New Testaments Books
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten
Book SynopsisWas he a model figure or not? Heiko Wojtkowiak deals with the question of the relationship between Paul's strict ethical mandates toward the congregation of the Philippians and Christ's own actions. His intention is to illuminate the relationship between paraklesis and Christ's saving action as stated in Paul's letter to the Philippians. To approach this diputed question, he looks at the role Christ is given in the epistle as a moral model and particularly illuminates the Christian Psalm (Phil. 2.6-11) and its role in the epistle. From this ethical vantage point Wojtkowiak make the case that with his letter Paul was addressing a concrete conflict there, a crisis prompted by experiences of suffering within this Gentile Christian congregation.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Von Der Paulusschule Bis Zur Johannesoffenbarung.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus / Studien zur
Book SynopsisAusgangspunkt des Werkes ist die Frage, ob der zweite Brief an die Thessalonicher tatsächlich eine Korrektur des ersten Briefes bzw. der dort vertretenen Naherwartung des Paulus darstellt. Fër die Beantwortung dieser Frage ist entscheidend, ob die in 2Thess 2,2 vorgestellte Parole durch "Der Tag des Herrn ist da" oder durch "Der Tag des Herrn ist nah" zu ëbersetzen ist. Im ersten Fall stellt die in 2Thess 2 bekämpfte eschatologische Lehre keine Naherwartung dar, sondern eine (angeblich) realisierte Eschatologie. Der Verfasser des zweiten Briefs antwortet auf sie mit einer bisher in der Exegese kaum bedachten eschatologischen Position: Er antwortet mit einer Erneuerung der Naherwartung, die Paulus im ersten Brief vertreten hat. Taeseong Roh gelingt es, den zweiten Brief des Paulus an die Thessalonicher (sozial-) geschichtlich zu erhellen. Er tritt damit einer in der Exegese weit verbreiteten Resignation entgegen, das im zentralen apokalyptischen Teil in 2Thess 2,3ff Gesagte sei so sehr verschlësselt, dass es heute nicht mehr zu enträtseln ist. Fër die sozialgeschichtliche Fragestellung wertet die Arbeit verschiedene Indizien in 2Thess 2,1-12 aus. Dadurch lässt sich eine bestimmte zeitgeschichtliche Situation im Imperium Romanum des 1. Jh. n.Chr. zur Zeit des Vespasian beschreiben.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus / Studien zur
Book SynopsisThe question of Jesus of Nazareth's wisdom as found in Mark 6:2 is discussed by the author as part of the traditional Jewish conceptions of wisdom, situated in the Greek-Roman times of the first century AD, and as part of New Testament studies of the past few decades.Through both his preaching and his actions Jesus of Nazareth opened up new paths to healing and being healed. This is contrary to the traditional restraint of history toward wisdom, and the apocalyptic drama is transformed from the backrooms of earthly events into an instrumental and dynamic force of history. Human actions experience a provocation that challenges us to revise the present according to the power of God's reign. We begin anew, though fragmentary and doomed to fail, but full of hope in the wisdom of God's reign.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Collected Studies on Philo and Josephus: Edited
Book SynopsisPhilo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus are amongst the most influential ancient writers. In his long scholarly career, Per Bilde (1939–2014) published various essays, studies and articles examining early Judaism and the historical Jesus from the angle of the work of Philo and Josephus. Many of the articles contain in-depth treatment of primary sources, and thus are of great value for scholars to come. The studies in this volume have yet been compiled by Per Bilde himself. They are now edited posthumously with contributions from Steve Mason (Groningen) and Mogens Müller (Copenhagen) responding to Bilde's work.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Paul as homo novus: Authorial Strategies of
Book Synopsis20ths century research in St. Paul is widely impacted by Adolf Deissmann’s prominent view on the apostle as a “homo novus” (1911). But where does this concept originate from, and what does it imply? This collection of articles does not only re-evaluate Deissmann’s concept by tracing it back to its historical and socio-political origins in Cicero and exploring how authors from (early) Imperial Time perceive and transform the homo novus paradigm by diverse modes and strategies of literary self-fashioning. Scholars ranging the fields of New Testament Studies, Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Patristics, and Comparative Literature also examine how the Ciceronian paradigm was early on transformed, disseminated, and applied as a literary concept and an authorial topos of self-molding. One of the leading questions throughout the volume thus is: How do authors like Cicero, Horace, Paul, Tacitus, Seneca, Athanasius, and Augustine fashion themselves in accordance to or in difference from the idea of being a “new man”? It is argued that by means of literary self-configuration, indeed, some of these writers – such as Paul and Augustine – want to appear as “new men” by either altering traditional social, moral, religious, or political roles, or by creating new patterns of social behavior and religious self-understanding.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Das Vaterunser in Seinen Antiken Kontexten: Zum
