Studies in the history and archaeology of ancient israel and judah

The study of the southern Levant during the first millennium BCE has developed dramatically in recent decades. The ten contributions in this volume demonstrate the range of questions, methods and theoretical frameworks employed in the current study of Judah and neighbouring regions during the fir...

Medien im antiken palastina

Plutarchs denken in bildern

Narrative analogy in the david story

Joanna G. Kline examines parallels between the biblical story of David and the narratives about Jacob, Judah, and Joseph, showing how narrative analogy develops characterization and reinforces significant themes in these texts and demonstrating that the analogical links between David and Jacob, J...

Die mitte der reformation

Die entgrenzung jhwhs

Gottesbild und barmherzigkeit

Der zweite - christus denken

The contributions in this volume redraw the contours of a medial Christology. They question the 'thinking of Christ', the conception of Jesus Christ as the crucified embodiment of God, as an image and thought figure in presence and absence, as a medium of reconciliation and redemption.

Dogmatik des christlichen glaubens

Ancient religiosities in dialogue: greek, roman, jewish, and christian

Teresa Morgan explores ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern religiosities in their social and cultural contexts. Studies of the Bible, philosophy, fables, folktales, and ancient and modern historiography illuminate how people thought about their god(s) and how they thought God(s) thought about ...

Bardaisan on human nature, fate, and free will

In this volume, leading experts examine the life and thought of Bardaisan (†?222) through a newly prepared bilingual Syriac-English edition of, and commentary on, the Book of the Law of Countries alongside the extant Greek fragments. These sources showcase Bardaisan's arguments on human intellect...

The nag hammadi codices as monastic books

On the basis of recent research indicating that the Nag Hammadi Codices were produced and used by early Egyptian monks, the articles in this volume ask how and why monks would have read the texts contained in these codices.

Coping with religious change in the late-antique eastern mediterranean

How did societies respond to political, social, textual and ritual changes that occurred in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean? This volume addresses "coping with religious change" from the perspectives of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, textual analysis, and papyrology.

Sinners, works of law, and transgression in gal 2:14b-21

In this study of the flow of thought in Paul's speech to Cephas (Gal 2:14b-21), Nicolai Techow explains the passage as a linear and unified argument, centered on God's judgment of people in the cross of Christ as integral to justification. He argues for a primarily moral-religious meaning of sinf...

Ecclesia und collegium

The contextualisation of early Christian assemblies within Greco-Roman associations has led to significant insights into the history of early Christianity. The fifteen essays gathered here deal with the legal status of associations, association rules, local characteristics, and even burials.

Die entstehung der christlichen wassertaufe

Tobias Krämer reconstructs the history of the origin of Christian baptism. He analyzes central passages of New Testament tradition and examines their historical content: the baptism of John, the baptism of Jesus, the baptizing of the pre-Easter Jesus and early post-Easter transmissions of baptism.

Parables as persuasive devices

The contributors to this volume offer a fresh perspective on Jesus's parables, viewing them as persuasive tools rather than merely informative stories. They examine how these parables engaged audiences both emotionally and intellectually, aiming to persuade rather than simply teach, within their ...

Unterscheiden ohne zu trennen

Katharina Heyden develops the art of distinguishing without separating as a basic figure of Christian understanding of the world in dialogue with sources from the fifth century: the Council Acts of Chalcedon with the distinction between the two natures of Jesus Christ, and the sayings of the dese...

Extracanonical traditions and the holy land

What we know as the Holy Land is not merely the biblical land. The contributions to this volume demonstrate how it - perhaps even more than through biblical texts - was created by extracanonical traditions of texts, rituals, and material culture.

Leiblich vermitteltes leben

Christine Jacobi examines ancient texts that make the attempt to make the idea of bodily resurrection after death plausible with the intellectual presuppositions of the time, attributing a key role to the body of the risen Christ, which is revealed on Easter morning and can be received in the Euc...

Combining gospels in early christianity

Jacob A. Rodriguez investigates which gospels tended to keep company with one another in early Christian reading practices. Engaging a variety of second-century gospel combinations, he identifies a center of gravity in early gospel reading consisting of the Synoptics and John.

Reconsidering the rhetoric of temporality in johannine literature

Chang Seon An examines temporal frames in the Johannine Gospel and letters and traces the ways that these texts employed temporality to shape belief in Christ. The author indicates that ancient writers used claims about temporality to distinguish their audiences from other groups.

