Theology

In this study, Lenin Prado explores how the Priestly version of the plagues in Egypt revises the Yahwistic account. He shows how the Priestly narrative uses literary techniques to create a counternarrative that aims to replace the Yahwistic version, revealing key differences and tensions between the two stories.

Theologically and historically worthless? Tobias Nicklas shows that the late antique apostle narratives, which have received little attention to date, are rather to be understood as continued Jesus Christ narratives, offers for identity formation, political statements and important testimonies of Christian symbolic history.

The volume investigates the meaning of Christian faith from the perspective of a scientific worldview and attempts to overcome dogmatism in theology and sciences.

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.