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Paulinische Schriftrezeption: Grundlagen -
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Genres of Mark: Reading Mark's Gospel from Micro
Book SynopsisOne of the most fundamental questions when reading and trying to understand New Testament texts is the question of genre. It is impossible to understand a text, its meaning and intention, in its proper historical setting if one does not understand its genre: As an example, interpreting a satirical text without understanding the genre would no doubt lead to grave misunderstandings. The same logic applies to texts from the New Testament, and the matter is complicated even further by the immense historical gap between the time of the genesis of the New Testament canon and now. The problem of the New Testament texts’ genre(s) is therefore a vital area of scholarly discussion within international New Testament scholarship. The current volume utilizes the newest insights from current research on the New Testament to cast new light on the question of the genre of Mark’s Gospel. Here, prominent international New Testament scholars discuss how we should understand the genre(s) of Mark’s Gospel, thus making an important contribution to international scholarship on the Gospel of Mark as well as the Gospel genre in general.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Taufe Und Heil Im Johannesevangelium
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Das Evangelium in Einem Rhetorischen Brief: Ein
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Vision Und Assoziation: Form- Und Motivanalyse
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG MTL-Ez 11,25-48,35 und LXX967-Ez 11,25-48,35:
Book SynopsisDieser Band enthält eine Leseausgabe von MTL-Ez 11,25-48,35 und LXX967-Ez 11,25-48,35. Der erhaltene Ezechieltext des Papyrus 967 wurde bislang nur in Teilpublikationen veröffentlicht und wird in der Leseausgabe erstmalig am Stück zugänglich. Die hebräischen und griechischen Texte sind synoptisch korrespondierend in relativ kurzen Zeilen organisiert. Auf diese Weise sind - da in der griechischen Übersetzung in der Regel die hebräische Wortfolge und die Satzstruktur genau nachgeahmt wurde - Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Textfassungen gut erkennbar. In Anmerkungen sind die wichtigsten Fälle ausgewiesen, in denen alle anderen griechischen Handschriften vom Text der "Leithandschrift" LXX967-Ez abweichen. Verzeichnet sind zudem Fälle, in denen die Ezechiel-Handschriften vom Toten Meer einen anderen Text als MTL haben, die Qere-Lesarten und die (seltenen) Fälle von Schreibfehlern im Papyrus. Das Buch ist ein wichtiges Hilfsmittel für die Erschließung der ezechielischen Texte in Bezug auf Textentstehung.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Zweifelskonzepte im Frühchristentum: Dipsychia
Book SynopsisDie Konzepte der Zweiseeligkeit im Jakobusbrief und des Kleinglaubens im Matthäusevangelium reagieren darauf, dass christliche Existenz zu dissonantem Erleben und Verhalten, ja sogar zum Zweifel führen kann. Im Neuen Testament erscheinen mit dípsychos und oligópistos innovative Ausdrücke für die Erkenntnis, dass der Mensch vom Ideal der Einheit mit sich selbst bzw. der ganzheitlichen Ausrichtung auf Gott hin abweichen kann. Um das Neue in den christlichen Texten zu erfassen, unterscheidet Anna Nürnberger bildlich-konkrete, philosophisch-abstrakte, metaphorische, mythische und allegorische Texte und untersucht diese auf Dissonanzphänomene hin. Die Arbeit versteht sich als textorientierter Beitrag zur Historischen Psychologie und will den Facettenreichtum von Vorstellungen erlebens- und verhaltensrelevanter Dissonanz des Menschen in der Antike aufzeigen.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG James among the Classicists: Reading the Letter
Book SynopsisThis book gives attention to the language and style of the letter of James, with a hypothesis about its rhetorical purpose in mind. It focuses on what we can learn about the author of James, by reading the text in light of a guiding research question: How does the author establish and assert authority? The letter builds literary authority for a number of purposes, one of which is to address socioeconomic disparity, a major concern for the author. The author of James presents a speech-in-character in the shape of a letter to establish his ethos (Ch. 2), employing vocabulary and style to signal his education implicitly (Ch. 3 & 4) and includes himself in the categories of sage, teacher and exegete explicitly (Ch. 5). From this standpoint, the author can address the rich as equals, rebuke them and admonish both rich and poor to receive Gods wisdom (Ch. 6).The comparison with ancient literary criticism shows that the categories at play are the same. The insight that language and ethos are inseparable categories in antiquity provides us with renewed ways to interpret the literary production of early Christianity. Both James and the Classicists present a competing epic in the context of the early imperium, the former with an Israelite piety that is superior to contemporary economic and moral categories and the latter with the supremacy of Greek culture as a foundation for Rome. The letter of James emerges as a document that builds educational ethos as a balance against the rich and powerful, a strategy that calls for a revision of both its rhetoric and socio-economic situation.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Early Christian Encounters with Town and
