Religious Studies

Joseph is a key figure in biblical literature. Magnus Rabel traces his transformations from Genesis to early Christianity, showing how, as sage, ruler, or tyrant, he shapes central discourses on power, otherness, identity, justice, and reconciliation.

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.

The sixth church membership survey in Germany offers current empirical insights into how respondents perceive »church« and how they assess its activities. Alongside an introduction to the study's methodology and interpretive framework, the book focuses primarily on the analysis and interpretation of key findings in the area of religious education.

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.