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Evans, Richard Kent. „MOVE: RELIGION, SECULARISM, AND THE POLITICS OF CLASSIFICATION“. Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/505910.
Ph.D.
This dissertation is a study of how religion is manufactured, policed, imagined, and defended in the modern United States. It traces the history of one group, MOVE, from its inception in the late 1960s to the present in order to illustrate how the category of religion functions in the modern United States. The central premise of the book is that MOVE people believed MOVE was a religion. They believed, nearly from the very beginning of the group, that John Africa was a prophet who communicated on behalf of the divine, that his Teachings were inspired and had supernatural effects on the body, and that MOVE people had a role to play in a cosmic conflict between forces of good (The Law of Mama) and forces of evil (The System). Despite this, MOVE was rarely allowed to be a religion. That is, MOVE’s claim that they had a religion was, more often than not, dismissed. Historians of religion have, in recent years, begun turning their attention to the people with the power to define lived experience as either religious or secular. In MOVE’s case, the people who defined their experience as secular, and not religious, included police officers, judges, journalists, established religious leaders, and politicians. At various points throughout MOVE’s history, these social actors articulated a series of claims about what “true religion” was and why MOVE did not count. The disconnect between how MOVE people viewed themselves and how MOVE was understood by most outside the group points to the central concern of this dissertation.
Temple University--Theses
Barrington, John Patrick Thaddeus. „Studies in the anticatholic origins of the Anglo-American self“. W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623918.
Amanfo, Arinze D. „Making History: The Sephardi Jewish Orphans of Sao-Tome and the African -American Appropriation of their Story“. FIU Digital Commons, 2019. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3960.
Kidd, David Michael. „"History Written with Lightning": Religion, White Supremacy, and the Rise and Fall of Thomas Dixon, Jr“. W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623616.
Harvey, Shannon Lorraine. „From "The Man With the Hoe" to "Tobacco Road"| Class, Poverty and Religion and the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union“. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013.
Krutzsch, Brett. „Martyrdom and American Gay History: Secular Advocacy, Christian Ideas, and Gay Assimilation“. Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/319669.
Ph.D.
"Martyrdom and American Gay History: Secular Advocacy, Christian Ideas, and Gay Assimilation" is an analysis of gay martyr discourses from the 1970s through 2014. In particular, the dissertation examines the archives, narrative representations, memorials, and media depictions of Harvey Milk, Matthew Shepard, Tyler Clementi, and AIDS. The project's primary focus is to investigate the role of religious rhetoric in facilitating American gay assimilation. Discourses of gay martyrdom reveal that secular gay advocates habitually employed Protestant Christian ideas in order to present gay Americans as similar to the dominant culture of straight Christians, a strategy that became increasingly prevalent by the end of the twentieth century after gays were blamed for spreading a national plague through sexual licentiousness. In turn, discourses of gay martyrdom expose the recurrence of Christian ideas in promoting, while concurrently foreclosing, the parameters of gay social inclusion. "Martyrdom and American Gay History" also questions the politics of martyrdom and analyzes why some deaths have been mourned as national tragedies. Milk, Shepard, and Clementi, the three most commonly-invoked gay martyrs, represent a narrow fraction of gay Americans that only includes white, middle-class, gay men. The dissertation demonstrates that discourses of gay martyrdom have promoted assimilation, not diverse sexual freedoms or capacious possibilities for queer lives. Ultimately, Protestant Christian dominance in the United States has been obfuscated whenever Christianity has been depicted primarily as an antigay monolith. Discourses of gay martyrdom reveal the role of Protestant Christian dominance in secular gay advocacy, and the ways in which Christian ideas have shaped and foreclosed possibilities for acceptable gay American citizens.
Temple University--Theses
George, Monis. „Examining the impact of integrated Christian activities for improving inter-generational relationships in Indian Pentecostal Churches“. Thesis, Drew University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3700258.
The Indian churches in the United States consist of mostly two groups of people, namely, those who migrated directly from India known as the first generation, and those who are born and brought up in the United States, otherwise known as the second generation. The first generation keeps many traditions, practices, and ideologies they brought from their country of origin. They assume that these are superior to most of the other cultures, and hence need to be preserved by future generations. The second generation does not think much about the first generation's cultural and ethnic norms and are not willing to give such prominence to their prerogatives. Since they were born into a different cultural scenario and raised in a postmodern society, these traditions and ideologies of their parents' generation do not seem to have contemporary relevance in their day-to-day lives. Therefore, the silent encounters, otherwise called inter-generational conflicts, occurring between these two groups culminate in the exodus of the younger generation from "their home churches and possibly from the Christian faith" itself.
