English summary: This book deals with fundamental institutions and procedural principles in important civil procedural systems of Europe, such as the Roman-canonical procedure, Prussian legislation during Frederick II's reign, France's Civil Procedu…
Susan Haber (1957-2006) was a graduate of York University (B.A.) and McMaster University (M.A.). At the time of her death, she was working on a doctorate from McMaster University, having already published articles on the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism,…
Der Band zu Ehren von Hermann Spieckermann anlasslich seines 70. Geburtstags enthalt neueste Untersuchungen international renommierter Forscher zu den beiden Arbeitsgebieten, die im Zentrum seines wissenschaftlichen Schaffens stehen: Psalmen und Wei…
English summary: Gadamer's main work, Truth and Method, will be published in 2010, exactly 50 years after the first edition, in a slightly corrected version as an inexpensive student edition. This is seen as one of the few standard works of German p…
Within the framework of Paul's use of Scripture, the contexts of biblical narratives are of great significance, although this has long been underestimated. This conference volume deals with the reception of traditions about Moses in the letters of t…
Weber intendiert eine >>verstehende Soziologie>gesatzter Ordnungen>Feudalismus>Parteien>Gemeinde<<), und verwendet ein umfangreiches kulturvergleichendes historisches Material zur Illustration dieser Typen; die Idealtypen ihrerseits dienen zur kontr…
Das Lehrbuch "Europarecht" wendet sich sowohl an den Studenten mit dem Pflichtfach Europarecht als auch an den Wahlpflichtkandidaten, ist aber auch fur den juristischen Praktiker geeignet, da es einen schnellen Zugang zur Materie ermoglicht. Die Neu…
In staging his story of Jesus, Luke dedicates considerable space to the characters known as sinners. Scholars have noted this peculiarly Lukan emphasis. Still, scholarly attention has tended to limit itself to the so-called sinner texts, that is, th…
Das evangelische Kirchenrecht gilt als unubersichtlich. Die foderale Verfasstheit der Kirche schafft eine Vielzahl von Rechtsebenen und abweichenden Detailregelungen. Um so wichtiger ist es fur Wissenschaft und Praxis, den Uberblick zu behalten. Ers…
Das Verhaltnis Judentum - entstehendes Christentum' ist von bleibender Aktualitat und Brisanz. Dabei wird ein Aspekt zumeist gar nicht oder nur am Rande behandelt: die Bedeutung der Romer fur die getrennten oder gemeinsamen Wege von Juden und Christ…
Recent scholarship on the history of the biblical canons has increasingly recognised that the Jewish and Christian Bibles were not formed independently of each other but amid controversial debate and competition. But what does it mean that the forma…
Auf Einladung des Freistudentischen Bundes, Landesverband Bayern, sprach Max Weber am 7. November 1917 zunachst uber Wissenschaft als Beruf, am 28. Januar 1919 uber Politik als Beruf in Munchen. Beide Vortrage waren Teil einer Reihe 'Geistige Arbeit…
English summary: Judean royal ideology is deeply rooted in the ancient oriental koine cultivated in the region and shared its main ideas with the neighbouring kingdoms. Because of the king's special relationship to the divine world, he was able to l…
How are bodies and affects formed in liberal market societies? And, conversely, what roles do affects and bodies play in the genesis and stabilization of and changes to market societies? These are the questions examined by the authors in several ins…
Das evangelische Kirchenrecht ist eine vielschichtige Materie. Im Horizont der theologischen Grundlagen der Kirche hat sich eine feinziselierte Rechtsordnung ausgebildet, die mit ihrem komplizierten Zusammenspiel verschiedener Rechtsebenen nur wenig…
English summary: The question of where God abides found various answers in the Old Testament, and it was not until relatively late that this was localized to the heavens. Where and when did this idea first occur and in which religio-historical conte…
English summary: Differing from early modern Christian historiography, contemporary Jewish authors painted an idealized picture of Muslim rulers, as Martin Jacobs shows in his analysis of 16th- and 17th- century Hebrew chronicles. At the same time,…
English summary: Christian von Coelln explains the constitutional mixture of fundamental rights (freedom of the press, right to privacy) and the principles of state structures (democracy, rule of law) arisen by the media's access to jurisdiction. He…
The relation between law and morality has been at the heart of legal philosophy for millennia. This book is devoted to the two most influential German natural law approaches, Gustav Radbruch's neo-Kantian non-positivism from the 1930s and 1940s and…
Focusing on Judean-Samarian interactions in Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman times, Gary N. Knoppers explores both commonalities and differences, rivalries and relationships, as these communities engaged one another in greater depth and complexity th…
