Product Description: The narrator describes the fish he caught in words that keep increasing its size.

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Product Description: Studies in the Gospel of John and Its Christology brings together a number of essays in honour of Gilbert Van Belle, professor of New Testament Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. Some thirty colleagues responded to the invitation to contribute an essay on an aspect of the Christology of the Fourth Gospel...read more

Product Description: English summary: In recent research, the Book of Revelation, the history of its text and interpretation have attracted increased attention. The anthology pays tribute to this development by publishing the proceedings of a recent conference at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel, supplemented by a number of additional seminal articles...read more

Product Description: Understanding the book of Revelation means understanding its imagery. This puzzling book contains a fascinating world of pictures and images every chapter and every page of it is filled with different kinds of images coming from different traditions and developing different sorts of meaning...read more

Product Description: Most of the articles were presented and discussed at the seminar Early Christianity between Judaism and Hellenism at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies in Piliscsaba and Budapest, Hungary, in August 2006...read more

Product Description: One of the characteristic pursuits of the current phase of historical Jesus research, the so-called Third Quest, has been the serious attempt to locate Jesus within first-century CE Judaism, to seek a Jesus who could be found plausible within his Jewish context...read more

Product Description: Early Christians articulated their christological claims by narrating miracles of Jesus. The Gospels depict Jesus as a healer and an exorcist who preaches the nearness of the kingdom of God. The miracles he reportedly performed are often regarded as eschatological signs of the nearness of the kingdom...read more

Product Description: The first part of this collection is devoted to one of the key questions of the 'Synoptic Problem': the literary and christological relationship between Mark and Q. The second part deals with the 'Third Quest' for the historical Jesus, concentrating on his teaching and its cultural context...read more

Product Description: Imperial Rome truly was one of the most "multicultural" cities in antiquity. Syrians, Africans, Gauls, Egyptians, Jews and other groups flocked into the city and formed their communities―as well as Christians. The essays here examine questions such as: How did these ethnic and religious minority groups maintain and develop their identity? How did the "cultural majority" react towards these sometimes exotic groups? The first section gives a general survey about living conditions in early Christian Rome and how Christians, Jews and Egyptians related to their urban context...read more

Product Description: The lucid arrangement in four columns makes Hubner's work a handy and thorough compendium for every serious student of Biblical theology. The synopsis offers first the NT passages, followed by the respective readings in the Septuagint, the Masoretic text and in other contexts.

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Product Description: Die Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZNW) ist eine der altesten undrenommiertesten internationalen Buchreihen zur neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Seit 1923 publiziert sie wegweisende Forschungsarbeiten zum fruhen Christentum und angrenzenden Themengebieten...read more

Product Description: Joh 6 stellt einen Höhepunkt und die Zusammenfassung der Theologie des vierten Evangeliums dar. Michael Labahn widmet sich den beiden einleitenden Wundergeschichten, der Speisung der 5000 und dem Seewandel Jesu. Er untersucht die Rolle dieses erzählerischen Abschnitts als Einleitung der Brotrede und stellt fest, dass die Wundersequenz als eine Art Präludium der Brotrede verstanden werden kann...read more