"Jewish-Christianity" is a contested category in current research. But for precisely this reason, it may offer a powerful lens through which to rethink the history of Jewish/Christian relations. Traditionally, Jewish-Christianity has been studied as…
Toledot Yeshu ("The Life Story of Jesus") is a satirical counter-history presenting a "biography" of Jesus from a negative and anti-Christian perspective. It ascribes to Jesus an illegitimate birth, a theft of the Ineffable Name, heretical activitie…
Inwiefern und wozu wird im Johannes-Evangelium die Erzahlung von der Offenbarung Gottes am Sinai mit der Ubermittlung des Gesetzes durch Mose rezipiert? Eduard Kafer zeigt, dass das vierte Evangelium die Sinaitradition an bedeutsamen Stellen (1,14-1…
These three volumes are the results of two conferences on the Christian eucharist and its context in the traditions of sacred and communal meals; the first conference was held at the University of Kiel, the second at the University of Agder's Study…
English summary: This volume presents studies on the text and textual history of the Septuagint, on its philology and geography as well as on theology and history of its reception. It provides an overview of the current state of research and looks a…
English summary: This work, which many regard as Karl Popper's most important for the scientific world, is being published in a new edition as part of the Collected Works. In Popper's opinion, it is a mistake to consider scientific knowledge to be c…
Zu allen Zeiten und in ganz unterschiedlichen Regionen der Welt haben Menschen dazu tendiert, Besitz, Macht, Amter und Status an die nachste Generation weiterzugeben, um sich selbst und ihr eigenes Wirken in eine Linie der Kontinuitat zu stellen. Ob…
This collection of essays employs a sustained multi-perspectival comparative approach to the reception of Mark and Matthew in diverse interpretive settings from the 1st to the 21st century, with special attention to cultural hermeneutics and theolog…
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…
Firmly rooted in his ancestral Jewish traditions, Paul interacted with, and was involved in vivid communication primarily with non-Jews, who through Christ were associated with the one God of Israel. In the highly diverse cultural, linguistic, socia…
Wissenschaftler verschiedener Fachrichtungen (Theologen, Historiker, Padagogen, Literaturwissenschaftler und Musikwissenschaftler) haben sich 2017 mit der Frage befasst, wie weit Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) durch eine Interpretation seiner P…
Intellectual property law has been harmonized by EU law to a considerable extent. At the same time intellectual property rights have converged. The academic discussion has not kept pace with this development. European intellectual property law is of…
Die Partikularitat der Staatsangehorigkeit erscheint in der vielfach verbundenen europaischen Staatengemeinschaft als regulierungsbedurftiges Fragment einer Zeit independenter Staatlichkeit, die der Inklusion von Migranten im Weg steht. Ferdinand We…
Welche Bedeutung hatte das Wirtschaftsressort der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung fur die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik? Welche Leitbilder, Strukturen und Prinzipien pragten die journalistische Arbeit? Der Autor beleuchtet, wie eng die Zeitungsmache…
The present volume aims at a comparative study of the processes of reception, rewriting and interpretation between canonical and apocryphal texts in early Jewish and early Christian literature. A closer look at the respective developments in both co…
Dietz Lange zeigt in diesem Werk, dass die Moderne weder die Realitat gewordene "Welt des Christentums" noch der "grosse Abfall" ist, der das Christentum ins Exil einer Parallelwelt zwingt. Die Sakularisierung hat freilich die Alleinherrschaft des C…
The Apocalypse of Peter, best known for its tour of hell, was a popular text in Early Christianity, but is largely neglected today. Eric J. Beck attempts to bring new life to the study of this text by challenging current assumptions regarding its ma…
Michael Widmer reconsiders the significance of the canonical portrayal of Moses as intercessor in the aftermath of documentary pentateuchal criticism. Paying careful attention to both the diachronic and synchronic dimensions of the text, at the hear…
Das Johannesevangelium ist durch die haufige Erwahnung von Zeugen, Anklagen, verhorartigen Befragungen und anderen Bestandteilen eines Gerichtsprozesses stark von forensischen Termini und Motiven des Rechtsstreites gepragt. Doch weshalb fehlt gerade…
Im Zeitalter der Aufklarung vollzog sich ein umfassender geistesgeschichtlicher Modernisierungsprozess. Auch fur die Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte ruckt mit dem 18. Jahrhundert die entscheidende neuzeitliche Umbruchs- und Ubergangszeit in den Bli…
Der Theologe Johann von Staupitz (ca. 1465-1524) ist vor allem als Forderer und Beichtvater des jungen Luther bekannt. Lothar Graf zu Dohna und Richard Wetzel haben einige von Staupitz' Werken kritisch ediert, darunter (2001) sein Gutachten im Salzb…
Der Begriff der Metaphysik stellt, wie Adorno bemerkt, das Argernis der Philosophie dar. Metaphysik sei einerseits der Existenzgrund von Philosophie uberhaupt; andererseits sei es kaum moglich, verbindlich anzugeben, was Metaphysik uberhaupt ist. Di…
The Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project is providing the first critical edition of all the Dead Sea Scrolls which are not copies of books in the Hebrew Bible (the so-called Old Testament) in 10 projected volumes along with 2 conc…
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…
Paul writes that we are justified by faith apart from 'works of the law', a disputed term that represents a fault line between 'old' and 'new' perspectives on Paul. Was the Apostle reacting against the Jews' good works done to earn salvation, or the…
Karl Popper's lecture A New Interpretation of Darwinism given at the Royal Society London in 1986 is here printed for the first time in the original. In it, Popper denies the creative power of blind chance and natural selection. Instead of these two…
The Book of Revelation is a peculiar text whose special status in early Christianity is manifested by its manuscript attestation, transmission, literary references and discussions among early Church writers. This special status forms the nucleus of…
In this study, Michael Immendorfer examines the relationship between the New Testament letter to the Ephesians and the ancient city of Ephesus, which had the great Artemis as its goddess. He seeks to make a contribution to the discussion on the exte…
Thomas Kaufmann bietet in diesem Werk mikrologische Analysen des Zusammenwirkens diverser Buchakteure (Schriftstellern, Druckern, Verlegern, Buchfuhrern, Formschneidern etc.) im Kommunikationsprozess der fruhen Reformation. Ausgehend von Beobachtung…
English summary: How can the lawmaker be bound by fundamental rights which he has to concretize and apply so that the individual can make use of these liberties? Christian Bumke aims to solve the dilemma of concretization and to show that this is a…
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…
English summary: When did the Renaissance end? With provocative precision, Frances Yates said it ended in 1614, the year in which Isaac Casaubon exposed the allegedly ancient writings of Hermes Trismegistos as a forgery from late antiquity. However…
English summary: Bifurcating court proceedings can reduce time and costs. Based on his review and comparison of the procedures applied by English, French, German, and Swiss courts, Johannes Landbrecht therefore proposes guidelines for the granting o…
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…
