Recent Dissertations

Birenbaum, Maija (Ph.D. 2010, Fordham University) Virtuous Vengeance: Anti-Judaism and Christian Piety in Medieval England Adviser: Mary Erler

Brewer, Jimmy Dale (Ph.D. 2010, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) Jesus’s Distinctiveness in Light of Ancient Jewish Masculinity Adviser: B. Paul Wolfe

Clenman,Laliv (Ph.D. 2009, University of Toronto) “Is She Forbidden or Permitted?” (bSanhedrin 82a): A Legal Study of Intermarriage in Classical Jewish Sources Advisor: Michael Satlow

Conroy,John T. Jr. (Ph.D. 2008, University of Notre Dame) “The Wages of Sin Is Death”: The Death of the Soul in Greek, Second Temple Jewish, and Early Christian Authors Adviser: Gregory E. Sterling

Dizgun, John (Ph.D. 2010, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey) Immigrants of a Different Religion: Jewish Argentines and the Boundaries of Argentinidad, 1919–2009 Adviser: Samuel L. Baily

Fine,David J. (Ph.D. 2010, City University of New York) Jewish at the Front: The Experience of Jewish Officers in the German Army in World War I Adviser: Julia Sneeringer

Flatto,David C. (Ph.D. 2010, Harvard University) Between Royal Absolutism and an Independent Judiciary: The Evolution of Separation of Powers in Biblical, Second Temple, and Rabbinic Texts Adviser: Shaye J. D. Cohen

Glauz-Todrank, Annalise Elizabeth (Ph.D. 2010, University of California) Jewish Identity between “Religion” and “Race” in Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb Adviser: Richard D. Hecht

Gross, Aaron Saul (Ph.D. 2010, University of California, Santa Barbara) The Question of the Animal and Religious Dietary Practices, Subjectivity, and Ethics in Jewish Traditions Adviser: Barbara Holdrege

Herman,Dana (Ph.D. 2010, McGill University) Hashavat Avedah: A History of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. Advisers: Gershon David Hundert; Lorenz Luthi; Ronald Zweig

Kaplowitz,Mark A. (Ph.D. 2010, New York University) “The Gravest Obstacle and Thus a Great Misfortune”: Hermann Cohen’s Interpretation of Spinoza Adviser: Michah Gottlieb

Lenk, Marcie E. (Ph.D. 2010, Harvard University) The Apostolic Constitutions: Judaism and Anti-Judaism in the Construction of Christianity Adviser: Karen L. King

Novenson, Matthew V. (Ph.D. 2010, Princeton Theological Seminary) Christ Language in Paul and Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism Adviser: Beverly Roberts Gaventa

Ortlund, Dane C. (Ph.D. 2010, Wheaton College) Zeal without Knowledge Adviser: Douglas J. Moo

Pearce, Holly A. (Ph.D. 2010, Wilfrid Laurier University) But Where Will They Build Their Nest? Liberalism and Communitarian Resistance in American Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish-Gentile Romances Advisers: Faydra Shapiro, Natasha Pravaz; Scott Kline

Sasson, Uzi (Ph.D. 2010, Indiana University of Pennsylvania) The Political Tolerance of the “Chosen People” in the Current Contexts of Israel and the United States Adviser: Daniel Alex Heckert

Sciarcon, Jonathan (Ph.D. 2010, University of California, Santa Barbara) Narrative, Memory, and Shifting Identities: Aspects of Social and Political Change among Iraqi Jews, 1864–1951 Adviser: Nancy Gallagher

Senderovich, Aleksandr (Ph.D. 2010, Harvard University) The Red Promised Land: Narratives of Jewish Mobility in Early Soviet Culture Adviser: William Mills Todd III

Smith, Robert O. (Ph.D. 2010, Baylor University) “More Desired Than Our Own Salvation”: The Roots of American Christian Affinity for the State of Israel Adviser: Barry G. Hankins

Spielman, Loren Roberts (Ph.D. 2010, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Sitting with Scorners: Jewish Attitudes toward Roman Spectacle Entertainment from the Herodian Period through the Muslim Conquest Adviser: Seth Schwartz

Linenberger, Stephen J. (Ph.D. 2010, University of Nebraska) Sources of Altruistic Calling in Orthodox Jewish Communities: A Grounded Theory Ethnography Adviser: Daniel W. Wheeler

Stone, Joshua S. (Ph.D. 2010, University of Miami) American Ethni/Cities: Critical Geography, Subject Formation, and the Urban Representations of Abraham Cahan, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin Adviser: Anthony Barthelemy

Sweeney, Brian Dennis (Ph.D. 2010, Brown University) Professional Sentiments: Professionalism, Affect, and American Literature, 1830– 1910 Adviser: Philip Gould

Tavory, Ido (Ph.D. 2010, University of California), Off Melrose: Sustaining Orthodox Jewish Religious Life in a Secular Space Advisor: Jack Katz

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