This volume commemorates the 65th birthday of William Vernon Harris (on September 13, 2003), when a group of his former students agreed to honor him with a collection of essays that would represent the wide variety of interests and influences of our advisor and friend.
This first verse-by-verse commentary on the Greek text of the Testament of Abraham places the work within the history of both Jewish and Christian literature.
The volume presents a collection of international papers on the literary genesis of the deuteronomistic history and on “Deuteronomism” in the books from Genesis to Kings.
The hermeneutics employed in this work is partly referred to as hindsight hermeneutics, and upholds the resonance and dissonance between the Epilogue of the Book of Job and the preceding sections.
This analytical volume examines the various aspects of "De emendanda vita monachica", combining this with the question of whether this text by Eusthatios of Thessalonica with its polemical fireworks and learned allusions was really intended for the monks of the diocese, who are portrayed as being uneducated, or was actually aimed at an unnamed readership.
Die durch einen choliambischen Prolog eingeleiteten Hexametersatiren des Persius vereinen den traditionellen Gesellschaftsbezug der Gattung mit dem ideellen Anspruch philosophischer Ethik zu einer ebenso individuellen wie fruchtbaren Synthese.
Die in der Erforschung und Interpretation antiker Texte lange aufrechterhaltene Trennung von Religion und Literatur in zwei nicht interdependente Sphären ist anachronistisch.
Außer den Dialogen Platons selbst und neben den platonisierenden Schriften Plutarchs sowie dem Abriss der platonischen Lehre des Apuleius bildet der Didaskalikos des Philosophen Alkinoos aus dem 2.
