Theologische aufsatze

Abraham's family

Deacons and diakonia in early christianity

Empty tomb, resurrection, apotheosis

Participation, justification, and conversion

Evil in second temple judaism and early christianity

Studies on jews and christians in the first and second centuries

Early christian communities between ideal and reality

The authors of this volume explore the notion of community as reflected upon in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. Various aspects are dealt with, including concerns for organising the community, developing a sacramental and liturgical praxis, constructing identity against outsiders, spreadin...

The eucharist - its origins and contexts

The church and its mission in the new testament and early christianity

Repetition in hebrews

Repetition has had a chequered and often negative reception in Christian history, especially in connection with ritual and liturgy, and the Letter to the Hebrews lies at the heart of this contested understanding. Nicholas Moore shows that repetition in Hebrews does not operate in uniform contrast...

Restricted generosity in the new testament

Studien zum urchristentum

English summary: Volume VI of Martin Hengel's eSelected Essays' contains 17 texts written over a period of 36 years between 1971 and 2007. They focus on aspects of Lukan historiography as the basis for our knowledge of early Christianity. However, the volume also contains studies of the origins o...

Antike christliche apokryphen in deutscher ubersetzung

Der apokryphe briefwechsel zwischen seneca und paulus

Whose acts of peter?

The heavenly trumpet

Persecution, persuasion and power

Animals in the apocryphal acts of the apostles

Briefwechsel 1929-1966

Jews and christians

Die vier evangelien und das eine evangelium von jesus christus

Valentinus gnosticus?

Der unterschatzte petrus

Theologie als kritik

Studies in matthew and early christianity

Over the course of his distinguished career, the late Graham Stanton, former Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, wrote extensively on New Testament and early Christian themes. This volume presents a collection of twenty-six essays, including one previously unpubl...

Aus meinem leben (vita)

Jerusalem and athens

Lightfoot the historian

Augustin und der manichaismus

Antiquity in antiquity

Leading scholars in early Christianity, Judaic studies, classics, history and archaeology explore the ways that memories were retrieved, reconstituted and put to use by Jews, Christians and their pagan neighbours in late antiquity, from the third century B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E.

Gnostic morality revisited

Christ, the spirit and the community of god

Paulus bis zum apostelkonzil

Die rezeption des matthausevangeliums in der zeit vor irenaus

Zerstorungen des jerusalemer tempels

Das menschenbild des thomasevangeliums

Selbstbesinnung des deutschen

Judas and the choice of matthias

Briefwechsel 1925 - 1975

Good works in 1 peter

Die johanneische frage

From the lost teaching of polycarp

Coping with prejudice

Fruhes christentum im antiken strahlungsfeld

Glaube zwischen vollkommenheit und verweltlichung

Judasevangelium und codex tchacos

English summary: Due to various archeological findings, fundamental progress has been made in the study of the history of the Gnostic religion in the past decades. One of the more recent discoveries is the so-called Codex Tchacos, containing the Gospel of Judas which had already been mentioned by...

The gospel of peter and early christian apologetics

The epistle of barnabas and the deuteronomic tradition

Scribal habits and theological influences in the apocalypse

Fruhchristliches thessaloniki

English summary: This documentation of the earliest evidence of Christianity in Thessaloniki is beneficial not only to theology and religious studies but also to archeology and art. The idea for this book originated with the search for records which could shed light on the dark centuries between ...

Fruhes christentum im antiken strahlungsfeld

English summary: In this volume, Wolfgang Speyer continues his studies of the relationship between antiquity and Christianity. His goal is to make the differences as well as the common ground between the ancient polytheistic religions and Judaism and Christianity, the monotheistic revealed religi...

Die johannesapokalypse

English summary: The Revelation of John receives much attention in New Testament scholarship. This volume offers an extensive discussion of Revelation's historical location and date, its history-of-religions background and reception of early Christian tradition, as well as its rhetoric and theolo...

The first christians in the roman world

Mundliche und schriftliche autoritat im fruhen christentum

Jesus, gospel tradition and paul in the context of jewish and greco-roman antiquity

Gelitten - gestorben - auferstanden

English summary: Jesus' passion and resurrection are at the core of the Christian faith and message. The oldest witnesses to this data can be found in the New Testament. However, stories about Jesus' suffering, his crucifixion and his resurrection were retold and interpreted in manifold ways in l...

Luke-acts and the rhetoric of history

Irenaus als johanneischer theologe

Roman domestic art and early house churches

Mark and matthew i

The study of Mark and Matthew from a comparative perspective has a long history. Ever since the theory of Markan priority became firmly established in the 19th century however, many studies, especially commentaries on either Mark or Matthew, make observations related primarily to one of the Gospe...

Verherrlichung gottes durch philosophie

The diet of john the baptist

Paulus, apostel und lehrer der kirche

English summary: In this volume, Andreas Lindemann has assembled 15 studies which were originally published between 1976 and 1998 in very different places. In the eight essays on Pauline theology and ethics, now arranged according to subject, Andreas Lindemann examines the Pauline talk of God and...

Zur literatur und geschichte des fruhen christentums

Biblical interpretation in the russian orthodox church

The mithras liturgy

The interpretation of the new testament in greco-roman paganism

Das corpus johanneum bei irenaus von lyon

The formation of the early church

This book presents a selection of adapted papers originally read at the 7th Nordic New Testament conference in Stavanger in 2003. The 14 essays expose different aspects of the conference theme the formation of the early church. To these belong considerations about how the primitive church develop...

Fruhes christentum und gnosis

Divine instruction in early christianity

Earliest christian history

Festrituale in der romischen kaiserzeit

English summary: Ancient festivals served to promote religious communication beyond the boundaries of political or religious communities. It was in these festivals that religious communication was intensified and practised extensively. Permanent religious signs - sanctuaries, statues, religious r...

Die apostolischen vater

Heiden - juden - christen

Geschichte und geschichten

Christosis

Studien zum fruhchristlichen und fruhjudischen gebet

Vom evangelium des markus zum viergestaltigen evangelium

Fathers of the world

Rudolf bultmann - eine biographie

Heracleon philologus

Die entstehung der christlichen bibel

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 ...

Knowledge and religious authority in the pseudo-clementines

Glauben, handeln, verstehen

The martyrdom of st. paul

Challenging perspectives on the gospel of john

The essays collected here represent the cutting edge of study of the Fourth Gospel. They challenge widely held views about the Gospel and present new hypotheses about its origins and significance. Many papers employ new, narrative theological readings of John, while others challenge standard appr...

The ransom logion in mark and matthew

Taufe und mahlgemeinschaft

The "mithras liturgy"

The arch-heretic marcion

Studies in early christianity

The impact of yom kippur on early christianity

The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) was the most important festival of late-antique Judaism, but its influence on Christianity was not generally recognized. Daniel Stokl Ben Ezra here not only reveals the profound influence of Yom Kippur on early Christianity up to the fifth century but also offers...

Die clemensbriefe

Spirit epicleses in the acts of thomas

Acts of paul