Nicolai Techow

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 ...

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Rethinking Responsibility

This volume fills a lacuna in the literature on responsibility by establishing a phenomenological perspective in a constructive conversation with both traditional concepts of responsibility and its ...

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Erik Waaler

The Use of the Old Testament in Matthew 1–4

In this book, Erik Waaler discusses how Matthew uses the Old Testament in the first four chapters of the gospel to describe Jesus as the Christ. He shows how the ...

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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 ...

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Studies in the History and Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Judah

The archaeological and historical study of the southern Levant during the first millennium BCE has developed dramatically in recent decades. The ten ...

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Kampotela Luc Bulundwe

2 Timothée dans le corpus paulinien

Dans cet ouvrage, Kampotela Luc Bulundwe présente une étude détaillée de 2 Timothée. Il traite de mémoire, de succession, de souffrance, de fidélité et ...

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The Pentateuch and Its Readers

The essays in this volume treat the Pentateuch and its composition; priesthood, cult, and Priestly texts; major religious ideas expressed in the Hebrew Bible, and the reception of biblical texts and ideas, ...

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Christine R. Trotter

Hellenistic Jews and Consolatory Rhetoric

Christine R. Trotter explores how ancient Jews and the earliest Christians attempted to comfort people who had endured or witnessed persecution and violence, ...

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Travis R. Niles

The Image of the Invisible God

In order to elucidate the specific contours of the image concept of Colossians, T.R. Niles situates the predication of Christ as the »image of the invisible God« in various ancient ...

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Priscille Marschall

Colometric Analysis of Paul's Letters

Priscille Marschall explores some stylistic aspects of Paul's letters, in particular their oral-oriented logic of structuration into »côla« and »periods«, ...

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Revelation's New Jerusalem in Late Antiquity

Appearing in the final pages of the book of Revelation, the New Jerusalem is one of Christianity's most recognizable images. This volume contains fifteen essays on how the image was ...

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Torah in Early Jewish Imaginations

The term Torah/ torah can be understood as the five books of Moses (the Pentateuch) or more generally as »law«, »instruction«, or »teaching« including the authoritative interpretation of the ...

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Brevard S. Childs

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 ...

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Troels Engberg-Pedersen

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 ...

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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 ...

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The Formation of Biblical Texts

What was the relationship between the Pentateuch and the (so-called) Deuteronomistic History and how did these texts function as a corpus? What were the interconnections among these texts and those of ...

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Brach S. Jennings

Transfiguring a Theologia Crucis through James Cone

Brach S. Jennings unites thematic investigations into hermeneutics and material dogmatics related to fundamental theology with a concern for ...

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Sabine Schmidtke

Martin Schreiner between Islamic Studies and »Wissenschaft des Judentums«

Sabine Schmidtke reconstructs the scholarly biography of Martin Schreiner (1863−1926), one of the prominent ...

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Jeremy C. Thompson / Clare K. Rothschild

The Benedictine Prologue

For centuries, biblical prologues served as gateways to the themes and problems of the Latin Bible. The present study of the overlooked Benedictine ...

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Stephen Arden Long

Dynamics of Charity and Reciprocity in the Book of Sirach

Stephen Long examines the theological interpretation of the relationship between charity and reciprocity in the wisdom-instruction of the ...

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Tekalign Duguma Negewo

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 ...

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Sara Contini

Human Dignity in the Latin Reception of Origen

Sara Contini examines a crucial junction in the history of the idea of universal human dignity. She argues that a key role was played by Latin authors of the 4th ...

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David Chapman Harris

Holy War Discourses in 1QM and John's Apocalypse

In this study, David Chapman Harris offers an in-depth examination of the Qumran War Scroll (1QM) alongside John's Apocalypse, which takes the ...

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God's Own Mouthpieces

This two-part volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on the nature, history, function(s), and rationality of prophecy within the three Abrahamic religions. A series of historical case studies ...

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David Toshio Tsumura

Was There a Cult of El in Ancient Canaan?

In this collection of essays, David Toshio Tsumura examines a number of Ugaritic mythological and liturgical texts in detail for how they interpret deity. He ...

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Thomas Kazen / Rikard Roitto

Revenge, Compensation, and Forgiveness in the Ancient World

Handling moral infringement is complicated. This was as true in antiquity as it is today. Should one retaliate, demand ...

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Andrew D. Dalton

Fulfilled Israel according to Matthew's Plerosis Paradigm

Andrew D. Dalton argues that, for Matthew, the fullness Israel enjoys through Christ is a share in the very fullness of God.A close ...

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Transjordan and the Southern Levant

The contributors to this volume demonstrate that the Transjordan was not a remote, marginalized region but one which was integrated beyond the Southern Levant into the Mediterranean, Egypt, and ...

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Isaiah and Intertextuality

Isaiah is to be read as a book amid Israel's Scriptures. With intertextuality as an interpretive tool helping us understand Isaiah in its complex relationship with the larger witness of the Hebrew Bible/Old ...

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