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In Ovid's Metamorphoses not only figures are transformed, but also the human environment, including cities. This study takes a comprehensive look at the phenomenon of urbanity in the epic for the first time: With the help of a spatial narratological method, she examines the representation and function of the individual cities in the course of the work, with a special focus on Thebes, Athens, Troy and Rome. It becomes clear that a primarily historical-political interpretation of Ovid's depictions of the city would be wrong; rather, the book shows that the cities are primarily to be seen as literary landscapes.

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Das Jahr 1990 markiert eine epochale Wende in der Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Die Leitung der MPG nahm an der Gestaltung der Wissenschaftspolitik der deutschen Vereinigung zugunsten der Ausweitung des bundesdeutschen Wissenschaftssystems in den Osten aktiv teil. Danach kam es zu einer einmaligen Expansion im Osten unter geringer Beteiligung ostdeutscher Wissenschaftler:innen und auch zu präzedenzlosen Kürzungen im Westen. Mitchell G. Ash analysiert die Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Prozess der deutschen Vereinigung als Beispiel des Zusammenspiels von Wissenschaft und Politik als Ressourcen füreinander in politischen Umbruchzeiten.

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Latin in schools is experiencing an ever stronger revival among both parents and students at the gymnasium and in comprehensive schools. There have never been so many Latin pupils as there are today. This presents new challenges to teachers who strive to keep all pupils on track by differentiating their lessons and paying special attention to their respective competence and the influence of modern foreign languages. All pupils today are also learning English parallel to Latin and often implement computers and other tools to help them learn.This handbook explores these developments and challenges and implements them into teaching Latin in schools, particularly for teachers still in training. It looks at the central themes of content, methods and modern Latin didactics and Latin exerciseswith particular emphasis on aspects of language didactics, i.e., both traditional themes such as grammar, vocabulary, translation and competence orientation as well as working with portfolios and new media.Each topic is first explained shortly in theory and then presented using practical examples from classroom situations. For the basic problems there are a number of concrete suggestions for implementing this knowledge in daily work.

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Ein Klassiker der Lateindidaktik: ungebrochen aktuell, weiterhin verfügbar. "Lateinunterricht. Didaktik und Methodik" geht in seinen Grundzügen auf das Ende der 70er Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts zurück. Das Werk war seinerzeit eine Antwort auf die Krise des Lateinunterrichts, dessen Wert und Methodik seit den 60er Jahren deutlich in Frage gestellt wurden. Der Band wurde zum Standardwerk. Die Neuauflage ist ergänzt um ein aktuelles Vorwort und macht diesen Klassiker mit seinen nach wie vor gültigen Aussagen auch für nachfolgende Generationen fruchtbar.

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Parents need to know how to gently persuade and nurture their children. But above all it is important that they are simply there for their children – parental presence as the new concept of child guidance.

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The volume contains the comedy poets from Aristophon to Dromon, who were active in the 4th century BC. The three best-witnessed poets Aristophon, Axionikos and Dionysios offer interesting insights into the development of the genre in the later phase of "Middle Comedy". In the fragments of the Aristophone there are some of the most apt examples of the poets' engagement with contemporary philosophy (Pythagoras and Plato). Dionysius is closest to the "New Comedy". Some of his fragments show the development of the comedy characters who regularly appear in connection with festivals and guest-monists.

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(Text in German) Weit über die Zeitgeschichte hinaus ist "Sicherheit" in den letzten Jahren zu einem wichtigen Thema der Geschichtswissenschaft geworden. Die historische Forschung hat dabei einen Impuls der Gegenwart aufgenommen. Sie fragt nach den Gründen für die gestiegene Bedeutung von Sicherheit in modernen Gesellschaften und versucht zugleich, die Dynamiken von Sicherheit in unterschiedlichen, auch weiter zurückreichenden historischen Kontexten zu analysieren. In einer Verknüpfung von politischen, gesellschaftlichen und sozialkulturellen Entwicklungen einerseits sowie historiografischen Tendenzen andererseits behandelt der durch seine eigene Forschung ausgewiesene Verfasser die Gründe für das wachsende Interesse von Historikern an der Sicherheitsthematik. Es verweist auf Traditionen sicherheitsbezogener Forschung in der Geschichtswissenschaft, beschäftigt sich aber vor allem mit deren Erweiterung (thematisch und konzeptionell). Neue Ansätze der Sicherheitsforschung, darunter das Konzept der "Sicherheitskultur", das des "Sicherheitsdispositivs" und das der "Versicherheitlichung", werden vorgestellt, an konkreten Beispielen entfaltet und auf ihr analytisches Potential befragt. Der Nutzen sozialwissenschaftlicher Theorieangebote wird dabei ebenso erörtert wie der Wert geschichtswissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen für die Theoriebildung. Brücken schlägt der Autor ferner zu verwandten Forschungsgebieten (Risiko-, Präventions- und Bedrohungsforschung). So liefert das Buch eine grundlegende und problemorientierte Einführung in die Historische Sicherheitsforschung.

