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Ich nenn' es einfach jetzt mal Leben
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00One step along the path toward overcoming the crisis of Christian faith has been a hermeneutic transformation of Christian dogmatics. To accomplish this aim, this book brings empirically derived life interpretations into dialogue with a hermeneutic interpretation of the theology of Karl Barth. By combining empirical, hermeneutic, and dogmatic methods,... more...
The Death of Jesus
Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 95.98Hauptbeschreibung Taking up a number of themes and questions touched on in earlier works, the author discusses critically some attempts to interpret the death of Jesus and the assumption that these make about the nature of God and of Jesus. For Jesus himself seems to have left his followers no clear guidance on how to understand his fate, in all... more...
Jesus, Gospel Tradition and Paul in the Context of Jewish and Greco-Roman Antiquity
Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 166.07Hauptbeschreibung This volume contains a collection of twenty-two of David E. Aune's essays focusing on a variety of issues in the interpretation of the Gospels, Gospel traditions, Paul and the Pauline letters. Most essays center on the exegesis of particular problematic passages in the Gospels, Acts and the Pauline letters. In some essays the author... more...
Daniel 10-12 als Schlüssel zum Buch
Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 85.20Hauptbeschreibung Ist die Schlussvision des Danielbuches visionäre Zukunftsschau oder historischer Rückblick? Bereits Hieronymus und Porphyrios diskutieren diese Fragestellung äußerst kontrovers. Ab dem 18. Jahrhundert steht der Lektüre von Daniel 10-12 als historische Quelle ein fundamentalistisches Verständnis des Textes gegenüber. Neuere Studien... more...
Persepolis and Jerusalem
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 34.99Persepolis and Jerusalem reconsiders Iranian influence upon Jewish apocalyptic, and offers grounds upon which such study may proceed. After describing the history of scholarship on the question of Iranian influence and on Jewish apocalyptic, the author reformulates the methodology for understanding apocalyptic and influence. Two chapters set the... more...
Strong Hermeneutics
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 45.95Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in ethics, particularly in the approaches of deconstruction and hermeneutics. At the same time, questions of identity have risen to prominence in philosophy and beyond into cultural studies and literature. Strong Hermeneutics is a clear and accessible investigation of both the enlightenment and postmodern... more...
Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism
BRILL 2008; US$ 218.00Exploring the link between German biblical interpretation and anti-Semitism, this book is a fresh, comprehensive study of leading German exegetes, concluding that although Nazism brought anti-Semitic exegesis to a head, age-old thought structures provided powerful legitimation for oppression. more...
L'eau, enjeux politiques et théologiques, de Sumer à la Bible
BRILL 2009; US$ 278.00This book investigates a corpus of royal inscriptions and literary texts stretching over several millennia from the early days of Sumer to the Biblical period, in order to determine the ways in which the concept of water was used. more...
The Septuagint's Translation of the Hebrew Verbal System in Chronicles
BRILL 2009; US$ 154.00This book is the first detailed investigation of the translation of the Hebrew verbs of Chronicles into Greek, especially from the perspective of two diachronic developments: that of the Hebrew verbal system and that of the trend toward a more literal translation of the Bible. The translation provides a view of the Hebrew verbal system in the Hellenistic... more...
Selected Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha
BRILL 2009; US$ 216.00This volume is a study of two of the most important Slavonic apocalypses, the Apocalypse of Abraham and 2 Enoch, as the crucial conceptual links between the symbolic universes of Second Temple apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism. more...









