Product Description: Modern scholarship on the parables has long been preoccupied with asking what Jesus himself said and what he intended to accomplish with his parables. Ruben Zimmermann moves beyond that agenda to explore the dynamics of parabolic speech in all its rich complexity...read more

Product Description: Metapher - Narratio - Mimesis - Doxologie - in diesem Band werden die Vorträge der vier Symposien der Mainz Moral Meetings aus den Jahren 2012-2014 zu diesen Begr|ndungsformen antiker christlicher Ethik zusammengefasst. Ein interdisziplinärer Zugang erschliesst die Formen, in denen das fr|he Christentum ausserhalb expliziter, rational-ethischer Reflexion ein spezifisches Ethos konstruierte, das bis heute das abendländische Denken bestimmt...read more

Product Description: English summary: Miracle stories hold a great fascination, yet in many ways they also cause considerable difficulties when it comes to trying to interpret them. This anthology on the hermeneutics of early Christian miracle stories summarizes the current state of research and continues the debate...read more

Part of a set which overall contains information about two of the fastest growing areas within psychology: neuroscience and biomedical research. The set blends these two expanding fields and contains over 1200 entries, of which over 60 per cent are new or revised.

Product Description: Gutes und Guter, Leben, Leib, Tugend - in diesem Band werden die Vortrage der ersten vier Symposien der Mainz Moral Meetings aus den Jahren 2009-2011 zu diesen Themen zusammengefasst. Ein interdisziplinarer Zugang durch Bibelwissenschaft, Judaistik, Altphilologie, Philosophie, Patristik, Systematische Theologie und weiteren Disziplinen eroffnet einen Blick auf die ethischen Normen des fruhen Christentums...read more

Product Description: Ethics is a neglected field of research in the Gospel and Letters of John. Judgments about even the presence of ethics in the Gospel are often negative, and even though ethics is regarded as one of the two major problem areas focused on in 1 John, the development of a Johannine ethics from the Letters receive relatively little attention...read more

Product Description: English summary: Whereas previous methods of understanding Jesus' parables were strictly separated according to history, literature and the aesthetics of reception, the authors of this book attempt to look at the various approaches together from the perspective of hermeneutics...read more

Product Description: This volume focuses on the interrelatedness of morality and language. Apart from explicit ethical statements, implicit NT moral language is analysed in three overlapping aspects based on the interpretation of concrete NT texts: an intratextual level (linguistic and analytic philosophical methods: syntactical form, style and logic), an textual and intertextual level (form criticism, discourse analysis) and an extratextual level (speech act analysis; rhetoric; reader-response criticism)...read more