Theology

What role did standing stones play in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East during the Bronze and Iron Ages? Mathias Litzenburger analyzes archaeological evidence, inscriptions, and biblical texts, revealing the stones' polyvalent functions as markers, images, and ritual objects.

Aļesja Lavrinoviča reassesses 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 through textual criticism and linguistic analysis. By combining manuscript study with pragmatics, she demonstrates that the passage constitutes a later editorial interpolation rather than Pauline authorship.

What rhetorical strategies with the goal of edification do theologians pursue in sermons? How are their theological concepts expressed in this aesthetic form, which is oriented towards the reality of people's lives? This volume is intended as a foundation for understanding the most important Protestant theologians since the Enlightenment.