Science in Qumran Aramaic Texts

The studies in this volume examine the knowledge and ideas about the natural and human world as reflected in the Aramaic texts of Qumran. Two questions guide the individual essays: What knowledge and what methods did they adopt from Mesopotamia? And how did they adapt this knowledge to their mono...

Die Jesus-Deutung von Ernst Troeltsch im Kontext der liberalen Theologie

Briefwechsel mit Adam Rechenberg 1686-1704

The correspondence between Spener and Adam Rechenberg offers comprehensive insights into Spener's life, thinking, work, and networks that portray many areas of contemporary spiritual and societal life outside of religious circles. Volume 2 of the correspondence contains 173 letters from the years...

Die anlehnende Markennutzung fur nicht ahnliche Produkte

Markeninhaber investieren mitunter astronomische Summen in die Werbung und erwarten einen moglichst umfassenden Schutz ihrer Marken. Es sind vielfach Tendenzen zu erkennen, diesem Wunsch nachzukommen. Dabei wird aber zu selten danach gefragt, warum und in welchem Umfang der Markenschutz wirklich ...

Die Bedeutung der EU-Grundrechtecharta fur das nationale Steuerrecht

Does European Union law ensure taxation in line with equality? Is such taxation even prescribed by Article 20 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights? And what does tax justice mean at union level anyway? Paul Lemmen addresses these questions with reference to the values of European primary law, the...

Der elohistische Psalter

English summary: Claudia Sussenbach deals with the composition and the theology of the so-called Elohistic Psalter (Ps 42-83). She examines the structure of the Psalter and, using the observations she has made, shows that the Elohistic Psalter was originally a separate composition. The second Psa...

Was ist Philosophie?

Future Hope and Present Reality

This book is the first of a two-volume work with the overall title Future Hope and Present Reality. These volumes had their origin in the Speaker's Lectures that Andrew Chester gave in Oxford; their main focus is central themes in biblical eschatology, and especially the apparent contradictions b...

Okonomische Analyse des Europarechts

English summary: Despite the numerous publications concerning the basic economic principles of the European integration process, studies on individual institutional and material questions are still rare. Against this backdrop, the 12th Travemunde Symposium was dedicated to the analysis of some ke...

Internationales Jahrbuch fur Hermeneutik

English summary: This yearbook represents a broad basis of one of the main trends in present-day philosophy with its counterparts in other sectors of the humanities. Hermeneutics sees itself as a successor to German Idealism and to the philosophy which originated in Germany and Europe during the ...

Handlungshoheit

Die neuere Entwicklung des Vertragsrechts wird teils unter Schlagworten wie "Materialisierung" oder "Wiederkehr der Vertragsgerechtigkeit" zusammengefasst. Es besteht aber auch ein Konsens daruber, dass Selbstbestimmung und Vertragsbindung nach wie vor Kernelemente des Vertragsrechts sind. Bernha...

The Law Applicable to Security Interests in Intermediated Securities Under OHADA Law

Justin Monsenepwo analyzes conflict of laws issues related to international securities transactions in the African states of the OHADA region. He focuses on the interplay of conflict of laws rules with substantive law and the evaluation of the Hague Convention on certain rights with respect to se...

Epicureanism and the Gospel of John

The Gospel of John and Epicureanism share vocabulary and reject the conventions of Graeco-Roman theology. Would it then have been easy for an Epicurean to become a Christian or vice-versa? Fergus J. King suggests that such claims become unlikely when detailed analyses of the two traditions are se...

Das Recht der öffentlichen Gesundheit

Based on the discoveries made by public health research, Andrea Kießling analyzes the general framework in constitutional law for the prevention of disease and the promotion of health by the state. In this way she makes an attempt to systematize public health law, something which has not been don...

Auferstehungsvorstellungen in apokryph-gewordenen Evangelien

Cornelius Voigt uses selected sources to trace diverse ways early Christian communities in the second and third centuries understood the Easter event. This study reveals fascinating new interpretations that emerged from evolving theological necessities, while also highlighting the formative role ...

