Ethics in the qumran community

Gemeinde ohne tempel /community without temple

Law and narrative in the bible and in neighbouring ancient cultures

Law is not only conveyed in codified clauses; it is often featured as a pivotal topic in literary texts. Existing legal relationships can determine the historical or the fictive setting of a drama or a plot, narratives can propagate laws or demonstrate their inherent problems. Literature can be u...

Die septuaginta - entstehung, sprache, geschichte

The dead sea scrolls. hebrew, aramaic, and greek texts with english translations

Le jour de dieu - der tag gottes

Das letzte gericht

La main de dieu / die hand gottes

Die septuaginta zwischen judentum und christentum

Justification and variegated nomism. volume i

Since 1977, the lines of inquiry developed by P.E. Sanders, James D.G. Dunn, N.T. Wright and others, have generated the 'New Perspective' on Paul. This perspective is profoundly tied to a certain reading of the literature of second temple Judaism which then in turn shapes what is now the dominant...

Brevard childs, biblical theologian

Divine revelation and divine titles in the pentateuchal targumin

Philosophical hermeneutics and biblical exegesis

The authors of these English and German essays focus on the analysis of the hermeneutical process, which is what occurs when texts are interpreted successfully. They are based on talks given at a symposium on 'Philosophical Hermeneutics' held at the Center for Biblical Studies in Prague in Novemb...

Das griechische "leben adams und evas"

"i am he"

Die septuaginta - texte, kontexte, lebenswelten

English summary: The Septuagint - as a Greek translation of Hebrew Scriptures - originated in the 3rd century BC as a translation of the Hebrew Pentateuch. It was used by most of the New Testament authors as a basis for their written quotations, and it is the Old Testament in the Orthodox churche...

Beyond biblical theologies

English summary: This collected volume presents new approaches to theologies of the entire Bible in international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational perspective. The authors develop guidelines for theology and religious history, address future-oriented theological problems, not only in the...

Provoked to jealousy

Historical and theological lexicon of the septuagint

Der geist gottes im alten testament

Die landverteilung im josuabuch

Scripture in its historical contexts

The wealth of nations

Michael J. Chan argues, on a methodological level, for the deeper integration of iconographic materials into the task of tradition history--a method that has tended to focus on textual evidence alone. Following the work of O.H. Steck, however, "tradition" is understood in more flexible terms, to ...

Prophetenstudien

Word order in the aramaic of daniel

New statistics are presented here on the kinds of word order present in the Aramaic of the book of Daniel; an attempt is made to examine the roles of word order in the verbal clause.

The last king(s) of judah

Schriftgelehrte traditionsliteratur

The translation style of old greek habakkuk

The call of moses and the exodus story

Jaeyoung Jeon examines and assesses recently suggested models for the formation of the Pentateuch through a redactional-critical analysis of the Call of Moses (Exod. 3-4) and the Exodus story (Exod. 5-13). He observes that Exod. 3-4 was formed through a series of stages of Deuteronomistic composi...

The torah as a place of refuge

Immigrants and innovative law

Gezahlte geschichte

The doubt of the apostles and the resurrection faith of the early church

Engelgemeinschaft im irdischen gottesdienst

Qumran, early judaism, and new testament interpretation

Literature or liturgy?

Gegenspieler

Emotion, narration und ethik

Petrusliteratur und petrusarchaologie

Conceptions of "gospel" and legitimacy in early christianity

Whether he is asking about the role of New Testament exegesis among other academic disciplines, the suppression of anger in Pauline writings, or at what point came to designate a written "Gospel," James A. Kelhoffer's patient and careful exegesis provides an intriguing lens through which to view ...

Re-making the world: christianity and categories

Die herrlichkeit des gekreuzigten

Auf dem Weg zu einer ausfuhrlichen Kommentierung des Johannesevangeliums bietet der Band Vorstudien und Aufsatze aus 15 Jahren zur Auseinandersetzung mit den klassischen Modellen der Johannesauslegung, zur Frage nach dem religionsgeschichtlichen Hintergrund und Kontext des Johannesevangeliums, in...