Auferstehungsvorstellungen in apokryph-gewordenen evangelien

Cornelius Voigt uses selected sources to trace diverse ways early Christian communities in the second and third centuries understood the Easter event. This study reveals fascinating new interpretations that emerged from evolving theological necessities, while also highlighting the formative role ...

Paulinische weisheitskritik im 2. jahrhundert

For Christian authors of the second century, Paul's criticism of wisdom (1 Cor 1-4) stands in a tense relationship to the positive image of wisdom from the book of Proverbs, as well as to their own self-image as intellectuals. Johanna Brankaer analyses how they dealt with this criticism.

Form and meaning of yasna 33

An = anum and related lists

Lexical lists, especially god lists, are typical products of Mesopotamian scholarship, combining philological data (spellings and pronunciations of divine names) with religio-historical information on the structure of the pantheon. Among other lists, the volume provides the long-awaited new editi...

Johann joachim spalding

Johann Joachim Spalding (1717–1804) was a master of German Enlightenment theology; he had a definitive impact on the practice and theory of piety, and created prerequisites on which the Protestant church has continued to draw. Albrecht Beutel explains how Enlightenment theology attained exemplary...

Theologische erörterungen i-v

On the occasion of Eberhard Jüngel's 90th birthday, his Theologische Erörterungen I-V are now available for the first time as a set.

Dasein für andere

In his late writings, Bonhoeffer defines humans as "Being for Others." His extensive engagement with Heidegger's "Being and Time" culminates in his "Ethics." In this study, Christian Schlenker explores their complex relationship, focusing on Bonhoeffer's critical engagement in areas like subjecti...

Medien - erinnerung - affekte

This volume discusses the phenomena of media, memory, and affects to address the fundamental dimensions of a theology of culture. In this way, the complex debates on media, memory, and affect theory are brought together and the perspectives of a theology of culture in the 21st century are explored.

The solomonic fantasy

This work is a postcolonial-psychoanalytic study of 1 Kings 1:1-12:24. Using Freudian theories, Sonia Kwok Wong argues that the Solomonic Kingdom is a cultural fantasy reflecting the Persian Judeans' ambivalent wish to take the place of their Persian overlords while also critiquing their oppressi...

Eberhard jüngel

Eberhard Jüngel (1934-2021) has had a greater impact on science and the church than almost any other systematic theologian, namely through his theology. Julian Zeyher-Quattlender and Volker Henning Drecoll focus on his core concerns and shed light on aspects of his thought and impact that have re...

Isaiah and intertextuality

Retribution in chronicles

Neil J. Morrison seeks to explain the lack of systematization in the outworking of retribution in Chronicles. While retribution is designed to foster religious commitment, it is often constrained by other factors so that the divine and human poles of the nexus come to predominate at different poi...

Reforging history in the persian era editing of the twelve

Editors embedded a historiography of the events surrounding Judah's downfall into the Book of the Twelve in the Persian Era. Kipp Swinney argues that editors of the Twelve used the motifs of the divine warrior, Chaoskampf , and theophany in the Persian era to recast history with Yahweh at the cen...

Ritual and law in the hebrew bible and the ancient near east

In this volume, the contributors focus on ritual and law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. The studies included treat various texts and material culture, cultic ritual, and comparative mythology.

Spiritual transformation in the new testament and related literature

This volume addresses the variety of spiritual experiences in the world of ancient Judaism and early Christianity, including contributions on the Old Testament, Qumran literature, Graeco-Roman philosophy, New Testament texts, and early church literature, focusing on spiritual transformation.

Le langage métaphorique dans le texte hébreu de ben sira

Charlotte Obeid propose la première étude approfondie du langage métaphorique dans le texte hébreu de Ben Sira. Elle met en valeur la richesse de l'enseignement du Sage et propose des outils pratiques pour rendre le message biblique plus accessible.

Chronicles and social memory

Doren G. Snoek evaluates social and cultural memory in biblical research and offers a new approach to one biblical history, Chronicles, a book often considered derivative of its biblical sources, revealing it to be a robust, independent story of ancient Israel and Judah.

P conclusion and post-p rearrangements in exodus 25-31 and leviticus 8-9

Domenico Lo Sardo's study of Exod 25-31 and Lev 8-9 builds on his previous research in Exod 35-40, analyzing the Priestly Writing's literary development. He suggests that the Tabernacle's construction was part of a project focused on space, time, and divine presence, aiming to restore worship and...

Vom text zum entstehungsmodell in der pentateuchkritik

In this case study on Gen. 20-22, the contributions unfold how textual observations evolve into literary-historical models. The volume is designed as a textbook for method-oriented teaching. By reflecting on the methodology of Pentateuchal criticism and discussing the literary history of the Abra...

