»Wir sind ja keinen ausgeklügelten Fabeln gefolgt, als wir euch die Macht und Ankunft unseres Herrn Jesus Christus verkündeten, sondern wir waren Augenzeugen.« (2.)Petrusbrief 1, 16) Seit Jahrhunderten schon ringen Theologen, Historiker und Philologen um das Verständnis der Quel…
From Jesus to his first followers' examines to what extent early Christian groups were in continuity or discontinuity with respect to Jesus. Adriana Destro and Mauro Pesce concentrate on the transformation of religious practices. Their anthropological-historical analysis focuses…
"The Quartodecimans were early Christians who maintained the tradition derived from Judaism, and observed Pascha on the same occasion that the Jews observed Passover. In this work, Alistair Stewart-Sykes, the leading authority on Melito and the Quartodecimans, presents a unique …
"Despite scholars' ongoing historical and sociological investigations into the ancient family, the right and the status of the firstborn son have been rarely explored by NT scholars, and this topic has not attracted the careful attention that it deserves. This work offers a stud…
Back cover: In this work, John Granger Cook argues that there is no fundamental difference between Paul's conception of the resurrection body and that of the Gospels; and, the resurresction and translation stories of antiquity help explain the willingness of Mediterranean people…
