Judentum

Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon

This volume presents a group of articles that deal with connections between ancient Babylonian, Iranian and Jewish communities in Mesopotamia under Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian rule. T...

Early Christian Communities Between Ideal and Reality

The authors of this volume explore the notion of community as reflected upon in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. Various aspects are dealt with, including concerns for organising the communi...

The Last Years of Paul

What happened in the last few years of Paul's life? Did he ever get to Spain? How and why did he die? Were his plans fulfilled or frustrated? How should we interpret our scant sources? And wha...

Early Christian and Jewish Narrative

The authors of this volume elucidate the remarkable role played by religion in the shaping and reshaping of narrative forms in antiquity and late antiquity in a variety of ways. This is particular...

Rediscovering the Apocryphal Continent

This volume collects the contributions of a group of North American scholars who started rethinking, in 2004, the traditional category of New Testament Apocrypha, largely dominated by theological ...

On the Boundaries of Talmudic Prayer

Yehuda Septimus

In this work, Yehuda Septimus investigates a boundary phenomenon of talmudic prayer: ritual speech with addressees other than God. These addressees included socially conventional addressees, like ...

The Righteousness of God

Charles Lee Irons

Advocates of the New Perspective on Paul appeal to the view that 'righteousness' in biblical theology is a Verhältnisbegriff (relational concept). This is the view that 'righteousness...

Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel

Safwat Marzouk

Appealing to Monster Theory and the ancient Near Eastern motif of 'Chaoskampf,' Safwat Marzouk argues that the paradoxical character of the category of the monster is what prompts the port...

The Vision in Job 4 and Its Role in the Book

Ken Brown

Near the beginning of the Joban Dialogues, Job's friend Eliphaz is attributed a remarkably subversive vision (Job 4:12-21). Laced with images of divine judgment and deception, this vision unde...

La Famille de Saül dans le conflit Saül versus David

Raoul Baziomo

Une bonne partie du premier livre de Samuel et le début du second racontent comment et pourquoi est intervenu le transfert de la royauté de Saül à David et à sa maison. Les événements relat...

Saul

Hannes Bezzel

In dieser Studie fragt Hannes Bezzel nach Saul, dem ersten König Israels, nicht als einer historischen Gestalt der 'frühen Königszeit', sondern als literarischer Person, deren Entwicklu...

Der Tag der Plagen

Michael Sommer

Die Johannesoffenbarung ist ein Text, in dem sehr viele Erzählfäden der Schriften Israels zusammenlaufen. Johannes formte aus Anspielungen auf Israels Traditionen einen Text sui generis. Der Tex...

The Divine Image

Jill Middlemas

Although attempts to understand the growth of aniconism focus on the Pentateuchal legal material, scholars increasingly make reference to the prophetic literature to illuminate the debate. Jill Mi...

Contested Ethnicities and Images

David L. Balch

Ethnic values changed as Imperial Rome expanded, challenging ethnocentric values in Rome itself, as well as in Greece and Judea. Rhetorically, Roman, Greek, and Judean writers who eulogized their ...

The Second Coming of Christ

Mohammad Amin Sheikho / A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani

This book is exquisitely new. It is strange but true: about things that are not said, informed by the events that are happening around us, and facts that are beyond dispute. Actually when you star...

Interpretation of the Thirtieth Part of the Holy Qur'an

Mohammad Amin Sheikho / A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani

In Am'ma Part we can see how Al'lah overwhelms us with His Favor and Charity and guards us by His Mercy and great Care.Within it, we can see the Godly Justice has been manifested Itself wi...

Die Kabbala

Erich Bischoff

Literatur, Film, Theater und Kunst

<p>Das Handbuch des Antisemitismus widmet sich allen Aspekten der Judenfeindschaft von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart und ohne geographische Begrenzung. Im siebten Band geben in knapp 300 L...

Constantin Brunner im Kontext

<p>Das Werk des eigenwilligen Philosophen und Gesellschaftskritikers Constantin Brunner (1862–1937) hat in den letzten Jahren eine vermehrte Aufmerksamkeit vor allem in der Kulturgeschicht...

Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich - prägende Jahre

Hartmut Bomhoff

<p>Der Historiker und Religionswissenschaftler Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921–2007) gehört zu den prägenden Gestalten des deutschsprachigen Judentums nach der Schoa. Die Lebensgeschichte des...