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Die Anerkennung und Vollstreckung drittstaatlicher Entscheidungen in Zivil- und Handelssachen

English summary: While the recognition and enforcement of European judgments were unified by the Brussels I Regulation and the Lugano Convention, the recognition of third states' judgments is still subject to a complex system of national laws and international conventions. Against this backdrop, ...

Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus

Using a carefully defined approach to historical Jesus studies and historical method, this collection of essays examines twelve key events in the life of Jesus that were part of a decade-long collaborative research project. Each essay examines the case for the event's authenticity and then explor...

Samarien und die Samaritai bei Lukas

Book-Seams in the Hexateuch II

This volume offers the first systematic investigation of the literary transitions between the books of Numbers/Deuteronomy and Deuteronomy/Joshua. Placing a special focus on the material aspects of ancient Jewish scribal practices, it retraces the development of these literary transitions.

Jahrbuch des offentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart. Neue Folge

Wieder liegen zwei Bande des Jahrbuchs des offentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart vor und setzen - jeweils in einem Teil 'Abhandlungen' und in einem Teil 'Berichte' - das imposante Gesamtwerk fort, das sich zur Aufgabe gesetzt hat, den Leser uber die Entwicklung des offentlichen Rechts zu informieren....

The Irrevocable Call of God

Richard Bell examines the impact of Paul's life changing experience before Damascus on his theological understanding of Israel. The book considers the development of Paul's view concerning the election and salvation of Israel, paying special attention to 1 Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans. The...

Die Logik einer wettbewerblichen Geldordnung

English summary: To what extent might competition become a basis for the money supply process? Is private competition in the money supply viable and useful or do we need a government monopoly on money? Dealing with these questions and others, Paul Terres outlines a competitive framework within wh...

Subjektivitat im Kontext

English summary: Subjectivity is not a fact; it refers to a rule of hermeneutic procedure on how to connect self-interpretation and self-justification with one another. This is why the explanatory power of the philosophical paradigm of subjectivity has to prove itself to be especially worthwhile ...

Love as Agape

Oda Wischmeyer aims to bring the New Testament concept of love into conversation with the current discussion about love. She investigates the commandment tradition of love for God and for neighbour, and the ways in which the Septuagint and Plutarch speak of love. Published in English

"Feste der Ewigkeit"

Die jahrlich gefeierten Feste zu Ehren des Gottes Osiris, des Herrschers des Totenreiches, in der Stadt Abydos, Begrabnisort der fruhesten Konige Agyptens, zahlten zu den wichtigsten religiosen Feierlichkeiten im alten Agypten. Menschen aus dem ganzen Land reisten dorthin, um an den Feiern teilzu...

Ausservertragliche Haftung im Europaischen Verwaltungsverbund

Der Markt der Tugend

English summary: A liberal market society is often critized as being a society in which morality and virtues are crowded out by increasing egoism and utility-maximization. Michael Baurmann develops quite a different picture. He shows that anonymous market-relations and competition are by no means...

"Handeln Gottes"

What does Christian theology mean when it speaks of God's action? Matthias Ruf offers a typology of significant interpretations of this central topos of the talk of God. He shows that nonliteral interpretations are linguistically problematic and literal ones are not only de facto assumed by many ...

BGB I: Einfuhrung und Allgemeiner Teil

With this textbook and workbook, Dieter Leipold enables the reader to acquire a basic knowledge of German civil law. The new edition has been completely revised and updated.

Jesus Tradition in the Apostolic Fathers

Stephen E. Young reevaluates the tradition of Jesus' sayings in the Apostolic Fathers in light of the growing recognition of the impact of orality upon early Christianity. Based upon research into oral tradition done in the wake of the pioneering work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, he advances ...

Gesammelte Aufsatze

Das Organmitglied im Steuer- und Sozialversicherungsrecht

Nico Krause discusses the different definitions of independence in income tax law, VAT law, and social security law for members of bodies and concludes that the normative purposes are identical. He proposes criteria for a categorisation in those areas of law which are brought into a practicable s...

Gary Beckers okonomischer Imperialismus

The Septuagint and Its Reception

The present volume contains essays by Martin Meiser on the interpretation of the Septuagint, especially the historical and prophetic books, on the reception of the Septuagint in the New Testament, on textual criticism of the Septuagint in quotations fro

Die betriebliche Ubung

Europaisches Wettbewerbsrecht

The Shema and The First Commandment in First Corinthians

Erik Waaler takes a somewhat modified intertextual approach to the relationship between Jewish monotheism and Pauline Christology. His focus is on Paul's Christological reuse of Shema in 1Cor 8:1-6. He argues that the statement there is no God but one (8:4a) is a combined echo of Shema and the Fi...

Wirtschaftsethik der Globalisierung

English summary: We are confronted daily with the problems of globalization. Many people regard globalization as a threat not only to their economic existence but also to the way they see themselves culturally and morally. For these reasons many of them join ATTAC or other organizations, and thei...