Das Prinzip der Rechtsschutzgleichheit im Recht der Prozesskostenhilfe

Deutéronome 26 sur fond de la lecture de Gerhard von Rad

Le livre analyse le chapitre 26 du Deutéronome, situé à la conclusion du corpus des lois. Cette analyse démontre l'unité du chapitre et l'importance de son rôle dans la structure du Deutéronome. L'étude met particulièrement en valeur l'acte théologique de raconter l'histoire et son lien avec la l...

Vertrauensgedanke und Rechtsfortbildung

Claims for damages due to misrepresentations about investment products on the capital market give rise to one fundamental question: To what extent are market actors free to willingly cause damages to each other while seeking their own profit? In this context, German courts often apply Sec. 826 of...

Die Beschrankung der Erbenhaftung in der Insolvenz

English summary: Philipp S. Fischinger studies the partially conflicting relationship between bankruptcy law on the one hand and the right of an heir to limit his liability for the debts of the estate on the other hand in cases in which an insolvency proceeding is pending concerning his own or th...

Envisioning the Christian Society

Niels Hemmingsen (1513-1600) is one of the most influential Danish theologians in history. As a professor at the University of Copenhagen, Hemmingsen played an important role in moulding Danish society according to his understanding of Lutheranism during the second half of the sixteenth century. ...

Ethik der Zeit - Zeiten der Ethik

Is ethics time-dependent? To what extent do time contexts or time dimensions such as past and future also determine present action? In dialogue with ancient concepts of time ethics (Egyptian, Greek-philosophical and Jewish-Christian tradition), new perspectives for present fields of action are ga...

Musse und Gesellschaft

Musse ist ein freies Verweilen in der Zeit jenseits von Zweckrationalismus und Utilitarismus. Sie zielt auf Freiheit von Zeitzwangen und unmittelbarer Leistungserwartung, auf asthetisch und raumlich inszenierte Lebensformen einer Freiheit, die in der Zeit nicht der Herrschaft der Zeit unterliegt....

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

Im Auftrag des Vereins fur Socialpolitik arbeitet Max Weber eine grossangelegte Enquete uber die Lage der Landarbeiter in Ostelbien aus. Auf der Basis von mehreren hundert Fragebogen sollten die exakten Lohnverhaltnisse der Landarbeiter ermittelt und die Entwicklung der Landarbeiterschaft insbeso...

Rechtsdurchsetzung durch Vertragsstrafe und Aufrechnung

Die Durchsetzung materiellen Rechts wird in aller Regel dem Prozessrecht zugeschrieben, das spatestens auf der Ebene der Vollstreckung die Ausubung hoheitlicher Staatsgewalt vorsieht. Daneben aber halt das materielle Privatrecht selbst verschiedene Moglichkeiten bereit, die Durchsetzung privatrec...

Alternative Dispute Resolution fur Verbraucherstreitigkeiten

The European Union promotes the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for consumer disputes. Gordon Kardos examines the impact and the integration process of consumer ADR in England and Germany. The work analyses the goals and functions of ADR with regard to their political-economic steerin...

Unternehmerische Entscheidungen des Vorstands

Die "Business Judgment Rule" ( 93 Abs. 1 S. 2 AktG) soll dem Vorstand der AG einen Haftungsfreiraum bei "unternehmerischen Entscheidungen" bieten, weist aber nach wie vor in ihrem Anwendungsbereich erhebliche Unscharfen auf. Auch ihre haftungsrechtlichen Auswirkungen werden unterschiedlich bewert...

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...

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

Die Messopfertheologie Martin Luthers

English summary: The sacrifice of the mass is a religious ritual which is of crucial importance for the thinking and the self-understanding of late medieval society. Wolfgang Simon examines its theological and political background and shows how Luther developed his own concept of sacrament and sa...

Europaisches Versicherungsvertragsrecht 3-volume set

Geldmarktsteuerung und Krisenpravention

English summary: The Reichsbank was set up in 1875 as the German Empire's first state-controlled bank with private shareholders. Christopher Scholz examines the legal historical reasons for this within a European context. German description: Die Reichsbank wurde durch das Bankgesetz von 1875 als...

Zusammenarbeit institutioneller Aktionäre

Using a methodologically pluralistic approach, this volume analyzes coordinated engagements of institutional shareholders against the background of the European and German regulatory framework for coordinated shareholder engagements (acting in concert).

