Religious Studies

How did early Christians navigate daily life in the Roman Empire? Leading experts introduce innovative methodological approaches and demonstrate through detailed textual analyses that this question requires nuanced consideration and is essential for understanding early Christian texts.

In this volume, leading experts examine the life and thought of Bardaisan († 222) through a newly prepared bilingual Syriac-English edition of, and commentary on, the Book of the Law of Countries alongside the extant Greek fragments. These sources showcase Bardaisan's arguments on human intellect, free will, fate, astrology, cosmology, eschatology, and the concept of universal restoration.

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 contributors to this volume present an overview of current Johannine scholarship after the decline of the Semeia Source hypothesis. Focusing both on individual semeia narratives and broader topics such as scriptural interpretation, they offer insights into the theological and literary significance of the »Semeia« in the Fourth Gospel.