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In this volume, Francesco Arena investigates false prophecy and prophetic conflicts, taking Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah as the three books in the Bible most concerned with prophesying falsehood and false prophets. By building on the studies of G. Auld, R. Carroll, and G. Garbini, who first posited that the Writing Prophets were not prophets at all, but rather intellectuals or poets, the author puts the vexed question of false prophecy into a new perspective. If we accept that Jeremiah, Ezekiel,...

This volume, originating from a conference on "Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity" hosted by OErebro School of Theology (Sweden) in 2018, deals with the ideological and theological meaning of healing and exorcism in a historical, literary, and socio-cultural perspective. While the first part of the book focuses on Jewish and early Christian texts and themes, the second centres on the transmission, reception and interpretation of the biblical texts in early Chris...

Religion has been, and is, an important element in Indian society and history. It is, however, rare for the subject to be discussed with the necessary degree of detachment. This volume was, therefore, planned with the object of providing a collection of studies that would deal with the role of religion in Indian history on the basis of a rigorous application of academic criteria. The results may surprise those who are more familiar with chauvinistic or apologetic interpretations. The editor's in...

In this important collection of essays James A. Sanders offers his most significant work on the text and canon of the Hebrew Bible, along with his seminal studies of the Qumran Scrolls. He has been at the forefront of the study of canon formation, history of interpretation, and textual criticism, with specialty in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the use of the Old Testament in the New. These studies document the variety of textual traditions, as well as the diversity and unsettled, incipient state of t...

What are the roles of doubt and scepticism in the religious landscape of the ancient Mediterranean? How is doubt expressed within a specific religious community, and what reactions does it provoke? How does "insider doubt" differ from the sceptical attitude of outsiders? Exploring these questions with respect to a wide range of religious contexts and topics (including early Christianity, Greco-Roman religions, Egyptian religions, astrology, and magic), the essays in this volume confirm the thesi...

In this monograph, Carl Johan Berglund reassesses Origen's references to the second-century philologist Heracleon, without presuming that Heracleon's exegesis is determined by views described in heresiological sources or that every reference is equivalent to a verbatim quotation. The author uses variations in Origen's attribution formulas to categorize almost two hundred references as either verbatim quotations, summaries, explanatory paraphrases, or mere assertions. Heracleon's views are assess...

Autoritat und Autoritaten spielen fur Bildung und Religion eine wichtige Rolle - besonders wenn zwischen beiden eine Spannung, ja Konkurrenz besteht. In Kulturen des Mittelmeerraums und seiner Umwelt wird dieses Verhaltnis unter verschiedenen Vorzeichen thematisch: Autoritatskonstruktionen tragen zur Durchsetzung von Wahrheitsanspruchen und zur Speicherung, Tradierung und Vermittlung von religioesem und Bildungswissen bei. Dabei kommen unterschiedliche Medien - Texte, Riten, Traditionen - ins Sp...

Jerusalem verbindet Erwartungen und Hoffnungen der klassischen monotheistischen Religionen Judentum, Christentum und Islam, sowie der im 19. Jahrhundert daraus hervorgegangenen Religion der Baha'i. Realgeschichtliche Stadt und Symbol in einem, ist Jerusalem ein Ort der Faszination, gepragt durch die Leerstelle des Tempels ebenso wie durch die Prasenz von Grabeskirche und Felsendom. In Pilgerfahrten bereist, wurde es in Nachbauten nach Europa, Asien und Lateinamerika geholt. Die funf Studien dies...

Roem 7,7-25 ist das Kernstuck eines umfangreichen Adam-Sunde-Tod-Komplexes in den Protopaulinen. Es hat eine reichhaltige Auslegungstradition hervorgebracht, die Jan Dochhorn in diesem Band in Grundzugen nachzeichnet. Als Hintergrund des Textes identifiziert er die Apokalypse des Mose (Apc Mos). Damit ergibt sich die Moeglichkeit, die Apc Mos genauer zu datieren und die Entstehungsgeschichte des judischen Adammythos zu beschreiben. Ferner lassen sich die Apc Mos und mehrere mit ihr verwandten We...

Gelehrte der reformierten Universitat Heidelberg und der jesuitisch dominierten Universitat Mainz tauschten zwischen 1583 und 1622 zahlreiche Kontroversschriften aus. In diesen Schriften befassten sich die Autoren mit zahlreichen Themenfeldern der Theologie und daruber hinaus. So wurden historiographische, juristisch-staatswissenschaftliche, philologische und auch astronomisch-mathematische Fragen ebenfalls zur konfessionellen Streitsache erhoben. Diese Konkurrenzsituation bewirkte zwar die Teil...

In The Hindu Self and its Muslim Neighbors, the author sketches the contours of relations between Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. The central argument is that various patterns of amicability and antipathy have been generated towards Muslims over the last six hundred years and these patterns emerge at dynamic intersections between Hindu self-understandings and social shifts on contested landscapes. The core of the book is a set of translations of the Bengali writings of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-19...

Traces the development of Hinduism from the ashes of Vedic religion under the varying influences of hero worship and local deitis to the present form. The major forces were the coming of Christianity and of Persian Gnostics which molded it into the present form.

Religious rivalry exists where groups of people distinguish themselves from others on the basis of differing beliefs and practices touching identity and life's meaning. These differences were addressed in a variety of ways, depending on levels of tolerance: ranging from violence, which captures most attention, through polemic and debate to compromise and negotiation. While all sought to resolve rivalry, the means chosen could involve either an escalation or de-escalation of the conflict. In the...

Perhaps more than any other religion Hinduism is associated in the modern mind with the erotic. "The Kama Sutra" and the sexual activity portrayed in stone at the great medieval Indian temple complex of Khajuraho are renowned the world over. The classical Hindu exploration of eroticism is manifestly one of the supreme expressions of the human spirit. Hindu sculpture, defined as uniquely able to express inner states of being, is no less able to portray the beauty of eroticism. At the same time, m...