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Der vorliegende Band geht der Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Platonismus und Christentum in der Spätantike im Blick auf die Themen Gottesbild, Weltentstehung, Schöpfung, Providenz und Freiheit nach. Wieweit sind antik-christliche Autoren von platonischem Denken geprägt? Wo und wie nehmen sie es gar als hermeneutischen Schlüssel zur Welterklärung? Wieweit wirken christliche Schriftsteller auf den Neuplatonismus zurück? Die Beiträge von Christoph Markschies, Holger Strutwolf, Christian Pietsch und Alfons Fürst wurden bei einem Kolloquium zum 85. Geburtstag von Barbara Aland vorgestellt und sind im vorliegenden Band samt einer Replik der Jubilarin und einer kurzen Einführung von Eve-Marie Becker versammelt.

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Sustained, comparative Synoptic studies do not stand alone methodologically in the humanities, but belong to a more general trend within cultural studies as well as in the humanities more broadly. Textual interpretation involves approaching specific texts composed more often than not by individual authors. In these texts, however, are embedded a myriad of conscious and unconscious relationships to historical and contemporary events, people, and other texts likewise connected historically and contemporaneously. In-depth understanding of a text evolves, therefore, almost by necessity from multi-perspectival comparative approaches rather than from readings taking a more isolated focus as point of departure. The Mark and Matthew project, of which the present study is the second volume, aims at taking seriously such more general insights and applying them to the earliest Gospels in order to stimulate new research and a deeper understanding of these two texts individually and as parts of a common discursive setting. In the present volume, the goal has been to shed light on the interpretation and use of the earliest Gospels from the first to the twenty-first century, with special focus on cultural hermeneutics and theology. The dynamics of interpretation, including the role played by history, methodology, religion, and politics, are taken into consideration, shedding light on distinctive aspects of the human endeavour to understand and use sacred text in context. One of the characteristics of the interpretive effort that is highlighted through this approach is the fact that texts are silent until we, their readers, give them voice; that meaning and use happen in the interplay between history and the present, residing never in one place alone, but rather in the dynamic space embracing both text and reader.

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The study of Mark and Matthew from a comparative perspective has a long history. Ever since the theory of Markan priority became firmly established in the 19th century however, many studies, especially commentaries on either Mark or Matthew, make observations related primarily to one of the Gospels only. Thus the most frequent result of studying Mark and Matthew is that one Gospel is overshadowed by the other. This collection of papers employs a sustained multiperspectival comparative approach which contributes simultaneously to the synoptic problem discourse and sheds light on the individual Gospels in their first century setting(s), a procedure that reveals new questions and discoveries. This highlights new aspects of the Gospels which are critical for our understanding of the rise and development of Gospel literature in the first century C.E. Contributors: Barbara Aland, David E. Aune, Wayne Baxter, Eve-Marie Becker, Cilliers Breytenbach, Warren Carter, Sean Freyne, Morten Hørning Jensen, John S. Kloppenborg, Stanley E. Porter, Anders Runesson, David C. Sim, Lorenzo Scornaienchi, Tommy Wasserman, Oda Wischmeyer, Adela Yarbro Collins, Linden Youngquist

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Translated from German into English for the first time, this monograph seeks to reclaim the original sense of humility as an ethical mindset that is of community-building value. This exploration of humility begins with a consideration of how the concept plays into current cultural crises before considering its linguistic and philosophical history in Western culture. In turning to the roots of Christian humility, Eve-Marie Becker focuses on Philippians 2, a passage in which Paul appeals to the lowliness of Christ to encourage his fellow Christians to persevere. She shows that humility both formed the basis of the ethic Paul instilled in Christ-believing communities and acted as a mimetic device centered on Jesus' example that was molded into the earliest Christian identity and community.

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Die in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze von Oda Wischmeyer, vier davon bisher unveröffentlicht, gelten der Paulusforschung. Die Aufsätze spiegeln die dynamische Entwicklung der Paulusforschung der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte und dienen gleichzeitig der Entwicklung einer eigenen Paulusinterpretation: beyond the new, the radical new and the "Paul within Judaism" perspectives on Paul . Paulus wird aus vier Blickrichtungen erschlossen: erstens als eigenständiger historischer Akteur der frühen Kaiserzeit; zweitens als Theologe, der die religiöse Tradition Israels und ihre Weltdeutung von seiner Christuserfahrung her neu interpretiert; drittens als Autor intellektuell anspruchsvoller Brieftexte; und viertens als eine der Gestalten, die das europäische Denken geprägt haben, oder anders gesagt: als eine Gestalt der europäischen Ideengeschichte, deren Wirkung aber längst eine globale geworden ist.

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This volume takes up the current scholarly debate on the literary profile and the author of the Letter of James. The approach reaches beyond the conventional historical quest for James' epistolary authorship and intellectual provenance by combining observations about the explicit, the implicit, the historical, and the literary author with studies on style, rhetoric, literary criticism, genre criticism and literary history, religious profiles, literary patterns of authorship, and communicative structures. The essays of this volume present new insights into James' literary concept and multifaceted authorial profile based on the latest research in ancient (epistolary) author-literature, provide new methodological perspectives on early Christian epistolary authorship, and situate the Letter of James within the context of an emerging Christ-believing literary culture.

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