Theology

In his letters, Paul regularly speaks of being chosen or called by God. Annette Weippert examines Paul's understanding of election and calling, taking into account conceptions in the Pauline environment and focusing on the question of Paul's intentions when he addresses the idea in his letters.

In this work on the question of pseudepigraphy in the Pastoral Epistles, Martina Janßen examines the consolidation of the currently controversial corpus thesis. Against the background of ancient letterbooks, she 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 interpreting the composition of the corpus.

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. The ancient texts reinterpret Jesus's passion and resurrection in creative and diverse ways, for example by dramatizing the story or by emphasizing the cross as part of the divine plan of salvation.

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.«