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This volume is devoted to the over 200 fragments of Cratinus for which have no play title. Much of the material has never been commented on previously. Douglas Olson and Ryan Seaberg offer a close literary, philological and historical study of the fragments, with particular attention to textual, poetic and linguistic issues of all sorts and to the lexicographic sources that preserve the material. Their general goal is to open up problems and perspectives rather than to shut them down. By teasing out some of their individual puzzles and peculiarities they want to render the fragments accessible to further scholarly work. The commentary of the Fragmenta Comica series illuminate not only the genre history of comedy, but also the Greek literary history of the Classical and Hellenistic period.

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Classics as an academic discipline appears to belong to the lecture hall and the seminar. But Classics is alive outside Classics, as the studies collected in this volume show. We engage with Classics in the 19th century through the hymn Gaudeamus Igitur and a popular song on Herman the German, we meet Classics in the Early Modern school, in the 19th century celebrating the Olympics in King Otto's Greece, and identifying the gorilla, and in the 20th century invention of Spartacus as a Bulgarian. We encounter frauds, hoaxes, and the lexicographical tradition, by looking at two works fraudulently ascribed to a Byzantine author, at a joke presented as a New Testament agraphon, at the lexicographical invention of Euboean Cyme, and at the tradition of poking fun at lexica in lexica themselves. We learn about classicists ousted from Classics through the lives of Richard Laqueur and Victor Ehrenberg, and we engage with two publications which were highly influential in popularising Classics: Falke's cultural history of Greece and Rome, and Asterix. The volume thus presents fourteen studies on Classcis outside Classics.

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Der Begriff "Heimat" ist derzeit in aller Munde. Wenig verwunderlich mag noch erscheinen, dass die zuletzt auch in Deutschland mit Aplomb emporgekommene politische Rechte die Notwendigkeit von kultureller Identität, völkischer Gemeinschaft und nationaler Heimat als Arznei gegen das vermeintliche Gift von grenzëberschreitender Globalisierung und wissensgesellschaftlicher Vereinzelung propagiert. Überraschend mutet dagegen die aktuelle Konjunktur des Heimat-Themas im Spektrum links-liberaler Parteien, Literaten, Kulturschaffender an. Besteht die auf den ersten Blick anachronistisch anmutende Attraktivität der Idee der Heimat darin, dass sie sich "am mentalen Verkehrsknotenpunkt von Globalisierung, romantischem Neo-Konservatismus und neuen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Konfliktlinien" (Koppetsch) befindet? Verbindet sich die Heimat-Renaissance also mit der Frage nach Sicherheit und der Suche nach verlässlichen Bindungen in Zeiten des digitalen und ökonomischen Wandels? Oder spielen Flucht- und Migrationsbewegungen diesbezëglich die entscheidende Rolle, dies im Sinne einer Verlustangst bei Teilen der deutschen Gesellschaft angesichts der Zuwanderung von ethnisch, sprachlich, kulturell Fremden? Lässt sich dergleichen gar historisch verallgemeinern, korrespondieren Heimat-Boomphasen also generell mit tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen, ökonomischen und/oder kulturellen Transformationen - vom Aufkommen der Heimat-Bewegungen gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis hin zur "Ostalgiewelle" in den 1990er Jahren? Grundsätzlicher noch: Was ist das ëberhaupt, Heimat? Diesen Fragen geht die INDES in diesem Heft nach.

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Wie realisiert man Projekte im Unterricht? Wie entwickelt man Projektideen? Wie organisiert, wie strukturiert man ein Projekt? FÃ"r den Unterricht sind Forschendes Lernen und Projektarbeit immer wieder gewÃ"nscht, aber wie setzt man diese Zugänge in der Praxis gut um?Dieser Band bietet Religionslehrkräften Ã"ber 65 Ideen und Hilfen fÃ"r die Praxis sowie Methoden zur Projektrealisierung. Generell einsetzbar und sehr hilfreich sind z. B. Checklisten, die die Lehrkräfte ihren SchÃ"lerinnen und SchÃ"lern an die Hand geben können. Konkret gibt es beispielsweise Anregungen fÃ"r ein Projekt zu nachhaltiger Kleidung oder zur Erforschung von Biografien. Die SchÃ"lerinnen und SchÃ"ler sind dabei aufgefordert, weitestgehend selbständig zu arbeiten. Forschendes Lernen und Projektarbeit können somit einen wichtigen Beitrag dazu leisten, sie in einem geschÃ"tzten Raum auf das Leben vorzubereiten. Sönke Zankel und Niklas GÃ"nther zeigen, wie es geht.