Book SynopsisEver since Jesus walked the hills of Galilee and Paul travelled the roads of Asia Minor and Greece, Christianity has shown a remarkable ability to adapt itself to various social and cultural environments. Recent research has demonstrated that these environments can only be very insufficiently termed as "rural" or "urban". Neither was Jesus' Galilee only rural, nor Paul's Asia only "urban". On the background of ongoing research on the diversity of social environments in the Early Empire, this volume will focus on various early Christian "worlds" as witnessed in canonical and non-canonical texts. How did Early Christians experience and react to "rural" and "urban" life? What were the mechanisms behind this adaptability? Papers will analyse the relation between urban Christian beginnings and the role of the rural Jesus-tradition. In what sense did the image of Jesus, the "Galilean village Jew", change when his message was carried into the cities of the Mediterranean world from Jerusalem to Athens or Rome? Papers will not only deal with various personalities or literary works whose various attitudes towards urban life became formative for future Christianity. They will also explore the different local milieus that demonstrate the wide range of Christian cultural perspectives.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Ecce Agnus Dei: Rezeptionsästhetische
Book SynopsisThe Lamb of God has been a recurring motif in art history for two millennia. Saskia Lerdon investigates the impact of this christological metaphor on European art. Finding numerous examples within art history, she illustrates that this metaphor has been consistently reinterpreted and reconfigured in the artists’ historical situations. A key question is: Did new meanings develop in the course of this historical process beyond the original intentions of the authors of the New Testament? Hermeneutical theories such as those of Hans-Georg Gadamer help to analyse the material in addressing this question.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Talking God in Society: Multidisciplinary
Book SynopsisPeter Lampes work has covered a wide range of fields, the common denominator being his interest in contextualizing belief systems. Mirroring his multifaced work, the authors pursue his interest from different interdisciplinary angles, addressing the interdependence between religious expressions and their situations or contexts. The application of theoretical models to texts examples flanks the inspiring theoretical - epistemological and methodological - reflections. Studies in socio-economic and political history adjoin archaeological, epigraphic, papyrological and iconographic investigations. (Social-)psychological interpretations of texts complement rhetorical analyses. The hermeneutical reception of biblical materials in, for example, the Koran and Christian Chinese or Orthodox contexts, as well as in religious education and homiletics, rounds off the volumes.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Exaltation in the Epistles of St Paul Against the
Book SynopsisSlawomir Jan Stasiak's book is devoted to the theme of exaltation in the letters of St Paul and the terminology related to his issue. A comparison of the Greek classical texts with the letters of St Paul shows that, following the example of his predecessors, Paul presents God as the Most High. However, he also writes about Him as the One. On high the world of Olympus was inhabited by gods. For the Apostle, heights are not only the place of Gods existence, but also the goal of human life. The antithesis between humiliation and exaltation characteristic of the ancient world is also used by Paul. Some of the classical authors accepted the possibility of a human resurrection. Paul made the theme of the resurrection of Jesus and the resurrection of believers one of the key treatises of his theology (1 Cor 15). The ancient world also had a negative understanding of heights as pride and exaltation. Stasiak also find this theme in Pauls letters, albeit in a somewhat richer dimension.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG A Structural Commentary on the So-Called
Book SynopsisControversies regarding the authorship of the Letter of James, the date of its composition, its addressees and, when compared to other biblical writings, similarities and differences on lexical, semantic and theological levels generated debates concerning its literary genre, coherence, its associations with other texts as well as intertextual strategies. This structural commentary is part of this discussion. What is emphasized in the commentary is not the issue of justification and the relationship between deeds and faith but the sapiential character of the Letter of James. The new analytical approach has become possible due to an innovative view of the structure of the letter. The authors propose a structure organized around the catalogue of attributes of wisdom enumerated in James 3:17. The second important value of this study is its ecumenical (Catholic-Lutheran) dimension.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Kolosserbrief
Book SynopsisKolosserbriefkommentar â Leser:innen mitgenommen auf neue Wege
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Men and Women in the Household of God: A
