Classics

How was religious education taught in one of the central institutions of emerging Christianity? The contributors to this volume examine late antique sermons from the Latin West, explore how biblical content and saints were addressed in them, and how questions of Christian ethics and faith were communicated.

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.

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.