The historical location of p

The contributors to this volume aim to situate the Priestly writings more precisely in time and place. They give special attention to choosing relevant criteria --such as geographic indicators and references to material culture within the texts themselves.

The literary history of the pentateuch

Joel Baden explores the history of the Pentateuch's literary composition, offering both detailed analyses of specific passages and broad theoretical and methodological reflections. His essays also serve as a record of the recent growth of the neo-documentary hypothesis in Pentateuchal scholarship.

Gott, gewalt und die landnahme israels

This study analyses the redaction history of the conquest narratives in Josh. 9-12. It is apparent that many redactors worked on this text, which is indicated not only by the idiolect but also by the references to Deut. and the text-critical deviations.

Hiobs kosmos

Volker Grunert's exegetical study on the Book of Job applies resources and insights from related cultural sciences such as Assyriology and Egyptology to illuminate the biblical text; Job steps from obscurity into focus.

Klage als ausdruck und aneignung in den psalmen und im hiobbuch

Old Testament lament is more than prayer in the face of suffering. It is also self-reflection and a purposeful challenge to God and human beings. In this study, Anja Marschall shows that when praying, people critically examine their expression of suffering; lament becomes an appropriation of pray...

Die these der sogenannten "konsekutivtempora" im klassischen althebräisch

Desiree Zecha deals with the thesis that there are verbal forms in ancient Hebrew which describe a logical or chronological sequence (the “tempora consecutive” wayyiqtol and weqatal). In addition to examining the history of research from the late Middle Ages onwards, these verbal forms in Genesis...

Mutual influence in priestly and non-priestly pentateuchal narratives

Building upon scholarly models, Aron Freidenreich reexamines the relationship between two key narrative collections found within the Pentateuch. Five case studies demonstrate textual expansion and influenced updating, reflecting a dynamic interaction between competing scribal communities.

Das abrahamopfer im kontext von gen 12-25

A God who declares his promise null and void? Jonathan Rodrian examines the narrative of the "sacrifice of Isaac" against the background of the Abraham cycle. Considering the image of God, it becomes clear that God's promise can be relied upon even when God himself seems to question his own commi...

The priestly narrative in numbers 13-14

Bruna Vel?i? analyses one of the sources of the Pentateuch, the so-called Priestly Narrative (Pg), and argues that this narrative does not end in the books of Exodus or Leviticus, but includes a strand in Numbers 13-14*, where it tackles the question of the divine gift of the land to the Israelites.

Old and new

This collection of essays by Morna D. Hooker deals with the theme of continuity and discontinuity - primarily between first-century Judaism and early Christianity - and explores the ways in which New Testament writers drew on their own cultures and previous beliefs in interpreting their experienc...

Book-seams in the hexateuch ii

This volume offers the first systematic investigation of the literary transitions between the books of Numbers/Deuteronomy and Deuteronomy/Joshua. Placing a special focus on the material aspects of ancient Jewish scribal practices, it retraces the development of these literary transitions.

Eljon - höchster

Elyon / "Most High" is a biblical designation for God whose semantics are obvious. Given the attestation of a deity Elyon in neighbouring cultures and the peculiarities of the references especially in the Pentateuch, the question arises as to what was expressed by the biblical use of Elyon for th...

From sources to scrolls and beyond

This volume collects essays by David M. Carr which move from a survey of the last half-century of scholarship on Pentateuchal theory to the rationale for and methodologies for such study. Its concluding essays link such research to questions of oral transmission, material history, literary and an...

Vom sinai zum zion?

Florian Oepping traces the relationship between the traditions of the Mountain of God. The depiction “from the Sinai to Zion”, as presented in the Old Testament, cannot be maintained based on the results of the present study. Instead, the two Mountain of God-traditions are in a literary dialogue.

Weeping and tears in luke's gospel narratives

Sue Ann Mak examines weeping in Luke's Gospel, focusing on the tears of the anointing woman, Peter, Jesus, and Jerusalem's daughters. Combining ancient and modern views, she highlights tears as expressions of repentance, grief, and divine judgment, uncovering their theological and Christological ...

Women, gender, and sex in the end-time

In this book, Judith Gundry explains Paul's teaching on procreation in 1 Corinthians 7 in the light of ancient views about the household and Paul's own eschatology, and in contrast to the biblical view that human beings were created "male and female" to "be fruitful."

