Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / The purpose of this research is to determine the Four Gospel text of Eusebius. That is, to determine the manuscripts or sources used by Eusebius when quoting from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These Patristic quotations are valuable because they permit us to localize and date the various kinds of texts in manuscripts and versions, and thus to reconstruct the original autographs of the New Testament Gospels. [TRUNCATED]

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University

This thesis presents a series of feminist counter-readings of the two women in Proverbs 1-9: Woman Wisdom and the Strange-and-Foolish Woman. It therefore seeks to both discern and challenge the traditional male scholarship's understandings of both women, and, more importantly, to read both as women rather than as stereotypes. Most readings of the text construe Woman Wisdom as a personification or a hypostasis, and the Strange-and-Foolish Woman as a stereotype or series of stereotypes of promiscuous and assertively sexual women. Few scholars focus on the significance of these representations of women as women. My feminist counter-reading methodology involves a triple hermeneutic-suspicion, resistance, rereading and representation. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 1999

This diploma thesis acquaints the reader with the linguistic analysis of the extract from the Boskovska Bible which is the Old Czech manuscript from the 15th century. The text is dividend into two parts. Theoretical section is bringing general information about the history of the analysed manuscript and a development of orthographic systems. The second part deals with the parsing of five linguistic layers: orthography, phonetics, morphology, syntax and word-formation. Each of them also consists of the chapters where the particular phenomena are discussed. The orthographic layer captures the spelling transformations in the individual parts of this excerpt. The next part is considered with the phonetics transformation which is implemented in this text. The morphological part is primarily focusing on the grammatical categories of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and verbs. The syntactic level analyses an occurrence of the simple sentences, the complex and compound sentences, the grammatical constituents and the irregular sentence structure. The next section treats the word-formation methods in this sample. The integral part of each chapter is the chart or the table with values of the frequency phenomena. The closing part includes The Annexes. The transcription and transliteration of the analysis are...

Thesis advisor: Angela Kim Harkins / Thesis advisor: Margaret E. Guider / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

This thesis presents a series of feminist counter-readings of the two women in Proverbs 1-9: Woman Wisdom and the Strange-and-Foolish Woman. It therefore seeks to both discern and challenge the traditional male scholarship's understandings of both women, and, more importantly, to read both as women rather than as stereotypes. Most readings of the text construe Woman Wisdom as a personification or a hypostasis, and the Strange-and-Foolish Woman as a stereotype or series of stereotypes of promiscuous and assertively sexual women. Few scholars focus on the significance of these representations of women as women. My feminist counter-reading methodology involves a triple hermeneutic-suspicion, resistance, rereading and representation. This hermeneutic is also informed by an insistently embodied reading practice. My methodology draws on various fields of feminist scholarship, including feminist literary theory and film theory, feminist hermeneutics and feminist biblical criticism, feminist theories of embodiment, and feminist epistemology. In addition, I use contemporary ideas relating to translation to re-translate key terms integral to the focus of my thesis. Each chapter of the thesis focuses on a site of contestation-both within biblical scholarship and within the text. As a piece of feminist scholarship, this thesis both works within the constraints of the traditional understanding of a thesis and contemporary 'malestream' scholarship, and pushes gently at the boundaries, seeking to make spaces for different ways to approach, and write, theses. The first four chapters focusing on the textual analysis are presented as being in a constellation relationship with each other and the later textual analyses. Using a variety of strategies, originating in a variety of feminist disciplines, I have demonstrated that both Woman Wisdom and the Strange-and-Foolish Woman can be read as representations of real women. In each case, their representations-in-the-text are partial, designed to categorise them in the interests of the male system (malestream), and to keep them separate from each other. I also demonstrate, however, that both women resist these attempts at patriarchal and androcentric colonisation. Woman Wisdom, in assertively building her own house within the malestream, claims her own space for her alternative way of wisdom in the male-dominated world of the text. Using her location 'inside' the system to gain access to the young future leaders-both men and women-she disseminates her alternative way with the apparent approval of the system. Contrary to the view of most scholars, she does not speak with the voice of the patriarchal system-she has her own style, and her own message, which she shares freely with all who accept her invitation to her feast of wisdom. The Strange-and-Foolish Woman more openly resists malestream attempts to control and confine her. Like Woman Wisdom, she resorts to resistance strategies to access her audience: she masquerades as a vamp to attract her audience and poke fun at the foibles of the 'wise' old men who denigrate her sexuality but secretly lust after her body. She, too, is a woman who defines herself, and her way of being sexual, and seeks to make a space for an alternative way of being woman, and celebrating her sexuality, in the world of the text. / thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 1999

Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-63).

