From its establishment by royal decree in 1610 until its abolition in 1821, the Inquisition tribunal of Cartagena de Indias sought to stamp out heresy and maintain Catholic orthodoxy among the inhabitants of the territory of New Granada. This thesis examines the activities of the tribunal during the first half of the seventeenth century, specifically as they relate to its persecution of the crypto-Jews under its jurisdiction. While the surviving evidence demonstrates a significant crypto-Jewish presence in Cartagena in the 1600s, and even though the authority of this tribunal extended far beyond its immediate surroundings, very few crypto-Jews were ever prosecuted by this court during this time. This thesis explores the social, economic and political dynamics explaining a change in policy that led to a rise in the number of Inquisition trials against the crypto-Jewish population in the first half of the seventeenth century. This thesis argues that Spanish imperial politics coupled with socio-economic factors inherent in the colonial system, explains why inquisitorial persecution increased in this period.

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During the Second Temple period (516 BCE–70 CE) a series of developments contributed to a growing reticence to use the divine name, YHWH. The name was eventually restricted among priestly and pious circles, and then disappeared. The variables are poorly understood and the evidence is scattered. Scholars have supposed that the second century BCE was a major turning point from the use to non-use of the divine name, and depict this phenomenon as a linear development. Many have arrived at this position, however, through only partial consideration of currently available evidence. The current study offers for the first time a complete collection of extant evidence from the Second Temple period in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek in order answer the question of how, when, and in what sources the divine name is used and avoided. The outcome is a modified chronology for the Tetragrammaton’s history. Rather than a linear development from use to avoidance, the extant evidence points to overlapping use and non-use throughout most of the Second Temple period. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

My dissertation analyzes the passages related to the priesthood, cult, and temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran. The Aramaic Scrolls comprise roughly 15% of the manuscripts found in the Qumran caves, and testify to the presence of a flourishing Jewish Aramaic literary tradition dating to the early Hellenistic period (ca. late fourth to early second century BCE). Scholarship since the mid-2000s has increasingly understood these writings as a corpus of related literature on both literary and socio-historical grounds, and has emphasized their shared features, genres, and theological outlook. Roughly half of the Aramaic Scrolls display a strong interest in Israel’s priestly institutions: the priesthood, cult, and temple. That many of these compositions display such an interest has not gone unnoticed. To date, however, few scholars have analyzed the priestly passages in any given composition in light of the broader corpus, and no scholars have undertaken a comprehensive treatment of the priestly passages in the Aramaic Scrolls. My dissertation fills these lacunae. After a brief introduction to the dissertation in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 gives an overview and assessment of earlier treatments of the Aramaic Scrolls. Chapters 3 through 5 offer analyses of the passages related to the priesthood, cult, and temple found in fourteen of the approximately thirty Aramaic Scrolls, dealing with each composition in turn. In Chapter 6, I synthesize the material in the previous three chapters, and show that the Aramaic Scrolls reflect a remarkably consistent conception of Israel’s priestly institutions. By way of conclusion in Chapter 7, I situate the Aramaic Scrolls in the context of broader scholarly proposals concerning the history of the Second Temple Jewish priesthood, and demonstrate how this corpus can shed new light on an otherwise poorly documented period in Jewish history, namely, the pre-Hasmonean, Hellenistic period. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / My dissertation is a literary analysis of themes related to the Jewish priesthood in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls. It uses the results of this literary analysis to understand better the history of the Jewish priesthood in the Second Temple period.

For many pre-modern and modern critics, the emergence of Ezra among the post-exilic Jerusalem community marks a significant event in the beginning stages of Judaism. Ezra’s promulgation of a “law of Moses,” bolstered by the theory of Persian imperial authorization, is often viewed as the moment at which the final form of the Pentateuch is published. The accounts contained in Ezra 7-10 and Nehemiah 8-10, however, continue to present historical and literary problems for the exegete. Compounding the difficulties for a reconstruction of Ezra’s activities, recent scholarship has raised questions concerning the viability of state-sanctioned support for the Pentateuch and revived skepticism on the historicity of Ezra and the reliability of the biblical witness. Still, the Ezra Memoir (EM) remains an important source that is shaped by the political, religious, and social worldview of post-exilic Yehud. This study incorporates two scholarly debates: on the one hand, the identification of EM and its supplemental layers; and on the other hand, the development of the Pentateuch up to this period. After the parameters of EM are identified in Ezra 7-10 and Nehemiah 8-10, this study supports EM’s use of Deuteronomic and Priestly literature but adds that EM also demonstrates significant literary connections to pentateuchal strands that are neither Deuteronomic nor Priestly. These strands are distinguished by the narrative and historical claims that are preserved in the classical pentateuchal documents. This study concludes that EM is a product of the Second Temple that anticipates the final form of the Pentateuch by collecting and integrating multiple presentations of the wilderness generation into a super-narrative that projects Ezra and the returnees as a second exodus and Sinai generation that supersedes their predecessors.