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Seelsorge gilt mit Recht als Herzstëck der Pastoral - einer Pastoral, die sich als kreative Konfrontation des Evangeliums mit unserer Gegenwart versteht. Pastoral lässt an Hirten, an bäuerliches Leben denken, an biblische Kultur, an Agrikultur - und nicht etwa an heutige Kulturwelten. Die Konfrontation des Evangeliums mit unserer Gegenwart geht von Anfang an mit fremden, wenn nicht befremdlichen Ansprëchen einher. Seelsorge ist konzeptionell eine interkulturelle Qualität eigen, noch bevor Fragen einer interkulturellen Seelsorge laut werden, sei es aufgrund muslimischer Patientinnen und Patienten in katholischen oder evangelischen Krankenhäusern, sei es aufgrund ausländischer Priester in Deutschland, sei es aufgrund vielfältiger Migrations- und Fluchtbewegungen. Seelsorge interkulturell lässt programmatisch anklingen, dass es nicht allein um Gestalten interkultureller Seelsorge geht, sondern um eine Interkulturalität, wie sie zum Selbstverständnis jeder Seelsorge gehört.Zu diesem Band tragen Autorinnen und Autoren mit praktisch-theologischer und insbesondere pastoralpsychologischer Kompetenz bei: Bischof Franz-Josef Bode, Ulrike Elsdörfer, Ottmar Fuchs, Rebecca Marie Hafner MMS, Martin Kempen, Tobias Keßler CS, Klaus Kießling, Agnes Lanfermann MMS, Jakob Mertesacker, Peter Claver Narh SVD und Lisa Straßberger.Dieser Band will die aktuellen pastoralpsychologischen Diskussionen inspirieren und vorantreiben. Er richtet sich an Seelsorgerinnen und Theologen sowie an alle, die sich in der Pastoral der Kirchen engagieren und dafër Verantwortung tragen.

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Ziel des Programms WIRwerden ist es, Schulen darin zu unterstützen, zugewanderte Kinder in ihrer Entwicklung einer positiven Identität als Mitglied der Aufnahmekultur Deutschland zu begleiten und deren soziale Integration zu fördern. Dazu werden dyadische Peerbeziehungen (Tandems) etabliert, in denen jeweils ein zugewandertes Kind mit einem in Deutschland sozialisierten Peer verbunden wird. Im Programm werden alle teilnehmenden Kinder u. a. in der Entwicklung ihres Selbstwertes und ihrer Selbstwirksamkeit, ihrer emotionalen und sozialen Kompetenzen und ihrer Reflexionsfähigkeit begleitet. Gemeinsam lernen die Kinder in neun angeleiteten Gruppensitzungen Themen wie z. B. eigene und andere Werte oder Emotionen kennen und erfahren körperbewusstes Auftreten. Sie reflektieren im Tandem und in der Gruppe beispielsweise über Freundschaft, die Veränderbarkeit von geltenden Normen (wie Geschlechternormen) und unterschiedliche Zukunftsvorstellungen. Erprobte und wissenschaftlich evaluierte Materialien stehen als kostenloses Downloadmaterial zur Verfügung.

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This calendar offers the most important calendar aids to all who are active in the life of the Church. It contains the annual slogan, the monthly and weekly sayings and songs, all Sunday texts, the daily Bible readings and slogans, church memorial days, references to Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish and Islamic holidays as well as numerous addresses of Christian churches, associations, services as well as Jewish and Islamic communities and associations. The calendar for everyone in the church service has replaced both the pastor's calendar and the church pocket calendar since 2018 and is aimed at pastors, deacons, community educators, all church employees and volunteers. This year the calendar also contains all information and calendar aids for December 2020 and thus begins with the new church year 2020/2021.

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Stephen J. Hamilton attempts to create a portrait of born-again Christianity by providing a general introduction to the doctrine of regeneration, including its development in modernity, as well as short exegeses of relevant scriptural texts, followed by a close reading of four theologians Philipp Jakob Spener, Jonathan Edwards, Friedrich D.E. Schleiermacher, and Charles G. Finney who all associate the doctrine of regeneration with an experience of presence in the individual believer.In light of these analyses, he then traces a general theological structure of the born-again understanding of regeneration, including a catalogue of theological issues over which there is significant disagreement, in order to create a topography of born-again theologies. In the final section, he applies these results to contemporary conversion narratives of non-theologians. It is in such conversion narratives, the author argues, that theologians can discover an implicit, lived theology that reveals how doctrines are perceived and put into practice among Christians. Accordingly, this is to be understood as the result of the creative reciprocity between (often tacit) theological convictions and the experiences of the Christian life. The final chapter, as a coda to the entire work, offers some concluding reflections on the present cultural and political situation in the USA pertaining to born-again Christianity and argues against any oversimplifications of the relationship between born-again theologies, culture, and politics.

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The authors of this volume investigate the analysis of visual sources and their indispensable role for understanding and interpreting religions, their symbol systems, and the wider traditions of which they are a part. A particular interest in this study is the focus on the methodological challenge of images from a comparative perspective. The common concern that ranges over all the contributions is the search for a methodological perspective where images may be analysed in a comprehensive way, with particular regard for the social, and wider intellectual settings, as well as the religious, in which the images are embedded. Accordingly, we seek to show that visual sources need to be interpreted from different angles. In the last decades, a broad range of publications has contributed to highlight the significance of images, and visual media in general, for understanding religious traditions, communities and discourses in both historical and contemporary perspective. In more recent research streams, focussing on visual media in religious traditions and symbol systems, various avenues have opened up and been explored focussing on the status of images and of the gaze of the viewer as central aspects. Furthermore, there are illuminating contributions dealing with the theoretical premises and settings with which to approach the visual as a central component of religion, on the one hand giving an overview of essential definitions and implications, on the other hand concentrating on specific techniques and/or media.