The thesis examines how participation in integrated Christian activities affects inter-generational relationships in the first and second generation of the Indian Pentecostal Churches. The project also identifies the dynamics of inter-generational relationships in order to build healthy families, because such families will be the basic units for the existence of healthy churches and societies.
In reference to the aforementioned thesis, the project provided an incredible opportunity for both groups to interact together and bring forth better solutions for healthier inter-generational relationships. It is evident that even though all churches are very much concerned about this phenomenon, many have not been able to do much in addressing the problem with plans for corrective actions. Therefore, the evaluation and research opened the way for greater discussion between both generations. Moreover, the researcher is confident that positively touch the generations to come.
Nelson, Robert Kent. „Society of souls: Spirit, friendship, and the antebellum reform imagination“. W&M ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623502.
Galgano, Robert C. „Idol Worship: Religious Continuity among Aztec, Inca, and Maya Cultures in Colonial Latin America“. W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626074.
Haydar, Maysan. „Immigration and the Forging of an American Islam“. The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595279435195722.
Erwin, Scott Robert. „The theological vision of Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Irony of American history"“. Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:839082ac-d9a8-454c-96b7-3e2385fd5b39.
Abel, Robert Benjamin. „The Religious Philosophy of Richard M Nixon“. W&M ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626558.
Hillman, Nancy Alenda. „Between Black and White: The Religious Aftermath of Nat Turner's Rebellion“. W&M ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626491.
Chenier, Karen Marie. „Listening to the voices of the American Catholic sister“. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2013.
Krueger, David M. „The Cult of the Kensington Rune Stone: Cultural Power and the Production of American Civil Religion“. Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/113033.
Ph.D.
This dissertation is a historical-cultural analysis of the popular enthusiasm for an artifact known as the Kensington Rune Stone (KRS). The verifiable history of the KRS begins in 1898, when a Swedish American immigrant unearthed a large stone from a western Minnesota farm field. On the stone was an inscription written in a runic alphabet telling the story of a party of Scandinavian explorers that had traversed the area in the fourteenth century. Most scholars have declared the stone to be a hoax, yet this has not deterred its ardent defenders from using it to generate cultural capital for several social groups in western Minnesota. Over time, the KRS has emerged as a sacred civic totem representing the region and proclaiming it as founded by Christian Norsemen. KRS enthusiasm developed as a sect of American civil religion that both affirms and challenges the central orthodoxies underlying the myths about the origin of the United States. The mythic narrative constructed around the KRS has been embraced by many Minnesotans for its legitimating power to justify the white settlement of the state. The theoretical orientation of this dissertation relies on several scholars of religion, including Emile Durkheim, Danièle Hervieu-Léger, Pierre Bourdieu, and Thomas A. Tweed.
Temple University--Theses
Lee, Sarah Jaggi. „Utopian spaces: Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo, Illinois“. W&M ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623544.
Greenberg, David Brett. „Highway Religion: Truckstop Chapels, Evangelism, and Lived Religion on the Road“. Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1315764530.
Bauer, Susan Wise. „The art of the public grovel: Sexual scandal and the rise of public confession“. W&M ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623323.
Tilley, Jessica. „Death in Sacred Harp“. Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/rs_theses/11.
Warner, Caroline Everard Athey. „"Let All Things Be Done Decently and in Order": Gender Segregation in the Seating of Early American Churches“. W&M ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626578.
Bailey, Judith Anne Bledsoe. „"Strength for the Journey": Feminist Theology and Baptist Women Pastors“. W&M ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623641.
Edwards, Kurt Alexander. „Billy Graham, Elmer Gantry, and the Performance of a New American Revivalism“. Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1212785421.
Anderson, Sherry. „Women as Stewards of Social Change| The Narratives of American Baptist Women Who Held Senior Leadership Positions as Pastors, Deacons, and Teachers“. Thesis, Franklin Pierce University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3680110.
Throughout history women have attempted to reach senior leadership positions in churches of all denominations, but only within the past three centuries have women gained a presence in such positions. This thesis was undertaken to fill the gap of current research on the leadership roles of women within the ministry of traditionally conservative churches. Data were collected through surveys and follow-up interviews. Twelve women who held senior leadership positions in American Baptist churches participated in the case study. Their stories of religious transformation, social support, and discrimination are highlighted in this study. Their callings were both a personal and religious experience that could only be captured through interdisciplinary, qualitative research methods. Religious studies, women's studies, and critical theory were combined to create a feminist narrative of spiritual women who were both leaders within their faith and change agents of conservative, religious traditions. The analysis focuses on their roles in cultural and religious reforms. In addition, the author drew upon recent theories and empirical research on collaborative, transformational, and spiritual leadership and Maslow's earlier work on human motivation to better understand the leadership roles of women in the ministry.
