Theology

This volume represents studies on archaeological, textual, and theoretical aspects of urbanism in the ancient Levant during the Iron Age (ca. 1200-600 BCE). In addition, the contributions examine urban-related phenomena in other cultures, regions, and periods, providing a broad overview of evidence for ancient cities in antiquity from both archaeological and textual perspectives.

How would the understanding of biblical narratives change if they were analysed primarily in terms of their group phenomena? Using the Hebrew Esther narrative as an example, Vjatscheslav Dreier explores this question and develops a group-orientated hermeneutics.

This volume is the first comprehensive study of a topic that is essential for the understanding of German Evangelical-Catholic dialogues and contemporary ecumenism in general: the meaning of witness.

Phenomenology has a religiophilosophical tenet that everything is what it is. In this work, Lukas Ohly shows that it authenticates Husserl's worldliness, the abyssal ground in Heidegger's thinking on the history of being and Arendt's inaccessibility of common sense. Its only accessibility lies in faith.