Uses and Misuses of Ancient Mediterranean Sources

How were ancient textual sources used and manipulated? And how can this help us understand the dissemination of religious and mythological knowledge in different historical ...

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Ann-Kristin Wigand

Achikar in Elephantine

Ann-Kristin Wigand interprets the Aramaic Achikar composition against the background of Persian Egypt. She combines historical-critical methods with an intertextual approach in order to work ...

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Science in Qumran Aramaic Texts

The studies in this volume examine the knowledge and ideas about the natural and human world as reflected in the Aramaic texts of Qumran. Their authors were well acquainted with Mesopotamian science and ...

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The Lord's Prayer

The contributions in this volume are the result of an international symposium held at the University of Tübingen in October 2018. They examine the Lord's Prayer in conversation with Jewish traditions, relate it to New ...

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Jaeyoung Jeon

From the Reed Sea to Kadesh

Jaeyoung Jeon traces the development of the biblical wilderness narrative in the books of Exodus and Numbers from its origin to the composition of its final form. He suggests that the ...

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Matthias Konradt

Christology, Torah, and Ethics in the Gospel of Matthew

The tenth and final volume in the Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity series, brings together seven of Matthias Konradt's most ...

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Barlaam of Seminara on Stoic Ethics

This volume contains a critical edition and translation of Barlaam of Seminara's fourteenth century treatise Ethics According to the Stoics, along with interpretative essays. This neglected text is ...

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The Unique, the Singular, and the Individual

The current singularity debate often overlooks the fact that similar debates have been going on in other fields for a long time. This volume examines these references to debates about ...

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Tal Ilan

Tractates Pe'ah, Demai and Kil'ayim

In this volume, Tal Ilan presents a feminist commentary on the first three mishnaic tractates of Seder Zera'im (Seeds) that have no Babylonian commentary. The first one, Pe'ah, is about ...

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Søren Lorenzen

Spoken into Being

Søren Lorenzen examines the entanglement of persons, names, and the self in the Hebrew Bible. The results of the investigation add to current discussions on personal identity taking place within Hebrew ...

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Yakir Paz

From Scribes to Scholars

Yakir Paz shows that the ancient Homeric commentaries had a major impact on the formation of rabbinic biblical commentaries in the second and third century CE. This impact is discernible in the ...

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Cotton Mather

Biblia Americana

Cotton Mather's commentary on Hebrews-Revelation, together with several appended essays, offer a mixture of devotional readings and textual-historical criticism. They give insight into his millennialism, ...

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Trevor N. Wedman

Inverting the Norm

Trevor N. Wedman shows that sovereignty, subjectivity and normativity, or the sovereign, the subject and the (legal) norm are three wholly interdependent concepts: the meaning of each of these ...

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German National Reports on the 21st International Congress of Comparative Law

A variety of contributions from members of the German Association for Comparative Law is among the papers presented at the 21st ...

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Jack J. Lennon

Dirt and Denigration

Jack J. Lennon looks at the concept of dirtiness in ancient Rome and its role in stigmatising various citizens. He considers those Romans who were commonly labelled as unclean, the ways that their ...

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Jan-Olav Henriksen

Psychology in Nietzsche's Criticism of Religion

In this study, Jan-Olav Henriksen sheds new light on the psychological dimensions behind Nietzsche's criticism of religion. He demonstrates the ...

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Jordan Davis

The End of the Book of Numbers

In this study, Jordan Davis grants significant attention to the geographical references found at the end of the book of Numbers, combining archaeological, historical and literary critical ...

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Ernesto Castro

Postcontinental Realism

Is philosophy still alive? Are there any alternatives to univocal postmodernist thought? Is there any point to asking age-old questions about the existence of reality and the possibility of ...

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Historical Settings, Intertextuality, and Biblical Theology

The contributors to this volume address three central approaches in biblical interpretation: historical settings, intertextuality, and biblical theology. They ...

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Tel 'En Gev

This is the final report of the Tel 'En Gev excavation by Keio University. The site is located to the east of the Sea of Galilee and is key in understanding the Aram-Israel relationship. The excavation aimed at establishing a ...

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Anders Runesson

Judaism for Gentiles

For clergy, scholar, and lay person, Paul's letters hold weight and continue to draw in new readers. In this collection of essays, Anders Runesson listens to the voice of the historical Paul – a ...

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Common Ground and Diversity in Early Christian Thought and Study

Heikki Räisänen (1941–2015) touched upon many key questions in the study of early Christianity. The essays in this volume discuss these topics ...

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Assaf Kleiman

Beyond Israel and Aram

Assaf Kleiman discusses the archaeology and history of local communities in the central Levant that flourished in the shadow of Israel and Aram-Damascus. The study offers a new and exciting way to ...

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