Rewriting and Revision as Amendment in the Laws of Deuteronomy

Paulusstudien

The Lamb Christology of the Apocalypse of John

This is a study of the symbolic meaning of arnion (lamb) in the Apocalypse of John as the central feature of the Christology of Revelation. Loren L. Johns argues that arnion did not refer to an aggressive, militant ram in extant Greek literature prior to the Apocalypse, nor did it normally denote...

Konigspsalmen und karaische Messiaserwartung

English summary: In this work, Friedmann Eissler presents the first comprehensive text documentation, including a German translation and a detailed commentary, of fundamental excerpts from Jefet ben Eli's prolific commentary on Psalms according to the Paris manuscript. His interpretation of the R...

Jurisprudenz in Freiburg

English summary: Focusing on scholarly and historical aspects, Alexander Hollerbach provides the essential elements of a history of the faculty of law in Freiburg since the university was founded in 1457. The various articles focus on the 19th and 20th century, and in particular on individual leg...

Der deutsche Verwaltungsrechtsschutz unter dem Einfluss der Aarhus-Konvention

English summary: The Aarhus Convention stipulates the right of individuals and environmental associations to wide access to justice in environmental matters as well as the expansion of procedural rights. In contrast to this, German administrative law is characterized by a narrow access to justice...

Soziale Dienstleistungen

The authors of this textbook discuss whether and to which extent social services can be and should be offered in market settings. They provide an overview of the characteristics and the legal framework of social services.

Haftungsrecht und Entschadigungsfonds

English summary: The social and technological upheavals in the modern era pose an enormous challenge to the current law of compensation. In his book, Jonas Knetsch provides a scholarly appraisal of so-called compensation funds which pay damages regardless of the liability of a third party, for ex...

Urheberrecht und Lauterkeitsrecht

The potential overlaps between copyright and unfair competition law in the internal market are manifold. To prevent contradictions, a practicable methodological tool that reconciles varying regulatory purposes while ensuring both legal certainty and fairness in individual cases is required.

Die leichtfertige Steuerverkurzung

Die beim Erstellen einer Steuererklarung typische Aufgabenteilung zwischen dem Steuerpflichtigen und seinem Steuerberater fordert das Strafrecht und das Ordnungswidrigkeitenrecht heraus. Anhand des Bussgeldtatbestands der leichtfertigen Steuerverkurzung untersucht Carolin Langlitz, inwieweit Stra...

Energieversorgung zwischen Energiewende und Energieunion

English summary: This volume consists of contributions delivered by speakers from both academic and professional backgrounds, all dealing with and analysing the impact on the energy market of the dynamic and comprehensive changes currently affecting all regulatory levels of energy provision's leg...

Technisch-funktionelle Marken nach PVÜ und TRIPS

Can trademarks with a technical function be excluded from protection under international law? Answering this question based on a systematic reading of Art. 6quinquies PC, Art. 15 TRIPS and Art. 10bis PC, Tobias Endrich-Laimböck develops a binding ceiling to prevent restrictions of competition due...

Heil und Geschichte

English summary: This volume combines the contributions to a conference held in honor of Martin Hengel on the problem of the history of salvation. In more than 30 articles, the authors discuss the issue in its exegetical and theological dimensions. The subjects range from the Hebrew Bible, Joseph...

Der Rechtsschutz nach 98 Abs. 2 Satz 2 StPO

English summary: The guarantee of 'effective' legal protection in Article 19 Subsection 4 Sentence 1 of the German Basic Law applies to preliminary investigations in criminal proceedings as well. Based on this fundamental right, court rulings and legal writers have developed a system of legal pro...

Matthew, Paul, and the Anthropology of Law

Drawing from Michel Foucault's understanding of power, David A. Kaden explores how relations of power are instrumental in forming law as an object of discourse in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Letters of Paul. This is a comparative project in that the author examines the role that power relati...

Johannesstudien

Schellings Philosophie der Potenz 1798-1854

Stefan Gerlach provides an overview of one of the most central and iridescent concepts in Schelling's work. He analyses the semantics, usage, fields of application, and the systematic position of the conceptual field of potency/potencies/potentiation from Schelling's philosophy of nature to his l...

Abendmahl

Soziale Grundrechte und europaische Finanzhilfe

Die europaische Finanzkrise hat traditionelle Annahmen des europaischen Verfassungsrechts in Frage gestellt und zur Umgestaltung der Wirtschaftsarchitektur der Union gefuhrt. Neugeschaffene Mechanismen ermoglichen die finanzielle Unterstutzung von Euro-Landern, jedoch nur unter umfangreichen Aufl...

Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte in der EGMR-Rechtsprechung

Climate change litigation presents courts with the challenge of assessing states' human rights obligations for future generations. Alena Diepold examines whether European human rights law is a suitable tool for answering questions of sustainability and whether member states are prepared to do so.

The Historical Jesus' Death as 'Forgiveness of Sins'

JongHyun Kwon's research aims to discover whether the historical Jesus understood his death as a means of forgiveness by comparing Paul and Matthew's treatment of these themes. The strong tie between Jesus' death and forgiveness of sin in nascent Christianity is attenuated in Jesus research. Henc...

Welche Zukunft hat die Kirche?

Notarhaftung im Vergleich

English summary: In Germany in particular, but in Austria as well, the consequences of the notary's involvement in legal procedures in which private individuals settle and organize their legal circumstances are increasingly often that the participants make the notary responsible for misplaced exp...

Theorien der Grund- und Menschenrechte

Grundrechte sind weit mehr als eine akademische Spezialmaterie. Als normative Grundlage des Gemeinwesens beeinflussen sie unseren Alltag. Um sie angemessen zu verstehen, reicht jedoch eine - auch juristisch geschulte - Lekture der einschlagigen Normtexte nicht aus. Die Normen mussen ihrerseits au...

Redeeming Relationship, Relationships that Redeem

A renewed focus on the role of interpersonal relationships in the cultivation of religious sensibilities is emerging in the study of religion. Matthew Ryan Robinson addresses this question in his study of Friedrich Schleiermacher's notion of "free sociability". In Schleiermacher's ethics, the hum...

Koordinierung als Kompetenzkategorie

Die EU-Verfahren zur Koordinierung der Wirtschafts- und Beschaftigungspolitik sowie das Instrument der "Offenen Methode der Koordinierung" stellen das Recht vor zahlreiche Herausforderungen. Die EU nutzt mit dem Koordinierungsinstrument ein Verfahren multilateraler Uberwachung und versucht eine P...

Biblia Americana Volume One

Menschenwurde in der sakularen Verfassungsordnung

English summary: Religion has had a strong influence on the idea of human dignity. At the same time, the dignity of human beings is the central section in the secular constitutional order. How do these two things fit together? Using specific problems (torture, protection of life, systems of socia...

Gottesdienst als Skandal

Sondervertragliche Kooperationen

In der europaischen Staatsschuldenkrise traf politischer Gestaltungswille zur krisenadaquaten Fortentwicklung der Wirtschafts- und Wahrungsunion auf heterogene Interessen der Mitgliedstaaten und begrenzte Handlungsoptionen des Unionsrechts. Zum Erhalt des Euro-Wahrungsgebiets erganzten die Mitgli...

Die Feststellung der Zahlungsunfahigkeit von Gesellschaften mit beschrankter Haftung

English summary: Determining bankruptcy is one of the most important aspects in bankruptcy law, since this is the most common reason for the opening of insolvency proceedings. Jana Dittmer deals with current issues and provides guidance and proposals for handling the reason for bankruptcy filing....

Zwingender Angehorigenschutz im Erbrecht

Prinzipale, Agenten und Macht

English summary: In this work, the author concentrates on sociological theory building in the field of organizational theory, to be more precise, on agency theory as a branch of the New Institutional Economics which analyzes the relationship between principals and agents. Nicole J. Saam puts forw...

Das Spiegelbildprinzip im Rechtsverkehr mit auslandischen Staatenverbindungen

English summary: The recognition of foreign judgments according to autonomous German law causes particular problems if the state in which the judgment was given has a federal and not a centralist form of government. Christoph Schartl develops an independent approach to defining the term state wit...

Schelling und die historische Theologie des 19. Jahrhunderts

English summary: This volume looks at the so far little studied connections between the philosophy of Schelling and the historiographic waves in theological, philosophical and historical discourse during the first half of the 19th century. The reception of Schelling in theology, philosophy and hi...

Gottliche Freiheit

English summary: German idealism is of considerable significance for the current renaissance of the doctrine of the Trinity. Thus it is surprising that the Trinity doctrine in F.W.J. Schelling's late philosophy has been studied very little up to now. One of the reasons for this is that Schelling'...

