Philo of Alexandria's Views of the Physical World

Philo of Alexandria fuses biblical interpretation and Greco-Roman cosmology in seemingly contradictory fashion: the physical world is sometimes God's enemy, but elsewhere his son and greatest work. Charles A. Anderson examines six key cosmological terms for Philo, including kosmos, physis (and na...

Was There a Cult of El in Ancient Canaan?

In this collection of essays, David Toshio Tsumura examines a number of Ugaritic mythological and liturgical texts in detail for how they interpret deity. He sheds light on ancient Canaanite religious practices and social customs essential for a better understanding of Old Testament literature.

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...

Religious Experience of the Pneuma

Clint Tibbs explores the Christian religious experience of the Pneuma given in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14. First Corinthians 12 and 14 is often read as concerning spiritual gifts. This heading, however, does not make clear the scope of Paul's text because it highlights only one component of Paul's p...

Parlamentarische Mitwirkung in Angelegenheiten der Europaischen Union

English summary: In the widespread debate on the democratic legitimacy of the European Union, national parliaments often seem to be a kind of knight in shining armor. In its decision on the Maastricht Treaty, the German Federal Constitutional Court put national parliaments at the center of the Un...

Gott und Mensch

Restitution und Bereicherungsausgleich in Europa

English summary: In this work, the author deals with restitutionary remedies and compensation for unjustified enrichment in cases of improvements made on someone else's property, wrongful acts and in situations where more than two persons are involved and the enrichment of the defendant could be ...

Religionsfreiheit und Gleichberechtigung der Geschlechter

English summary: This collection of interdisciplinary and inter-faith conference proceedings is devoted to the tense relationship that exists between the universal human right to equality and the unequal treatment of men and women that has a religious and cultural motivation and is justified on t...

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

El'azar Ben Yehuda von Worms: Hilkhot ha-Kavod. Die Lehrsatze von der Herrlichkeit Gottes

Kirche

Festschrift zu Ehren von Christian Kirchner

English summary: The Festschrift for Christian Kirchner honors a most exceptional academic teacher and researcher on his 70th birthday, who, most recently while during his nearly twenty year activity as a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, made extensive contributions to the fields o...

Der Gläubigerschutz in der präventiven Restrukturierung

While preventive restructuring procedures have a long tradition in English law, German law only very recently provided a framework following the implementation of 2021’s European Restructuring Directive. Against this background, Nils Rüstmann compares the protection of creditors under English and...

Kulturkampf um die Ehe

Nach dem Grossen Krieg schien das in Europa geltende Eherecht plotzlich als aus einer langst vergangenen Epoche uberkommen. Zwar hatten schon vor 1914 nationale und transnationale eherechtliche Reformdiskurse begonnen, nun jedoch nahm die Entwicklung rasant an Fahrt auf. Zahlreiche Gesetzentwurfe...

Clothing the Body of Christ at Colossae

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity

The authors of the essays collected here explore the ways in which late antique groups defined their own socio-political borders and created secure in-group identities by means of discourses on heresy and heretics. A wider definition of heresy and heretics as real or constructed internal oppositi...

Vom prophetischen Wort zur prophetischen Tradition

English summary: Armin Lange examines the innerprophetic conflicts as documented by Amos, Micah, Isaiah, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Zechariah as well as Lamentations. These texts attest to a development from prophetic word to prophetic tradition. While in preexilic times actual prophecy and...

Rabbinic Study Circles

Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine

Tal Ilan explores the real, as against the ideal social, political and religious status of women in Palestinian Judaism of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The main conclusions of this investigations are that extreme religious groups in Judaism of the period influenced other groups, classes and...

Seinkonnen

Das Priestertum bei Sacharja

English summary: The author discusses the historical problems of the early Achaemenid period in Juda as the background of the prophecies of Haggai and Zechariah. Did they really promote a restoration movement? Pola does an exegesis of the book of Haggai, Zech 3, 4 and 6:9-15, including an analysi...

Souveranitat im Bundesstaat und in der Europaischen Union

Das Souveranitatsproblem in der Europaischen Union ist dogmatisch und theoretisch noch ungelost. Roman Lehner erarbeitet ein Modell, das staatliche Souveranitat und Autonomie des Unionsrechts als Komplementarbegriffe versteht. Ausgangspunkt ist die im deutsch-schweizerischen Bundesstaatsvergleich...

Konjunkturen in der offentlich-rechtlichen Grundlagenforschung

English summary: Scholars of German public law are turning their attention more and more to the nature of their science and the grass roots of fundamental research such as legal history, sociology of law and its cultural foundations. The contributors to this volume focus on how these fields have ...

