’s community in a new era in which Jerusalem...
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The Gospel of Luke as Rewritten Mark: Jesus as a Hellenistic "Divine Man"
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Author
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Melton, Tyler
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects
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Description
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In a society that reveres "divine men" who typically hold positions of power, it should be no surprise that an author would want the subject of their writings to emulate traits that line up with such a title – even if they are rewriting an earlier...