Religious Studies: Recent submissions
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Paul Porter Oral History
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2016-05-11)Oral history interview with Reverend Paul Porter conducted by Aspen Grender by phone on May 11, 2016. This interview features Reverend Paul Porter, a minster in the Disciples of Christ Church in Independence, Kansas. Porter ... -
Kimberly Hunter Oral History
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2016-10-28)Oral history interview with Kimberly Hunter conducted by Aspen Grender in Rosedale, Kansas on October 18, 2016. This interview features Kimberly Hunter, a resident of Rosedale, who is involved in the Rainbow Mennonite ... -
Peeter Saarna Oral History
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2016-12-08)Oral history interview with Pastor Peeter Saarna conducted by Aspen Grender in Kansas City, Kansas, on December 8, 2016. This interview features Peeter Saarna, a member of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification ... -
Kitty Degler Oral History
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2016-11-19)Oral history interview with Kitty Degler conducted by Aspen Grender in Lawrence, Kansas, on November 19, 2016. This interview features Kitty Degler, a resident of Olathe and co-founder of Gaia Community Unitarian Universalist ... -
Rosemary Williams Oral History
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2016-11-08)Oral history interview with Rosemary Williams conducted by Aspen Grender in Olathe, Kansas, on November 8, 2016. This interview features Rosemary Williams, a resident of Olathe and member of the Gaia Community Unitarian ... -
Ken Roper & Mika Roper Oral History
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2016-12-06)Oral history interview with Ken and Mika Roper conducted by Aspen Grender in Lawrence, Kansas, on December 6, 2016. This interview features Ken and Mika Roper (husband and wife), who are members of Soka Gakkai International ... -
Joy Smith Oral History
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2016-04-21)Oral history interview with Joy Smith conducted by Aspen Grender in Lawrence, Kansas, on April 21, 2016. This interview features Joy Smith, a Sunday school teacher, “bus captain”, and church pianist at the Heritage Baptist ... -
Sarah Oglesby-Dunegan Oral History
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2016-03-29)Oral history interview with Reverend Sarah Oglesby-Dunegan conducted by Aspen Grender in Topeka, Kansas, on March 29, 2016. This interview features Sarah Oglesby-Dunegan, the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship ... -
Girls' Puberty Ceremonies: A critical appraisal of scholarly work
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This thesis is the first critical appraisal of two foundational and influential scholarly sources in the study of girls’ coming-of-age ceremonies in the United States: Bruce Lincoln’s Emerging from the Chrysalis: Studies ... -
Genre and Rewritten Scripture: A Reassessment
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The Problem of Characterizing the 4QReworked Pentateuch Manuscripts: Bible, Rewritten Bible, or None of the Above?
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2008)This article engages the problem of whether the five manuscripts classified as 4QReworked Pentateuch (4Q158, 4Q364–367) should be considered extrabiblical compositions or simply expansive copies of the Pentateuch. Since ... -
4QReworked Pentateuch C and the Literary Sources of the Temple Scroll: A New (Old) Proposal
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2012)This essay proposes a new understanding of the literary history of the Temple Scroll in light of its relationship with 4QReworked Pentateuch C (4Q365 + 365a). It begins from the argument that 4QRP C includes the five ... -
Torah for ‘The Age of Wickedness’: The Authority of the Damascus and Serekh Texts in Light of Biblical and Rewritten Traditions
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2013)Considerable attention has been paid recently to the similarities between the composition and development of biblical texts, rewritten scripture-type texts, and the major Qumran rule scrolls. This study adds a new dimension ... -
The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Scribal Culture of Second Temple Judaism
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2015)The Samaritan Pentateuch (SP), along with its Qumran forebears, has deservedly been regarded as a key source of information for understanding the scribal culture of early Judaism. Yet studies have tended to emphasize the ... -
Disorienting History: History and Identity in Ezekiel 20
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Ezekiel 20 retells Israel’s exodus narrative tradition (exodus from Egypt and entry into the land of Canaan) as a means of disorienting traditional understandings of identity in order to prepare the prophet’s audience for ... -
Religious Collections in Kansas
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2015)During the summers of 2014 and 2015, the Summer Fieldwork interns for the Religion in Kansas Project visited small repositories--mostly county historical societies and public libraries--across the state of Kansas to compile ... -
Kelsang Namdrol Oral History
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2015)Oral history interview with Kelsang Namdrol, an ordained nun in the New Kadampa Tradition and director of the Kalpa Bhadra Kadampa Buddhist Center in Wichita, Kansas. This interview was conducted on June 19, 2015, at Kalpa ... -
David Whitaker Oral History
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2015)Oral history interview with David Whitaker, member of the Kansas Zen Center in Lawrence, Kansas. This interview was conducted on July 24, 2015, at Smith Hall on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kansas. This ... -
Mike Malcolm Oral History
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2015)Oral history interview with Mike Malcolm, co-director of Wichita Karma Thegsum Chöling (KTC) in Wichita, Kansas. This interview was conducted on July 16, 2015, at Malcolm’s home in Wichita, Kansas which is also the location ... -
Liz Lawlor and Don Riley Oral History
(Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas, 2015)Oral history interview with Liz Lawlor and Don Riley of Southwind Sangha, an affiliate of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association, in Wichita, KS. This interview was conducted on June 20, 2015, at Panera Bread near the group’s ...
