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Johns Hopkins HB/NWS Alumni Dissertations

This page catalogues the previous Johns Hopkins University HB/NWS (and occasionally broader Near Eastern Studies) alumni and their dissertations. I attempt comprehensiveness, but err on the side of prioritizing research on those dissertations which most interest me. My long term research project is to write a history of the department, an important part of which are the dissertation experiences of its students.

For recent JHU NES alumni and their dissertations, see here.

Jason (Jay) Weimar (2024): “Before the Hajj: The haggāt Feasts at Pre-Islamic Dadan (Al-Ula) and Elsewhere in the Near East”

Description forthcoming.

Noah Crabtree (2023): “The Prophet From Anathoth: Benjamin-Judean Identity Negotiation and the Formation of the Book of Jeremiah”

Description forthcoming.

Adam Bean (2022): “Local Cults and National Gods: Divine Identity in Iron Age Levantine Religion”

Description forthcoming.

Kathryn Medill (2020): “You Will Know Me by My Writing: The Scribes’ Choice of Goal-Marking Strategies in Biblical Hebrew in the Light of Social, Historical, and Linguistic Correlates”

Description forthcoming.

Others to be continued.

Description forthcoming.

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, SJ (1956): “The Syntax of Imperial Aramaic Based on Documents Found in Egypt”

Dissertation advised by William Foxwell Albright. Although the dissertation remained unpublished, a part of it was used in an article, “The Syntax of kl, kl‘, ‘All’ in Aramaic Texts from Egypt and in Biblical Aramaic,” Bib 38 (1957) 170-84; reprinted, A Wandering Aramean: Collected Aramaic Essays (SBLMS 25; Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979) 205-17.

William L. Moran, SJ (1950): “A Syntactical Study of the Dialect of Byblos as Reflected in the Amarna Tablets”

Dissertation advised by William Foxwell Albright. Republished in Amarna Studies: Collected Writings (Brill: 2003).