Schrift und Material

Texts and images do not exist independently of their carrier objects. This interplay of interdependencies is considered theoretically and on the basis of ancient Egyptian sources.

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Transfer and Religion

The present volume offers a contribution to the cross-cultural study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and gives new insights for research into the history of religious transfers between the Abrahamic faiths. It is ...

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Allison L. Gray

Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer

The theologian Gregory of Nyssa wrote biographies of his sister, a local bishop, and Moses. Allison L. Gray shows that he adapts techniques from Greco-Roman biographical writing in ...

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Die Theologie Eberhard Jüngels

This anthology explores the theology of the Tübingen systematic theologian Eberhard Jüngel (*1934). It deals with historical and comparative contexts of theology, critically analyzes its central topics ...

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Henning Reinhardt

Martin Luther und die Wittenberger Konkordie (1536)

The name »Wittenberg Concord« designates the attempt to achieve an inner-Protestant agreement about the doctrine of the Lord's Supper and several ...

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Torah, Temple, Land

This volume is devoted to different forms in which ancient Judaism was shaped. As is well known, Judaism in antiquity was a religion in constant flux with different perspectives on essential categories, such as Tora, ...

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Jerusalem II: Jerusalem in Roman-Byzantine Times

Jerusalem was influenced in its shape and history by different powers, people and interests ever since. The present volume illustrates the history of the city in the crucial ...

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Alexandria

Alexandria was a central hub of the Hellenistic world. Businessmen and migrants, scholars, philosophers, and the religious avant-garde flocked here. Hellenistic, Egyptian, Jewish, and early Christian identities coexisted and influenced ...

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Luther und die Philosophie

Luther himself gave cause to see in his opposition to philosophy one of the crucial characteristics of his theological thinking. Nevertheless, his thinking stands in a philosophical tradition. This volume brings ...

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Gail Labovitz

Massekhet Mo'ed Qatan

Tractate Mo'ed Qatan, in addition to discussing the mid-festivals of Passover and Sukkot, is the primary source on rabbinic mourning laws and rituals. Gail Labovitz' commentary explores the workings ...

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Ulrich Köpf

Mönchtum als Lebensform

In more than thirty independent essays, including some previously unpublished ones, Ulrich Köpf deals with a diversity of fundamental questions about the vita religiosa, her most important ...

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The Gospel of Matthew in its Historical and Theological Context

This volume contains articles on the Gospel of Matthew from historical and theological perspectives. It includes studies of both the Gospel in its context ...

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Religion and Education in the Ancient Greek World

The present volume offers a new investigation of the relevance of education and knowledge for ancient Greek religion and society. Drawing on a diversity of periods, sources, ...

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Signs and Discourses in John 5 and 6

The signs and discourses in John 5 and 6 present major issues for interpreters. This volume provides focused discussion of key questions by international specialists, who approach these texts from ...

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The Meaning and Power of Negativity

Negativity is not a negative phenomenon, but omnipresent in human life and thinking. Without it, contingency and otherness, subjectivity and power, transcendence and immanence in human life and ...

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William R. G. Loader

Sexuality and Gender

This volume brings together essays on the theme of sexuality and gender by William R. G. Loader, one of the leading specialists in the field, arising from his extensive investigation of ...

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Idan Dershowitz

The Valediction of Moses

Moses Wilhelm Shapira's infamous Deuteronomy manuscripts – long believed to be forgeries – are of far greater significance than ever imagined. Idan Dershowitz shows that the text ...

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R. Alan Culpepper

Designs for the Church in the Gospel of John

This volume collects essays by R. Alan Culpepper on the historical setting, narrative devices, and theology of the Gospel of John. It provides an introduction ...

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Prophecy and Hellenism

The contributions to the present volume provide case studies for the role of and reflection upon prophecy and divination in the Hellenistic world after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Documents from Alexandria, ...

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Daniel M. I. Cole

Isaiah's Servant in Paul

Paul seems to read Isaiah's Servant with reference to himself. Daniel Cole examines Paul's use of texts within Isa. 49–54 to explain why the apostle does this and what the ethical ...

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Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr

Tora und Weisheit

This volume features essays by Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr on the Jewish Law and wisdom traditions in early Jewish literature. It is introduced by two comprehensive studies on the development and the ...

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Martin Gröger

Wellhausens Wegbereiter

Julius Wellhausen, probably the most famous representative of nineteenth century Old Testament scholarship, cannot be understood without those who blazed a trail before him. Martin Gröger ...

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