The Tenants in the Vineyard

Das Band der Gesellschaft

The articles contained in this collection look at the displacements, upheavals and dislocations in the traditional definition of obligation as experienced in the 18th and early 19th centuries from the perspective of the humanities and cultural studies. The works in this volume not only focus on K...

Knowledge Co-Creation in Climate and Marine Governance

Based on a co-creation methodology that transcends disciplinary boundaries and enhances participatory approaches, numerous different experts offer perspectives on ocean protection from national, regional and international law.

Zwischen Mose und Karl Barth

English summary: Theology belongs at the university. In advocating this, this book does not make use of arguments based on the philosophy of science; it is written by a theologian who talks to his listeners and readers, whether they are theologians or not, giving them a detailed and animated acco...

Prophetie und Zweiter Tempel

Luthers Schriften fur die Gegenwart

Seit 1937 verfolgte der Hamburgische Hauptpastor Theodor Knolle, Vizeprasident der Luther-Gesellschaft, das Anliegen einer neuen Gesamtausgabe der deutschen Schriften Luthers. Zunachst arbeitete er mit dem Weimarer Verlag Hermann Bohlaus Nachfolger zusammen, dann wechselte er zu C. Bertelsmann na...

Der Entzug des Eigentums an beweglichen Sachen durch gutglaubigen Erwerb

Das Gesetz uber die privaten Versicherungsunternehmungen von 1901

In der vorliegenden Untersuchung versucht Meike Kilian, die Einfuhrung der Versicherungsaufsicht aufgrund eines modernen Ansatzes, dessen Ursprung im Regulierungsrecht fusst, neu zu erklaren und zu begreifen. Sie arbeitet insbesondere zwei Phanomene heraus, die im Bereich der heutigen Regulierung...

The Pentateuch

Ancient Egyptian Rituals Against Enemies

The contributors to this volume discuss several aspects and questions related to ancient Egyptian rituals against enemies ('execration rituals'). This type of ritual is documented through various kinds of sources from the 6th Dynasty to the Ptolemaic-Roman period, thus making it an especially mul...

Christologie und Existenz im Kolosserbrief

English summary: On the basis of a linguistic approach to interpretation, and in contrast to the more dominant approach of a diachronic reading in German studies, Michael Dubbers takes a new look at central passages of the Epistle to the Colossians. In this context it becomes clear that the autho...

Der Umbau der Energienetze als Herausforderung fur das Planungsrecht

English summary: This conference volume contains the results of the Third Bayreuth Symposium on Energy Law in 2012. The articles, written by scholars and professionals working in the field, deal in particular with the changes in the legal framework for the extension of energy grids in Germany. Ge...

From Enoch to Tobit

The studies by Devorah Dimant collected in this volume survey and analyze Jewish works composed in Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek during the Second Temple period, and discuss their contents, ideas, and connections to the Dead Sea Scrolls. In particular, themes related to the Aramaic Tobit and 1 Enoch a...

Selbstbewusstsein individueller Freiheit

English summary: Religion is a complex matter. Anyone studying it analytically faces the challenge of delivering a normative judgment and at the same time defining his or her own position. Jorg Dierken develops a concept of religion from a Protestant perspective in interdisciplinary discussions a...

Legislators, Judges, and Professors

As lawyers we are normally interested in various substantive areas of law; and as comparative lawyers we are interested in finding out about the differences and similarities between national legal systems. But from time to time we should also reflect on how we think and operate, and look at basic...

Dynamics of Charity and Reciprocity in the Book of Sirach

Stephen Long examines the theological interpretation of the relationship between charity and reciprocity in the wisdom-instruction of the second century BCE Jewish sage, Joshua Ben Sira. Gift exchange with God is understood to enable generous action towards fellow humans.

The Composition of Genesis 37

Religionsfreiheit und Staatskirchenrecht in der Grundrechtsordnung

English summary: The religious situation in Germany is changing. This requires a modernization of the law pertaining to the general principles governing fundamental rights in Germany, a modernization which takes the specific characteristics of religion into consideration. For this reason, Claus D...

Politikwissenschaft und Politisches Denken

English summary: All of Wilhelm Hennis's works show his distinctive way of pursuing the field of political science. For him, political science is a 'practical science', a science of political dealings and of institutions which define these dealings. It is a part of the immutability of constantly ...

Jewish Worship in Philo von Alexandria

As a knowledgeable contemporary of the later Second Temple, Philo of Alexandria's approach to worship and his view of the essence of Jewish worship are of particular interest to the study of that period. Jutta Leonhardt discusses his views on the Jewish festivals, especially the Sabbath, on praye...

Die Rechtsstellung gleichgeschlechtlicher Lebensgemeinschaften

English summary: This work contains a comparative report on the law relating to same-sex couples drawn up by the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law to advise the German Ministry of Justice on impending legislation. National reports deal with the legislation of the Scan...

Max Weber-Studienausgabe

English summary: The title of this volume originated in a series of articles published in 1908/1909 as On the Psychophysics of Industrial Work. This text, in wich Max Weber explores questions of natural science and ergonmics from a sociological point of view, forms the central part of further fro...

Intertextuality in Isaiah 24-27

J. Todd Hibbard examines the way in which Isaiah 24-27 reuses earlier texts and traditions as part of its literary strategy. He seeks to define a methodology based on an intertextual approach that is useful for studying prophetic texts. It requires that texts share common vocabulary and themes, b...

