Baptist traditions and q

Die geschichte jesu in veranderter zeit

Studies in new testament lexicography

Johanneisches christentum

Paul as benefactor

Die verklarung jesu nach dem markusevangelium

Infancy gospels

Even though the canonical Jesus' infancy stories have always provoked great interest in popular culture and in the arts, they have been neglected in research during the last decades due to the relatively late date of their redaction. Since the monograph by Raymond Brown, The Birth of the Messiah ...

Paul, jerusalem and the judaisers

Isaiah's new exodus and mark

Studien zu jesus und paulus ii

Neues testament und fruhrabbinisches judentum

English summary: This volume contains significant published and unpublished essays written by the Judaism and New Testament scholar Friedrich Avemarie, who died unexpectedly in October 2012. Set against the background of an excellent knowledge of the rabbinic literature and with a decidedly theol...

Cross-bearing in luke

Nietzsche und das neue testament

English summary: This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Nietzsche's death. As a philosopher, he is of such great importance to theology and to the church because among atheists he is the one who in spite of his deliberate and agressively advocated godlessness was never able to get away from...

Die ethik des johannesevangeliums im sprachlichen feld des handelns

Matthew and the mishnah

Einheit der kirche im neuen testament

English summary: This collection of essays includes papers given at the Third European Orthodox-Western Symposium of Biblical Scholars in St. Petersburg (Russia). The Symposium is part of the activities of the Eastern Europe Liaison Committee of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. Main topics of ...

Der apostel paulus und die sokratische tradition

Christ-believers in ephesus

Der kolosserbrief im kontext des paulinischen erbes

Der neutestamentler ernst lohmeyer

Pioneer and perfecter of faith

By providing a detailed exegetical examination of the references to Jesus' faith in Hebrews, Christopher A. Richardson demonstrates that this epistle makes a profound contribution to our understanding of the early church's christology. Rather than engaging with the pistis Christou debates in Paul...

Die mitte der zeit

Philippi

Teaching through song in antiquity

While scholars of antiquity have long spoken of didactic hymns, no single volume has defined or explored this phenomenon across cultural boundaries in antiquity. In this monograph Matthew E. Gordley provides a broad definition of didactic hymnody and examines how didactic hymns functioned at the ...

Moral language in the new testament

This volume focuses on the interrelatedness of morality and language. Apart from explicit ethical statements, implicit NT moral language is analysed in three overlapping aspects based on the interpretation of concrete NT texts: an intratextual level (linguistic and analytic philosophical methods:...

Jesus, patrons, and benefactors

An philemon. an die kolosser. an die epheser

Die kunst der argumentation bei paulus

Synoptische studien

Essays on john and hebrews

Das wirken jesu in galilaa bei johannes

English summary: The relationship of John's Gospel to the Synoptics has been one of the major problems of gospel exegesis since Origen. Today, after the dissolution of the consensus which has ruled in biblical studies since P. Gardner-Smith, this relationship is in need of redefinition, to which ...

Vergebung der sunden

Paul's witness to formative early christian instruction

Benjamin A. Edsall provides a new approach to the classic quest for the preaching and teaching (or the kerygma, didache and catechesis) of the early Church. His method draws on ancient communication practices whereby communicators rely on knowledge they expect their audience to possess. This reco...

Das vermachtnis des apostels

Die tempelaktion jesu

Der vorhang vor dem thron gottes

Kommunikation mit gott und christus

English summary: As is every act of communication, prayer is an expression of the relationship between the believers, God, and Christ. For the first time, Karl-Heinrich Ostmeyer studies how all the authors of the New Testament were able to translate their specific concepts of the relationship to ...

Sunde und rechtfertigung bei paulus

New testament language and exegesis

Religious experience of the pneuma

Christologie und existenz im kolosserbrief

The interface of orality and writing

How did the visual, the oral, and the written interrelate in antiquity? The essays in this collection address the competing and complementary roles of visual media, forms of memory, oral performance, and literacy and popular culture in the ancient Mediterranean world. Incorporating both customary...

Clothing the body of christ at colossae

Heil und erlosung

Rhetorical criticism of the new testament

In view of the current debate on the application of Greek and Roman rhetoric to biblical texts C. Joachim Classen aims at determining both the opportunities and the limits of such forms of criticism, stressing the importance of supplementing the ancient categories by modern ones. He emphasizes th...

Der poimandres. ein paganisiertes evangelium

Theories of poverty in the world of the new testament

Apollonios von tyana in der neutestamentlichen exegese

Der griechische begriff des verzeihens

Blasphemy and exaltation in judaism and the final examination of jesus

Jesus' death and the gathering of true israel

From messiah to preexistent son

Der erste korintherbrief

Jesus - der herr der kirche

Das verstandnis der sunde im johannesevangelium

The jewish world around the new testament

This is a collection of twenty-four essays by Richard Bauckham first published between 1976 and 2008, some of which have been updated for this volume. Many aspects of the literature and thought of early Judaism are covered, including life after death, the provenance of the Pseudepigrapha, the Jew...

2 corinthians - a letter about reconciliation

Paul and perseverance

Der heilige geist bei lukas

Das menschenbild nach dem johannesevangelium

Vereine, synagogen und gemeinden im kaiserzeitlichen kleinasien

English summary: A striking phenomenon in the cities of the Roman empire from the first to the third century CE was the predominance of voluntary associations of like-minded people who regularly met together. These Greco-Roman associations, such as professional collegia and religious cult groups,...

Paul's definitions of the gospel in romans 1

The child-parent relationship in the new testament and its environments

Sturmfahrt und schiffbruch

Die christologische erfullung der schrift im johannesevangelium

Johannine sabbath conflicts as juridical controversy

Constructing the self

Romische religion im kontext

English summary: The essays and studies in Roman religion by Hubert Cancik provide an outline of its overall structure and its stories. They present observations on ritual practice and explain the self-analysis and criticism given by the Romans themselves and by the adherents of other religions, ...

An die korinther i/ii

Johannesstudien

Die briefe des ignatius von antiochia und der brief des polykarp von smyrna

Christologie und eschatologie

Diakonia im neuen testament

Studien zum romerbrief

Derhetorizing paul

The apocalyptic son of man in the gospel of john

Paulus zwischen damaskus und antiochien

Temple purity in 1-2 corinthians

Der jakobusbrief

Messiah, the healer of the sick

Trying man, trying god

Until it is fulfilled

Praeparatio evangelica

The god of this age

Griechische grabinschriften und neutestamentliche eschatologie

Jesus in continuum

One of the central characteristics of the latest historical Jesus research has been the attempt to locate Jesus plausibly within first-century Judaism. Less emphasis has been placed on the question as to whether or how, if at all, the image of Jesus within the Jewish context also suits and accoun...

Die offenbarung des johannes

Das evangelium und die evangelien

"the 'son of man'" as the son of god

Epochs and styles

Biographie und personlichkeit des paulus

Der leidende gerechtfertigte

Kontexte des johannesevangeliums

English summary: Among the most controversial issues in Johannine interpretation are the quest for the religio-historical background of the Fourth Gospel and the debate on its relationship to other early Christian traditions. In comprehensive studies and detailed analyses, the volume discusses th...

The rhetoric of digressions

New testament and christian apocrypha

The mission discourse in matthew's interpretation

Pseudonymity and canon

Paul's message of the cross as body language

Acts and the isaianic new exodus