Philosophy

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.

The Holy Spirit is central in the Gospel of John. Michael R. Jost compares the Johannine conception of the Holy Spirit with the Daimonion of Socrates in (Middle) Platonic writings, offering a clarification of the Johannine discourse on spirits as well as impulses for the religious-historical classification of the fourth Gospel.

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.

Reality and fiction are basic ontological categories, but they are not only subjects for philosophy. Theorizing in various fields of the humanities has developed an understanding of these categories and has put them in a dynamic relationship. The articles in this volume investigate the synchronic and diachronic variation in their relationship.