McGee, Adam Michael. „Imagined Voodoo: Terror, Sex, and Racism in American Popular Culture“. Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11350.
African and African American Studies
Delgado, Dara S. „Life, Liberty, and the Practicality of Holiness: A Social Historical Examination of the Life and Work of Ida Bell Robinson“. University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1575476461978706.
Silverman, David John. „Forging a New Indian Religion in Seventeenth-Century Huronia“. W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626072.
Buben, Adam. „The Existential Compromise in the History of the Philosophy of Death“. Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3020.
Lemarquand, David. „The function of King David in the deuteronomistic history“. Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95006.
Cette thèse examine la figure littéraire du Roi David dans le récit de Samuel-Rois. John Van Seters, dans son livre « The Biblical Saga of King David », a identifié deux blocs principaux de tradition dans la version biblique de Samuel-Rois du récit de David. Van Seters affirme que le récit antérieur deutéronomiste (DtrH) dépeint David en tant que roi idéal de l'Israël unifiée, et que ce récit a été superposé par un récit postérieur de l'époque Perse (la saga de David,) qui a été écrit en réaction au récit deutéronomiste, et qui vise à nuire à son idéologie monarchique. Le but de cette thèse est d'établir les circonstances socio-historiques sous lesquelles ces deux récits on été composés. Je soutiendrai que DtrH reflète les espoirs d'élite exilée du Babylonien « golah » pour le rétablissement de la ligne de David, et que la saga de David reflète la dissolution de ces espoirs sous la commande impérial persane.
Brown, Quincy. „The Homecoming of the Negro Spirit: Black Spiritual Intelligence as a Structural Form of Intelligence“. Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2115.
Erekson, Keith A. „American Prophet, New England Town: The Memory of Joseph Smith in Vermont“. BYU ScholarsArchive, 2002. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4669.
Black, Andrew D. „A 'Vast Practical Embarrassment': John W. Nevin, the Mercersburg Theology, and the Church Question“. University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1366910985.
Sprague, Jason Michael. „Where the Hell is Cross Village?“ Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1278531758.
Bailey, Judith Bledsoe. „"Faithful Child of God": Nancy Towle, 1796-1876“. W&M ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626243.
Gutekunst, Jason Alexander. „Wabanaki Catholics: Ritual Song, Hybridity, and Colonial Exchange in Seventeenth-Century New England and New France“. Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1229626549.
Rodriguez, Richard. „The Bible Against American Slavery: Anglophone Transatlantic Evangelical Abolitionists' Use of Biblical Arguments, 1776-1865“. FIU Digital Commons, 2017. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3511.
Avery, Joshua M. „Subject and Citizen: Loyalty, Memory and Identity in the Monographs of the Reverend Samuel Andrew Peters“. Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1216387236.
Willis, Sabyl M. „The House of Yisrael Cincinnati: How Normalized Institutional Violence Can Produce a Culture of Unorthodox Resistance 1963 to 2021“. Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright163059993550048.
Ryan, Mackenzie Anne. „An Analysis of National Football League Fandom and Its Promotion of Conservative Cultural Ideals About Race, Religion, and Gender“. Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1343359916.
Babík, Milan. „In pursuit of salvation : Woodrow Wilson and American liberal internationalism as secularized eschatology“. Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0ba3fcd9-ecbc-4789-83c9-3fdb1c290aea.
Swanson, Joshua. „Talk This Way: A Look at the Historical Conversation Between Hip-Hop and Christianity“. Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3810.
Khaled, Kareem J. „The reception of the Gospel of Mark in the Pseudo-Clementines“. Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527719.
The analysis in this thesis is centered around a technical examination which I conducted based on the Pseudo-Clementine research of Bernhard Rehm, Georg Strecker, H. U. Meijboom and F. Stanley Jones along with the inquiry of Brenda Dean Schildgen regarding the reception of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament. The first goal is to revise the Markan Pseudo-Clementine correlations of Rehm, Strecker and Meijboom. The second goal is to present a more correct and accessible list of Markan correlations for future research of the reception of scripture into the Pseudo-Clementines. The third goal is to determine which author or authors of the Pseudo-Clementines used the Gospel of Mark and to what purpose. The most important goal is to further the scholarly research on the reception of the Gospel of Mark. It is my hope that this research prompts scholars in the future to search more thoroughly for the reception of Mark in the PseudoClementines.