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Children are denied basic human rights worldwide. The cultural and social disadvantage is an ethical and political scandal! A closer look reveals that the struggle for general human rights and the intensive examination of religion are often interlinked. Trygve Wyller (Oslo), Usha S. Nayar (Mumbai) and their internationally renowned team of authors ask how this situation can be improved globally. They expect that religion in particular can make a decisive contribution to the children's rights action plan and discuss positive approaches based on case studies around the world. With contributions by Marcia J. Bunge, Udi Mandel Butler, Yolanda Corona, Annemie Dillen, Marta Maria Espeseth, John M. Hull, Usha S. Nayar, Irene Rizzini, Jone Salomonsen, Alfons H. Teipen, John Wall, Trygve Wyller and Carlos Pérez Zavala.

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Antonio Gerace dealt with the development of biblical scholarship in Louvain by analysing with seven authors who worked in the first part of the Sixteenth century and who are strictly linked to the Louvain milieu. In chronological order, they include Nicholas Tacitus Zegers (c.1495-1559), John Henten (1499-1566), Cornelius Jansenius of Ghent', Adam Sasbout, John Hessels (1522-1566), Thomas Stapleton, and Francis Lucas 'of Bruges'. Each author offered key-contributions that can effectively show the development of Catholic biblical scholarship in that period. This can be divided into three main thematic areas: 1) Text-criticism of the Latin Vulgate; 2) Exegesis of the Scriptures; and 3) Preaching of the Bible. Somehow, these three areas represent the 'study flow' of the Scriptures: the emendation of the Vulgate, aimed at restoring the text to a hypothetical 'original', and the philological approach to the Greek and Hebrew sources allowing for a better comprehension of the Bible. Such comprehension becomes the basis of commentaries made with the intention of explaining the meaning of the Scriptures to the faithful in the light of the Tradition. Furthermore, the Church needed to preach the Scriptures and their contents to the Catholic flock in order to safeguard them from any 'heretical' influence. Therefore, several homiletic works appeared so that priests could prepare their sermons appropriately. Therefore, Gerace divided his work into three parts, each devoted to one of the three research areas, following the 'study-flow' of the Scriptures.

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From the beginning many of the early Christian communities led an ascetic lifestyle, although a good number of New Testament texts do not seem suitable for justifying radical ascetic and encratite practice. The question thus arises how the different forms of asceticism could be justified on the basis of those scriptures.The articles of the volume focus on the interpretation and application of New Testament texts in various ascetic milieus and in the works of several early Christian authors and on the reception history of New Testament texts either supporting or resisting an ascetic relecture.

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This book contextualizes Claudian's handling of the Proserpina myth and the underworld in the history of literature and religion while showing intersections with and differences between the literary and religious uses of the underworld topos. In doing so, the study provides an incentive to rethink the dichotomy of the terms "religious" and "non-religious" in favour of a more nuanced model of references and refunctionalisations of elements which are, or could be, religiously connotated. A close philological analysis of De raptu Proserpinae identifies the sphere of myth and poetry as an area of expressive freedom, a parallel universe to theological discourses (whether they be pagan-philosophical or Christian), while the profound understanding and skilful use of this particular sphere "a formative aspect of European religious and intellectual history" is postulated as a characteristic of the educated Roman and of Claudian's poetry.

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Aus der Synthese von Cartesianismus und reformierter Orthodoxie entstand in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts eine theologische Bewegung, die vor allem in den Niederlanden die Frage nach der Verhältnisbestimmung von Vernunft und Offenbarung neu stellen ließ. Als deren Apologet machte Christoph Wittich sich einen Namen. Im Zentrum ihrer Kritik stand die von Descartes neu zur Sprache gebrachte These von der Bewegung der Erde um die Sonne. Die ursprünglich von ihren Gegnern sogenannten cartesianischen Theologen um Wittich stellten sich selbst zwei Anforderungen: einerseits biblische Theologie orthodoxen Bekenntnisses zu betreiben, andererseits den neuen wissenschaftlichen Standards, die sich für sie in Wahrheitsbegriff und Naturphilosophie von Descartes bündelten, gerecht zu werden. Wittich entwickelte auf der Grundlage seiner Prolegomena eine Akkommodationstheorie, mit deren Hilfe Themen wie der Heliozentrismus widerspruchsfrei mit biblischen Aussagen vertreten werden konnten.

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The place Schilo comes across in texts of different stripes within the Old Testament. With today's Khirbet Sailūn the location is also of archaeological interest. The present study takes up both the archaeological and exegetical perspectives on Schilo and correlates them with one another. In the course of the text analysis, Ann-Kathrin Knittel works out the development and enrichment of the picture within the Old Testament and the connective function of the sanctuary for the construction of the history of Israel. It can show that the Jewish tradition, according to which Schilo was the most important predecessor of Jerusalem, was not only initiated by the design of the individual texts, but that Schilo's literary success story gradually builds up precisely this picture.