Son, sacrifice, and great shepherd

Akoluthiewahrung und jesusuberlieferung im jakobusbrief

Wisdom as a model for jesus' ministry

Direct internal quotation in the gospel of john

Jesus caesar

Paul: servant of the new covenant

Expressions of the johannine kerygma in john 2:23-5:18

Searching paul

Prayer in the sayings gospel q

Apocalypticism in the synoptic sayings source

The holy spirit and the church according to the new testament

Studien zum matthausevangelium

Theologie und ethos im fruhen christentum

Jesus und die evangelien

Renaming abraham's children

Character studies in the fourth gospel

Exegetische aufsatze

Studien zum petrusevangelium

Ancient tales of giants from qumran and turfan

Biblia americana

Biblia americana

Biblia americana

Prophecy, piety, and the problem of historicity

Eschatologische fortschreibungen im buch hiob

Hippolyts schrift in danielem

Daniel 10-12 als schlussel zum buch

The gospel of mark's judaism and the death of christ as ransom for many

Until recently, there has been a near consensus that the Gospel of Mark is an expression of a Gentile, post-Jewish, form of Christ adherence. This book challenges the notion of “Gentile Mark” by developing the first narrative-wide reading of the Gospel as an expression of first-century Judaism.

Narratives of jesus's passion and resurrection between the second and the seventh centuries

This volume investigates the topic of Jesus's passion and resurrection with a broad scope, ranging from apocryphal gospels, such as the Gospel of Peter and the Gospel of Nicodemus, to Manichean texts and Coptic apocrypha from the sixth and seventh centuries.

Images and stories of the origins of the world and of humankind

The origins of the world and of humankind have been described in texts and depicted in art and architecture worldwide. This publication combines traditional myths and images from a variety of cultural backgrounds with modern and contemporary approaches in literature and outlines fascinating paral...

Biblischer schöpfungsglaube

Biblical creation texts bear witness to ideas about the origin of the world, the place of humans in it, and the role of animals and plants that continue to shape us today. This comprehensive volume takes into account both the cosmological traditions of antiquity and the animal and environmental e...

Forgetting to remember

Jenna Kemp theorizes the formation of the Bible as a process of cultural memory in which forgetting is central. By examining secondary additions, it situates biblical scribes as figures who mediate the memory of texts. They remember text, add to it, and change how it can be remembered in the future.

Anthropologie des alten testament

"A book like this comes along once in a generation. Its predecessor, by H.W. Wolff, served for many decades the important task of helping readers of the Bible understand how 'man' was viewed in the Old Testament. This book is better, more thorough, and will serve many, many generations of biblica...

Social memory in ex 16 and the identity of exilic/post-exilic israel

In this study, Ogochukwu Daniel Onuorah applies the tools of the social memory theory to the analysis of Ex 16. He argues that the collective memory of the manna-experience in Ex 16 served as a socio-theological tool of identity preservation for the Israelites in the difficult exilic/early post-e...

Das alte testament auf dem weg zu seiner theologie

Based on the ongoing controversy between systematic theology and Old Testament exegesis, Christoph Levin provides a concise overview of the changed picture of the religious history of Israel and Judah as it emerges from the latest findings of biblical scholarship.

Purity in ancient judaism

The volume explores different texts and material evidence in relation to purity, impurity, and purification, from both the historic land of Israel and the Diaspora. It adduces comparative evidence from Greece, probes and refines concepts of moral and ritual (im)purity, and traces the relevance of...

Gotteserkenntnis im alten testament

The end of the kingship in Jerusalem led to new theological insights into the possibility of encountering Yahweh. Reettakaisa Sofia Salo shows that according to the Old Testament, God can always be recognized in the actual historical events in the world. This is why the ways of recognizing Yahweh...

Amulets of protection and texts for fears in antiquity

Amulets which contain mostly texts bear witness to the fears and dangers against which they were supposed to help. For ancient man, they were a means of overcoming fear and communicating with supernatural powers. They are valuable sources that can be used for the study of religious history, histo...

To eat or not to eat

Anna Angelini and Peter Altmann address pivotal issues on the biblical dietary prohibitions and their significance as practices and texts through philological, zooarchaeological, iconographic, and comparative ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman lenses.

