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Prophets and Prophecy in Jewish and Early Christian Literature
Mohr Siebeck 2010; US$ 79.80Hauptbeschreibung This volume grew out of an international conference on Prophetism in the Old and New Testament (October 2006), organised by the Centre for Biblical Studies of the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca. The volume contains fourteen essays covering various aspects of prophetism and prophetic literature in Jewish and early Christian... more...
Das Petrusevangelium und die Petrusapokalypse
De Gruyter 2004; US$ 98.00The book presents diplomatic transcriptions (in Greek) and translations (in German and English) of all the known textual fragments which can be attributed to what is known as the Gospel of Peter and the Apocalypse of Peter or which scholars are discussing as possible elements of these texts. In addition, the documentation of the texts in ancient times... more...
Angels
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2007; US$ 118.00In our present-day society Angels are being talked about more frequently again. But where are the roots of these discourses to be found? How have they developed?. The present volume focuses on important sources for the investigation of angelic images within the ancient Near East, Old Testament, early Judaism and early Christianity. Particular... more...
The Human Body in Death and Resurrection
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 137.00There is surely nothing more numinous or pivotal in life than the experience of death and mortality, and it is necessary for culture and religion to deal with this experience as adequately as possible. Moreover, the treatment of persons dying, the care of corpses, and also hopes in a life or a comparable existence after death... more...
Theologies of Creation in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00As environmental destruction begins to seriously affect humans, it has become increasingly relevant to reflect on the essential elements of the Jewish and Christian theologies of creation. The essays in this volume explore key aspects of creation theology, which poses the question of the origin of the world and of man. Creation theology is rooted in... more...
Ancient Christian Interpretations of "Violent Texts" in the Apocalypse
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 75.48Hauptbeschreibung The Apocalypse of John belongs to the most puzzling texts of the New Testament. Historical-critical exegesis has been stressing that the book above all wishes to give a message of hope and comfort for a community under threat. Yet readers have also always been impressed and terrified by the many images of violence, including war,... more...
Gelitten - Gestorben - Auferstanden
Mohr Siebeck 2010; US$ 79.80Hauptbeschreibung Passion und Auferstehung Jesu von Nazaret gehören zu den entscheidenden Grunddaten des christlichen Glaubens. Die ältesten Zeugnisse dafür finden sich bekanntlich im Neuen Testament. Wie bedeutsam sie aber für Christen verschiedenster Richtungen und Prägungen waren, zeigt sich auch darin, dass sie auch später in unterschiedlichsten... more...
Scriptural Authority in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 168.00The impact of earlier works to the literature of early Judaism is an intensively researched topic in contemporary scholarship. This volume is based on an international conference held at the Sapientia College of Theology in Budapest, May 18?21, 2010. The contributors explore scriptural authority in early Jewish literature and the writings of nascent... more...
Other Worlds and Their Relation to This World
BRILL 2010; US$ 185.00Is there another, perhaps better world than the one where we live? Is there a future for us after death and how does it look like? The articles in this volume describe how ancient Jewish and Christian authors dealt with the above questions and what their answers had to do with their own life experience. more...
In Search of Truth. Augustine, Manichaeism and other Gnosticism
BRILL 2010; US$ 278.00This volume in honour of Johannes van Oort, formerly University of Utrecht, presently Professor of Patristics and Gnosticism at the Universities of Nijmegen and Pretoria, and past-President of the International Association of Manichaean Studies (IAMS), brings together a rich variety of studies on Augustine, Manichaeism, and other Gnostic currents,... more...
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