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As a student of Luther and Melanchthon, Joachim Westphal became a pastor in Hamburg in 1541. In the inner Evangelical controversy about the sacrament, he takes the floor against Johannes Calvin. Since then, research has drawn a one-sided portrait of him as a "quarrelsome and unforgiving Gnesiolutheran". Writings, sermons and letters that have not been considered so far provide a more nuanced picture of Westphal. After the introduction of Interim 1548, he took on an idiosyncratic position in the newly inflamed confessionalization process. He wrestles with Luther's legacy, transforms his teachings and differentiates himself from current, newly emerging discourses. Proximity and distance, orientation and delimitation, especially to Melanchthon, describe Westphal's struggle for its own theological profile. The present study outlines his way to the break with Melanchthon in Worms 1557 and presents Westphal in a previously unknown light.

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This collection of eight essays deals with a wide range of historical, literary, and methodological issues. First, what were the links between the cultic and the prophetic personnel? Did prophets have ritual/cultic functions in temples? Did prophetic actions and/or utterances play a role in the performance of the cult? What were the ritual aspects of divinations? Second, how do literary texts describe the interaction between prophecy and cult? Third, how can various theories (e.g. religious theory, performance theory) enable us to reach a better understanding of the interplay between divination and cultic ritual in ancient Israel and the wider ancient Near East?Marian Broida explores the ritual elements as described in the biblical accounts of intercession. Lester Grabbe revisits the important question of whether cultic prophecy existed in the Jerusalem temple in ancient Israel. Anja Klein maintains that while Psalms 81 and 95 may indirectly testify to a form of cultic prophecy, they do not themselves constitute cultic prophecy. Jonathan Stökl discusses the notion of triggering prophecy and suggests that enquiring of Yhwh may in itself be understood as a kind of ritualised behaviour. John Hilber considers the performance of the rituals that accompanied prophetic affirmation of victory in the Egyptian cult. Martti Nissinen looks more broadly at the question whether prophets in the ancient world functioned as ritual performers. Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer investigates the priests mediating and predictive functions as depicted in the Deuteronomistic History. Alex Jassen argues that Jews in the Second Temple Period perceived the priests and the temple to be a new locus of prophetic activity.

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In this study of Christian eschatological thought, virtually no attention has been given to past interpretations of the biblical phrase the new heavens and earth. John Duff uncovers the interpretations of this phrase that were extant in seventeenth-century England. These interpretations fall into two basic camps -- those that understood the phrase metaphorically and those that understood the phrase literally. Some English divines believed the new heavens and earth referred to the new age of the gospel that commenced in the first century CE. At that time, God flung open the doors of salvation to Gentiles while at the same time bringing judgment to the Jewish nation for its failure to recognise and embrace Jesus as Messiah. This epic transition was fittingly described as a new heavens and earth. A second group of English interpreters believed the phrase stood for a yet future time when the political and religious circumstances of the world would change for the betterment of the church for one thousand years. The new heavens and earth stood for a future millennium in which Christ would establish his reign over the world prior to the day of resurrection and final judgment. Theologians who accepted a literal understanding believed the new heavens and earth described the renovation of the physical creation at the final judgment. Among this group, differences of opinion existed with respect to how much of the world would need cleansing, what creatures would be restored and of what use would a renovated world serve. The idea that the earth, and not heaven, would be the final abode of the saints emerged among a few obscure writers.

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In democracies of advanced plurality, religion is a contested and powerful part of public discussions and practices. Today, religious difference is articulated and negotiated controversially in interaction with other spheres of society. While there are clear tendencies of increasing polarization, we also encounter moments of acknowledgement and appreciation of plurality. Facing these complexities and challenges of our time, this volume scrutinizes contested practices where religious difference matters.Committed to an interdisciplinary exchange between theology, the study of religion and political philosophy, this volume is grounded in the attention for concrete practices and phenomena as well as the conviction that difference is both a productive concept and an enriching experience. Exploring practices of shared places, sexuality, justice and the commitment to the human being in education, migration and violent conflicts, the volume as a whole contributes to the analysis of contested social and political practices in order to investigate the significance and role of religion in contemporary societies, and thus it further develops theoretical reflection about religion in contemporary research.

