The Encyclopedia of Material Culture in the Biblical World (EBW) builds on the German »Standardwerk« Biblisches Reallexikon (BRL). It is a ...
Leppin, Hartmut
Michel Foucault clarified and defined the meaning of ancient parrhesia. In this work, Hartmut Leppin attempts to trace and contextualize the history of the Greek word ...
Fürst, Alfons
Alfons Fürst traces the paths to freedom etched out in the pagan, Jewish and Christian thinking of antiquity. The early Christians drew on ancient concepts of self-agency as developed ...
This volume offers interdisciplinary studies of the genres of parables, fables, and similes from a range of Graeco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian sources in antiquity. It highlights both the fluid boundaries ...