Vertragsgewohnheitsrecht und Parlamentsbeteiligung

Poetik der markinischen Christologie

English summary: Narrative exegesis is an important paradigm of more recent research on Mark's gospel. One of the main research problems till now though has been bringing historic-critical methods and synchronic approaches together in a unified system of interpretation. The so-called cognitive tu...

Verwaltungsermessen als Mehrebenenproblem

Entscheidungsspielraume der Verwaltung sind ein Grundbaustein des Offentlichen Rechts. Wahrend die Frage nach dem behordlichen 'Ermessen' klassischerweise auf ein Problem der horizontalen Gewaltenteilung im Verfassungsstaat verweist, konzipiert Mattias Wendel das Verwaltungsermessen als ebenenube...

Interaktion und Partizipation

Vertragliche Bindung basiert auf Interaktionen. Vertragliche Bindung fuhrt zu Partizipation. Moderne Interaktions- und Partizipationssysteme stellen die vertragsrechtliche Dogmatik vor neue Herausforderungen. Diese Systeme reichen von digitalen Plattformen uber das Internet der Dinge bis hin zu a...

Durchsicht informationstechnischer Systeme

It is increasingly common for criminal investigations to involve access to electronically stored data. The searching of storage media causes massive infringements on the accused's right to privacy. This publication assesses those infringements and the relevant criminal procedural law by analyzing...

Tokenized Finance

The legally secure linking of assets with blockchain tokens (tokenization) is a key area of application for blockchain technology. This collection covers the technical foundations of tokenization and matters of comparative law covering Singapore, Portugal, Austria, Italy and the USA.

Jahrbuch des offentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart. Neue Folge

Selbstverwaltung der Wirtschaft

English summary: Martin Will analyzes the law of economic self-government for the first time in relation to its historical development and its current status consistently from the perspective of participation. In doing so, he focuses on the democratic potential of economic self-government. German...

Strafrechtliche Beitrage zu Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtsphilosophie

Seit dem Inkrafttreten des 6. StrRG am 1.4.1998 betrafen Anderungen und Erweiterungen des Strafrechts nahezu ausschliesslich Einzelfragen. Zur Uberprufung dieser Neuerungen an den Grundlagen des Rechts sah man keinen Anlass. Dabei sind es doch gerade sie, die fundierte Antworten auf die Frage lie...

Max Webers "Religionssystematik"

English summary: The volume offers a new approach to Max Weber's sociology of religion and his cross-culturally comparative studies. Focusing on key concepts and semantic fields, the discourse of the last turn of the century is reconstructed and Weber's location in it is defined. The volume shows...

Kritische Ausgabe

English summary: Johann Joachim Spalding was the most powerful and effective Lutheran pulpit preacher at the culmination, also known as the neology, of religious Enlightenment. In the second volume of his New Sermons (1784), published when he was 70, J.J. Spalding, an eminent theologian of the En...

Die Wurzel allen Ubels

English summary: Philosophical and religious thinkers have for ever been contemplating the question of the origin of evil. Unde malum? Wherever people are shaken by the experience of being exposed to violence and destruction, disease and death, and also when staring into the abyss of the human so...

Emil Lasks Grundlehre

Die Kunst der Argumentation bei Paulus

Essays on John and Hebrews

Harold W. Attridge has engaged in the interpretation of two of the most intriguing literary products of early Christianity, the Gospel according to John and the Epistle to the Hebrews. His essays explore the literary and cultural traditions at work in the text and its imaginative rhetoric aiming ...

Der Renvoi im Internationalen Privatrecht

English summary: In which cases do the conflict of law rules of a state refer to foreign conflict rules? In which cases does renvoi transmission refer to the law of a third country? Michael Sonnentag examines these questions and clarifies them by weighing the relevant interests. German descriptio...

The Place of Paideia in Hebrews' Moral Thought

In Hebrews 12:1-17 the author seeks to encourage the readers by interpreting their sufferings as paideia from God. Scholars have typically interpreted this paideia either as corrective reproof or formative training, but by examining the passage in light of Hebrews' ethics, the ancient practice of...

The Therapeutae as the Best Paradigm for the Contemplative Life

Philo's Therapeutae is the best exemplum for what a Hellenistic Jewish contemplative life would look like in first century CE Alexandria. In constructing the contemplative life of the Therapeutae , Philo brings together various insights from Hellenistic philosophy and religion.

Bildung in der Praktischen Theologie

English summary: 'Bildung' is the central, but always threatened category of reflection in practical theology. The questions posed by practical theology are committed to the Protestant 'Bildungsprogram' and the purpose of its application in practical theology. However in everyday practical theolo...

Moglichkeiten und Grenzen bei der Regulierung von Derivaten

English summary: The regulation of (over-the-counter) derivatives has been a corner stone in the post financial crisis attempt to build a more resilient financial system. However, EU primary law, namely the free movement of capital and the freedom to provide services, imposes certain limits on th...

Zwischenrecht

The general rules of international law constitute a unique layer of law within the German legal system. The book analyses the 'intermediate rank' from a historical perspective, reflecting a process of political reorientation during the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Der Ombudsmann als Institution des Europaischen Verwaltungsrechts

English summary: The Scandinavian institution of the ombudsman has been implemented in nearly all European legal systems. Meanwhile, there are multiple interpretations of what characterizes this legal institution. Julia Haas shows that the profiling of the ombudsman as a core figure of European a...

The Way of the Lord

Jesus und der Gottesglaube

Sprachrisiken im Privatrechtsverkehr

English summary: The question of what is valid when private persons conclude a contract and misunderstandings arise due to a language problem has not been answered satisfactorily up to now. In the past, there have been many attempts to find simple, overall solutions to the problem of the so-calle...