Thesis (M.A.)--Catholic Theological Union, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-106).

This dissertation interprets the poems of the book of Lamentations through the study of their imagery and of the themes expressed through that imagery. The introduction places the study in the context of literary studies of biblical texts and of recent scholarship on Lamentations. The book is read in its canonical order, identifying the images and patterns of imagery which occur in each poem. Major images are compared with similar images in other biblical poetry and interpreted as to the themes which they express. Comparison of imagery which appears in several poems illustrates how the experience of the fall of Jerusalem is variously understood and expressed within the book as a whole. The poems depict the suffering and losses of the community during the siege and its aftermath, while attempting to understand what these events mean for the community's relationship with its god. The speaker of Lam 3, however, reflects on human suffering from the perspective of an individual man. The poems and the book as a whole express vividly the experience of loss and suffering. The religious meaning of the disaster remains unanswered throughout the book, with the possible exception of the first chapter, where the balance of imagery of sin and suffering suggests that the sufferers receive what they have deserved for their sins. The book as a whole both expresses loss and suffering and inquires without final resolution as to the religious meaning of the communal disaster.

This thesis presents a series of feminist counter-readings of the two women in Proverbs 1-9: Woman Wisdom and the Strange-and-Foolish Woman. It therefore seeks to both discern and challenge the traditional male scholarship's understandings of both women, and, more importantly, to read both as women rather than as stereotypes. Most readings of the text construe Woman Wisdom as a personification or a hypostasis, and the Strange-and-Foolish Woman as a stereotype or series of stereotypes of promiscuous and assertively sexual women. Few scholars focus on the significance of these representations of women as women. My feminist counter-reading methodology involves a triple hermeneutic-suspicion, resistance, rereading and representation. This hermeneutic is also informed by an insistently embodied reading practice. My methodology draws on various fields of feminist scholarship, including feminist literary theory and film theory, feminist hermeneutics and feminist biblical criticism, feminist theories of embodiment, and feminist epistemology. In addition, I use contemporary ideas relating to translation to re-translate key terms integral to the focus of my thesis. Each chapter of the thesis focuses on a site of contestation-both within biblical scholarship and within the text. As a piece of feminist scholarship, this thesis both works within the constraints of the traditional understanding of a thesis and contemporary 'malestream' scholarship, and pushes gently at the boundaries, seeking to make spaces for different ways to approach, and write, theses. The first four chapters focusing on the textual analysis are presented as being in a constellation relationship with each other and the later textual analyses. Using a variety of strategies, originating in a variety of feminist disciplines, I have demonstrated that both Woman Wisdom and the Strange-and-Foolish Woman can be read as representations of real women. In each case, their representations-in-the-text are partial, designed to categorise them in the interests of the male system (malestream), and to keep them separate from each other. I also demonstrate, however, that both women resist these attempts at patriarchal and androcentric colonisation. Woman Wisdom, in assertively building her own house within the malestream, claims her own space for her alternative way of wisdom in the male-dominated world of the text. Using her location 'inside' the system to gain access to the young future leaders-both men and women-she disseminates her alternative way with the apparent approval of the system. Contrary to the view of most scholars, she does not speak with the voice of the patriarchal system-she has her own style, and her own message, which she shares freely with all who accept her invitation to her feast of wisdom. The Strange-and-Foolish Woman more openly resists malestream attempts to control and confine her. Like Woman Wisdom, she resorts to resistance strategies to access her audience: she masquerades as a vamp to attract her audience and poke fun at the foibles of the 'wise' old men who denigrate her sexuality but secretly lust after her body. She, too, is a woman who defines herself, and her way of being sexual, and seeks to make a space for an alternative way of being woman, and celebrating her sexuality, in the world of the text. / thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 1999