Papers in this volume were presented at the seventh international conference of the Societe d'Etudes Samaritaines held at the Reformed Theological Academy of Papa, Hungary in July 17-25, 2008.
Most historical Jesus and Gospel scholars have supposed three hypotheses of unidirectionality: geographically, the more Judaeo-Palestinian, the earlier; modally, the more oral, the earlier; and linguistically, the more Aramaized, the earlier.
The festive meal texts of Deuteronomy 12-26 depict Israel as a unified people participating in cultic banquets - a powerful and earthy image for both preexilic Judahite and later audiences.
David Moessner proposes a new understanding of the relation of Luke's second volume to his Gospel to open up a whole new reading of Luke's foundational contribution to the New Testament.
As environmental destruction begins to seriously affect humans, it has become increasingly relevant to reflect on the essential elements of the Jewish and Christian theologies of creation.
Exile as Forced Migrations injects cutting edge studies on forced migrations (DIDPS, IDPs, Refugee studies), displacement and resettlement, and generational issues that mark the exilic period (6th century B.
This monograph provides a fresh perspective on judgment according to works by challenging both the majority scholarly view and the new perspective advocated by E.
Since the Enlightenment period, German-Jewish intellectuals have been prominent voices in the multi-facetted discourse on the reinterpretation of Jewish tradition in light of modern thinking.
This study demonstrates the importance of including narrative ethics in a construction of Old Testament ethics, as a correction for the current state of marginalisation of narrative in this discipline.
Der Rabbiner und Historiker Abraham Geiger (1810–1874), einer der Mitbegründer der Wissenschaft des Judentums, gehört zu den bedeutendsten intellektuellen Gestalten des deutschen Judentums im 19.
The 19th century saw the rise of Biblical Criticism in German universities, culminating in Wellhausen's radical revision of the history of biblical times and religion.
Damit, dass Elifas, Bildad und Zofar ganz im Sinne der Tradition von Hiob das Nachdenken über das Verhältnis zwischen Gott und Mensch verlangen, aber am Ende doch von Gott verurteilt werden, wirft das Buch Hiob eine der großen und komplizierten Fragen der alttestamentlichen Exegese auf.
Die Studie untersucht aus einem religionshistorischen Blickwinkel Aussagegehalt und Theologie des Wächterbuches (1 Henoch 1–36) als eigenständiger frühjüdischer Schrift des 3.
This volume presents selected papers read at the first meeting of the Society for Jewish and Biblical Studies in Central Europe, in Piliscsaba, Hungary, February 2009, but does not publish the proceedings of this meeting (for a clarification see here).
