Religious Studies

Modern theology has long treated miracles as an embarrassment - relics of a pre-scientific age. This volume reverses the lens: it reads miracle narratives as semiotic processes that do not break reality but interpret it.

What, how, and with whom we eat has been meaningful since antiquity. This volume offers interdisciplinary insights into ancient meal rituals, fasting, and dietary laws, and their influence today. It focuses on ethical, religious, and cultural interpretations in the context of food ethics and identity.

This volume tests the »within Judaism« paradigm as a heuristic rather than a presupposition. Contributors explore how New Testament texts formed within the pluralism of Second Temple Judaism and assess their value as expressions of groups embedded in Jewish history, with attention to boundaries, external perceptions, and literary genres.

Tyler Hallstrom engages in the debate about the meaning of Jesus's dramatic disturbance in the Jerusalem Temple. He provides an in-depth study of the relevant biblical texts, historical context, and socio-economic factors and concludes that Jesus's indignation was indeed directed at economic exploitation in the temple.