Die Transformation des Kirchenbegriffs in der Fruhaufklarung

English summary: The concept of the church underwent a transformation in the early Enlightenment when two horizons were broadened, one beyond the boundaries of theology and one within them. As a result, the dogmatic concept of church expanded and ecclesiology was addressed outside of dogmatic the...

Der Neü Layenspiegel von Ulrich Tengler

The Laienspiegel was one of the first comprehensive law books to be written in German. For over a century, it influenced the development of law in the German-speaking world. What were the consequences of this for legal practice at the time? The present volume takes an interdisciplinary look at th...

Gott als Vater der Junger im Johannesevangelium

Ethik

Wilhelm Herrmann's Ethics differs remarkably from other conceptions of theological ethics by concentrating on the making of the moral subject through religious experience. With this focus, Herrmann's Ethics is of special interest to current theological research, going beyond any ethics of the com...

Gelitten - Gestorben - Auferstanden

English summary: Jesus' passion and resurrection are at the core of the Christian faith and message. The oldest witnesses to this data can be found in the New Testament. However, stories about Jesus' suffering, his crucifixion and his resurrection were retold and interpreted in manifold ways in l...

Staatsverbrechen im Volkerrecht

Through interventions at the International Criminal Court, human rights organizations draw public attention to crimes committed by states in the Global North. By so doing, these civil actors use law as a tool to initiate broad processes of dealing with state crimes.

Rewriting and Revision as Amendment in the Laws of Deuteronomy

Mutual Influence in Priestly and Non-Priestly Pentateuchal Narratives

Building upon scholarly models, Aron Freidenreich reexamines the relationship between two key narrative collections found within the Pentateuch. Five case studies demonstrate textual expansion and influenced updating, reflecting a dynamic interaction between competing scribal communities.

Korperbilder in den Psalmen

English summary: Body images are a central element in the imagery of the Psalms. Using Psalm 22 as an example, Dorte Bester explains the significance of individual body images and their function in the procedure of prayer. After a text-critical, compositional and a literary analysis of Psalm 22, ...

Das Geschaftsordnungsrecht der Synoden der Evangelischen Landeskirchen und gesamtkirchlichen Zusammenschlusse

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...

Wertordnung und Verfassung

English summary: Since the Second World War the classical liberal model of constitutionalism has been increasingly challenged by a competing conception which perceives the constitution and the bill of rights as a normative order of values. This new approach to constitutionalism probably found its...

"Heiligkeitsgesetz" und "Priesterschrift"

English summary: In his study, the author presents a complete analysis of the so-called Holiness Code (Lev 17-26), one of the most important bodies of law in the Old Testament. Andreas Ruwe shows that the sequence of rules and legal regulations combined in this text possesses a systematic consist...

Uber den Umgang mit Krankungen

Krankung hat viele Gesichter. Was Menschen krankt und beleidigt, gewinnt Macht uber sie. Das, was eine Gesellschaft gegen Krankungen immunisiert, sind die Starke ihrer Mitglieder, ihr Selbstvertrauen und ihr Zutrauen dazu, in einer sich standig verandernden Welt bestehen zu konnen. Joachim Gauck ...

Richterrecht zwischen Gesetzesrecht und Rechtsgestaltung

English summary: How can a judge be bound by a law which he himself has made? And how does this non-committal commitment fit in with the ideas of the democratic constitutional state in which it is primarily the democratic lawmaker who is to determine the law? The division of labor and the coopera...

Selbstbestimmung im Alter

English summary: In a society in which the number of older people is increasing constantly, mental disabilities which often accompany the ageing process will increase along with the need for help and care. A new perception of the rights of handicapped persons has led to a general review of rules ...

Hezekiah and the Compositional History of the Book of Kings

In this study, Benjamin D. Thomas explores one of the oldest and most central issues of the Hebrew Bible -- the compositional history of 1-2 Kings. His approach does not proceed from the assumption prevalent since the time of de Wette, namely, that the origins of 1-2 Kings should be explained ini...

Unterlassungen und ihre Folgen

English summary: In moral and juridical contexts omissions are phenomena of high normative relevance. However, they are rather unwieldy for reconstructions based on action and causation theory and therefore also for a normative evaluation. From the perspective of action theory, the question of ho...

Haftung fur CSR

Schutzlücke intersektionale Diskriminierung?

This book reveals the social power structures underlying the anti-discrimination law and illustrates the need to close missing protection against discrimination. Looking to EU law, she comes up with a legally feasible way to anchor such cases of intersectional discrimination in the private employ...

Law and Ethics in Early Judaism and the New Testament

Pious Jews of the Second Temple period sought to conform their lives to Torah, the law God had given Israel. Their different sects disagreed, however, on how to interpret particular laws and even on the question of who had the authority to interpret them. Jesus and his earliest followers, while f...

Frommigkeitsgeschichte und Theologiegeschichte

Collective Reinterpretation in the Psalms

Marko Marttila reevaluates the extent and nature of the collective passages in the Psalter. Many of the complaint psalms written by an individual were reread at a later stage from a national point of view. In the altered religious, political and social circumstances, the earlier texts were rework...

Die Taufe beim jungen Luther

Unternehmen in Sondervermogen

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...

Neuere Entwicklungen in der Geldtheorie und Geldpolitik

Deuteronomy and Exhortation in Hebrews

David M. Allen examines the way in which Deuteronomy operates within the paraenetic sections of Hebrews, both at a micro-level (in terms of citation or allusion to the prior text) and at a macro-level (how broad Deuteronomic themes are treated within the discourse). There is extensive treatment o...

