Shadowy characters and fragmentary evidence

Sensitivity towards outsiders

Miracle and mission

Memory and memories in early christianity

Maidens, magic and martyrs in early christianity

Why did the early followers of Jesus call themselves "Christians"? What was their social and religious capital? Why did Christianity attract both poor widows and wealthy women? What did pagans think of early Christians? Integrating the major apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in the study of Christi...

Martyred for the church

The christian world around the new testament

Paul's ekklesia as a civic assembly

Aspekte der seelsorge in den paulinischen gemeinden

The mission of jesus

Book of seven seals

The Book of Revelation is a peculiar text whose special status in early Christianity is manifested by its manuscript attestation, transmission, literary references and discussions among early Church writers. This special status forms the nucleus of these collected essays and is highlighted from v...

Vermittelte gegenwart

Synoptic problems

Christ as the telos of life

Bradley Arnold examines the argumentative logic and central aim in Paul's letter to the Philippians. A historical context is mapped out that is useful for these purposes, examining the broad structure of thought in ancient moral philosophy (namely, Aristotle, Epicureanism, and Stoicism), ancient ...

The text of galatians and its history

Stephen C. Carlson investigates the text of Paul's Epistle to the Galatians and analyses how that text changed over the course of its transmission in manuscript copies over several centuries. For this study, he collated ninety-two textual witnesses of Galatians and arranged them into a genealogic...

From the sayings to the gospels

The essays by Christopher Tuckett collected in this volume represent a number of studies, published over a period of 30 years, seeking to throw light on the way in which Jesus traditions were developed and used in early Christianity. Many of the essays are concerned in one way or another with the...

Codex apocryphus gnosticus novi testamenti

English summary: In this volume the Coptic texts of a total of nine Coptic Gnostic and Manichaean Coptic Gospels and Acts of the Apostles are presented alongside a corresponding German translation. The individual texts are preceded by detailed introductions which address the provenance and time o...

The john also called mark

Delightful acts

Paul in acts and paul in his letters

The johannine footwashing as the sign of perfect love

The book of revelation

This volume represents the diverse range of research interests in the Book of Revelation operative in current British research, examining questions of genre, structure, composition, scriptural reuse, exegesis, thematic issues, and reception history. This collection, from a distinguished and diver...

Marburger predigten

Der segen im neuen testament

The gospel as the revelation of god's righteousness

Vom gebet

Ferdinand christian baur und die geschichte des fruhen christentums

Von jesus zur neutestamentlichen theologie

Erzahlung und briefe im johanneischen kreis

The pharisees and figured speech in luke-acts

God and the faithfulness of paul

The prologue of the gospel of john

The departure of an apostle

The psalms of solomon and the messianic ethics of paul

Paulus handbuch

Paul in athens

Paul's visit to Athens, in particular the Areopagus speech, is one of the most well known excerpts of early Christian literature. It is the most significant speech by Paul to a Gentile audience in Acts functioning as a literary crest of the overall narrative. Yet critical analyses also describe i...

Der begriff der demut bei paulus

Reconsidering the relationship between biblical and systematic theology in the new testament

Kraft in schwachheit

Apprehension of jesus in the gospel of john

Das johannesevangelium

Bodily resurrection and ethics in 1 cor 15

New Testament scholars have long recognized a relationship between the future resurrection and ethics. Paul J. Brown contributes to this ongoing discussion by tracing Paul's logic for connecting the moral imperatives in 1 Cor 15 to the bodily resurrection. The author examines the afterlife belief...

Paul and the emergence of christian textuality

Novel hermeneutics in the greek pseudo-clementine romance

The death of jesus

Die verwandlung jesu christi

Rechtliche regelung von konflikten im fruhen christentum

Hermeneutik der fruhchristlichen wundererzahlungen

Iuppiter dolichenus

Jesus in apokryphen evangelienuberlieferungen

English summary: Apocryphal Jesus traditions form a specific area of multifaceted interpretations of Jesus' activity. Quite often, these traditions are only preserved in unfamiliar languages and fragmentary manuscripts. This volume presents a comprehensive survey of important texts from this area...

Die inkulturation des christentums

Die apokryphe bibel

English summary: Hans-Josef Klauck tries to illuminate the broad field of early Christian apocryphal writings, which has found renewed interest in the last couple of years. In doing so, he provides a detailed analysis of seven individual case studies and focuses on the main genres also known from...

Aposteldekret und antikes vereinswesen

English summary: At the culmination of his presentation in the Apostolic Decree, the author of Acts provides rules for the organization of the community, whose historical and theological classification is an enigma. In this volume, authors from various disciplines collaborate to solve this enigma...

Theologie des lebens bei paulus und johannes

Ways of reading scripture

"make disciples of all nations"

Christ of the sacred stories

Die weisheit und der gottessohn

John 4:1-42 among the biblical well encounters

Earthquakes and eschatology in the gospel according to matthew

Das galilaa der heiden

Creation and christ

Regression in galatians

The cross-and-resurrection

John 18:28-19:22 and the paradox of judgement

Gleichnisse und parabeln in der fruhchristlichen literatur

Curse motifs in galatians

Christological rereading of the shema (deut 6.4) in mark's gospel

Exegetische und theologische studien

The theological programme of mark

Isaiah's servant in paul

Re-membering the new covenant at corinth

Antike fluchtafeln und das neue testament

Designs for the church in the gospel of john

Metaphernkombinationen in der neutestamentlichen rede vom tod jesu

Uncovering the theme of revelation in romans 1:16-3:26

Past study of Rom 1:16-3:26 focuses on individual salvation or on social relations and also produces a host of interpretative quandaries. Marcus A. Mininger develops a new approach, which includes but goes beyond these foci, by unearthing the theme of revelation that runs throughout Paul's argume...

The appropriation of passover in luke-acts

The warning-assurance relationship in 1 corinthians

Sense perception and testimony in the gospel according to john

A socio-rhetorical interpretation of the letter to philemon in light of the new institutional economics

Sacramental charity, creditor christology, and the economy of salvation in luke's gospel

Poetik der markinischen christologie

Redescribing jesus' divinity through a social science theory

Persecution and participation in galatians

The opening of john's narrative (john 1:19-2:22)

Johannine studies 1975-2017

The place of paideia in hebrews' moral thought

Jesus, der retter

Faith as participation

Das markusevangelium als erzahlung

An apostle in battle

Crucifixion in the mediterranean world

Das ende deuterojesajas

Der fruheste evangelist

Die rede von "wiedergeburt" im neuen testament

The case for proto-mark

The divine name in the gospel of john

Der eine gott, der durch alle ist