Dieser Beitrag geht dem Zusammenhang von “Sünde”,“Schwachheit” und “Gottlosigkeit” in
Römer 5, 6.8 nach. Es wird gezeigt, dass alle drei Begriffe eine besondere Beziehung zum …

The Matthean redaction of Mark 7:30 in Matthew 15:28 often receives scant attention in
scholarship in terms of its narrative quality. At most, it is regarded as a truncation of the full …

The importance of neighbourly love according to Christianity is almost proverbial–thankfully.
Just how proverbial became apparent once more in a debate in the Dutch House of …

This volume offers eleven essays on Jewish and Christian communal identities in the Roman
world. In its first part (‘Imperial Perspectives’), Sylvie Honigman describes how the term …

One of the more striking and, likely, widely-used publications of Gregorio Aglipay, one of the
founding fathers of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, is the so-called Novenario de la Patria …

Ritual studies are slow to make a large impact on New Testament studies, despite a number
of notable exceptions. This notwithstanding, rituals occur frequently in the New Testament, …

Paul's boasting is often considered to be problematic. This paper explores Pauline boasting
from the perspective of Plutarch's views on self-praise. Outlining what kinds of self-praise …

Volker Kessler (‘God becomes beautiful… in mathematics’–HTS 2018) argues two points to
Rudolf Bohren’s list of four areas where (1) God becomes beautiful should be extended with …

This handbook situates early Christian meals in their broader context, with a focus on the
core topics that aid understanding of Greco-Roman meal practice, and how this relates to …