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At its commencement ceremonies this past weekend, the University of Notre Dame honored a member of the 91����� Aquinas College teaching faculty, Dr. Joshua Noble.

A 2010 graduate of the College, Dr. Noble earned a master�s degree in early Christian Studies at Notre Dame in 2012. He then stayed on to pursue a doctorate in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity, which he completed, save for the dissertation, in 2017. He became a tutor at the College last fall, and in April he returned to South Bend to successfully defend his dissertation, �Common Property, the Golden Age, and Empire in Acts 2:42�47 and 4:32�35.�

Over the weekend Dr. Noble was at Notre Dame once more, where he formally received his doctoral degree as well as the University�s Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Award, which recognizes the top graduate students in engineering, the humanities, social sciences, and science. �A specialist of Christianity and Judaism in antiquity and gifted linguist,� Notre Dame News , Dr. Noble �is recognized for his exceptional scholarship, which argues for the reliance of the Acts of the Apostles on the Greco-Roman Golden Age myth.�

�My dissertation explores the symbolism of the practice of common property in light of Virgil�s pronouncement of a returning Golden Age under Augustus,� says Dr. Noble, who will soon enter his second year as tutor at the College. �I�m quite happy with the dissertation, but I�m even happier to be done with it and able to concentrate fully on teaching!