The present volume aims at a clarification and a discussion of the church in the 16th century: What did the reformers think about the essence and o...

The introduction of modern forestry in Tanzania during the German colonial period was accompanied by massive encroachments on the land use rights o...

"The earth is full of your creatures." The biblical creation narratives can astonish us and stimulate thoughts: Who am I? Where am I from? Or also:...

Biblical prehistory considers the origin of the world and its order, the origin of man and the origins of culture. It is an expression of the basic...

Claudio Moreschini focuses on selected and as yet still understudied aspects of Boethius' life and works. He presents Boethius in the culture of th...

One of the most significant, but often overlooked, interpreters during the Reformation was Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531), the first-generation...

This commentary on the comedy Aspis des Menander mainly deals with text-critical and linguistic questions. The introduction also deals with observa...

This is the first extensive study of William Ames‘s (1576-1633) Latin polemical writings against Arminianism during his exile in the Dutch Republic...

There is a growing body of historical literature on the importance of John Owen. Ryan M. McGraw seeks to reassess Owen’s theology in light of the w...

In this study of Christian eschatological thought, virtually no attention has been given to past interpretations of the biblical phrase the new hea...

The direct quotations in the letter to the Hebrews presumably go back to a template from the Septuagint, but have so far scarcely been explored. Ge...

Authentikos Logos (NHC VI,3), also known as Authoritative Teaching,is a little studied story of a soul’s descent and ascent in the Nag Hammadi libr...

Most commentators view the Epistle of Jude as a parenetic text. The commentary Expecting for the Mercy highlights its soteriological and Christolog...

Controversies regarding the authorship of the Letter of James, the date of its composition, its addressees and, when compared to other biblical wri...

On a primary level, the author seeks to answer the question, what is the best interpretation of, The Knowledge of Good and Evil, in Gen 2:9, 17; 3:...

Many people report extrasensory experiences such as encounters with the deceased, with ghosts or other spooky phenomena that they have had after or...

At the height of his effectiveness, the Dutch theologian, publicist and politician Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) gave the famous Stone Lectures in Pri...

The subject of this book is the understanding of the gospel in the theology of the Protestant Reformer John Calvin. Specifically, it deals with wha...

How did the Greeks respond to the experiences of uncertainty that they so acutely made in the aftermath of Alexander the Great's world-changing con...

Volume 1 includes the original Acta Authentica of the synod, here published for the first time. Following the Acta Authentica, the corresponding ac...

In this study Charles Raith II fills a gap in Reformation-era scholarship by analysing Calvin’s teaching on works and reward in light of medieval t...

The Husak government that came into power after the suppression of the Prague Spring formulated the goal of restoring "normality" in Czechoslovakia...

All the Wisdom of the East is a tribute to Professor Eliezer D. Oren, a multi-faceted archaeologist of the Levant and its cultural connections with...

Single parents face a variety of challenges - in the world of work and in their private lives. Jeannette Hartmann describes the living environment ...

If the brother or best friend suddenly believes in supposed conspiracy theories, this often leads to arguments and relationship crises. Many have t...

When scholarship presents the histories, belief systems, and ritual patterns of specific religious groups, it often privileges victorious and elite...

This volume studies the links between politics and science during the 20th century, based on the example of the large US foundations. If the 20th c...

Insofar as the twentieth century has often been referred to as 'the ecumenical century', the twenty-first seems poised to become known as 'the cent...

For the first time, this bibliography summarises the main contributions of international research from the last fifteen years, and the well-structu...

Niels Petersson, historian at Sheffield Hallam University, uses the example of the German Reich to examine which mechanisms, actors and problems pl...

The Apocalypse of John belongs to the most puzzling texts of the New Testament. Historical-critical exegesis has been stressing that the book above...

While the so-called New perspective in Paul has been in the focus of New Testament exegesis for more than 25 years now, ancient interpretations of ...

This thread-themed issue deals with the other, the strange, the astonishing, with that which fascinates, frightens, repels or provokes. Unusual lif...

Though interest in the use of metaphor in the Hebrew Bible has gained momentum in recent years, there is, to date, no investigation which concentra...

This volume contains analyses and previously unpublished documents concerning Robert Havemann and his evolution to becoming an opponent of the SED ...

The aim of the volume is to engage in an interdisciplinary discussion about the establishment and debates on anthropological concepts and their cha...

The authors of this volume investigate the analysis of visual sources and their indispensable role for understanding and interpreting religions, th...

Widad Sakakiniʼs work reflects the transformations of Arab societies since the beginning of the twentieth century, particularly the changing gender...

The most important articles of the social historian Klaus Tenfelde from Bochum, many of which have now become classics in the field.Klaus Tenfelde ...

The edited volume aims to re-contextualize revolts in early modern Central and Southern Europe (Hungary, Croatia, Czech Lands, Austria, Germany, It...

Letters 94 and 95 of Seneca's Epistulae Morales introduce and discuss a distinction between individual moral instructions or praecepta and the doct...