Encyclopedia of Material Culture in the Biblical World

The Encyclopedia of Material Culture in the Biblical World (EBW) builds on the German »Standardwerk« Biblisches Reallexikon (BRL). It is a reference book for biblical ...

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Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate

The ancient city of Ephesos and its environs offered a rich panoply of religious options, domestic and public. The contributions in this volume show how structures, statutes, ...

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Johann Moritz Laux

Public Epistemic Authority

Every court claims authority. Normative scholars assess the legitimacy of those claims. Public Epistemic Authority provides a new perspective on this task by drawing on mechanisms of ...

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Luca Marulli

La reconfiguration épistémique du lecteur de Marc

Dans ce livre, Luca Marulli propose une étude détaillée de Marc 5.1–20, mais aussi de l'évangile selon Marc dans son ensemble. Il traite les ...

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Ilmari Karimies

Martin Luther's Understanding of Faith and Reality (1513–1521)

Ilmari Karimies investigates Martin Luther's understanding of reality and of faith. He examines Luther's remarks about faith as a ...

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Jerusalem and the Coastal Plain in the Iron Age and Persian Periods

This volume brings together archaeological, historical, and biblical studies on the cultural, economic, and social relations between Jerusalem and ...

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Māturīdī Theology

Despite its status as one of the great traditions of Islamic thought, the Māturīdī school and its major texts have remained largely inaccessible to a Western audience. As the first reader of Māturīdī theology ever ...

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Overcoming Dichotomies

This volume offers interdisciplinary studies of the genres of parables, fables, and similes from a range of Graeco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian sources in antiquity. It highlights both the fluid boundaries between ...

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Susan C. Karant-Nunn

Ritual, Gender, and Emotions

This volume presents important essays by Susan C. Karant-Nunn for the first time in collected form. The essays deal with the social and cultural change triggered by the ...

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Clare K. Rothschild

The Muratorian Fragment

Considered the oldest testimony in Latin for an authorized canon of New Testament books, the Muratorian Fragment is a lightning rod in biblical studies. This fresh edition and study of ...

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Who was 'James'?

This volume takes up the current debate on the literary profile and the author of the Letter of James. The essays present new insights into James' literary concept and authorial profile and situate the Letter of James within ...

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Writing and Re-Writing History by Destruction

This volume presents research on ancient Syria, Mesopotamia, and Israel with a focus on the longue durée of the practice of reshaping the past through the deliberate destruction of ...

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International Yearbook for Hermeneutics / Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik

The International Yearbook for Hermeneutics represents one of the prominent currents in contemporary philosophy as well as in ...

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Maike Hausen

Reviewing Britain's Presence East of Suez

Maike Hausen examines the foreign and security policies of the former British white settler colonies of Australia, Canada and New Zealand at the end of the British ...

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Justin Winzenburg

Ephesians and Empire

Did the theology of Ephesians challenge Roman imperial ideology? In this study, Justin Winzenburg concludes that, while there are limitations to such a reading of the epistle, some of the ...

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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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Seyoon Kim

Paul's Gospel for the Thessalonians and Others

Can an analysis of the structure and function of 1 Thess 1–3 lead to a new reading of 1 Thessalonians? In these essays, Seyoon Kim attempts a comprehensive ...

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Filippo Alma

L'accueil de l'autre dans sa diversité

Dans cette monographie, Filippo Alma propose une analyse exégétique et théologique du discours de Paul sur l'accueil des faibles dans la foi à Rome (Romains ...

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Chrys C. Caragounis

New Testament Investigations

Chrys C. Caragounis addresses linguistic, exegetical, historical, and theological questions around the New Testament from a diachronic perspective. He treats the Hellenic language ...

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»Ready for Every Good Work« (Titus 3:1)

Many of the leading international scholars on the Epistle to Titus address questions of morality and ethics in this volume. In doing so, they present innovative insights and interpretive ...

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Samuel E. Balentine

The Lure of Transcendence and the Audacity of Prayer

The discourse of prayer responds to the abiding lure of transcendence. From Gilgamesh to the primordial human beings in Eden to Odysseus, the ...

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Theological Anthropology in Interreligious Perspective

The contributors of the present volume explore Islamic and Christian ideas of human life. Informed by classical and contemporary theological questions and interests, ...

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David John McCollough

Ritual and Religious Experience in Early Christianities

In this volume, David John McCollough challenges the common assumptions that Paul thought the Spirit was communicated through water ...

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