Pietismus Handbuch

With almost 80 articles by an array of leading researchers from the fields of theology, historical studies, German studies and other disciplines, the Pietism handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the reform movement ...

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Schrift und Material

Texts and images do not exist independently of their carrier objects. This interplay of interdependencies is considered theoretically and on the basis of ancient Egyptian sources.

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Transfer and Religion

The present volume offers a contribution to the cross-cultural study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and gives new insights for research into the history of religious transfers between the Abrahamic faiths. It is ...

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Allison L. Gray

Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer

The theologian Gregory of Nyssa wrote biographies of his sister, a local bishop, and Moses. Allison L. Gray shows that he adapts techniques from Greco-Roman biographical writing in ...

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Die Theologie Eberhard Jüngels

This anthology explores the theology of the Tübingen systematic theologian Eberhard Jüngel (*1934). It deals with historical and comparative contexts of theology, critically analyzes its central topics ...

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Torah, Temple, Land

This volume is devoted to different forms in which ancient Judaism was shaped. As is well known, Judaism in antiquity was a religion in constant flux with different perspectives on essential categories, such as Tora, ...

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Jerusalem II: Jerusalem in Roman-Byzantine Times

Jerusalem was influenced in its shape and history by different powers, people and interests ever since. The present volume illustrates the history of the city in the crucial ...

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Alexandria

Alexandria was a central hub of the Hellenistic world. Businessmen and migrants, scholars, philosophers, and the religious avant-garde flocked here. Hellenistic, Egyptian, Jewish, and early Christian identities coexisted and influenced ...

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Anat Israeli

Massekhet Qiddushin Chapter 4

The last chapter of the Tractate Qiddushin is devoted to »betrothals« and deals with Jewish genealogies and seclusions between members of the opposite sex. Anat Israeli presents the ...

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Tobias A. Jopp

War, Bond Prices, and Public Opinion

One persistent topic in the historiography of the First World War is how contemporaries perceived the war's course. Tobias A. Jopp investigates financial market players' ...

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Thomas Oehl

Die Aktivität der Wahrnehmung und die Metaphysik des Geistes

Hegel's philosophy of spirit unfolds and defends the thought that the human being as a whole is »spirit«. Thomas Oehl actualizes this ...

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Luther und die Philosophie

Luther himself gave cause to see in his opposition to philosophy one of the crucial characteristics of his theological thinking. Nevertheless, his thinking stands in a philosophical tradition. This volume brings ...

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Ulrich Köpf

Mönchtum als Lebensform

In more than thirty independent essays, including some previously unpublished ones, Ulrich Köpf deals with a diversity of fundamental questions about the vita religiosa, her most important ...

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Yannik Mück

Die »Deutsche Gefahr«

Yannik Mück attends to the question how in the years prior to World War I the sentiment of the American public sphere shifted to open hostility towards the German Empire. He thereby raises ...

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The History of the Jacob Cycle (Genesis 25–35)

The Jacob Cycle seems to be one of the oldest origin traditions preserved in the Hebrew Bible. Yet, in spite of the previous consensus in the field, new studies and current ...

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The Gospel of Matthew in its Historical and Theological Context

This volume contains articles on the Gospel of Matthew from historical and theological perspectives. It includes studies of both the Gospel in its context ...

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Signs and Discourses in John 5 and 6

The signs and discourses in John 5 and 6 present major issues for interpreters. This volume provides focused discussion of key questions by international specialists, who approach these texts from ...

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Family Firms and Closed Companies in Germany and Spain

In der Rechtswissenschaft erhalten Familienunternehmen und geschlossene Unternehmen langsam, aber stetig mehr Aufmerksamkeit. Der Band nimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme des ...

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Gleichnisse und Parabeln in der frühchristlichen Literatur

The present volume investigates the parables and related genres in early Christian literature. It considers not only Jesus' proclamation in parables, but also ...

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Robert E. Norton

The Crucible of German Democracy

The famous philosopher, historian, theologian and politician Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923) was one of the most prominent advocates of the democratic idea in Germany during the ...

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William R. G. Loader

Sexuality and Gender

This volume brings together essays on the theme of sexuality and gender by William R. G. Loader, one of the leading specialists in the field, arising from his extensive investigation of ...

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Idan Dershowitz

The Valediction of Moses

Moses Wilhelm Shapira's infamous Deuteronomy manuscripts – long believed to be forgeries – are of far greater significance than ever imagined. Idan Dershowitz shows that the text ...

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