Revenge, compensation, and forgiveness in the ancient world

Handling moral infringement is complicated. This was as true in antiquity as it is today. Should one retaliate, demand compensation, be merciful, ignore the infringement, or forgive? Thomas Kazen and Rikard Roitto compare how Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians in antiquity navigated different i...

Ancient epistemologies

Earlier and contemporary modes of thinking in the ancient Near East, including ancient Israel, are often assumed to be archaic. This volume aim to reconstruct the ancient modes of thinking that developed in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean regions and formed the conditions for developin...

Paulus und der nous

The anthropological terms in the Pauline Epistles are a perennial source of deliberation in New Testament scholarship. Manuel Nägele's study focuses on the hotly debated meaning of the word νοῦς ( nous , gr. "mind"/"spirit") by trying to clarify its semantics in Paul's Letters against the backgro...

Paulusmemoria und paulusexegese

The topic of this volume is Paul's relationship to Rome in history and reception. The individual contributions deal with the literary evidence of the New Testament as well as other early Christian writings of the second and third centuries.

Suddenness and signs

Sydney Tooth explores the contested relationship between 1 and 2 Thessalonians, providing an extensive comparison of the eschatologies in the two letters. In doing so, the author reopens questions about their theological compatibility and the tradition history of their eschatological teachings.

Antiochia i

Antioch on the Orontes is of great importance for the formation of Hellenistic Judaism in the Diaspora and the emergence of Christianity. This volume shows the factors that influenced the shape and development of both religious communities from different specialist perspectives and emphasizes the...

Authorial fictions and attributions in the ancient mediterranean

This volume brings together scholars of ancient religion, classics, and the Near East to explore how "falsely" attributing texts functioned to situate writers in larger literary and historical conversations, as well as to influence the interpretation and reception of a text.

Holy war discourses in 1qm and john's apocalypse

This study offers an in-depth examination of the Qumran War Scroll (1QM) alongside John's Apocalypse, which takes the concept of Holy War into consideration. It delineates between ancient Jewish and nascent Christian apocalyptic and theological sensibilities, and breaks the conventional barrier b...

The apocalypse and apocalyptic topics

In this collection of essays, Adela Yarbro-Collins expertly illustrates a wide variety of scholarly methods for interpreting apocalypticism. These include history-of-religion, social-historical, and theological approaches as well as genre studies and rhetorical criticism, especially the device of...

Dynamics of charity and reciprocity in the book of sirach

Stephen Long examines the theological interpretation of the relationship between charity and reciprocity in the wisdom-instruction of the second century BCE Jewish sage, Joshua Ben Sira. Gift exchange with God is understood to enable generous action towards fellow humans.

Social groups behind biblical traditions

Is the Hebrew Bible purely a product of Jerusalem or were there various social groups who each played a role in its development during the Second Temple period? This book fills a crucial gap in recent research by combining current redactional and text-historical analysis of the Hebrew Bible with ...

Jesus sirach, jüdisches gesetz und kosmische weisheit

This volume offers a bilingual edition of all Hebrew fragments of the early Jewish book of Ben Sira and selected texts of the ancient Greek version of this work. Accompanying essays introduce the reader to the literary and cultural contexts of the book and interpret its ethical and religious topics.

The image of the invisible god

In order to elucidate the specific contours of the image concept of Colossians, T.R. Niles situates the predication of Christ as the "image of the invisible God" in various ancient image discourses, such as those of Qumran, the Wisdom of Solomon, Philo, and Plutarch.

Essays on the psalms of solomon

This volume deals with the Psalms of Solomon, a collection of 18 psalms from the Second Temple period. Eleven articles in English and French provide new insights into the context, style, and reception history of these psalms, making this book an indispensable resource for understanding this fasc...

The first apocalypse of james

In this study, Mikael Haxby offers a new analysis of a little-studied early Christian text. He uses recently recovered manuscript evidence to place the First Apocalypse of James in ancient debates about political violence and sexual difference.

Colometric analysis of paul's letters

Priscille Marschall explores some stylistic aspects of Paul's letters, in particular their oral-oriented logic of structuration, employing Chapters 10-13 of Second Corinthians as a case study. The method of analysis draws upon the rhetorical treatises of the Greco-Roman world.