Explores form, tradition, and theology The chapters in this volume provide the general reader an opportunity to learn from one of the greatest biblical scholars of the twentieth century. Beginning with the most general and moving to focused topics, this work provides a rationale for continuing to engage the Old Testament in the modern world. Combining his research strengths in the literary history of Israel, form criticism, tradition history, and the history of religion, this volume covers narrative, prophecy, and the Psalms. Rather than artifacts of a former generation, these essays are as fresh as ever in their perspective. To make it more helpful for students, each essay has been expanded with additional notes and bibliography to show where the discussion has continued since Gunkel. This work will provide an excellent supplementary textbook for courses in the Old Testament or Bible.
- Provides a fresh perspective on the Book of Acts- Editor's foreword highlights the importance of Dibelius's work- Includes updated notes and bibliographies- Indexes of ancient sources and authors
Erhard Gerstenberger (1932-2023) has been a highly influential exegete of the Psalms for several decades. He demonstrated how the Psalms were able to modulate the deepest feelings of individuals and communities, encompassing a wide variety of existential experiences relating to God and the world. Gerstenberger believed that psalmic poetry grew out of diverse and real-life situations. The first two essays in Charting the Course of Psalms Research deftly review the secondary literature. The first covers the 'lyrical literature' of the Old Testament, and the second considers the history of interpretation of the Psalms. The remaining essays explore the social settings of the Psalms and their connection to theology and communication theory, and include two chapter translated into English for the first time and edited by K.C. Hanson. Student and researcher alike will be enriched by the insights Gerstenberger provides.
This volume brings together some of Jeremias's best-known works on historical Jesus research and core issues concerning Gospel tradition. It features foundational questions in historical Jesus research plus Aramaic backgrounds of the Gospels.
This volume brings together some of Mowinckel's most important and interesting work on the prophets. He begins by introducing the reader to the method of tradition history and how it is related to form criticism and literary criticism. From this groundwork, he goes on to explore how this method is essential for analyzing the prophetic literature in the Hebrew Bible. In order to make it more helpful for students, each essay has been supplemented with additional notes and bibliography to show where the discussion has continued since Mowinckel. A bibliography of Mowinckel's works in English and a bibliography of essays evaluating Mowinckel's contributions are also included. This will provide an excellent supplementary textbook for courses on the prophets. Key Features: provides an introduction in Old Testament tradition history an editor's foreword highlights the importance of Mowinckel's work includes updated notes and bibliographies includes chapters not previously published in the U.S. indexes of ancient sources and authors
This work brings together some of Zimmerli's work on Old Testament theology and the prophets. He is especially renowned for his works on Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and the prophetic exper-ience. It includes additional notes and bibliography for each essay to show how the discussion has continued.
This volume contains some of the most important and enduring work of Gerhard von Rad, the most influential Old Testament theologian of the twentieth century. The chapters cover a broad range of topics, including the doctrine of creation, memory and tradition in Deuteronomy, historical writing in ancient Israel, cultic language in the Psalms, and the Old Testament worldview.
Hanson and Oakman's award-winning and illuminating volume has become a widely used and cited introduction to the social context of Jesus and the early Jesus movement. This second edition updates all the discussions in light of more recent scholarship, improves clarity and readability of diagrams and maps, provides additional diagrams and images to enhance the book for student use, and includes new classroom resources, for professors and students, on a Companion Web site. Along with an overview of the ancient Mediterranean worldview, Palestine in the Time of Jesus explores major domains and institutions of Roman Palestine: kinship, politics, economy, and religion.
This volume provides a readable introduction to the narrative book of Ruth appropriate for the student, pastor, and scholar. LaCocque combines historical, literary, feminist, and liberationist approaches in an engaging synthesis. He argues that the book was written in the post-exilic period and that the author was a woman. Countering the fears and xenophobia of many in Jerusalem, the biblical author employed the notion of h.esed (kindness, loyalty, steadfast love), which transcends any national boundaries. LaCocque focuses on redemption and levirate marriage as the two legal issues that recur throughout the text of Ruth. Ruth comes from the despised people of Moab but becomes a model for Israel. Boaz, converted to the model of steadfast love, becomes both redeemer and levir for Ruth and thus fulfills the Torah. In the conclusion to his study, the author sketches some parallels with Jesus' hermeneutics of the Law as well as postmodern problems and solutions.
