Classics

This volume presents Justin's Dialogue with the Jew Trypho, the first surviving literary conversation between a Christian and a Jew, with a new German translation of the Greek text, an introduction, explanatory notes, and thematic essays.

This handbook brings together both classic and cutting-edge methods for interpreting the New Testament. Chapters on historical-critical, literary, and reader-response approaches showcase the wide methodological range through which the text's original setting and its contemporary significance can be explored.

Eric J. P. Wagner identifies and analyzes personified mountains in the Epic of Gilgameš, the Iliad and Odyssey, and Genesis-2 Kings. These »embodied landscapes« represent mythic thinking, inviting a re-reading that traces their meaning(s) and function(s) across each corpus.

What is wrong and problematic about wisdom, so that it can turn out to be fatal for the wise? Marcel Krusche addresses this question on the basis of Old Testament texts in which wisdom appears as an ambivalent or detrimental quality and the (supposedly) wise have a negative image.