Grundfragen der Abanderungsklage

Moderner Relativismus

Kierkegaard und der Deutsche Idealismus

English summary: Kierkegaard's existential philosophy began with a critique of Hegel. This critique describes Kierkegaard's own transition into modernity. To begin with, it converges with the path taken by Schelling in his later works, and at the same time it reinforces the late Fichte's approach...

Gotteserkenntnis und Selbsterkenntnis

Die Offshore-Windenergie unter dem WindSeeG

Offshore wind energy is indispensable for the success of the energy transition. In 2017, the legal framework for its planning and regulation was restructured with the Offshore Wind Energy Act. The author shows that the system raises numerous legal questions and can possibly serve as an example fo...

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXXIV

Papyri nos 4968-5019

Verhandelte Gesundheit

Attempts to promote out-of-court mediation between social service providers and social service recipients are still based on the assumption of rational choice by the parties involved. This fails to recognize negotiation barriers that arise as a result o

Die Lizenz

Die Lizenz stellt die zentrale Verwertungsform fur Rechte des Geistigen Eigentums dar. Bisher scheitert eine dogmatisch konsistente Einordnung in das Rechtssystem jedoch an der in Deutschland tradierten Abweichung vom Allgemeinen Zivilrecht sowie der starken Differenzierung nach der Art des Schut...

Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts (BVerfGE)

Die Sammlung der Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts gehort zu den einflussreichsten und meistzitierten Periodika der deutschen Jurisprudenz. Sie enthalt alle Senatsentscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts (BVerfG) in ungekurzter Fassung. Begonnen mit Grundung des Gerichts im Jahr 1...

Theologie - diesseits des Dogmas

Der grundrechtliche Gewahrleistungsgehalt

English summary: Benjamin Rusteberg deals with the current discussion surrounding the scope of protection in fundamental rights and the question of whether this scope should be wide or narrow. In the final analysis, the issue is how the provisions pertaining to fundamental rights in the German Ba...

Autorschaft und Sklavenperspektive im Ersten Petrusbrief

Die zentrale christologische Passage des Ersten Petrusbriefs steht im Kontext der Mahnungen an die Sklaven. Jisk Steetskamp setzt in dieser Untersuchung das Leid der Sklaven mit der Passion Christi in ein paradigmatisches Verhaltnis, in das er die ganze Gemeinschaft der Adressaten miteinbezieht. ...

Entstehung von Verfassungen

Ivan Baron Adamovich wendet die moderne okonomische Theorie erstmals konsequent auf die Entstehung von Verfassungen in der Realitat an. Dazu entwickelt er zunachst ein analytisches Raster fur die Untersuchung von Verfassungsgebungen. Dieses wird dann auf die seit 1989 entstandenen Verfassungen in...

Arthur T. von Mehren und das internationale Zivilverfahrensrecht im transatlantischen Dialog

Ein weltweites Ubereinkommen auf dem Gebiet des internationalen Zivilverfahrensrechts kann nur Erfolg haben, wenn der transatlantische Dialog verbessert wird. Ina Vedie widmet sich diesem Dialog und ruckt die Lehren des U.S.-Amerikaners Arthur Taylor von Mehren (1922-2006) in den Mittelpunkt der ...

Die Satzteilfolge im Verbalsatz alttestamentlicher Prosa

Offentliches Recht als ein Gegenstand okonomischer Forschung

The 'Gospel' between Emperor and Temple in the Gospel of Mark

The “gospel” is a keyword of the Gospel of Mark. But what does it mean to Mark? Morten Hørning Jensen investigates the notion of Mark’s ‘gospel’ afresh, and concludes that Mark uses it to communicate the ‘epoch-making’ reversal of fortunes he sees as the victorious outcome of Jesus’s life, death,...

Fundamentalismus als patriarchalische Protestbewegung

Collectorium circa quattuor libros Sententiarium

Der Aufbruch zur Artifiziellen Gesellschaft

Gibt es Gluck in der Diakonie?

Gluck ist kein geschutzter Begriff. Gluck meint das Hochste, was einem Menschen im Leben widerfahren kann. Gluck ist zugleich ein Allerweltswort, gedankenlos eingesetzt fur den zufalligen guten Verlauf. Gluck kann beides meinen: das Kleine, Zufallige und Fluchtige ebenso wie dasjenige, was die Se...

Offentlichkeit als Sanktion

Philipp Florian Irmscher befasst sich mit dem Sanktionssystem des Kreditwesengesetzes und dem Phanomen des "naming and shaming" - vereinfacht gesagt der offentlichen Bekanntmachung eines Rechtsverstosses bzw. der Bebussung einer naturlichen oder juristischen Person. Unter Einbezug okonomischer Fo...

