Product Description: The essays in this compendium examine Late-Biblical writings dating from the Hellenistic period that relate to religion and society. A focus is placed on threat scenarios and on the drawing of differences to the Hellenistic environment and the question of identity for believers during the pre-Christian centuries...read more

Product Description: There is surely nothing more numinous or pivotal in life than the experience of death and mortality, and it is necessary for culture and religion to deal with this experience as adequately as possible. Moreover, the treatment of persons dying, the care of corpses, and also hopes in a ""life"" or a comparable ""existence"" after death often form decisive keys to the understanding of anthropological presuppositions of the respective social, cultural and religious contexts...read more

Product Description: The present volume of the DCLY collects the contributions of the International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (ISDCL), held in Tübingen/Germany. The articles on the reception and function of Biblical figures in Deuterocanonical and other Early Jewish Literature are devoted to the question of how the meaning of individual biblical figures changed in Hellenistic times...read more

Product Description: In our present-day society Angels are being talked about more frequently again. But where are the roots of these discourses to be found? How have they developed? The present volume concentrates on a study of important sources for the ideas about angels in oriental antiquity, the Old Testament and early Jewish and Christian thinking...read more

Product Description: This Yearbook compiles the proceedings of the International Conference of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature held in Salzburg/Austria (5 - 9 July 2003) on "Function and Relevance of Prayer in Deuterocanonical Literature."

Product Description: Book by Reiterer, Friedrich V. (editor)