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Beate Bengard stellt erstmals der Beitrag des französischen Philosophen Paul Ricur zum ökumenischen Dialog detailliert vor. Die Studie, die im Rahmen eines deutsch-französischen Promotionsprojekts entstanden ist, beruht auf teilweise bisher unveröffentlichten Zeugnissen. Für die ökumenische Theologie ist Ricurs Beitrag primär für die Frage der ökumenischen Rezeption interessant. Die Besonderheit der ökumenischen Rezeption gegenüber anderen Rezeptionsprozessen besteht darin, dass sie die Annahme des Anderen, d.h. die Rezeption der Alterität des ökumenischen Partners verlangt. Was das im Einzelnen bedeutet, kann nicht durch eine Rezeptionsforschung geklärt werden, die sich nur auf die Ratifikation von ökumenischen Dokumenten konzentriert. Zu seiner Klärung braucht es vielmehr ein hermeneutisches Modell, das den Zusammenhang von interpersonaler Anerkennung, Textrezeption und dem Wandel kollektiver Identitäten erklärt. Eine solche komplexere Rezeptionstheorie rekonstruiert Bengard aus der Fülle von Ricurs philosophischem Werk und überprüft dieses anschließend auf ihre Plausibilität hin. Dazu untersucht Bengard drei sehr unterschiedliche ökumenische Rezeptionssituationen aus Frankreich: die Rezeption der Leuenberger Konkordie in den evangelischen Kirchen, die unabhängig für den katholisch-evangelischen Dialog arbeitende Groupe des Dombes und die Communauté de Taizé. Abschließend gibt sie Anregungen für eine Ökumenekultur, die Inspiration aus dem Werk von Paul Ricur bezieht.

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The second volume of the trans-disciplinary series Research in Peace and Reconciliation looks at ways of dealing with the past in Sub-Saharan Africa in recent decades and highlights the variety of peaceful strategies and processes. It asks to what extent this variety fosters the development of alternative methods for the transformation of violent conflict.The contributions focus on different African countries and regions as Chad, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. They take into account the influence of particular cultural contexts on processes of reconciliation. In doing so, they emphasize the importance of religions, rites, and tribal customs as well as the complex legacy of colonialism. They also look at the presentation of the topic in Western media.Many thanks go to the Ernst-Abbe-Foundation (Jena) for its generous support of the publication.

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In recent years, an interest in empire(s) has emerged in Assyriology, Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Studies and in other areas of the study of the ancient world. Collaborative research projects are devoted to questions of empire and imperialism, and the prophets of Israel and Judah and the books named after them are explored as agents in the contexts of the empires of their times. To some degree, all of this may be seen as a revival of the intense interest which the works of Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee and Karl Wittfogel generated in the twentieth century, in historical situations very different from our own age. But then we too live in an age of transition characterized by insecurity and a lack of orientation and are driven to study the rise and fall of empires through the ages. The present volume, containing essays which are the fruits of the fifth meeting of the Aberdeen Prophecy Network, at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the University of Gottingen in October 2015, provides a distinctive perspective on prophecy in the context of empire. It is inspired by the fact that the book of Isaiah enables us to follow the vagaries of a particular prophetic tradition through five centuries under three different empires. The essays in the present volume focus on the history of composition of the constituent parts of the book of Isaiah as well as their correlations with the political and cultural histories of the empires under which they were produced. The volume thus navigates some of the key points of the history of Isaiah and the book named after him.

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Band 9 der Editionsreihe "Controversia et Confessio" behandelt die Antitrinitarischen Streitigkeiten. Die Reihe bietet ausgewählte Quellentexte zu den innerprotestantischen Streitigkeiten nach Luthers Tod im Vorfeld der Konkordienformel (1577) und des Konkordienbuches (1580). Dabei ist jeder Band einem besonderen theologisch definierten Streitkreis gewidmet und thematisch in sich abgeschlossen. Jeder Band ist durch eigene Register erschlossen und ist je für sich benutzbar.

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Campegius Vitringa (16591722) of Franeker University was a biblical scholar of considerable influence for the first half of the 18th century. Similar to that of Calvin, his exegetical methodology attempts to walk a via media between the historicism of Grotius (1583-1645) and the Christocentrism of Cocceius (16031669). His magnum opus was a widely-acclaimed commentary on Isaiah (1720). Vitringa scholars have charted his influence along a historical-critical trajectory (including Schultens, Venema, Alberti, Manger, Delitzsch, and Gesenius) and along a Pietistic trajectory (including Franke, Lange, and Bengel, leading toward Lessing, Herder and German Idealism). The book includes the first biography in English and compares his hermeneneutical theoria with his praxis. It analyzes Vitringas exegetical presuppositions, his remarkably high view of the Bible, and his canones hermeneuticos (highly valued by J.J. Rambach [16931735]). It shows Vitringas contextual sensitivity at every level of exegesis, commitment to New Testament normativity in the reading of Isaiah (in which redemptive history is the ultimate hermeneutical horizon), nuanced views on the historical fulfillment of prophecy, and concern for pastoral application. A scholars scholar, widely admired for his mastery of the languages and his intense historical focus in exegesis, Vitringa was also appreciated for his orthodox views, warm-hearted piety, and love for the church.