Abschiede vom Unrecht

English summary: The task of parting with injustice still dominates today's study of contemporary legal history following the end of World War II. This volume offers 19 studies in three sections covering appraisal, methodological and constitutional change as well as alternatives, wherein philosop...

Ethische Normen des fruhen Christentums

Gutes und Guter, Leben, Leib, Tugend - in diesem Band werden die Vortrage der ersten vier Symposien der Mainz Moral Meetings aus den Jahren 2009-2011 zu diesen Themen zusammengefasst. Ein interdisziplinarer Zugang durch Bibelwissenschaft, Judaistik, Altphilologie, Philosophie, Patristik, Systemat...

Story as History - History as Story

From recent reviews: The book contains detailed and fascinating investigations of the methods of the ancient historians of Greece and Rome for the light they are claimed to shed upon those of the New Testament writers. Whenever an ancient source is quoted, not only is an English translation given...

Grundlagen der Rechtssoziologie

Rethinking the Ethics of John

Ethics is a neglected field of research in the Gospel and Letters of John. Judgments about even the presence of ethics in the Gospel are often negative, and even though ethics is regarded as one of the two major problem areas focused on in 1 John, the development of a Johannine ethics from the Le...

Wozu ist die Diakonie fahig?

English summary: Christian social practice's tasks are currently mostly being discussed from economic, legal and political points of view. In this volume, Christian Albrecht seeks to place theological arguments firmly alongside these - whether they be interpretations of the principles of theologi...

Castle Tyrol

Guide to the Castle Schloss Tirol. Castle Schloss Tirol is the most important residence castle of the Tirol counts, which goes back to the beginning of medieval times. Main focuses of the arrangement lie in the south palace and in the chapel. Both Romanesque main entrances form the artistic focus.

Die okonomischen Institutionen des Kapitalismus

English summary: It is Oliver E. Williamson's theory that people behave rationally to a limited extent only and tend to act in their own interests. He shows how post-contractual problems can arise within the framework of relationship-specific dealings, which are subject to a great deal of environ...

Jewish and Christian Cosmogony in Late Antiquity

The authors of this collection of essays explore different ways that ancient Jews and Christians understood the world's creation and how this understanding shaped their world. In this volume, discussions of cosmogony are not only placed within the contexts of biblical hermeneutics and the politic...

Menschsein in Beziehungen

English summary: In the essays in this volume, most of which are previously unpublished, Wilfried Harle uses reformational theology, in particular Martin Luther's doctrine of justification, applying it to current ideological and ethical debates surrounding the concept of man in our society - incl...

Die Verwechslungsgefahr bei Namensmarken

English summary: When is there a likelihood of confusion within the meaning of trademark law between two signs which consist of the names of individuals? European and German courts as well as trademark offices do not have a standard answer to this question. In this work, Carola Onken presents a c...

Normative Institutionenokonomik

Die evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI. Jahrhunderts

Mit dem vorliegenden Band, der die Kirchenordnungen der beiden Herzogtumer Schleswig und Holstein sowie des Landes Dithmarschen umfasst, findet das 1902 von dem Erlanger Juristen Emil Sehling begonnene Projekt "Die evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI. Jahrhunderts" seinen Abschluss. Die Reform...

Luther heute

Entwurf fur ein chinesisches Haftungsgesetz

English summary: The aim of the draft bill for a Chinese law of civil liability is to formulate a liability law for the 21st century which builds on the experiences of Western industrial societies in the last century. Its significance goes beyond the importance of the occasion for which it was de...

Das Gesetz im Romerbrief und andere Studien zum Neuen Testament

English summary: The question of Paul and the law is the question of Paul and his interpreters. Has the law been abolished or fulfilled through what God has done in Christ? This new approach to understanding Paul on law focuses on the question of whether Paul is addressing his words to Jewish Chr...

Begegnungen im Recht

English summary: In order to honor Karsten Schmidt, an exceptional human being and scholar, on his 70th birthday, his colleagues at the Bucerius Law School presented him with a lecture series. The ten encounters in the law, each focusing on a different subject, provide insight into the various re...

Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi

The patriarch Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi headed the independent Jewish leadership institutions in Roman Palestine at the turn of the second and third centuries CE. He was also incredibly rich, a consummate politician, and close to the Roman authorities. He made taqqanot (reforms) in the light of circums...