Im Dialog zwischen Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft hat nun eine jüdische Stimme das Wort: Der aus dem traditionsbestimmten Judentum kommende und international hochangesehene Immunologe Irun R.
Recognizing the absence of a God named Yahweh outside of ancient Israel, this study addresses the related questions of Yahweh's origins and the biblical claim that there were Yahweh-worshipers other than the Israelite people.
Die ethische Relevanz biblischer Texte liegt in ihrer Literarizität begründet, die fremde Textwelten entstehen lässt und dem Lesenden Möglichkeitsräume des Denkens und Handelns eröffnet.
Thema der Monographie sind Genese, Aufbau und Methode des schiitischen Korankommentars al-Mīzān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān des iranischen Gelehrten ʻAllāma Saiyid Muḥammad Ḥusain Ṭabāṭabāʼī (gest.
This volume of the series "e;Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses"e; investigates the roots of the concept of "e;soul"e; in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
The influence of the Old Testament and Early Judaism on the Fourth Gospel is the subject of various contributions of this book, as well as the influence of the Synoptic tradition.
Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination.
Thema der Monographie sind Genese, Aufbau und Methode des schiitischen Korankommentars al-Mīzān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān des iranischen Gelehrten ʻAllāma Saiyid Muḥammad Ḥusain Ṭabāṭabāʼī (gest.
End of Days is both a meditation on Jewish morality in the age of Israeli Jewish power, and a cri du coeur by an Orthodox Israeli Jew, a former combat officer in the IDF, for Israelis to look into the Jewish religious ethical tradition for an alternative to the secular and religious Zionism that sanctifies power, statehood, and sovereignty.
An unforgettable collection of retold myths and folk tales, celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond, from the award-winning author of Hagitude'An extra ordinary selection of stories .
Der Apostel Paulus war der Missionar, der die im Urchristentum neuentstandenen Traditionen am stärksten für die jeweilige Situation adaptiert und variiert hat.
Die südenglische Stadt Glastonbury zeichnet sich durch eine Vielfalt religiöser Strömungen aus: Neben Anglikanern stößt man hier auf Neo-Hindus, Druiden oder die Goddess People.
Erstmals werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit mit einer aus geschichtswissenschaftlichen und philologischen Ansätzen kombinierten Methode der Stiluntersuchung die Gestaltungsprinzipien in päpstlichen Briefen des 13.
Die Erinnerung an das historische Sepharad und vor allem an die trikulturelle convivencia auf der mittelalterlichen Iberischen Halbinsel stehen derzeit in Spanien hoch im Kurs, verweisen sie doch scheinbar auf eine jahrhundertelange Tradition der Toleranz und Demokratie.
This volume offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both persecution and genocide across two thousand years of history from Rome to Nazi Germany, and spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
This book presents a groundbreaking study of the Kashmiri Sikh community, examining how identities are formed and negotiated across the intersections of religion, region, and nation.
Based on modern methods on social memory taken from cultural studies the author of this volume presents a model for reading Biblical texts as collective memories, the example here being the Gospel of Mark.
During the 19th century the natural sciences set up a firmly established and nearly unassailable canon of knowledge that since has seemed to challenge the Christian worldview.
In his contribution to the fragmentary Jewish historians of Hellenistic times and their treatment of the biblical tradition Erich Gruen shows not only that the fragments disclose a remarkable range and diversity of texts, but also that their authors' engagement with biblical texts was more light-hearted in tone, deliberately idiosyncratic, and, far from parochial in temperament, tended to connect with Hellenic and Near Eastern cultures in order to set Jewish traditions into a broader context.
Children's bibles are one of the main media in the past and present Protestant religious education, but only recently, in the last three decades, scholarship focused on this topic.