Canon as rule and guide

Penned by Brevard S. Childs, the fifty-two essays collected here span half a century of biblical scholarship. They provide a view into the history of Old Testament studies by a scholar who worked to integrate his command of it with cognate disciplines such as New Testament, Biblical Theology, and...

Parabiblica aethiopica

This volume deals with Ethiopian apocryphal/parabiblical literature. It consists of three editions and two studies. The edited texts are the Ethiopian version of the Historia de Melchisedech (ed. Jan Dochhorn), the Ethiopian version of the Revelatio Stephani (ed. Damien Labadie), and an Apocrypho...

Banished from the city

Mark Jeong examines scenes in the New Testament book of Acts where members of the church are banished or exiled from cities. He argues that the author of Luke-Acts presents the church as a community of political exiles, whose exilic way of life is presented as part of following Jesus.

1 thessalonians

In this epigraphical commentary, the author examines the apostle Paul's first Epistle to the Thessalonians in the light of ancient inscriptions. He proposes new interpretations to better appreciate the significance of the letter in its socio-historical and epigraphic context.

La place et le rôle des femmes dans les actes des apôtres

Danielle Stocker tente de montrer comment la parole oraculaire d'Ac 2,17-18 initie la reconnaissance progressive des femmes, ces premières figures de l'autre, puis celle de leur parole, et comment cette reconnaissance va de pair avec la marche an avant des missions de l'apôtre Pierre et de l'apôt...

Paul in contexts

Zwanzig Einzelstudien erhellen die Entstehung wie Redaktions- und Rezeptionsgeschichte des Philipperbriefs und verorten diesen in den politischen, weisheitlichen und apokalyptischen Diskursen seiner Zeit. Hinzu treten antijudaismuskritische und feministische Lektüren weiterer zentraler Paulustexte.

The gospel of mark in its historical and theological context

This concise volume brings together seventeen essays by international scholars that examine the Gospel of Mark from historical and theological perspectives. The contributions address key issues of reception, interpretation, and application, reflecting the current state and diversity of scholarly ...

The calling metaphor in paul's epistles

Drawing on cognitive metaphor theory, Fiva Savkovi? examines Paul's use of calling terminology and demonstrates how Paul integrated the Israelite understanding of divine calling, redefining it as God's action to bring humans into the ???????? - a community that shapes its identity in relation to ...

Christusbeziehung und christuserkenntnis im johannesevangelium

When and how do the disciples in the narrative development in the Gospel of John get into a relationship with and attain knowledge of Christ? Stefan Zorn develops a model of a multi-stage process of relationship and knowledge that includes crises and reaches its climax in encountering the Risen C...

Identity formation and the gospel of matthew

Why does the author of the Gospel of Matthew include non-Judean characters in his narrative? Tekalign Duguma Negewo attempts to answer this question based on the assumption that Matthew's Gospel played an identity-forming role for its community.

Die wundererzählungen im markusevangelium

Miracle stories present the idea of divine salvation in Jesus' work. They have an appealing function of "instructing" the recipients on how to participate in the Basileia of God that Jesus proclaimed. To this purpose, Saskia Breuer reveals a soteriological narrative principle of Markan miracle na...

Theologie der synoptischen evangelien

There are numerous individual studies on each of the Gospel writings. However, there is no overall view of the first three Gospels from a theological perspective. What the Synoptics have in common, and what makes them unique, is their Christology based on the person of Jesus.

Paul's concept of a hebrew deity in relation to jesus

Insights into how Paul conceptualised a Hebrew deity in relation to Jesus: the author accesses Paul’s conceptual processes by focusing on the explicit Kyrios and Theos citations in his authentic letters; explicit citations allow access to the textual-conceptual world represented by Hebrew and Gre...

Schöpfungspoetik im johannesevangelium

In the Gospel of John, creation and life unfold through language. Mirjam Jekel explores these connections, employing a novel hermeneutical methodology. Through her analysis, she unveils a nuanced mosaic of life, addressing the intricacies and paradoxes inherent in Johannine language.

Das christusbild des philipperhymnus im spiegel alter übersetzungen

Christian Blumenthal untersucht die frühesten Übersetzungen des Philipperhymnus. Er konzentriert sich dabei auf das mehrdeutige Christusbild dieses faszinierenden Textes und fragt, wie lateinische, koptische, syrische, armenische, äthiopische und arabische Übersetzungen mit den Mehrdeutigkeiten d...

Living and dying well in philippians

What does it mean to flourish? This is one of the bedrock questions of human existence. Gregory Lamb addresses this seminally important question from the ancient perspectives of living and dying well and through Paul's puzzling maxim in Philippians 1:21.