Book SynopsisKorinna Zamfir explores the manner in which the Pastoral Epistles redefine roles and ministries within a changed ecclesiological framework (the ekklesia as oikos Theou). The contextual investigation focuses on the cultural and social background of the station codes and church orders. Applying the environmental approach advanced by Abraham Malherbe, Zamfir discusses the Pastoral Epistles as writings intimately linked to their Greco-Roman social and cultural environment. The volume addresses the mentalities reflected in moral philosophies, political theories, drama and epigraphy, focusing on the discourse articulated in these sources. Exploring the adoption of conservative mentalities, the monograph advances a reading of the Pastoral Epistles based on ideology critique. It also incorporates insights gained from research on the social world of earliest Christianity, in particular on private associations. Korinna Zamfir argues that the ecclesiology of the Pastoral Epistles presupposes the metaphorical use of oikos Theou and shows that in Greco-Roman antiquity oikos denotes larger social entities like the religious association, the polisand the cosmos. The ekklesia is the oikos and polis of God. As a consequence the Pastoral Epistles define roles and ministries based on the public-private divide and on honor and shame mentality. The theo-logical and cosmic dimension of the household of God explains the essentialist understanding of social and ecclesial roles. The author also tackles the contrast between discourse and ecclesial reality.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Jesus - Gestalt Und Gestaltungen: Rezeptionen Des
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Zwischen Synoptikern Und Gnosis - Ein Viertes
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Ein 'Unertragliches Philologisches Possenspiel'?:
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Kynismus Und Christentum in Der Antike
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Der gekreuzigte Triumphator: Eine motivkritische
Book SynopsisEine Vielzahl von Erzähldetails des Markusevangeliums lassen sich bei näherem Hinsehen als chiffrierte Referenzen, d.h. als bewusst vage gehaltene Anspielungen, auf das Ritual des römischen Triumphzugs lesen. Diese Allusionen entwerfen für die Erzählfigur des markinischen Jesus vor dem Hintergrund des Triumphzugs eine Doppelrolle: Im Geschick der Gestalt Jesus werden sowohl die Figur des siegreichen Triumphators wie die des im Triumphzug hinzurichtenden königlichen Gefangenen sichtbar. Auf diese Weise entsteht für die Erstleserinnen und -leser des Markusevangeliums das irritierende Konzept eines gekreuzigten Triumphators. Bilder von Hoheit und Niedrigkeit, Sieg und Niederlage, Tod und Leben überlagern sich. Und gerade im scheinbaren Scheitern am Kreuz sollen die Leser einen Triumphator entdecken: eine christologische Herausforderung erster Güte.In seiner Studie identifiziert und untersucht Markus Lau diese markinischen Allusionen auf das Ritual des römischen Triumphzugs unter Rekurs auf ein breites exegetisches Methodenspektrum und interpretiert diese Anspielungen im Blick auf ihre literarische Funktionalität. Das Phänomen der uneindeutigen Anspielung wird dabei literaturwissenschaftlich und wissenschaftstheoretisch reflektiert, um die Plausibilität der Behauptung chiffrierter Referenzen im exegetischen Diskurs nachzuweisen. Eine kulturgeschichtlich ausgerichtete und ritualtheoretisch fundierte Darstellung des römischen Triumphzugs liefert die Basis, um die Allusionen auf den Triumphzug im Markustext zu entdecken, die in der Passionsgeschichte ihren inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt haben, sich aber auch im Rahmen einer erneuten Lektüre des Evangeliums, auf die der Text angesichts seines offenen Endes geradezu angelegt ist, im literarischen 'Galiläa' des Markus und auf dem Weg nach 'Jerusalem' entdecken lassen. Kritik an einer staatstragenden rituellen Institution des Imperium Romanum zuüben, ist dabei nur eine Funktion der Anspielungen. Sie transportieren zugleich eine herausfordernde christologische Botschaft und konturieren das markinische Verständnis von Jesusnachfolge.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG If Christ Has Not Been Raised ...: Studies on the
Book SynopsisHow the Early Church believed in Ressurection
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Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Theologie des Neuen Testaments: Historische
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Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Paulus: Ein Grundriss seiner Theologie
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Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Die Botschaft des Neuen Testaments
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Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Der Galaterbrief im Religionsunterricht: Die
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Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Die Botschaft des Neuen Testaments
Book SynopsisDer Hebräerbrief ist eine urchristliche Predigt, die als Brief, vielleicht nach Rom, versandt wurde. Der unbekannte, schriftgelehrte und sprachmächtige Verfasser will die bedrängte und angefochtene Gemeinde trösten und ermahnen. Das Wort tröstlicher Ermahnung entfaltet eine einzigartige Hohepriesterchristologie und deren Bedeutung fër die Gemeinde: Schaut auf den himmlischen Hohenpriester Jesus. Auf ihn könnt ihr euch verlassen. Werft euer Vertrauen nicht weg - denn auf euch wartet im himmlischen Thronsaal eine wunderbare Belohnung: Ihr werdet im Angesicht Gottes den ewigen Sabbat feiern.
