Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity

The authors of the essays collected here explore the ways in which late antique groups defined their own socio-political borders and created secure in-group identities by means of discourses on heresy and heretics. A wider definition of heresy and heretics as real or constructed internal oppositi...

The Formation of the 'Book' of Psalms

Sapientia Salomonis (Weisheit Salomos)

Wellhausens Wegbereiter

Alternate Delimitations in the Hebrew and Greek Psalters

Grundfragen der historischen Exegese

The Composition of Genesis 37

The Pentateuch

Rewriting and Revision as Amendment in the Laws of Deuteronomy

Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible

Der Tempelkult in Kanaan und Israel

Eschatology in Genesis

Die Psalmen

Alttestamentliche Studien

Die Satzteilfolge im Verbalsatz alttestamentlicher Prosa

Das Buch Josua

Deuteronomium

Die Funf Megilloth

Der ferne Gott

Prophetie und Zweiter Tempel

Studien zum Jeremiabuch

Defining All-Israel in Chronicles

Saul

Leviticus

Studien zum Menschenbild der alteren Weisheit (Spr 10ff)

Die Genesis der Genesis

Die Weisheitsgestalt in Proverbien 1-9

Gottesknecht und Zion

Das Buch Josua

Studien zur Prophetie und Weisheit

Jahwe und die anderen Gotter

Reconsidering Nehemiah's Judah

In this work, Deirdre N. Fulton examines the differences in the MT and LXX texts of Nehemiah 11-12. She portrays the rebuilding of Judah by focusing on the people who settled in Jerusalem, a catalog of settlements in Judah, a list of temple personnel, and a narrative of the dedication and process...

Dieu educateur

English summary: The use of paideuo in the Septuagint has traditionally been seen as a change in Jewish religious thinking, from a God who corrects (yasar) to one who educates (paideuo). Patrick Pouchelle, however, examines in this study the reasons Jewish translators would have chosen the Greek ...

Fruchtbarkeit und Geburt in den Psalmen

Mythos und Geschichte

Kronerben der Weisheit

Jeremia und die Volker

Leben in Gottes Gegenwart

English summary: In the ten studies contained in this collection of essays, Matthias Kockert deals with the biblical basis of Christian ethics. He examines the changes in understanding the law in the literary history of the Old Testament and their theological conceptions. Each of the studies is a...

Opferterminologie im Psalter

Deuteronomy and the Meaning of "Monotheism"

Balaam in Text and Tradition

Women Praying and Prophesying in Corinth

Women, Work and Leadership in Acts

Teresa J. Calpino's social-historical examination opens out the significance of two women often bypassed in studies of Acts of the Apostles, Tabitha (Acts 9:36-43) and Lydia (Acts 16:11-15). In this first ever work to analyze these women as a pair, Calpino takes special notice of the ways in whic...

Der judische Messias Jesus und sein judischer Apostel Paulus

Language and Identity in Ancient Narratives

Deacons and Diakonia in Early Christianity

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...

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...

Jews and Christians

Valentinus Gnosticus?

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...

Lightfoot the Historian

Die Rezeption des Matthausevangeliums in der Zeit vor Irenaus

Selbstbesinnung des Deutschen

Die johanneische Frage

Fruhes Christentum im antiken Strahlungsfeld

Verherrlichung Gottes durch Philosophie

Zur Literatur und Geschichte des fruhen Christentums

Earliest Christian History

Die Apostolischen Vater

Heiden - Juden - Christen

Christosis

Vom Evangelium des Markus zum viergestaltigen Evangelium

Fathers of the World

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 ...

The Martyrdom of St. Paul

The Ransom Logion in Mark and Matthew

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

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...

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 ...

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...

Delightful Acts

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

The Gospel as the Revelation of God's Righteousness

Von Jesus zur neutestamentlichen Theologie

Kraft in Schwachheit

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

The Death of Jesus

Theologie des Lebens bei Paulus und Johannes

John 18:28-19:22 and the Paradox of Judgement

Johannine Studies 1975-2017

Jesus, der Retter

Das Markusevangelium als Erzahlung

Das Ende Deuterojesajas

The New Day of Atonement

"The Poor, the Crippled, the Blind, and the Lame"