Der Migrationsbegriff, der in der Geschichte des ältesten Christentums bis vor wenigen Jahren nur eine untergeordnete Rolle gespielt hat, birgt ein hohes Erschließungspotential für antike und insbesondere frühchristliche Texte.
What did violence against women and children mean for ancient audiences and how do modern audiences hear and process the meaning of violence in the texts of the Hebrew Bible?
For the first time, the present commentary brings together all relevant aspects necessary to understand and appreciate this late portion of Old Testament Scripture: textual criticism; detailed philological and literary analysis; the text's two-fold historical context in its Hellenistic environment, on the one hand, and in the biblical tradition on the other; and ultimately the very innovative theology of the book of Wisdom.
This Bible study book is based on an innovative approach that aims to present the content of each book of the New Testament with the help of structural tables & revealing the way in which the Bible texts are structured, the lines of argumentation and the main topics discussed by the New Testament authors.
Als "Bücher am Rande der Bibel" werden die Schriften, die im Judentum der hellenistisch-römischen Zeit entstanden sind, oft gering geschätzt - oder als "Verschluss-Sache" mit Enthüllungspotenzial verzerrend überschätzt.
Der Theologische Kommentar zum Neuen Testament steht in der Tradition klassischer historisch-kritischer Kommentarkultur der neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft.
Towards the end of the 4th century - for the first time in the history of Latin-speaking Christianity - Jerome, the Father of the Church translated the writings of the Old Testament from the Hebrew, hebraica veritas.
The present volume of the internationally famous New Testament scholar Wolfgang Stegemann includes texts on central subjects of the biblical theology as Jesus= proclamation of God=s empire, the interpretation of Jesus= death as atoning sacrifice, the role of women and children in the world of the New Testament, spirituality in Paul or to the emergence of Christianity as a >religion<.
Der erste Petrusbrief richtet sich an Gemeinden, die in ihrem Herkunftsumfeld Diskriminierungserfahrungen machen, nachdem sie sich zum durch Jesus vermittelten Glauben an den einen Gott hingewandt hatten.
This commentary for the first time combines all relevant aspects for the interpretation of this late text in the Old Testament/Apocrypha: textual criticism, philological and literary analysis; the dual historical context with the link to Hellenistic environment, on the one hand, and to the biblical tradition on the other; and finally, the - highly innovative - theology of the Book of Wisdom.
This commentary for the first time combines all relevant aspects for the interpretation of this late text in the Old Testament/Apocrypha: textual criticism, philological and literary analysis; the dual historical context with the link to Hellenistic environment, on the one hand, and to the biblical tradition on the other; and finally, the - highly innovative - theology of the Book of Wisdom.
This commentary proceeds by first offering a synchronic view of the canonical final text of Malachi, especially the argumentation in the disputation speeches.