Rowe, Brad James. „Emersonian Perfectionism: A Man is a God in Ruins“. DigitalCommons@USU, 2007. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/109.
Duncan, Jon M. „Multiple Discourses in Early Mormon Religion“. BYU ScholarsArchive, 1998. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4651.
Blythe, Christopher James. „Recreating Religion: The Response to Joseph Smith’s Innovations in the Second Prophetic Generation of Mormonism“. DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/916.
Pride, Aaron N. „Religious Ideology in Racial Protest, 1901-1934: The Origin of African American Neo-Abolitionist Christianity in the Religious Thought of William Monroe Trotter and in the Public Rhetoric of the Boston Guardian in the struggle for Civil Rights“. Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1543232668594518.
Costello, Damian M. „Honor and Caritas: Bartolomé De Las Casas, Soldiers of Fortune, and the Conquest of the Americas“. University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1375380700.
Leatt, Ann-Marie Joy. „Intrinsic patterns in the history of religious change from early Hindu traditions to contemporary Mahayana Buddhism : an application of Cumpsty's theory of religion“. Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14404.
This thesis, Intrinsic Patterns in the History of Religious Change from early Hindu Traditions to contemporary Mahayana Buddhism: an Application of Cumpsty's Theory of Religion, is an application of a comprehensive theory of religion to a broad sweep of religious history and diversity. It follows development from the Indian sub-continent to Japan, and to the West. It covers the period from about 500BCE to the present. As such, it assumes in the reader some background in theory of religion, and John Cumpsty's theory in particular, as well as some knowledge of the history and traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism. The first chapter deals with conceptual issues through a characterisation of early Hinduism, a description Cumpsty's three ideal-types, and a discussion of the relationship between moksa and dharma. Chapter two provides historical grounding to the thesis by providing empirical evidence for the arguments made in chapter one about the "bridging-out" to the Withdrawal paradigm. It studies four orthodox responses to the paradigm, that is, the brahmanical synthesis, Saivism, the Gita, and Sankara. The third chapter offers an analysis of early Buddhism, the development of Theravada and its academic characterisation, as an example of "allocation" as a bridging and change mechanism. Chapter four offers an analysis ·of the Mahayana in China and Japan. It gives reasons for its missionary success, and provides three examples of bridging symbols common to all Mahayana - the Trikaya, skillful means, and the Bodhisattva ideal. The fifth chapter discusses developments in the Mahayana. Three modes of creating correspondence between Samsara and Nirvana are described: Madhyamika, Ch'an (Zen), and Yogacara. It also deals with developments in the Pure Land and the move into the Secular World Affirming paradigm. The final chapter deals with the modem period and draws together the argument of the thesis. "Socially engaged Buddhism" as a modem phenomenon in Therevada is described, and Mahayana is examined for similar moves, and an explanation is given. The chapter then goes on to describe religious transference back to the West, and explains their success. The thesis concludes with an assessment of the fruitfulness of the application of Cumpsty's theory of religion. In terms of methodology the thesis is an application of a theory of religion to a broad sweep of religious history in the Indian sub-continent and eastwards, as well as the West. The thesis highlights situations of change in both worldview and practice, and subjects them to analysis in terms of the theory. The result is an extension of that part of the theory that is most involved in the analysis of the religious traditions concerned. In order to do this a wide range of phenomenological and sociological material has been used.
Miller, Willa Blythe. „Secrets of the Vajra Body| Dngos po'i gnas lugs and the Apotheosis of the Body in the work of Rgyal ba Yang dgon pa“. Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3567003.
This dissertation looks at an attempt in Buddhist history to theorize the role and status of the body as the prime focus of soteriological discourse. It studies a text titled Explanation of the Hidden Vajra Body (Rdo rje lus kyi sbas bshad), composed by Yang dgon pa Rgyal mtshan dpal (1213-1258). This work, drawing on a wide range of canonical tantric Buddhist scriptures and Indic and Tibetan commentaries, lays out in detail a Buddhist theory of embodiment that brings together the worldly realities of the body with their enlightened transformation. This dissertation analyzes the ways Yang dgon pa theorizes the body as the essential ground of the salvific path, and endeavors to provide a thematic guide to his rich and complex discussion of what the body is and does, from a tantric perspective. The thesis parses a key term, dngos po'i gnas lugs, that Yang dgon pa uses as an organizing principle in Explanation of the Hidden. If taken literally, the term means something like "the nature of things" or "the nature of material substance," but Yang dgon pa deployed the term specifically to refer to the nature of the human psychophysical organism, in its ordinary state. By way of this term, Yang dgon pa argues that the body itself makes enlightenment possible. In the course of this thesis, I consider the prior history of this category as it was gradually developed by a series of Bka' brgyud writers until it reached Yang dgon pa. Then, in light of this category, I explore Yang dgon pa's own vision of embodiment. This vision, I argue, reflects an attempt to refocus soteriological attention on the power of the body, over and above the mind, as the salient basis for non-dual knowing. Finally, I reflect upon the lasting contributions of Yang dgon pa's conception of the body to the ongoing exploration of such topics in the history of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist soteriology, as well as upon why some of the more radical elements of his thinking seem to have been eliminated in subsequent generations of his lineage.
