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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Traditionen pragen die kollektive Identitat. Sie zeugen weniger von starren vorgegebenen Inhalten, sondern von aktiven Prozessen der Konstruktion und Transformation, die der Verarbeitung der Vergangenheit und der Gestaltung der jeweiligen Gegenwart…
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…
Der vorliegende Band umfasst Beitrage zu samtlichen Teilen des masoretischen Kanons und exegetischen und literargeschichtlichen Zentralproblemen in allen Teilen der Hebraischen Bibel sowie ferner zu historischen, linguistischen und hermeneutischen F…
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…
English summary: This volume of essays provides a kind of summing up of Peter Stuhlmacher's theological work. It contains a number of previously unpublished articles on biblical theology, the Pauline doctrine of justification, basic questions of bib…
Am Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts richtete sich in ganz Europa und innerhalb aller christlicher Konfessionen die Aufmerksamkeit auf die Frommigkeit. Zwischen den verschiedenen Frommigkeitsbewegungen, die so entstanden, wie dem Puritanismus in England, de…
A constant re-evaluation of the new archaeological and textual material unearthed and edited in recent decades is a recurrent duty of ancient and modern scholars. Since the overwhelming amount of available data and the complexity of new methodologie…
Seth L. Sanders offers a history of first-millennium scribes through their heavenly journeys and heroes, treating the visions of ancient Mesopotamian and Judean literature as pragmatic things made by people. He presents each scribal culture as an in…
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: It is the function of fiscal law to provide reliable coverage of complex life circumstances. In doing so, it does however develop unhealthy vicissitudes. Under these circumstances it is all the more important to keep an eye on the f…
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…
