Religious Studies

Given the criticism of compassion expressed as far back as antiquity, its positive assessment and relevance to theology, Christology, and ethics in the Gospel of Luke is surprising. Elisa M. Klein situates this in the context of philosophical and early Jewish conceptions of emotion and highlights the significance of disgust in the Gospel.

Stefano De Feo explores how ancient Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman traditions used the lexeme ἔσχατος. By tracing this key Greek word across diverse sources, the author offers a fresh look at how ideas of 'the end' are shaped - or not - by the vocabulary that eventually became eponymous for eschatology.

Mathias Sånglöf compares occurrences of the Spirit of God in Pauline and Johannine texts on a lexical, grammatical, and conceptual level and asks the following questions: What are the common traits associated with the Spirit? What is the unique profile of each corpus? Can one corpus help us understand the other better?

Building on nearly thirty years of research, Ilaria Ramelli analyzes the pseudepigraphic Seneca-Paul correspondence. Drawing on non-literary Greek and Latin letters from the first centuries CE, she offers new insights into intertextuality, Graecisms, reception history, and early Christian philosophical discourse.