The third volume of the Biblia Americana contains some 1250 of Mather's "illustrations," as he called them, on the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. These entries reveal Mather as a sacred historian, marshaling an array o…
English summary: As a kind of supplement to his Collected Works, the author presents recent articles and lectures which have been revised for printing and in which he adds to and continues with his earlier work. At the end of the volume there is a s…
English summary: What role does democracy as a norm in international law play for the concept of peace building within the UN system? In contrast to the common perspective in which the question of the international legal normativity of democracy is…
English summary: Alexandria was the intellectual capital of the Hellenistic-Roman world and at the same time a melting pot of cultures and religions. It was the center of philology, science and Platonic philosophy as well as the home of well-known p…
Johannes Ruberg beleuchtet die bis zum Aufbrechen der monopolistischen Marktstrukturen bestehenden Preissetzungsverfahren in der Telekommunikation anhand eines rechtshistorischen Vergleichs des deutschen und US-amerikanischen Fernmeldewesens. Im Ker…
English summary: You will marry your girlfriend, but you will be sorry. You will inherit from your wife, but you will not be the sole heir. These are the words of an oracle attributed to Pythagoras which supposedly also helped Alexander gain world s…
English summary: In 2008, the two protestant New Testament scholars Martin Hengel and Peter Stuhlmacher were invited to a conference in Castelgandolfo which Pope Benedict XVI holds each year with a group of former assistants and former students. Bot…
English summary: What is Israel? There is hardly a more matter-of-fact term in the Old Testament, yet academic debate provides many different answers to this question. Kristin Weingart analyzes the use of the name 'Israel' in the Old Testament as we…
The three hitherto unpublished Coptic literary texts edited and translated here derive from the famous monastery of St Michael at Hamuli and currently belong to the collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. The first work, a passio of…
Aleksandra Pistalo widmet sich der Darstellung der Grundlagen des Religionsrechtssystems und seiner Entwicklung in Serbien. Die Republik Serbien ist ein Land mit einer uberwiegend christlich-orthodoxen Bevolkerung. Die Serbisch-Orthodoxe Kirche hat…
Zum 100. Geburtstag Helmut Ridders werden ausgewahlte Texte zur Meinungs-, Presse- und Kunstfreiheit aus den 50er bis 70er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts neu veroffentlicht. Diese waren teilweise nur noch schwer zuganglich. Helmut Ridder war ein politi…
Julius Weitzdorfer analysiert die Ursachen und Folgen organisierter Kreditkriminalitat in Japan sowie Losungswege aus rechtssoziologischer und rechtsokonomischer Sicht. Denn seit der Jahrtausendwende hat sich Japans Verbraucherkreditwesen durch inte…
English summary: Matthias Konradt explores a problem central to the theological conception of the Gospel of Matthew: What is the cause for the transition from the Israel-centered activities of Jesus and his disciples previous to Easter to the univer…
English summary: In this book, Assaf Shelleg explores the history of Israeli art music and its ongoing discourse with modern Jewish art music. He introduces the reader to various aesthetic dilemmas involved in the emergence of this music, ranging fr…
Dem Heiligen Geist kommt in den traditionellen Kirchen und Theologien eher eine Statistenrolle zu. Dagegen nimmt er in den pentekostalen und neopentekostalen Bewegungen und den von dort bis tief in die traditionellen Konfessionen hineinwirkenden cha…
Philipp Harms presents the concepts and methods of modern international macroeconomics in a comprehensive yet accessible way. He motivates the topics discussed with regard to their practical relevance and enables the reader to assess the contributio…
English summary: Recognising and enforcing foreign awards are fundamental aspects of international commercial arbitration. Christian Steger compares German, English and Belgian law on preclusion of objections when a party has not initiated setting a…
English summary: Are there administrative acts that must not be subjected to conditions or other ancillary clauses? Although this is broadly approved of in German jurisprudence in many instances, Sebastian Traub reveals that there are numerous blurr…
Die strafrechtliche Ahndung des durch die Justiz im Dritten Reich begangenen Unrechts gilt als gescheitert. Obwohl im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland der "Dolch des Morders unter der Robe des Richters verborgen" war, wurde nach dem Krieg kaum ei…
Die Frommigkeit des spaten Mittelalters scheint in vielen ihrer Facetten fern und fremd. Volker Leppin erschliesst sie neu mit Hilfe der Begriffe "Reprasentation" und "Reenactment". In beiden geht es um die Wahrnehmung der Gegenwart Gottes in der sp…
