Cross-bearing in early christianity

Ruben van Wingerden explores how Early Christians interpreted Jesus' call to "carry one's cross" and shows how early Christian readers, operating within diverse cultural and theological contexts, expanded and reshaped the meaning of cross-bearing from its New Testament origins into a rich and mul...

Perspectives on nature and environmental ethics in the hebrew bible

The contributors to this volume critically reassess biblical texts through ecological and interdisciplinary lenses and demonstrate how the Bible can influence ethical discourses on sustainability, justice, and environmental responsibility today.

Messiah and righteousness in paul and his context

Manse Rim examines the relation between messiah and righteousness in ancient Jewish texts and in the letters of Paul, aiming to offer a fresh perspective on the current impasse regarding Pauline justification. By tracing moral, administrative, and eschatological dimensions, he redefines the frame...

Presbyters in early christianity and its contexts

The contributors to this volume examine the identity and roles of presbyters in early Christianity in the 1st and 2nd centuries. They explore biblical, Jewish, and Greco-Roman contexts and trace the development from age-related authority to formal leadership.

A den of thieves?

Tyler Hallstrom engages in the debate about the meaning of Jesus's dramatic disturbance in the Jerusalem Temple. He provides an in-depth study of the relevant biblical texts, historical context, and socio-economic factors and concludes that Jesus's indignation was indeed directed at economic expl...

Isaiah between judaism and christianity

The studies collected in this volume examine the reception history of the Book of Isaiah within early Christianity, the important role the book played in emerging Christianity, and the strategies and intentions that shaped its reception in early Christian literature.

A cruel god?

Do God's emotions, desires, and commands determine what is morally good? And if so, must we take the idea of a potentially cruel God seriously? The contributors discuss these questions by dealing with the divine command theories, alternative approaches to a decidedly religious metaethics, and fun...

Reading new testament texts within judaism

This volume tests the "within Judaism" paradigm as a heuristic rather than a presupposition. Contributors explore how New Testament texts formed within the pluralism of Second Temple Judaism and assess their value as expressions of groups embedded in Jewish history, with attention to boundaries, ...

Between scroll and scripture

The contributors aim to enhance the understanding of the language of the Septuagint and biblical Greek in general. Taking into account the evolution of the research landscape in Septuagint studies, they show how specific linguistic features can be explained against the background of Greek literat...

Ostern zwischen tradition und aufklärung

Through the analysis of twenty Easter sermons from the late Enlightenment period, Maike Peyrer explores how the resurrection of Jesus was preached in an era marked by the struggle to define the relationship between reason and revelation, and in which belief in miracles - such as the resurrection ...

Ordnung im übergang

All political action is influenced by political dreams and nightmares, by norms, beliefs and imaginations - by something that transcends a given order. In continuation and critique of relevant debates, this volume's authors ask how references to transcendence contribute to the constitution, stabi...

Inventing shabbat

When is Shabbat initiated in the biblical story? James Platania argues that Shabbat emerges through Moses' innovative interpretation of God's words and deeds. In the wilderness of Sin, Moses guides the people to discover a lived practice of rest before it is formalized as law at Sinai.

Wilhelm herrmann-studienausgabe

This volume brings together key texts that reveal Wilhelm Herrmann's dogmatic thinking. His innovative approach of situating his own dogmatic work within recent intellectual history still provokes questions about a contemporary, valid theology.

Wunder und auferstehung

The hermeneutical question of miracles must remain open and be worked on in dialogue with current concepts of reality. In his collected essays, Stefan Alkier explores it through critical philological and historical analysis of ancient miracle discourses and asks about God's miraculous action today.

Abraham im werk des lukas

Luke demonstrates a pronounced theological and narratological interest in the figure of Abraham. In his narrative, he reinterprets the important Jewish theological theme of the Abrahamic covenant as salvation from affliction, renewed justice, and a restored relationship with God in Israel.

Bedeutung und bewertung von mazzeben im alten testament

What role did standing stones play in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East during the Bronze and Iron Ages? Mathias Litzenburger analyzes archaeological evidence, inscriptions, and biblical texts, revealing the stones' polyvalent functions as markers, images, and ritual objects.

Katechetischer text, oder unterricht vom christlichen lehrbegrif für unstudirte

Johann Gottlieb Töllner's (1724-1774) "Katechetischer Text" presents his Neological convictions for a non-academic audience. In four books, he covers the classical theological fields without adhering to the rigid structure of traditional catechisms.

Jews, pagans and christians in the roman empire

This volume brings together a series of articles on religion in the Roman Empire by Jan N. Bremmer, all of which have been updated and revised where necessary. Organised into four thematic sections, they emphasise the interplay between early Christianity and its pagan surroundings but also analys...

The semeia narratives in the gospel of john

The volume brings together papers from the seminar »Johannine Literature« of the Society of New Testament Studies, offering a broad overview of current scholarship after the decline of the Semeia Source hypothesis. The contributors explore central issues of Johannine exegesis through detailed cas...

Empire criticism of the new testament

The question of how early Christians navigated their daily existence within the Roman Empire, and to what degree they expressed criticism of their imperial surroundings, has become a subject of heated debate in recent years. This volume gathers experts who focus on one methodological approach eac...

