Lance Jenott presents a new critical edition, annotated translation, and interpretation of the Gospel of Judas which, for the first time, includes all extant fragments of the manuscript. Departing from the scholarly debate over how this second-centu…
William Furley and Victor Gysembergh bring together in a new edition the papyrus fragments of ancient Greek manuals of extispicy, that is, the inspection of animal entrails to predict the future. From art and literature we already know that the prac…
Christopher Steimle untersucht die Veränderungen, die als Folge der Einbindung Makedoniens in das römische Provinzsystem erkennbar werden und hierbei Ergebnis von Austauschprozessen zwischen Reichszentrum und Provinz, zwischen Thessaloniki…
In the present volume, Peter Gemeinhardt investigates Christianity in late antiquity as an institution and as a community of saints. He focuses especially on structure and self-understanding of the Church in the 4th and 5th century and on the import…
Apollinarius war auf der einen Seite ein Theologe und Bischof, dem man hohen Respekt entgegenbrachte, poetisch begabt, hochgebildet und Zeitgenosse von Basilius von Caesarea, Nizaner und doch auf der anderen Seite der Urheber der wohl wirkungsvollst…
Published initially in 1979, Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels represents a landmark of scholarship in religious studies. It not only made the Nag Hammadi writings and Gnosticism popular topics in modern culture, it also invited scholars to rethink early…
English summary: Despite their transmission in a treatise presented as Christian apologetics, Proclus' 18 arguments for the eternity of the world are not - in their entirety - an attack on the Christian concept of creation. In fact, they document th…
Eva Baumkamp examines the correspondence between bishops during the persecutions of Christians in the third century within the Roman Empire. In doing so, she works out how conflicts and disputes among communities and bishops were resolved by writing…
English summary: Christianity gained a foothold in Antioch during the first century and the metropolis became an important centre for the spread of Christianity, although Hellenistic elements did still shape it in the fourth century. A diverse enter…
Gregor der Grosse (590-604) war sowohl ein geschickter Kirchenpolitiker als auch ein inspirierter Denker. Barbara Müller erschliesst den inneren Zusammenhang beider Bereiche unter dem Aspekt der Führung, indem sie sowohl Gregors literarisc…
English summary: This is a collection of fourteen essays written by Reinhard M. Hubner over a period of half a century on topics such as the beginnings of church ministry, the corpus of letters ascribed to Ignatius of Antioch, Monarchianism, the pri…
Courtney J. P. Friesen explores shifting boundaries of ancient religions by way of the reception of a popular tragedy, Euripides' Bacchae. As a play staging political crises provoked by the arrival of the "foreign" god Dionysus and his ecstatic cult…
Antike Feste waren Orte von religiösem Austausch auch über die Grenzen einer politischen oder religiösen Gemeinschaft hinweg. Die ständig vorhandenen Zeichen - Kultstätten oder gar Kultstatuen, religiöse Rollen - wurden…
