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…
Main description: Vorgelegt werden Studien zu den biblischen Psalmen aus den letzten Jahren. Sie beschäftigen sich mit der Sprachform und dem poetischen Stil dieser Lieder und Gebete. Der erste Teil greift auf die Forschungsgeschichte seit dem 18. Jh. zurück. Ein weiterer Teil b…
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…
The sabbatical year law in Lv 25,1-7 stipulates the rest of the land and includes foreigners in the list of the beneficiaries, differently from the fallow year law in Ex 23,10-11 and from the debt-release law in Dt 15,1-11. These characteristic features originate from the univer…
The Book of Proverbs plays almost no role at all in the current discussion on the status of the Torah in the post-exile era. This study casts light on traditional background of Prov 2 and, on this basis, investigates the composition of Prov 1-9. It shows that the Book of Proverb…
The formation of the Book of the Twelve is one of the most vigorously debated subjects in Old Testament studies today. This volume assembles twenty-four essays by the world's leading experts, providing an overview of the present state of scholarship in the field. The book's cont…
The Jehuite Dynasty was the longest dynasty in the history of the Northern Kingdom. Under the Jehuite kings, Israel was thrown into the arena of the regional political struggles and experienced the time of an unprecedented upheaval and then prosperity. This book is the result of…
Who wrote the material about Jehu in the Bible, when and why did they write it, and how reliable is it? After a thorough text and literary critical examination of 2 Kings 9-10, this work demonstrates the plausibility of an 8th century origin for the Jehu narrative, which did not…
Drawing inspiration from the widely recognized parody of Ps 8:5 in Job 7:17-18, this study inquires whether other allusions to the Psalms might likewise contribute to the dialogue between Job, his friends, and God. An intertextual analysis reveals six psalms (1, 8, 39, 73, 107, …
Review text: "Insgesamt eine beachtenswerte Studie, die für Auskünfte über das biblische Bethel und sein Heiligtum nicht außer Acht gelassen werden darf."B. Weber in: Old Testament Essays 1/2007 "Gleichwohl ist das Buch für alle weiteren Studien über Bet-El unverzichtbar."M. Köh…