Overcoming Dichotomies

This volume offers interdisciplinary studies of the genres of parables, fables, and similes from a range of Graeco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian sources in antiquity. It highlights both the fluid boundaries between these genres and their distinct adaptions in various literary works.

Jesus, Gospel Tradition and Paul in the Context of Jewish and Greco-Roman Antiquity

This volume contains a collection of twenty-two of David E. Aune's essays focusing on a variety of issues in the interpretation of the Gospels, Gospel traditions, Paul and the Pauline letters. Most essays center on the exegesis of particular problematic passages in the Gospels, Acts and the Pauli...

Die Eigentumsubertragung beim Kauf beweglicher Sachen nach dem DCFR

Der Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) ist der Versuch, ein Modell eines modernen gemeineuropaischen Privatrechts zu schaffen. Die 2009 erschienene Endfassung, die DCFR Outline Edition, enthalt auch umfassende Regelungen zum Erwerb und Verlust von Eigentum an beweglichen Sachen. Ebenfalls 200...

Studies in the Jewish Background of Christianity

Die juristische Konstruktion des Insolvenzplans als Vertrag

Der Insolvenzplan entwickelt sich immer mehr zur `Allzweckwaffe` des Insolvenzrechts. Umso dringender bedarf es einer tragfahigen rechtswissenschaftlichen Einordnung dieses Rechtsinstituts. In der Wissenschaft ist jedoch die Rechtsnatur des Insolvenzplans bislang umstritten. Diesen Streit bereite...

Der lateinische Begriff "otium"

O tium ist einer der schillerndsten Begriffe der lateinischen Sprache. Sein Bedeutungsspektrum umfasst zahlreiche ambivalente Komponenten, die es erschweren, seine Bedeutung zu fassen. Haufig wird otium im Deutschen mit "Musse" ubersetzt, doch gleichbedeutend sind die beiden Begriffe keineswegs. ...

Gleichnisse und Parabeln in der fruhchristlichen Literatur

Der vorliegende Band widmet sich den Gleichnissen und Parabeln in der Literaturgeschichte des fruhen Christentums. Der bisherige Forschungsdiskurs, der sich vorwiegend auf die Gleichnisverkundigung Jesu konzentrierte, wird darin in mehrfacher Hinsicht erweitert. In einem einfuhrenden Teil werden ...

The Last Years of Paul

What happened in the last few years of Paul's life? Did he ever get to Spain? How and why did he die? Were his plans fulfilled or frustrated? How should we interpret our scant sources? And what light can be shed on these matters by the social, historical, and legal context of Paul's life? In this...

Die Europaische Burgerinitiative nach dem Vertrag von Lissabon

English summary: The call for greater participation in political decisions has not only been pursued at national level. One of the most important and the most spectacular innovations of the Treaty of Lisbon was the introduction of the European Citizens' Initiative. It is supposed to bring the Uni...

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...

Künstliche Intelligenz

Artificial intelligence already affects our everyday life in specific areas. Against this backdrop, this study deals with the technology regarding consumer protection. In addition to papers by jurists there are also contributions from other disciplines in accordance with the many facets of this s...

Das Konzept der Einwilligung in der datenschutzrechtlichen Realitat

Im deutschen Datenschutzrecht ist ein Umgang mit personenbezogenen Daten grundsatzlich verboten, es sei denn, er wird erlaubt. Eine mogliche Legitimationsgrundlage ist die Einwilligung des Betroffenen. Im alltaglichen Einsatz ist allerdings zu beobachten, dass viele Betroffene weder freiwillig, n...

Die deutsche Rechtsprechung auf dem Gebiete des Internationalen Privatrechts im Jahre 2012

Der neue Band stellt eine unverzichtbare Arbeitshilfe fur Wissenschaft und Praxis dar. Er dokumentiert die Rechtsprechung der deutschen Gerichte zum Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrecht sowie zu auslandischem Recht und internationalem Einheitsrecht. Fur das Jahr 2012 werden 332 veroffentli...

Hope

Hope is a fundamental but controversial human phenomenon. For some it is Pandora's most mischievous evil, for others it is a divine gift and one of the highest human virtues. It is difficult to pin down but its traces seem to be present everywhere in human life and practice. Christianity as a com...

Kernstrukturen des Sachenrechts

As a fundamental area of our private law system, property law regulates the legal positions of ownership, possession, the owner-possessor relationship, and limited rights such as land charges or mortgages. Providing an overarching view of complex and far-reaching subject matter, this new edition ...

Grenzen und Entwicklungsmoglichkeiten des Souveranitatsprinzips in transnationalen Handelsbeziehungen

English summary: The adoption and implementation of European standards for the production of food in sovereign non-member countries leads to a breach of state sovereignty. The resulting democratic and rule of law problems have to be dealt with by exercising sovereignty co-operatively. German des...

Juden im Deutschen Wirtschaftsleben

Martin Schreiner between Islamic Studies and "Wissenschaft des Judentums"

Sabine Schmidtke reconstructs the scholarly biography of Martin Schreiner (1863?1926), one of the prominent students of Ignaz Goldziher, and an important representative of the "Wissenschaft des Judentums" , from his student days in Budapest to his active period in Berlin.

Die neue Europaische Union nach dem Vertrag von Lissabon

English summary: The Treaty of Lisbon took effect on 1 December 2009. Following the failure of the EU constitution, this formulates a compromise which was an unusual challenge for the 27 EU Member States. Christian Calliess, a member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment, provides an ...

Demokratische Sozialpolitik

English Summary: Democratic social policy is presently being confronted with the authoritarian methods of social policy which evolved in 19th century Western Europe. In this context, the author develops the theory that the relevant social question of today is actually the question of democracy. A...