Die Menschenwurde in der EMRK

Das ausdruckliche Auslassen der Menschenwurde als Teil der EMRK macht es notwendig, sich ihrer Definition laut EGMR auf Umwegen zu nahern. Nach einem kurzen historischen Uberblick uber die Entstehung des Menschenwurdebegriffs und seinen Einzug ins Recht beleuchtet Lennart von Schwichow zunachst d...

Sein und Gott

English summary: Of subject matters for philosophy, God is among the most obscure, complex, and ambiguous. Lorenz B. Puntel makes no attempt at an exhaustive treatment of it; he shows instead - especially in extensive opposition to Heidegger, whose works repeatedly present a deeply misleading but...

Schuldubernahme

English summary: The assumption of obligations is one of the most difficult topics in the general part of the law of obligations. This is due in particular to the fact that there are three parties involved in the assumption of an obligation. In this context there are two particular questions: Can...

The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus

The purpose of this comprehensive sourcebook by David W. Chapman and Eckhard J. Schnabel is to publish the extra-biblical primary texts that have been cited as relevant for understanding Jesus' trial and crucifixion. The texts in the first part deal with Jesus' trial and interrogation before the ...

Wirtschaftsordnung durch Zivilgerichte

Die Europaisierung des deutschen Umweltstrafrechts

English summary: Although criminal law was generally able to elude the guidelines from Brussels for a long time due to its particularly close association with national sovereignty and with the cultural identity of the EU Member States, German criminal law has been influenced by directives from Br...

Jakobusbrief in der Alten Kirche

In which texts can there actually be talk of a reception of James? Christian Bemmerl provides a long overdue account and discussion of the traces of James up to and including the time of Origen and, based on in-depth text analyses, shows its impact on early Christianity.

New Testament Language and Exegesis

A sequel as well as an advance on the author's study The Development of Greek and the New Testament (WUNT 167), Chrys C. Caragounis applies the diachronic or holistic approach to the exegesis of the New Testament in this volume. He takes up for discussion a number of grammatico-syntactical areas ...

Denken

Emotion, Narration und Ethik

Das Moselied des Deuteronomiums

Petra Schmidtkunz widmet sich dem theologiegeschichtlichen Ort des "Moseliedes" (Dtn 32,1-43). Das Herzstuck der Analyse ist eine ausfuhrliche Motivkritik, die zeigt, dass das Lied grosse Teile des heutigen Alten Testaments bereits voraussetzt. Zu den uberlieferten Traditionen, die hier noch einm...

Hans-Georg Gadamer - Eine Biographie

English summary: Hans-Georg Gadamer was one of the most outstanding philosophers of the 20th century. In his main work, Truth and Method, published in 1960, he raised hermeneutics to an essential component of contemporary philosophy. Jean Grondin engaged in intensive research in a number of archi...

Vernunft und Glaube bei Kant

English summary: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason denies knowledge in order to make room for faith. But how is this room to be shaped? According to Kant, by a rational belief which states the truth of some theoretical propositions only from a practical point of view, while for the theoretical use o...

Studien zu Jesus und Paulus II

Arbeitszeit- und Urlaubsrecht im Mobile Office

Work anytime, anywhere - electronic gadgets, digitalization and networking have changed the way we work and our working environments, which raises the question whether current employment law is flexible enough to cope with these new demands. Carmen Freyler examines the situation by looking at how...

Einwanderungsgesetz

Kriminologie

Criminology is the empirical subject which addresses deviant and criminal behaviour, its social definition as well as its manifestations and control. The new and thoroughly revised edition of this work - a classic work of German-language criminology literature, offers a comprehensive and up-to-da...

Das Klonen von Menschen

English summary: The birth of Dolly, the cloned sheep, marks a change of paradigm in developmental biology. But does Dolly also signify a change of paradigm in the law? Jens Kersten discusses the cloning of human beings for reproductive, therapeutic, scientific and diagnostic purposes against the...

Sicherheit und Freiheit

La Philosophie et la Theologie de Moise de Narbonne (1300-1362)

Verwaltungskontrolle durch Gesellschafterrechte

Vorvertragliche Verstandigungspflichten

English summary: In this work, the author deals with an aspect which is important for the dogmatic explanation of the pre-contractual duty to inform and which had been neglected up to now. He shows that a considerable part of those duties to inform which are determined by judicial decisions is ba...

The Meshalim in the Mekhiltot

This edition of rabbinic parables (meshalim) in the two Mekhiltot, the tannaitic Midrashim to the book of Exodus (3rd century CE), has a double scholarly purpose. It offers a critical synoptic presentation and study of the textual witnesses of the parables, and a commentary on their meaning and f...

Untersuchungsgrundsatz und Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit

English summary: According to German procedural law, the administrative courts take responsibility for investigating the facts of a case. Marcel Kaufmann examines whether this traditional principle complies with the requirements of the German constitution and the function of the judiciary. German...