O objetivo desse trabalho é analisar os interstícios do mercado kasher na cidade de São Paulo. No que diz respeito à alimentação, as leis dietéticas, rígidas leis, são uma parcela significativa da identidade judaica religiosa ortodoxa. Inclusive, em muitos casos, distingue-se um judeu religioso de um laico pela alimentação. Os conflitos alimentícios são tão intensos que ocorrem ate mesmo no interior das famílias judaicas. Buscamos assim, verificar a relação, dentre outras coisas, da sacralização do judaísmo, da teoria à pratica, em que tal resulta em um mercado de proporções progressivas e onerosas aos consumidores, sobretudo judeus ortodoxos. / The objective of this work is to analyze the interstices of the market to kasher in the city of São Paulo. In what it says respect to the feeding, the dietary laws, rigid laws, are a significant parcel of the orthodox religious Jewish identity. Also, in many cases, a religious Jew distinguishes itself from a lay one for the feeding. The nourishing conflicts are so intense that they occur even though in the interior of the Jewish families. We search thus, to verify the relation, amongst other things, of the sacralization of the judaism, the theory to practises, where such results in a market of gradual and onerous ratios to the consumers, over all Jewish orthodox.

劉漢榮. / "2012年6月". / "2012 nian 6 yue". / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 32-34). / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Liu Hanrong. / 摘要 --- p.i / 致謝 --- p.ii / 目錄 --- p.iii / 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 關於向猶太人宣教的不同觀點 --- p.3 / Chapter 第一節 --- 贊成向猶太人傳福音的觀點 --- p.3 / Chapter a . --- 耶穌救恩的普世性 --- p.4 / Chapter b. --- 向猶太人傳福音的優先 性 --- p.5 / Chapter 第二節 --- 反對向猶太人傳福音的觀點 --- p.7 / Chapter a . --- 替代神學 --- p.7 / Chapter b . --- 兩約神學 --- p.11 / Chapter 第三節 --- 小結 --- p.12 / Chapter 第二章 --- 猶太人拒絶接受基督教信仰的因素 --- p.13 / Chapter 第一節 --- 猶太人拒絶接受基督教信仰的內在因素 --- p.13 / Chapter a . --- 猶太人的彌賽亞觀 --- p.13 / Chapter b. --- 耶穌不是猶太人期望的彌賽亞 --- p.15 / Chapter c . --- 民族身份認同 --- p.16 / Chapter 第二節 --- 猶太人拒絶接受基督教信仰的歷史因素 --- p.18 / Chapter a. --- 十字軍東征對猶太人的迫害和屠殺 --- p.18 / Chapter b. --- 第二次世界大戰希特拉對猶太人的大屠殺 --- p.19 / Chapter 第三節 --- 小結 --- p.22 / Chapter 第三章 --- 向猶太人傳福音策略回顧與評檢 --- p.24 / Chapter 第一節 --- 對猶太人的策略 --- p.24 / Chapter a . --- 建立關係 --- p.24 / Chapter b . --- 宗教對話 --- p.25 / Chapter c . --- 慈惠事工 --- p.25 / Chapter 第二節 --- 對基督徒的教導 --- p.26 / Chapter a . --- 神學教導 --- p.26 / Chapter b . --- 祈禱守望 --- p.27 / Chapter c . --- 文化交流 --- p.27 / Chapter d . --- 聖經節期 --- p.28 / Chapter 第三節 --- 華人教會的角色 --- p.29 / Chapter a . --- 歷史的因素 --- p.29 / Chapter b . --- 文化傳 统 --- p.29 / Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 --- p.30 / 結語 --- p.31 / 參考書目 --- p.32 / 附錄 --- p.35

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Thesis (Ph.D.-Intercultural Studies)--Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-467) and index. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-130).