Theology

What we know as the Holy Land is not merely the biblical land. The contributions to this volume demonstrate how it - perhaps even more than through biblical texts - was created by extracanonical traditions of texts, rituals, and material culture.

The cross is the tremendum of theology and its fascinosum . The cross as a rupture of interpretations marks the Other of the media of religion. The cross breaks open the possibilities for the media of religion: in word, writing and image of the cross. Theology of the cross thus becomes the phobic prolegomena of medial theology.

In this critical edition, Jeremy R. Brown analyzes 105 manuscripts of Ethiopic Jonah, reconstructing five text types from the 14th to the 20th century. He demonstrates both the uniformity and the gradual revisions that shaped the transmission history of this biblical tradition.

Christian Blumenthal interprets the Epistle of Jude and the Second Epistle of Peter in their cultural contexts, elaborates on their strategic theological ambiguities, and inquires into their pragmatic potential against the backdrop of the expansive polemical black-and-white contrasts in both epistles.