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Jude on the attack: a comparative analysis of the Epistle of Jude, Jewish judgment oracles, and Greco-Roman Invective

Authors:Robinson, Alexandra

Date: 2016

Subject Keyword:Bible | Invective | Judgment -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | New Testament studies | Catholic epistles | Epistle of Jude | Second Temple | Judaism | judgement oracles | Greco-Roman invective | sexual sander

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1163978

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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The Greek epigraphic evidence for healer women in the Greek world

Authors:Irving, Jennifer C

Date: 2016

Subject Keyword:Women healers -- Greece | Inscriptions, Ancient -- Greece | Greek | women | epigraphy | physicians | midwives | sorceresses | herbalism | Hippocrates | Galen

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1109066

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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Artaxerxes II

Authors:Shannahan, John

Date: 2015

Subject Keyword:Artaxerxes -- II | Achaemenid dynasty | Iran -- History | Iran -- Civilization | Iran -- Kings and rulers | Achaemenid Empire | Persia | 4th century BCE | Greco-Persian relations | satrapal coinage

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1067731

Description: Includes bibliographical references.

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Peace in the chaos: implications of the conscious elimination of conflict in divinely designed and spontaneous creation from the Hebrew and Chinese traditions

Authors:Kirk, Emma

Date: 2015

Subject Keyword:Beginning | Chinese | Hebrew | creation | mythology | comparative studies | comparative religion

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1068795

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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Rituals of apparition in the Theban Magical Library

Authors:Dosoo, Korshi

Date: 2015

Subject Keyword:Divination -- Egypt -- History | Egypt -- History -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D | magic | Egypt | papyris | divination | Roman | Greek | demotic

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1067351

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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The discipline of 'Germanic' antiquity and its contemporary intellectual and socio-political environment

Authors:Scott, Timothy

Date: 2015

Subject Keyword:See, Klaus von | Geuenich, Dieter | Pohl, Walter | Brather, Sebastian | Germanic antiquities | German historiography | 'Germanic' peoples | ‘Germanic’ antiquity | barbarian identity | ethnicity | European identity

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1069812

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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The plaster texts from Kuntillet ʻAjrud and Deir ʻAlla : an inductive approach to the emergence of northwest Semitic literary texts in the first millennium B.C.E.

Authors:Wearne, Gareth James

Date: 2015

Subject Keyword:Bible | Inscriptions, Ancient -- Middle East | Inscriptions, Ancient -- Egypt | Inscriptions, Ancient -- Jordan | Egypt -- Antiquities | Jordan -- Antiquities | Kuntillat Jurayyah (Egypt) | Dayr ʻAllā, Tall (Jordan) | Kuntillet ʻAjrud | Deir ʻAlla | epigraphy | textualisation | literacy | Northwest | Semitic

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1137978

Description: Includes bibliographical references.

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Toponymy on the periphery: placenames of the Eastern Desert, Red Sea, and South Sinai in Egyptian documents from the Early Dynastic until the end of the New Kingdom

Authors:Cooper, Julien

Date: 2015

Subject Keyword:Names, Geographical -- Egypt | Toponymy | Egypt -- Historical geography | Ancient Egypt | placenames | geography

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1137112

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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“The Poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame”: physical and sensory disability in the Gospels of the New Testament

Authors:Gosbell, Louise Anne

Date: 2015

Subject Keyword:Bible | Disabilities -- Biblical teaching | disability | Gospels | Jesus | healing

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1107765

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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From North Africa to Byzantium and to New England: Augustine, Maximus and Jonathan Edwards on the meaning and shape of Christian salvation

Authors:Petrou, Irene

Date: 2014

Subject Keyword:Augustine -- Philosophy | Maximus -- Philosophy | Edwards, Jonathan -- Philosophy | Christianity -- Philosophy | Augustine | Maximus the Confessor | Jonathan Edwards | sin | guilt | salvation | grace | will | affections | deification | philosophy | justification | theology | soteriology | enlightenment | Cambridge Platonists | Origenists | libertarians | Christian life | Christian practice

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1076854

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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Networks of the Theban desert: social, economic and religious interactions in late Byzantine and early Islamic Thebes

Authors:Burchfield, Richard Leigh

Date: 2014

Subject Keyword:Monasteries -- Egypt -- Thebes (Extinct city) -- History | Strategic alliances (Business) -- Egypt -- Thebes (Extinct city) | Jeme (Extinct city) -- Social life and customs | Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city) -- Social life and customs | Thebes | network theory | Western Thebes | Islamic Egypt | Jeme | Medinet Habu | Egyptian monasticism

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1130289

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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Rise of the Hyksos: Egypt and the Levant from the Middle Kingdom to the early Second Intermediate Period

Authors:Mourad, Anna-Latifa

Date: 2014

Subject Keyword:Hyksos | Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C | Egypt -- Antiquities | Middle East -- Antiquities | Middle East -- History -- To 622 | Egypt | Levant | Hyksos origins | Middle Kingdom | Second Intermediate Period | Middle Bronze Age | ethnicity | trade | Egyptian-Levantine relations

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1059136

Description:"A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy"

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The development of the Sensus Divinitatis and its application to the propagation of the Christian gospel: case studies of the divine sense in Western Christian history

Authors:Gibson, James Edward

Date: 2014

Subject Keyword:Spiritual life -- Christianity | Spiritual life -- Christianity -- Research | Christian | gospel | divine sense | biblical outlook

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1139039

Description:"A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy"

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Where is the wise man?: Graeco-Roman education as a background to the divisions in 1 Corinthians 1-4

Authors:White, Adam Graham

Date: 2014

Subject Keyword:Paul | Bible | Corinth (Greece) -- Church history | 1 Corinthians | Paideia | education | philosophy | oratory

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/307170

Description:"This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Department of Ancient History, 25th April 2013".