Kindeswohl zwischen Verantwortung und Autonomie

The best interest of the child is usually spoken of when it is endangered. But without a positive conception of what this entails, there can be no yardstick for avoiding the negative. This volume's multidisciplinary contributions give voice to a definition of the child's well-being that is both c...

Death Warning in the Garden of Eden

In this book, Chris W. Lee examines the early Jewish reception of the divine death warning (Gen 2:16-17) in relation to its interpretative association with the introduction of physical death to humanity. The long-time rationale has been that the eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evi...

Gesammelte Werke

Aus dem Vorwort:Nun ist gewiss praktische Philosophie nicht selber solche Vernunftigkeit. Sie ist Philosophie, das heisst, sie ist eine Reflexion, und zwar uber das, was menschliche Lebensgestaltung zu sein hat. Im selben Sinne ist die philosophische Hermeneutik nicht selbst die Kunst des Versteh...

Humanitares Volkerrecht als symbolische Form

English summary: Armed conflicts such as the Yugoslav Wars are grave examples of the limits of international humanitarian law. Andrea Bindig focuses on Ernst Cassirer's philosophical concept of symbolic form to depict the partly self-contradictory meanings of normativity which shape our path to c...

Die Logik des kollektiven Handelns

Universale Singularitat

Die spatmoderne Kritik der grossen Universalismen hat weder das politische noch das theologische Denken unberuhrt gelassen. Vor allem die Kritik am monotheistischen Exklusivismus und an seinen politischen Implikationen wirft Fragen nach der Form und Struktur theologischen Denkens auf. Im Gesprach...

Beschleunigter Rechtsschutz fur Zahlungsglaubiger in Europa

English summary: Good granting of justice demands just results and fast decisions as well. The problem of lengthy court proceedings is not quite the same in all legal systems, but in Germany it can happen that the plaintiff has to wait for several years until he obtains an executory title. The di...

Aufgabe und Durchfuhrung einer Theologie des Neuen Testaments

English summary: The authority, task, structure and implementation of New Testament theology are the subject of current debates. Some authors look for alternatives in terms of a history of early Christian religion or theology, whereas others search for the unity of New Testament theology within t...

Metamorphosen des globalen Rechts

Global law as a form of law which emerges beyond the borders of nation states does not only depend on its legal preconditions. Above all, the social and technological (implicit) preconditions are crucial for the shaping of a transnational legal system.

Tarifvertragliche Rechtsgestaltung fur den Betrieb

English summary: Richard Giesen examines the power of trade unions and employers' associations given them by German labor law. The German law of collective agreements enables the parties concerned to enact statutes which deal with questions pertaining to the enterprise and the works constitution....

Religionsunterricht aus dem Ausland

The content of RE lessons in Germany's state-run schools is determined by the respective local religious community. But what if a foreign state is behind this? David Fassbender seeks answers to this question from international and constitutional law perspectives.

Erdbeben in der Antike

English summary: Ancient Greeks and Romans lived in one of the world's most seismically active regions. Contemporary reports and literature detail not only the catastrophic effects of earthquakes but also provide insights into how these societies understood them. The current volume goes beyond tr...

Digitale Unternehmenskommunikation

As digitization continues to change corporate communication radically, shareholders and board members as well as financial intermediaries are increasingly taking advantage of fast, adaptive and broadly available communication media. The present volume analyses this transformation both empirically...

Heideggers Erbe

Heidegger, who is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, was characterized by extreme right-wing and anti-Semitic convictions. The contributors to this volume analyze how Heidegger's reception continues to have an impact in theology and philosophy, but also in the ...

Die Schutzschrift in zivilrechtlichen Verfahren

English summary: Valentin Spernath explains the function of the protective letter. The protective letter in German civil law suits is a statement of defence deposited in court to avoid injunctions and decisions in proceedings in which the rights of the defendant to a prior hearing is excluded by ...

PartGmbB und UK-LLP als hybride Gesellschaftsformen

Im Wege einer Reform des Partnerschaftsgesellschaftsgesetzes wurde im Juli 2013 die Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mit beschrankter Berufshaftung als spezielle Rechtsform fur Angehorige freier Berufe eingefuhrt. Ziel des Gesetzesgebers war es, das bekannte Modell der Partnerschaftsgesellschaft so zu ...