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Franz Overbeck (18371905), Professor für neutestamentliche Exegese und ältere Kirchengeschichte an der Universität Basel, Freund von Friedrich Nietzsche und scharfer Kritiker der Theologie, hat in seiner letzten Zeit seinen christlichen Glauben anscheinend geleugnet. John E. Wilson zeigt, dass Overbeck die Ungläubigkeit als ironisches Spiegelbild des Schicksals der modernen Theologie gemeint hat. Bezeugt wird diese Ansicht von Overbecks Frau, Ida Rothpletz-Overbeck, die im Jahre 1920 Karl Barth mitteilte, dass ihres Mannes Betrachtungsweise ganz aus dem Innersten der Religion geflossen, doch ein objektives Gewand trage, ein Außenseiter-Gewand. Ironie wird auch in früheren Werken Overbecks nachgewiesen. Wichtig für den Nachweis des Glaubens ist die Demonstration einer von Overbeck verschwiegenen Abhängigkeit vom Philosophen F.W.J. Schelling, insbesondere von Schellings Spätphilosophie. Schon Overbecks Grundbegriff des Gegensatzes von Glauben und Wissen ist sehr wahrscheinlich von Schelling. Auch gibt es Vergleiche mit Schelling in den Begriffen von Zeit, Dauer und Urgeschichte. In gewissen Schriften entspricht Overbecks Arbeitsweise der Methode des Klemens von Alexandrien in seiner Schrift Teppiche, wie Overbeck diese Methode in seiner bekannten Schrift über die Anfänge der patristischen Literatur darstellt. Die Arbeit beginnt mit einer detaillierten Untersuchung einer noch unveröffentlichten Vorlesung aus Overbecks Zeit in Jena. Am Schluss stehen die Predigten von Overbeck aus seiner Zeit als Student, hier zum ersten Mal veröffentlicht.

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The eighteen essays in this collection were chosen by Prof. Hanan Eshel (1958–2010) shortly before his untimely death, to serve as a legacy of his rich contributions to Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship, particularly in the integration of archaeological and textual analysis. The Qumran texts that stand at the center of these articles are correlated with archaeological and geographic information and with a variety of textual sources including epigraphic evidence. The book includes essays that have been co-authored with Esther Eshel, Shlomit Kendi-Harel, Zeev Safrai, and John Strugnell.

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This volume contains the papers of the international RefoRC conference on 'Reformed Majorities and Minorities in Early Modern Europe' as it was organized by the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden in cooperation with the Faculty of 'Artes Liberales' of the University of Warsaw. The conference took place 10-12 April 2013 in Emden and was part of the research project 'Doctrina et Tolerantia' directed by the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek. The contributions in this volume deal with the question how the relation between doctrine and toleration was dealt with in territories with a Reformed majority. Did the refugee-experience of the Reformed make them tolerant or militant? How did official policy relate to everyday practice? Were there different opinions on this issue within the Reformed tradition? The answers to these questions give more insights into the diversity of international Calvinism and the way theory was put into practice.

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Harvard has often been referred to as "godless Harvard." This is far from the truth. Fact is that Harvard is and always has been concerned about religion. This volume addresses the reasons for this. The story of religion at Harvard in many ways is the story of religion in the United States. This edition will clarify this relationship. Furthermore, the question of religion is central not only to the religious history of Harvard but to its very corporate structure and institutional evolution. The volume is divided into three parts and deals withthe Formation of Harvard College in 1636 and Evolution of a Republic of Letters in Cambridge ("First Light", Chapters 1-5); Religion in the University, the Foundations of a Learned Ministry and the Development of the Divinity School (The "Augustan Age", Chapters 6-9); and the Contours of Religion and Commitment in an Age of Upheaval and Globalization ("Calm Rising Through Change and Through Storm", Chapters 10-12).The story of the central role played by religion in the development of Harvard is a neglected factor in Harvard's history only touched upon in a most cursory fashion by previous publications. For the first time George H. Williamstells that story as embedded in American culture and subject to intense and continuing academic study throughout the history of the University to this day.Replete with extensive footnotes, this edition will be a treasure to future historians, persons interested in religious history and in the development of theology, at first clearly Reformed and Protestant, later ecumenical and interfaith.

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In June 2011, the first conference of the Reformation Research Consortium (RefoRC) took place at the Institute for Swiss Reform History at the Theological Faculty in Zurich. The title "Myth of the Reformation" encouraged critical perspectives on conventional ideas about the 16th century Reformation. Peter Opitz offers a selection of lectures held there and gathers multifaceted aspects and perspectives on the topic. As a result, Opitz succeeds in refuting at least one myth, namely that the Reformation period was a boring period in which there was not much more to discover than the conventional myths.

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In their long history, Jews encountered political, social, cultural, and religious crises which threatened not only their very existence but Jewish identity as well. Examples for such crises include the Babylonian Exile, the so-called Hellenistic Religious reforms, the first and second Jewish war, the inquisition, and the Shoah, but also the encounter of modernity or socio-economic developments. Political, cultural, and religious crises did not coin Jewish culture, thought, and religion but forced Jews from the very beginnings of Judaism until today to rethink and shape their Jewish identity anew. This volume asks how Jews coped with events that threatened Jewish existence, culture, and religion and how they responded to them. Each crisis was different in nature and evoked hence different developments in Jewish culture, thought, and religion.

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Philo 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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In very different ways the writings of the New Testament have shaped cultures until today. The Novum Testamentum Patristicum project will give a full documentation of ancient Christian receptions of the New Testament in late antiquity. This volume focuses on the different mainly narrative receptions of New Testament texts in ancient Christian apocryphal literature. While it has been accepted for a long time that apocryphal writings mainly wanted to fill the gaps of New Testament texts in more or less fantastic ways, the articles in this volume discover a rich and very different variety of re-writings, relectures, and receptions of New Testament texts, motifs and ideas.