Thackeray's treatment of the Septuagint's grammar is a masterful reference work, which moved Septuagintal study forward. ""Why write a Grammar of a translation, in parts a servile translation, into a Greek which is far removed from the Attic standard, of an original which was often imperfectly understood? A sufficient answer might be that the work forms part of a larger whole, the Grammar of Hellenistic Greek, the claims of which, as bridging the gulf between the ancient and the modern tongue upon the attention of philhellenes and philologists have in recent years begun to receive their due recognition from a growing company of scholars. The Septuagint, in view both of the period which it covers and the variety of its styles, ranging from the non-literary vernacular to the artificial Atticistic, affords the most promising ground for the investigation of the peculiarities of the Hellenistic or 'common' language . . . Though of less paramount importance than the New Testament, the fact that it was the only form in which the older Scriptures were known to many generations of Jews and Christians and the deep influence which it exercised upon New Testament and Patristic writers justify a separate treatment of its language. Again, the fact that it is in the main translation gives it a special character and raises the difficult question of the extent of Semitic influence upon the written and spoken Greek of a bilingual people."" -from the Preface Contents I. Introduction II. Orthography and Phonetics III. Accidence Henry St. John Thackeray was a Scholar at King's College, Cambridge University. He was a masterful linguist of classical Greek, Hellenistic Greek, and the Septuagint, as well as, historian and biblical scholar. Among his publications are Some Aspects of the Greek Old Testament, Josephus: The Man and the Historian, and The Letter of Aristeas.
Contents I. History of the Manuscript II. Palaeography III. Contents IV. The Problem of the Text V. Date VI. The Text of W and the Early Church Fathers VII. Collation Henry A. Sanders was a classicist and papyrologist who taught at the University of Michigan. In addition to editing numerous volumes Greek and Latin papyri, he was the editor of Roman Historical Sources and Institutions, and Roman History and Mythology, and co-editor of Latin and Greek in American Education.
K. D. Bachmann; H. Berger; J. Bierich; D. Boda; H.-J. Bremer; J. Brodehl; G. R. Burgio; K. Fischer; E. Gladtke; B. Hadorn; B. Hagberg; N. Hallman; H. G. Hansen; H. Harbauer; G.-A. von Harnack; W. C. Hecker; H. Helge; W. H. Hitzig; E. Huth; E. Kleihauer; W. Künzer; M. A. Lassrich; B. Leiber; B. Lindquist; W. Marget; J. Oehme; H. Olbing; R. A. Pfeiffer; A. Prader; K. Riegel; E. Rossi; K. Schärer; E. Schmidt; F.-J. Schulte; H. Spiess; J. Spranger; G. Stalder; U. Stephan; J. Stoermer; J. Ströder; W. Teller; R. Zetterström
This book gives an account of the necessary background for group algebras and crossed products for actions of a group or a semigroup on a space and reports on some very recently developed techniques with applications to particular examples. Much of the material is available here for the first time in book form. The topics discussed are among the most classical and intensely studied C*-algebras. They are important for applications in fields as diverse as the theory of unitary group representations, index theory, the topology of manifolds or ergodic theory of group actions.Part of the most basic structural information for such a C*-algebra is contained in its K-theory. The determination of the K-groups of C*-algebras constructed from group or semigroup actions is a particularly challenging problem. Paul Baum and Alain Connes proposed a formula for the K-theory of the reduced crossed product for a group action that would permit, in principle, its computation. By work of many hands, the formula has by now been verified for very large classes of groups and this work has led to the development of a host of new techniques. An important ingredient is Kasparov's bivariant K-theory.More recently, also the C*-algebras generated by the regular representation of a semigroup as well as the crossed products for actions of semigroups by endomorphisms have been studied in more detail.Intriguing examples of actions of such semigroups come from ergodic theory as well as from algebraic number theory. The computation of the K-theory of the corresponding crossed products needs new techniques. In cases of interest the K-theory of the algebras reflects ergodic theoretic or number theoretic properties of the action.
Das "Urbild der Menschheit" Karl Christian Friedrich Krauses (1781-1832) ist eingebettet in den progressiven universalistischen Essentialismus seiner Wesenlehre. Nach dem Kanon dieses Urbildes befinden sich die derzeitige Weltgesellschaft und ihre Untersysteme in Stadien der Pubertat und kennen nicht einmal den Zustand ihrer eigenen Reife. Eine Einfuhrung gibt Anleitungen fur eine Erweiterung der Erkenntnishorizonte bis zur Schau der goettlichen absoluten Essentialitat, in der sich bisher in Philosophie und Religion nicht erkannte Grundverhaltnisse zwischen Menschheit und Kosmos ergeben. Erst aus dieser Grundwissenschaft koennen auch die Kriterien fur die weitere globale Entwicklung der Menschheit und den Bau einer allharmonischen Menschheit (Urbild) in ihren Details erkannt werden. In diesem Urbild kreuzen sich auch Linien, die in andere Werke Krauses zur Rechtsphilosophie, Ethik, AEsthetik, Religionsphilosophie, Logik, Mathematik usw. fuhren, zu welchen Bezuge hergestellt werden. Die komplexen wissenschaftlichen, kunstlerischen, politischen, sozialen und kulturellen Aspekte der heutigen Weltgesellschaft werden mit dem Urbild verglichen, um damit eine Weiterbildung anzuregen. Die Untersuchung ist daher ein weit in die nachsten Jahrhunderte reichender Beitrag zur Globalisierungsdebatte mit bisher kaum beachteten neuen, universalistischen Perspektiven.
