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This monograph demonstrates that the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Book of Revelation are results of highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the Acts of the Apostles. In both cases, this detailed reworking consists of around 700 strictly sequentially organized...
The volume gathers contributions from both junior and senior scholars, as well as former students, colleagues, and friends of Lorenzo Perrone. Their studies have evolved in dialogue with him and his work, covering research fields such as Bible Studies and Origen,...
Who is the "Other"? In a culturally and religiously diverse world, how can the church build just relationships with the "Other" without compromising each party’s unique identity? In Relation without Relation, the author presents intercultural theology as a decolonizing...
Die Psalmen gehören zu den bekanntesten und beliebtesten Büchern der Bibel. Nach den zwölf Untersuchungen zu den Asaph-Psalmen im Vorgängerband ÖBS 57 werden hier weitere zwanzig Studien (vier davon auf Englisch) zu Psalmen und Psalter publiziert. Erstmals...
Statistics reveal that approximately 85.4% of the world’s population follows a religion. Since the 1990s, the study of religion has become increasingly integrated into the foreign policy and diplomatic training of various states. Recently, interreligious dialogue has...
Many scholars have claimed that predominantly Orthodox countries face challenges in establishing viable democracies. This book seeks to test this “incompatibility thesis” by drawing on the examples of two countries where the Orthodox Church has played a significant role...
May you laugh in church? The church fathers said ‘no’, but the question resurfaced thanks to a German custom of making the congregation laugh on Easter morning. In 1518, Oecolampadius wrote a book in which Easter Laughter is described for the first time. Until now, his...
Anti-Jewish sentiment in the Orthodox liturgy was and still is one of the main stumbling blocks for the Jewish–Orthodox Christian encounter. In the last five decades, this subject has often been mentioned during official dialogues between the two religious communities,...
This book examines the responses of African Pentecostal Churches in a European context to the plight of African refugees and asylum seekers. It reveals the pressing needs of African refugees and asylum seekers including language skills, basic legal orientation,...
The book investigates the origins of Nativity and Epiphany, exploring when, where, and why these feasts were introduced in the Church. Given the scarcity of sources, the book explores various hypotheses to understand the origins of Nativity and Epiphany. Methodological...
In his book, Kazimierz Gryzenia presents the changes which occurred in the understanding of analogy in modern scholasticism, with particular reference to the views of the leading representative of the period, Francisco Suárez. As a representative of the newly...
In this monograph, the author demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles is a highly creative hypertextual reworking of the Letter to the Galatians, with over 500 strictly sequentially organized conceptual and linguistic correspondences between Acts and Galatians. This...
The prophecy of Hananiah in Jeremiah 28, presents a typical example of the phenomenon of misleading prophecies that existed in Judah during the politically unstable period leading to the exile of 586 B.C. A similar situation as the one that existed in the days of...
Eros and the Pearl is the first monograph devoted to the Yezidi cosmogonic myth. It is based on the author’s field research among the Yezidi people in Iraq, Turkey, Georgia, and Armenia. The author focuses on the analysis of the cosmogonic motif of Pearl and Love and,...
The emergence in the last two and a half decades of the concept of leadership spirituality is a further indication of the increasing need for a more critical, inspired, and ethically responsible leadership. In order to illuminate this most striking new focal point in...
The project examines the reasons for the many philosophical difficulties, and the failures, that Nietzsche sensed when he had concludedThe Birth of Tragedy.The subsequent philosophical decision he made, on the way to reconceiving the classical ideas of tragedy, destiny,...
This book aims to point out the connection between the operation of prayer houses, the construction of multifunctional mosques and the establishment of sections for Muslims in public cemeteries. The unifying motif is the effort to pass on the identity. During the...
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