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Hermeneutics

  • Matthewby Jr. O. Wesley Allen

    Fortress Press 2013; US$ 21.99

    Traditional books on preaching a book of the Bible often look at broad themes of the text with little explicit advice about preaching individual passages. Lectionary resources often offer exegetical and homiletical insights about a pericope with little attention given to broader theme and structures of the book from which the lection is taken. In... more...

  • Ain't I a Womanist, Too?by Monica A. Coleman

    Fortress Press 2013; US$ 23.99

    Third wave womanism is a new movement within religious studies with deep roots in the tradition of womanist religious thought?while also departing from it in key ways. After a helpful and orienting introduction, this volume gathers essays from established and emerging scholars whose work is among the most lively and innovative scholarship today.... more...

  • The Rise and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries of the Common Eraby Clare K. Rothschild; Jens Schröter

    Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 149.90

    Hauptbeschreibung This collection of essays is partly the product of a symposium that took place at Humboldt University, Berlin in July 2010. It was supplemented by other articles which contributed further relevant aspects to the overall topic. The aim of the conference was to explore the longstanding conundrum of the rapid rise and growth of Christianity... more...

  • Luke-Acts and 'Tragic History'by DooHee Lee

    Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 85.20

    Hauptbeschreibung This volume is the result of an interdisciplinary study that delves into both ancient historiography and the New Testament. DooHee Lee surveys characteristics of the 'tragic history' style employed by ancient Greek, Jewish, and Latin historians such as Herodotus, Thucydides, Phylarchus, Polybius, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Josephus,... more...

  • Reading the First Centuryby Daniel R. Schwartz

    Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 85.20

    Hauptbeschreibung The writings of Flavius Josephus provide much of what we know about the first century CE - which witnessed the birth of Christianity, the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, and the concomitant rise of rabbinic Judaism. However, Josephus was an author, not a video camera, and what he wrote often reflects much apart from... more...

  • Joshua and Judgesby Athalya Brenner; Gale Yee

    Fortress Press 2013; US$ 48.99

    The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Joshua and Judges focuses attention on themes and tensions at the beginning of Israel?s story in the Bible. How do these books represent conquest, war, trauma, violence against women and their... more...

  • Matthewby Nicole Wilkinson; James P. Grimshaw

    Fortress Press 2013; US$ 48.99

    The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Matthew sheds new light from new perspectives on themes in the Gospel including community; land, labor, and Empire; children, parents, and families; health and disabilities; and border-crossings.... more...

  • Jesus, Gospel Tradition and Paul in the Context of Jewish and Greco-Roman Antiquityby David E. Aune

    Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 166.07

    Hauptbeschreibung 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 Buchby Regina Wildgruber

    Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 85.20

    Hauptbeschreibung 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...

  • Hegels Philosophie des Absolutenby Burkhard Nonnenmacher

    Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 58.24

    Hauptbeschreibung In der Seinslogik entwickelt Hegel, dass das Unendliche dem Endlichen nicht abstrakt entgegengesetzt werden kann, sondern das Endliche in sich enthalten muss, soll es nicht selbst nur ein Endliches sein. Weder soll damit aber nur alles Endliche im Absoluten aufgelöst werden, da das Absolute ansonsten nur noch die Nacht wäre, in... more...