Judaism

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "e;plague writing"e; from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

Of all victims of Nazi persecution, German Jews had to suffer the Nazi yoke for the longest time.

Originating in the collaboration of the international Research Network "e;Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism"e; (RENGOO), this collection of essays proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to colonialism and Orientalism.

The Habsburg Empire was one of the first regions where the academic study of Judaism took institutional shape in the nineteenth century.

The Jewish communities of East and Southeast Asia display an impressive diversity.

What accounts for the seemingly atypical pattern of scriptural exegesis that Paul uses to interpret Exodus 34 in 2 Cor 3:7-18?

The volume publishes papers read at the tenth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2013.

The influence of Isaiah on John's narrative and theology has long been recognized, but it has yet to receive monograph-length attention.

The volume contains eight original studies, each of which focuses on a different chapter or central passage in Daniel and offers a new interpretation or reading of the passage in question.

Long neglected by scholars, the Dead Sea scrolls rewriting Samuel-Kings shed precious light on the ancient Jewish interpretation of these books.

The extent of the so-called History of David's Rise has been indecisive, and as a result, various issues around the document have been left extremely flexible.

Water is a vital resource and is widely acknowledged as such.

Metaphors are a vital linguistic component of religious speech and serve as a cultural indicator of how groups understand themselves and the world.

The humanitarian concerns of the biblical slave laws and their rhetorical techniques rarely receive scholarly attention, especially the two slave laws in Deuteronomy.

This study proposes that both constitutively and rhetorically (through ironic, inferential, and indirect application), Ps 106(105) serves as the substructure for Paul's argumentation in Rom 1:18-2:11.

In the Hebrew Bible, war is a prominent topic which is dealt with in both legal and narrative texts.

We present a comparative epistemological analysis of the wisdom motifs in Psalms 1, 73, 90, and 107.

No detailed description available for "e;Scripture and Interpretation"e;.

Als Johannes Pfefferkorn im Jahr 1507 seinen sogenannten "Judenspiegel" veröffentlichte, forderte dessen antijüdische Polemik den Widerspruch Johannes Reuchlins heraus und führte schließlich zu einer heftigen Kontroverse zwischen Dominikanern und Juden, an der die Kölner Dominikaner auf Seiten Pfefferkorns regen Anteil hatten.

This study is the first to investigate why Paul makes exclusive use of 'epangelia' for the divine pledge when referring to the Abrahamic covenant, a usage of the term never found in the OT-LXX.

Western biblical studies have tended to follow either faith-based theological approaches or value-free historical-critical methods.