Corpus pastorale

This work on the question of pseudepigraphy in the Pastoral Epistles examines the consolidation of the currently controversial corpus thesis. It develops a new reading of the Pastoral Epistles as a fictional letterbook, with the different nuances of the three letters serving as a key to interpret...

The birth and death of the premarkan passion narrative

The existence of a source behind the Markan passion narrative was considered one of the assured results of twentieth-century scholarship. Brandon Massey traces the origins and assumptions underlying the existence of this source and shows that it cannot be sustained outside of a form-critical para...

Der verborgene vater im matthäusevangelium

Lena Lütticke's work focusses on God as "Father who is and sees in secret" in Matt. 6 and relates this epithet to the overall conception of God in the Gospel of Matthew. It also traces the notion of God's hidden presence - which is a key concept for Matthew's prayer theology - in Jesus' prayer pr...

Der ratschluss gottes

That God has a plan for his people is a guiding motif in Luke/Acts. Daniel Lanzinger examines this theme for the first time from a narratological perspective with a focus on discrepant awareness.

Sünde als zielverfehlung bei paulus

How is Paul's use of the term "sin" ( hamartia ) to be interpreted? Harro Koning proposes a Stoic-Socratic and intellectualistic background for the interpretation. For Paul, hamartia is not only an act or guilt but also a causal and error-oriented phenomenon through which human beings do not at...

Eschatology and dualism in the johannine epistles

W. Elliot Luo explores fresh interpretations of familiar eschatological topics in the Johannine Epistles, such as the true image of the Antichrist, the essence of eternal life, the possible scene of afterlife, and how understandings of eschatology shape our present life.

The hour of justification in the fourth gospel

The Gospel according to John reenacts and corrects verdicts against Jesus in trials before Jewish and Roman courts. The issue is judging according to appearance or righteously, which permeates practically his entire Gospel. Amador shows how John establishes Jesus as the righteous King who is just...

Aspects of soteriology in john and paul

The contributors to this volume move beyond ‘standard’ soteriological issues, addressing often-neglected aspects of the soteriology of John and Paul. They demonstrate how themes like wisdom, volition, freedom, and the role of angels form an integral part of soteriology.

Paul and philosophy

In sixteen essays, Troels Engberg-Pedersen analyses a variety of Pauline texts and themes philosophically. A substantial introduction follows the inner thread connecting all the themes in the new notion of the "Christ circle". Also explored are Paul's fundamental "apocalypticism" and his Jewishness.

Revelation and conflict in john 7 and 8

This collection of essays on the Gospel of John, chapters 7 and 8, written by an international group of leading scholars, explores the central theological and literary themes of these chapters, their setting at the festival of Booths, and the reception history of the hostile references to Jews in...

Die basileia tou theou im markusevangelium

Judith König shows how Mark’s narrative suggests that it is possible to perceive the royal presence of God even in the death of his son on the cross because the nearness of God’s royal presence radically changes perception.

Destiny of the defiant

What happens to the deliberate, defiant sinner? The Hebrew Bible prescribes k?r?t / "cutting off". Donald J. Wold's semantic-field analysis across Hebrew, Greek, Qumran, and rabbinic sources - bolstered by Akkadian and Egyptian parallels - reveals that only God enacts k?r?t - a curse denying ete...

Konflikte und krisen im neuen testament und ihre bewältigungsstrategien

The New Testament writings bear witness to numerous conflicts among the early Christians as well as attempts to resolve them. Issues of right doctrine and right conduct are wrestled with both externally and internally. In this volume, selected conflicts are analysed by use of various methods.

Plutarch und die evangelien

In the exegetical literature, Plutarch's Parallel Lives are often used as comparative texts for the Gospels. In an examination of the research debate on the genre affiliation of the Gospels, David Staub develops his own approach, which he presents and tests using a comparison between Plutarch's L...

Counternarratives in the exodus plague cycle

In this study, Lenin Prado explores how the Priestly version of the plagues in Egypt revises the Yahwistic account. He shows how the Priestly narrative uses literary techniques to create a counternarrative that aims to replace the Yahwistic version, revealing key differences and tensions between ...

The therapeutae as the best paradigm for the contemplative life

Philo's Therapeutae is the best exemplum for what a Hellenistic Jewish contemplative life would look like in first century CE Alexandria. In constructing the contemplative life of the Therapeutae , Philo brings together various insights from Hellenistic philosophy and religion.