Europaisches Zivilprozessrecht und Demokratieprinzip

Theologie als gegenwartige Schriftauslegung

Konvergenzen und Divergenzen im deutschen, osterreichischen und schweizerischen Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht

English summary: This edited volume is a collection of papers on current and basic issues in corporate and capital markets law from the German, Austrian and Swiss perspective. The authors deal with shareholder democracy, the information flow in associated companies, ownership transparency in capi...

Der Konflikt zwischen Sicherungsnehmer und Vollstreckungsglaubiger

Wie gelingt es einem Sicherungsnehmer, sich den Verwertungs- und Befriedigungsvorrang an einer schuldnerischen Sache gegenuber anderen Glaubigern - namentlich Vollstreckungsglaubigern - zu sichern? Wie konnen Vollstreckungsglaubiger ihrerseits einen Vorrangstatus erwerben? Und wie koordiniert ein...

The Nag Hammadi Codices as Monastic Books

On the basis of recent research indicating that the Nag Hammadi Codices were produced and used by early Egyptian monks, the articles in this volume ask how and why monks would have read the texts contained in these codices.

Leben mit dem Tod

Forderung und Finanzkontrolle gemeinnutziger Organisationen in Grossbritannien und Deutschland

English summary: Sabine Selbig compares the relevant statutory and case law in Scotland, England and Wales and Germany with the aim of ascertaining the best way of enabling third sector organisations to fulfil their role in contemporary society. She identifies the means by which a balance can be ...

Knowledge and Religious Authority in the Pseudo-Clementines

The Pseudo-Clementines are best known for preserving early Jewish Christian traditions, but have not been appreciated as a resource for understanding the struggles over identity and orthodoxy among fourth-century Christians, Jews, and pagans. Using the work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Nicole ...

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

Vollharmonisierung im Privatrecht

English summary: What will the future of European consumer law be like? The proposed directive on consumer rights provides for a full harmonization of the four directives on doorstep selling, distance selling, unfair commercial terms and consumer sales contracts. This will eventually lead to an i...

Birkat haMinim

One of the intriguing questions in the study of the period of the re-formation of Judaism after the destruction of the Second Temple is the identity of a group which appears in hundreds of Talmudic sources from those days - the minim. .It is clear that most of these sources reflect different face...

Language and Identity in Ancient Narratives

Thaumaturgic Prowess

Die Okonomen im Elfenbeinturm

Verfolgt die Politik gegenwartig die falschen Rezepte zur Uberwindung der Finanzkrise und Stabilisierung des Euro? Thomas Mayer empfiehlt in seiner Hayek-Vorlesung 2012 weniger Konstruktivismus in der Wirtschaftspolitik, einen besseren Ordnungsrahmen fur das Spiel der Marktkrafte, die Verbindung ...

Sefer ha-Razim I und II - Das Buch der Geheimnisse I und II

Two macroforms dating back to late antiquity are known under the Hebrew title Sefer ha-Razim (The Book of Secrets). This volume contains an introduction, the German translation and a German commentary on both Sefer ha-Razim titles.

Institutionenokonomik und internationale Rechnungslegungsordnungen

English summary: What makes capital markets efficient, and how can accounting create effective protection for investors? Jens Wustemann systematizes and assesses the accounting system in the USA, basing his analysis on the theoretical foundation of institutional economics and giving a comparison ...

Verfassungsprozessuale Umbruche

ein Nichts

Hans Julius Schneider applies Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology as a means to improve our understanding of religious language. He shows that in both fields it is necessary to distinguish two levels of meanings.

Gewinn als Umbruch der Ordnung?

Der Siegburger Topfer Peter Knutgen sah sich um das Jahr 1560 dem Vorwurf seiner Zunft ausgesetzt, durch eigenstandige Verkaufstatigkeiten grosse Gewinne erzielt zu haben, womit er gegen die gemeinnutzige Wirtschaftsausrichtung verstossen habe. Sie klagte ihn deswegen beim Stadtherrn, dem Abt zu ...

Anspruchskonkurrenz im internationalen Privatrecht

English summary: In most cases there is more than one cause of action which provides for legal consequences that are generally apt to support the plaintiff's claim. Thus every legal system contains - mostly unwritten - rules according to which the judge has to decide to what extent different caus...

Love without Pretense

Nemo-tenetur und Verbandssanktionen

“You have the right to remain silent." But does this right also apply to legal entities and associations? Carina Dorneck looks into this question and in doing so links a basic issue in criminal procedural law to a highly topical question of legal policy.

Early Christian Teachers

The teachers of early Christianity were one of its most intriguing groups and appear to have been the equivalent of the Jewish rabbis or pagan philosophers. By examining all the earliest sources mentioning the 'didaskaloi', Alessandro Falcetta sheds light on the first hundred years of their histo...