Judaism

Nowadays many scholars are intensively studying the Book of Ben Sira in its different versions.

Where do East European Jews - about 90 percent of Ashkenazi Jewry - descend from?

Im Zentrum von Origenes’ Arbeit stand stets die Exegese der Hl.

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.

Rabbinic midrash included Egyptian religious concepts.

This work explores the theological and social dimensions of generosity in the book of Sirach and contextualizes them within the culture and thought of Second Temple Judaism.

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).

In ancient Israelite literature Exile is seen as a central turning point within the course of the history of Israel.

Scholars have long recognized the importance of Paul's citations from the Pentateuch for understanding the argument of Galatians.

In this book the author thoroughly examines the pentateuchal elohistic source, its structural unity and its relationship to the yahwistic source.

Scholars have long noted the prevalence of praise of God in Luke-Acts.

From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors-William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg--advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the American Idea and Creed.

Efforts at interpreting Joban poetry have often been divided between philological and literary critics.

The American Jewish Year Book, now in its 116th year, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends.

The opening sections of some exegetical Midrashim deal with the same type of material that is found in introductions to medieval rabbinic Bible commentaries.

The book examines the history of the genesis of all the Old Testament texts where there is talk of "Jehovah's Ark" or "The Ark of the Covenant", i.

This book deals with various manifestations of charity or giving in the contexts of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim societies in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages.

Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy and literature.

Manuscripts of the New Testament frequently contain, in addition to the text, supplementary information such as excerpts from the Fathers, chapter lists, quotation lists, introductions to sections, for example, the Pauline letters, and to individual books.

In der vorliegenden Ausgabe werden die bislang wenig beachteten Jesajahomilien des Origenes erstmalig ins Deutsche übersetzt sowie mit Einzelerklärungen und einer umfangreichen Einleitung versehen.

In diesem Band sind die erhaltenen Fragmente aus der Genesiskommentierung ediert; die Auszüge stammen aus seinem Genesiskommentar, der die Schöpfungsgeschichte (Gen 1,1-5,1) kommentierte, und aus den Scholien, die sich auf den Rest des biblischen Buches bezogen.

The author applies the fields of gender studies, psychoanalysis, and literature to Talmudic texts.

Das biblische Buch Esther erzählt den Aufstieg des jüdischen Waisenkindes zur Königin Persiens und die Erhebung des loyalen Juden Mordechai zum zweiten Mann nach dem König sowie die gleichsam wunderbare Errettung des Gottesvolkes Israel, dessen Existenz durch den perfiden Statthalter Haman bedroht ist.

The articles in this volume originated from lectures given in two meetings devoted to the Samaritans.

Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer represents a late development in "e;midrash"e;, or classical rabbinic interpretation, that has enlightened, intrigued and frustrated scholars of Jewish culture for the past two centuries.

This volume contains the proceedings of a Symposium "e;Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah"e;, arranged by the Edinburgh Prophecy Network in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, 11-12 May 2007.

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie ist die Textgeschichte der Samuel- und Königebücher, die in der Forschung nach wie vor kontrovers diskutiert wird.

This study analyzes several passages in the Former Prophets (2 Sam 19:12-44; 2 Kgs 2:1-18; Judg 8:4-28) from a literary perspective, and argues that the text presents Transjordan as liminal in Israel's history, a place from which Israel's leaders return with inaugurated or renewed authority.

This Oxford dissertation offers a fresh redactional analysis of the Book of Amos.

This work provides the key to one of the most enigmatic Jewish Hellenistic texts preserved in Greek and Slavonic.

Seit langem wird vermutet, dass Jahwe, der Gott des Alten Testaments, ursprünglich ein Wettergott vom Typ des syrischen Baal gewesen ist.

Die vielschichtigen Beziehungen zwischen Israel und Phönizien im 1.

The theology of Isaiah 40-55 has two seemingly contradictory aspects: the tension between the consolatory message of deliverance, and the harsh tone of accusation and the call to repentance.

In the texts of Genesis 18 and 32, God appears to a patriarch in person and is referred to by the narrator as a man, both times by the Hebrew word ish.

It is a widespread idea that the roots of the Christian sermon can be found in the Jewish derasha.

In two places in the First Gospel (Matt 10:5b-6; 15:24) the Messianic mission of Jesus and his disciples is limited to a group called 'the lost sheep of the house of Israel'.

Die editio princeps des bislang lediglich in unvollständiger koptischer Übertragung zugänglichen Traktats Vom Mysterium der Buchstaben (Mitte 6.

The Book of Sirach raises many questions: philological, exegetical, literary, historical, theological.

Recent advances in cognitive linguistics provide new avenues for reading and interpreting Biblical Hebrew prophetic text.

This study examines the physical form and cultic function of the biblical cherubim.

During the past few decades a great amount of scholarly work has been done on the various prayer cultures of antiquity, both Graeco-Roman and Jewish and Christian.

A modern reader studying biblical narratives encounters various literary approaches and ways of understanding interpretive concepts.

How were ideas and experiences of transformation expressed in early Christianity and early Judaism?