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Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Fenster zum Himmel: Gleichnisse im Neuen
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Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Wozu Kirche gut ist: Beiträge aus
Book SynopsisUlrich Heckel bietet Beiträge zu Fragen neutestamentlicher Exegese und kirchlicher Arbeit, dem Theodizeeproblem, dem Friedensverständnis und der Missionsstrategie des Paulus sowie dem alten und dem neuen Menschen. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet die Taufe im Neuen Testament und bei Luther. Thematisiert werden zudem Bestattung, Gottesdienst und Segen, Kirchenmusik und Erwachsenenbildung sowie biblisch-theologische Überlegungen zu Schrift, Geist und Kirche, zu Luthers Zwei-Reiche-Lehre, zu den sieben Kennzeichen für die Einheit der Kirche nach Eph 4 und zu Fragen des interreligiösen Dialogs.
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Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Die Botschaft des Neuen Testaments
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Der Kolosserbrief
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Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Johannes lesen und verstehen: Im Gesprach mit
Book SynopsisThe volume documents a symposium at the University of Zurich on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Jean Zumstein. In a variety of topics, it offers a discussion with the researcher of the jubilee on the Gospel of John. The individual contributions reflect the enduring importance of the narratologically based, hermeneutically and theologically oriented approach of the interpretation of St. Reflections on the reception and impact history of the Gospel by Antoine de Saint-Exupérie round off the volume.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Die Exegese Des 2 Kor Und Phil Im Lichte Der
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Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Die Nichtgläubigen
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Logos Verlag Berlin Paul, Le Persecuteur Appele a Temoigner: Etude
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Johannesoffenbarung: (Offb.1,1-5,14)
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Der Brief an Philemon
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V&R Unipress Heilig - In Christus: Studien Zu Raumaspekten Der
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V&R unipress GmbH Q in Context II: Social Setting and Archeological
Book SynopsisFor the right understanding of the Sayings Source Q not only the relation to early Judaism but also the social landscape in which the texts evolved is undeniably crucial. Here results of Galilean Archeology are brought into contact with sociological models how Jesus and the Q-community might have interacted with their contemporaries (cf. the thesis of social disruption by G. Theißen, attitudes in early Judaism towards the Temple by B. Ego, the role of women in early Judaism by T. Ilan, the situation in the Diaspora by P. Trebilco). The question is also extended to the social profile of the authorities behind the Sayings Source Q: Were they itinerant prophets or village scribes?
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V&R Unipress Konigsvolk Und Gotteskinder: Der Entwurf Der
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V&R unipress GmbH Die Konigsmacher: Wie die synoptischen Evangelien
Book SynopsisJesus is the only true king and shall be recognised as such. The synoptic gospels intend to convince their ancient readers of this - well justified. They legitimate Jesus as king in a literary way -- and at the same time distance him from possible competitors. Apart from the consensus in all three gospels the readers find specific strategies for legitimation (Mark: aretalogical-charismatic; Mathew: genealogical-dynastic; Luke: religious-theocratic). The synoptic gospels intervene in ancient power-political discourses and run election campaigns for Jesus. In the ancient universe of rulers with its competing candidates they clearly take side for their favourite candidate Jesus and therefore take an important part in the concert of the ancient king makers.
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V&R unipress GmbH Bonner Biblische Beiträge: Die Herkunft Jesu
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