Classics

Theologically and historically worthless? Tobias Nicklas shows that the late antique apostle narratives, which have received little attention to date, are rather to be understood as continued Jesus Christ narratives, offers for identity formation, political statements and important testimonies of Christian symbolic history.

The end of the kingship in Jerusalem led to new theological insights into the possibility of encountering Yahweh. Reettakaisa Sofia Salo shows that according to the Old Testament, God can always be recognized in the actual historical events in the world. This is why the ways of recognizing Yahweh appear to be very variable.

In this study, Stephen Germany investigates the literary function of the Philistines and Arameans in the books of Samuel and Kings and reconstructs the compositional history and historical background of the narratives in which they appear.