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'Sons of the prophets': continuity and change in Clapham evangelicalism

Authors:Heslehurst, Raymond Errol

Date: 2013

Subject Keyword:Wilberforce, William | Thornton, Henry | Stephen, James | Wilberforce family | Thornton family | Stephen family | Clapham Sect | Evangelicalism -- Church of England | Evangelicalism -- England -- History | England -- Church history | Wilberforce | Thornton | James Stephen | evangelicalism | public theology | English church history | Anglican theology

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/289629

Description: Bibliography: pages 284-294.

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Education, literacy and its cognitive effects: problem-solving and decision-making in Homer and archaic and fifth century BC Athens

Authors:Leiper, Kay

Date: 2013

Subject Keyword:Greece -- History | Athens (Greece) -- History | Athens (Greece) -- Education | literacy | cognitive science | greek history

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/285710

Description:"A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy"

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Gold without dross: an assessment of the debt to John Chrysostom in John Calvin's oratory

Authors:Moore, Peter Charles

Date: 2013

Subject Keyword:John Chrysostom -- Influence | Calvin, Jean -- Criticism and interpretation | Chrysostom, John | Calvin, John | preaching | oratory | rhetoric in late antiquity | early modern rhetoric | emotions in preaching

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/289964

Description:"Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Sydney 2013".

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Engineering and construction in Egypt's early dynastic period: a review of mortuary structures

Authors:La Loggia, Angela Sophia

Date: 2012

Subject Keyword:Tombs -- Egypt | Architecture, Ancient -- Egypt | Sepulchral monuments -- Egypt | Egypt -- Antiquities | Egypt | early dynastic period | engineering | construction

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/267233

Description: Bibliography: pages: 374-355.

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From the cradle to the grave: child, infant and foetal burials in the Egyptian archaeological record from the Early Dynastic Period to the Middle Kingdom (ca. 3300-1650 BC)

Authors:Power, Ronika K

Date: 2012

Subject Keyword:Burial -- Egypt -- History | Burial -- Social aspects -- Egypt | Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt | Grave goods -- Egypt | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1205405

Description: Theoretical thesis. 

The Montanist milieu: history and historiography in the study of Montanism

Authors:Doherty, Bernard Gerard Frances

Date: 2012

Subject Keyword:Montanism -- History | Church history | montanism | heresy | epigraphy | early Christianity | Phrygia | Asia minor

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/268348

Description: Bibliography: pages 359-398.

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The depiction of the tomb owner in the Old Kingdom cemetery of El-Hawawish in Upper Egypt: a documentation and analysis of the representations of tomb owners at El-Hawawish and other provincial sites

Authors:Thompson, Elizabeth M

Date: 2010

Subject Keyword:Tombs -- Egypt -- Hawawish Site | Tombs -- Egypt -- Akhmīm | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt | Hawawish Site (Egypt) | Akhmīm (Egypt) -- Tombs | Egypt -- Antiquities

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/282978

Description:"A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy"

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The use of slave terms in deference and in relation to God in the Hebrew Bible

Authors:Bridge, Edward John

Date: 2010

Subject Keyword:Semitic philology | Master and servant -- Biblical teaching | Slaves -- Biblical teaching | Jews -- Civilization | Hebrew language -- Idioms | Respect for persons -- History | Manners and customs -- Religion | Sociology, Biblical | Sociolinguistics in literature

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/266797

Description:"Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy"

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The perspectives of the Greek papyri of Egypt on the religious beliefs, practices and experiences of Christian and Jewish women from 100 CE to 400 CE

Authors:Mathieson, Erica Ann

Date: 2006

Subject Keyword:Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) -- Egypt | Christian women -- Religious life -- Egypt | Jewish women -- Religious life -- Egypt | Women in Christianity -- History | Women in Judaism -- History | Christian women | biblical vocabulary | Christian text | Jewish text | papyri | religious identities

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/290184

Description:"Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy"

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Gregory of Neocaesarea: evangelist in Pontus

Authors:Lovell, Graham Davis

Date: 2004

Subject Keyword:Gregory | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1062662

Description: Typescript.

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An angelic community: the significance of beliefs about angels in the first four centuries of Christianity

Authors:Ricklefs, Norman

Date: 2002

Subject Keyword:Church history | Religious thought | Angels | archangel Michael | Egyptian Christianity | Christology | church history | angels

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/289574

Description:"A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy"

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