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Until recently, most non-biblical manuscripts attested in the Qumran library were regarded as copies of texts that were composed after the books of the Hebrew Bible were written. Students of the Hebrew Bible found the Dead Sea Scrolls therefore mostly of interest for the textual and interpretative histories of these books. The present collection confirms the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for both areas, by showing that they have revolutionized our understanding of how the text of the biblical books developed and how they were interpreted. Beyond the textual and interpretative histories, though, many texts attested in the Qumran library illuminate the time in which the later books of the Hebrew Bible were composed and reworked as well as Jewish life and law in the time when the canon of the Hebrew Bible developed. This volume gives important examples as to how the early texts attested in the Dead Sea Scrolls help to better understand individual biblical books and as to how the later texts among them illustrate Jewish life and law when the canon of the Hebrew Bible evolved. In order to find an adequate expertise for the seminar "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible", the editors invited both junior and senior specialists in the fields of Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinics to Rome.

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The book investigates omissions in the textual transmission of the Hebrew scriptures. Literary criticism (Literarkritik) commonly assumes that later editors only expanded the older text; omissions would not have taken place. This axiom is implied in analyses and introductions to the methodology. The book investigates the validity of the axiom. After a review of literature, books of methodology, and past research, texts from different parts of the Hebrew Bible are discussed with this aim in view. The investigated texts consist of examples which preserve documented evidence about editorial changes. Passages with variant editions are compared in order to understand omissions as an editorial technique. The comparison of variant witnesses includes, for example, passages where the Greek and Hebrew versions differ and cases where parallel passages differ (e.g., Chronicles in relation to Kings, the Temple Scroll in relation the Pentateuch). Example texts have been taken from the Pentateuch, Samuel, Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, Esther, Jubilees, etc.The investigation shows that omissions took place in part of the transmission of the Hebrew scriptures. Although omissions were clearly less common than additions, the conclusion challenges the axiom of literary criticism. Rejecting the conventional implementation of the methodology, the book provides a new model for understanding the transmission of the Hebrew scriptures that integrates omissions as a possible editorial technique.

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Bernhard Lang presents the first readable translation of an early Christian novel dating from the time of the Roman empire. The novel creates fascinating scenes of Peter confronting an audacious opponent. This opponent, Simon Magus, pretends to be able to do miracles like Peter, and has already convinced many Christians. In Rome, Peter and Simon compete publicly. Peter is able to do greater miracles than Simon. With this victory, he wins back the congregation to Jesus Christ. But when Peter preaches chastity to married Roman women, he meets with strong opposition - and is crucified.

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This is the first-ever critical edition of the volume Paralipomenon II and represents a major step in the continued publication of the oldest Septuagint text available. For this critical edition of the oldest available Septuagint text, the editor consulted Greek papyri predating the Christian era (3rd/2nd century BC), minuscule scripts from the 16th century AD as well as other Latin, Coptic, Syrian, Ethiopian and Armenic secondary translations. He also included Septuagint quotes stemming from Church authors in both Greek and Latin as well as the printed editions of the Septuagint from the 16th to the 20th century. This critical edition of the Paralipomenon II represents the continuation of the publication of the critical edition of the oldest Septuagint text available. Die Herausgabe der großen kritischen Edition des ältesten erreichbaren Septuaginta-Textes ist Ziel des 1908 gegründeten Septuaginta-Unternehmens der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Anspruch und Aufgabe einer solchen Edition ist die auf möglichste Vollständigkeit angelegte Erfassung und transmissionsgeschichtliche Auswertung der handschriftlichen Überlieferung, angefangen mit den griechischen vorchristlichen Papyri (3./2. Jh. v.Chr.) bis hin zu den Minuskelhandschriften des 16. Jh. n.Chr., sodann der lateinischen, koptischen, syrischen, äthiopischen und armenischen Tochterübersetzungen, ferner der Septuaginta-Zitate bei den griechischen und lateinischen Kirchenschriftstellern unter Einschluss der sog. Catenenüberlieferung und schließlich aller Druckausgaben der Septuaginta vom 16. bis zum 20. Jh.Robert Hanhart setzt mit der Erstellung der allerersten kritischen Edition des Buches Paralipomenon II die Herausgabe der großen kritischen Edition des ältesten erreichbaren Septuaginta Textes fort.

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For an up-and-coming court musician of the early 18th century, as is also the case with Handel, it would have been obvious to turn to Italy. Contact with a French-influenced court musician would also have recommended a stay in Paris; in the German-speaking area, stays in Dresden, Wolfenbüttel or Vienna would also have been conceivable. A trip to London, on the other hand, was not completely isolated, but unusual enough. It was the aim of last year's Handel Symposium to further narrow down and sharpen these music-specific requirements. The new volume contains all contributions as well as the lecture and, as always, is supplemented by the bibliography on Handel's literature and the communications of the Göttingen Handel Society.

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