Sensenig, Melvin L. „Jehoiachin and his oracle| The Shaphanide literary framework for the end of the Deuteronomistic history“. Thesis, Temple University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3564774.
Four oracles appear in Jeremiah 21:11-23:8 detailing the failure and future of the final kings in Judah, also known as the King Collection. The final oracle against Jehoiachin (he also appears with the names Coniah / Jeconiah) precedes the announcement of the unnamed new Davidide, the Branch.
The oracle against Jehoiachin appears to be unique, involving no stipulations of covenant wrongdoing, a feature of Deuteronomistic criticism of the kingship since Solomon. He is one of the most unremarkable kings in Israelite history. Yet, he is the concluding figure in both the Greek (Septuagint or LXX) and Hebrew (Masoretic Text or MT) versions of Jeremiah's King Collection, a significant change from the accounts in Kings and Chronicles. He occupies an important place in Josephus's attempts to sketch the ideal Israelite king, respectful of Roman rule. He is important to the rabbis in developing an atonement theory of the exile. In the New Testament, he appears in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus, while the other kings from the King Collection disappear. The Epistle to the Hebrews may adopt similar ideas in developing the analogy of Melchizedek, another insignificant king in Israel's history, as a precursor to Jesus. Ideas developed from the flow of the oracle in the text of Jeremiah, shaped by the polemics of exile, appear in the Acts of the Apostles' casting of Jesus' spiritual kingship on the world's stage.
Precritical Jewish and Christian exegesis adopted a harmonizing approach to the oracle, importing reasons from the Deuteronomistic History and the Chronicler for its harsh judgment. Yet discussion of the oracle and its significance in the construction of the figure of Jehoiachin in Jeremiah has all but disappeared from critical scholarship following the groundbreaking work of Bernhard Duhm. Early critical scholarship, while correcting many of the mistakes of precritical exegetes, followed the new Protestant confessionalism of the 19th century. Michel Foucault locates the loss of the theology of the cross as this decisive turn in interpretive methodology. This turn caused modern Protestant interpreters, who are mainly responsible for the foundations of modern critical studies in Jeremiah, to devalue disempowered kings in Israel's history, one of the most important hermeneutical categories in classical Jewish literature, according to Yair Lorberbaum. Thus, Bernhard Duhm, and later scholarship that builds on his work, missed the significance of this oracle in the textual function of the book of Jeremiah and its polemical significance in the debates between post-exile groups of Judeans. Gerhard von Rad, in his revision of Martin Noth's theory of the Deuteronomistic History, saw the importance of Jehoiachin as a source of hope for a renewed Israel. Jack Lundbom most recently observed the development of an oracular frame moving from the center outward in which the oracle against Jehoiachin appears. Yet, to date, little work has appeared on the way the canonical form of Jeremiah frames Jehoiachin and its effect on Jeremiah's end to the DtrH.
To make sense of it, we must account for what appears to be an unfulfilled prophecy in Jeremiah 22, as recorded by Jehoiachin's treatment in Jeremiah 52 where, against the expectation of the oracle, the Jewish king again appears on the world stage. Mark Roncace has written extensively on how this type of prophecy functions in the book of Jeremiah. Speech-act theory, as proposed originally by J. L. Austin, and refined by his protége, John Searle, provides further insight into this issue. Building on the scholarship of von Rad, Lundbom, Mark Leuchter and several other scholars of the sociopolitical forces in the production of biblical texts in exile, we will reconstruct the remarkably adaptable prophetic frame developed in exile around Jehoiachin and his oracle, which set the stage for a return of a Jewish king to the world stage.
Wanner, Eli S. „Tough Love on a Level Playing Field: The Intellectual History of George W. Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative“. Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors161911823275382.