Der johanneische pneuma-paraklet und das sokratische daimonion

The Holy Spirit plays a central role in the Gospel of John. Michael R. Jost first describes the Johannine conception of the Holy Spirit and then compares it with ancient Jewish and Hellenistic conceptions of spirit(s).

Kleine summe der theologie

What is the meaning of faith? What can a revelation of God mean? Tom Kleffmann provides a thorough portrayal of the overall context of Christian faith and thinking as a theology of communication.

Justin, dialog mit tryphon

This volume presents Justin's Dialogue with the Jew Trypho, the first surviving literary conversation between a Christian and a Jew, with a new German translation of the Greek text, an introduction, explanatory notes, and thematic essays.

The lord's prayer

The contributions in this volume are the result of an international symposium held at the University of Tubingen in October 2018. They examine the Lord's Prayer in conversation with Jewish traditions, relate it to New Testament theology, and explore its reception history in early Christianity.

Body and gender in martin luther's anthropology (1520-1530)

Sini Mikkola examines sixteenth-century reformer Martin Luther’s view of the human being from the perspectives of bodiliness, gender, sexuality, and power. Luther’s construction of femininity, masculinity, and the gender system are investigated by considering both his theoretical and practical vi...

Tora in der perserzeit

Reinhard Achenbach offers a collection of studies on the redactional composition of the Pentateuch, the history of institutions, and the rights of foreigners in the scribal tradition of Judah during the Second Temple Period in the Persian Empire (539-333 B.C.E.).

Schrift, tradition und bekenntnis

Konversion in den paulus- und theklaakten

Framing social criticism in the jesus movement

Identität und bedeutung der gruppen im masoretischen estherbuch

How would the understanding of biblical narratives change if they were analysed primarily in terms of their group phenomena? Using the Hebrew Esther narrative as an example, Vjatscheslav Dreier explores this question and develops a group-orientated hermeneutics.

Essays on the book of isaiah

The building of the first temple

Allgemeines priestertum

Gott als ereignis des seins

Religion: kosmologie und evolution

The function of sublime rhetoric in hebrews

Bildung in der praktischen theologie der usa

Helping people to become independent interpreters of their faith has long been the concern of American practical theology. Its educational goals are historically intertwined with its methodological and encyclopedic progress. This study lays out how "theological education" emerged as a central iss...

Die rezeption der 'theologia deutsch' bis 1523

Cotton mather and biblia americana - america's first bible commentary

This volume serves as a companion piece to the ongoing edition of Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (1693-1728), the first comprehensive Bible commentary composed in British North America. Written by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, the essays in this collection offer original in-...

Bibelkritik und auslegung der heiligen schrift

Qumran und die archaologie

English summary: During the last ten or fifteen years archaeology has gained an increasingly prominent role in Qumran studies. Well-established views on the character and function of the settlement at Khirbet Qumran have been questioned, and some scholars even denied the connection between the se...

Zum verhaltnis von staat und kirche in der spatantike

English summary: When Christianity became a religio licita , it gradually assumed various functions in the Roman state, and profited from this. In four individual studies, Richard Klein attempts to show which functions the church assumed in politics, the economy and in social services. In the fir...

Jairus's daughter and the haemorrhaging woman

Wie entsteht eine schrift in der forschung und in der geschichte?

Rhetoric and drama in the johannine lawsuit motif

The jerusalem temple and early christian identity

Das johannesevangelium in antik-christlicher rezeption

The present volume offers exemplary studies on the broad reception of the Gospel of John in ancient Christianity. Key authors such as Clement, Tertullian and Origen, central themes such as Christology and pneumatology as well as exemplary individual texts are examined.

1968 und die praktische theologie

The jerusalem temple and the temple mount

The Temple eclipsed in its splendour and importance all other institutions of the Jews, both in the Land of Israel and in the Diaspora. In this collection of essays, Joseph Patrich traces the architectural evolution of the Temple and the Temple Mount, combining a re-reading of literary sources wi...

Sinners and sinfulness in luke

Die entgrenzung des heils

Prayer and the ancient city

This volume attempts to replace the hitherto customary focus on the forms and semantics of prayer with an urban-spatial model, which understands prayers as performances embedded in urban space as well as texts producing imaginations of space. Published in English

Die theologie eberhard jungels

The book of the twelve - one book or many?

Martin luther - lehrer der christlichen religion

Torah praxis after 70 ce

Images of the human being

Images of the human being in the Bible are multifaceted; biblical scholars today try to understand such texts from different perspectives, often depending on their confessional, regional and cultural backgrounds. The volume presents papers given at a conference of "western" (Protestant and Roman-...

Wie geschichten geschichte schreiben

English summary: Recent influences on the study of history from the fields of language philosophy and literary studies are encouraging new interpretations of early Christian texts with regard to the relationship between the factual and the fictional. The contributions to this volume reflect on th...

Acts of god in history

The eleven studies in this volume are connected by the conviction that God acts in history and that it remains necessary for biblical exegesis to integrate this into its methodology. Roland Deines presents historical and methodological considerations to trace how God was experienced within histor...

Contested ethnicities and images

Orakel und gebete

Wieviel pluralitat vertragt die diakonie?

Paul and philo on the politics of the land, jerusalem, and temple

Antike und urchristentum

Divine conflict and the divine warrior