Review text: "Bescheiden als "Einleitung" deklariert, ist die hier vorgelegte "Systematische Theologie" ein gewaltiges Denk- und Reflexionswerk von fast 500 Seiten ... Der 70-jährige Autor Konrad Stock ... hat hier als Lebenswerk ein Wissensfundament geschaffen für alle, die ber…
Review text: "Da der Vf. die Fragen und Problemstellungen, durch die Elert sich herausgegfordert aieht, und seinen Versuch, diesen zu antworten, pointiert herausarbeitet, ist die Arbeit nicht nur in theoriegeschichtlicher, sondern auch in systematisch-konstruktiver Hinsicht aufs…
Main description: The book presents diplomatic transcriptions (in Greek) and translations (in German and English) of all the known textual fragments which can be attributed to what is known as the Gospel of Peter and the Apocalypse of Peter or which scholars are discussing as po…
Main description: This volume consists of 12 essays published by the author between the years 1997-2007, a thirteenth paper read at a conference in 2006, and a long introduction prepared specifically for the collection. All of the essays deal with epistemological issues attendan…
Main description: Der Band versammelt 16 Aufsätze des Münchner katholischen Alttestamentlers Hermann-Josef Stipp, die hier in revidierter Form wieder abgedruckt werden. Gegenstand sind Texte aus der Priesterschrift, dem Deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerk und der Prophetie. Die i…
Biographical note: Georg Sauer. Ben Sira gilt zu Recht als einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter jüdischer Weisheitsliteratur. Der Vielseitigkeit dieser Schrift widmet sich der Wiener Alttestamentler Georg Sauer im vorliegenden Band. Dabei behandelt er textimmanente Fragen nach Auf…
Biographical note: Géza G. Xeravits, Sapientia College of Theology, Budapest, Hungary; Tobias Nicklas, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; Isaac Kalimi, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, IL, USA. The impact of earlier works to the literature of early Judai…
Main description: The monograph discusses the short formulae of the 'gospel' (euangelion) as the first reflected expressions of Christian faith. They adapted the apocalyptic expectations to express the Easter experience and shaped the earliest literary Gospel (Mark). This book a…
Main description: The volume will appeal to those interested in the biblical text and its place within the wider archaeological and ancient near eastern context. It will appeal to those wishing to understand the diversity of historical approaches to the Bible, and to those utili…
Main description: Exile as Forced Migrations examines contemporary peoples in flight and plight to help reconstruct the exilic experience of Judeo-Babylonians in the 6th century B.C.E. Framing this monograph are economics of migration and its impact on each respective generation…
The Book of the Twelve Prophets contains an abundance of passages that discuss ancient cities (Samaria, Bet-El, Jerusalem, Ninive, Babel, among others) and their identity. Wide in scope, this volume demonstrates the sensitivity and critical awareness shown by the prophetic tradi…
This book provides a treatment of Proverbs 1:20-33; 8:1-36 and 9:1-6, generally called the three speeches of Wisdom. The aim was to employ these speeches as starting points, from which the remaining material in Proverbs 1-9 is examined, evaluated and interpreted. Along with aspe…
This monograph explores the history of the Coptic tradition of John's gospel, considering when these ancient Egyptian witnesses are profitable for determining the earliest readings of their Greek source text. The standard critical edition of the Greek New Testament cites the Cop…
The auxiliary material preserved in New Testament manuscripts has been neglected by scholars. The present study treats the Euthalian paraphrases and the biblical text of Acts and the Letters together, as a 'system'. The book is of interest to students of the reception of the New…
Die Pastoralbriefe gelten seit Heinrich Julius Holtzmann als "unzertrennliche Drillinge". Interpretiert man diese Briefe jedoch als literarisches Schriftencorpus, lassen sich die inhaltlichen Unterschiede zwischen ihnen nicht plausibel erklären. Deshalb fragt die Untersuchung ne…
Main description: The supplementary hypothesis offered in this book suggests that the search for three or four different fragmentary documents in the Pentateuch is erroneous and that the editorial procedure was one of successive additions upon one original text, an organic proce…
Main description: The exile is a central turning point in Israel's construction of the past as it is recorded in the Hebrew Bible. The latter's concept/s of exile are involved, among others, in constructions of patriarchal narratives, the Egyptian sojourn and slavery that led to…
Main description: The books of Haggai and Proto-Zechariah (Zechariah 1-8) belong to the post-exilic books of the Old Testament prophets. The topic of both books is the restitution of Judah and of the Jerusalem Temple. They share a common dating system which refers to the reign o…
