The book investigates omissions in the textual transmission of the Hebrew scriptures. Literary criticism (Literarkritik) commonly assumes that late...

This book provides people who want to work systemically with a set of practical tools. It is above all a reference book full of specific and helpfu...

24 scholars -- Jewish, Protestant, Roman Catholic -– from North America, Israel, and various European countries, contribute to this rich volume on ...

The long and complex history of reception and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament through the ages, described in the HBOT Project, i...

This large international standard work unites Christian and Jewish experts from all over the world. It comprehensively depicts the Old Testament ex...

The first part of the project Hebrew Bible / Old Testament deals with questions of the canon with regard to its interpretation from the Jewish, New...

It has often been noted that the Protestant Reformation of the early sixteenth century witnessed a revived interest in the scriptural notions of pr...

"Helpless Imperialists" enquires into the relation between imperial exposure, fear, radicalization and violence and highlights moments of peripety ...

This book analyses religious work for the marginalized from the perspective of citizenship and otherness. The articles try to answer the question i...

Robert McKelvey argues that John Bunyan wrote The Holy War as a warfare allegory symbolizing the salvation history of Scripture from a Calvinistic-...

Holderlin felt his Germany as a Russian doll made of prison-like "containers". He suffered from both personal and political claustrophobia, from wh...

There is a longstanding scholarly debate on the nature of prophecy in ancient Israel. Until now, no study has based itself on the semantics of the ...

Although the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States share many legal, social, and political values, they also represent different tradit...

Iconographic exegesis combines the study of biblical texts (exegesis) with the study of ancient expressions of visual art (iconography).Studying an...