The final research paper should address a specific question about the history of marriage in either Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. It should be based primarily on your own readings of primary texts in translation, but should also reference relevant scholarship about these texts. (That is, you should try to advance an original answer to a specific historical or textual question but should not do so in a vacuum, but rather with some knowledge of whether and how scholars before you have answered this question.) The question you devise should be narrow enough that you must delve deeply into a specific body of texts or historical evidence to answer it, but broad enough that answering it involves some comparative work (e.g. if your paper focuses on levirate marriage in the book of Ruth, it should not examine Ruth in isolation, but should compare it to other biblical books, or to archaeological evidence and/or other ancient Near Eastern texts, or should examine Ruth alongside texts from other periods: e.g. the Dead Sea Scrolls or rabbinic literature or early Christian literature). Your question may address conceptual approaches to marriage (or a specific form of marriage, or celibacy, or divorce) in a particular time and place, or across time within a particular monotheistic tradition; or it may address evidence for how real people experienced marriage (or celibacy, or divorce) in a particular time and place, or across time or in different places. Please confirm your topic with me as soon as possible so I can confirm it with the professor.
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