Classics

Literature or textbook? In antiquity, no clear distinction was made in this respect, as Christian Neumann demonstrates regarding the complex interplay of literary design and didactic function in Plutarch's Quaestiones Graecae and Romanae and Gellius' Noctes Atticae.

How did urban life in ancient Corinth shape early Christianity - and vice versa? This handbook integrates archaeology, ancient history, and biblical studies to offer an accessible, authoritative guide to one of the Roman world's most important cities.

This textbook examines a dilemma that is likely well known to many in theology but has rarely been addressed: the issue of »normative judgments,« that is, the many argumentative assessments of what is to be evaluated positively or negatively in theological topics as well as in theological approaches.

Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin examines a group of Coptic prayer texts known in modern scholarship as »magical liturgies.« Drawing on the sociological concept of »multiple identities,« she explores how these prayers can, from an etic perspective, be described as »apocryphal,« »magical,« and »liturgical.«