Liebe Leserinnen und Leser, Der Verlag De Gruyter Brill nimmt allmählich Formen an. Die neue Website, das neue Logo und gemeinsame Konferenzteilnahmen und Bücherstände machen den Zusammenschluss der Verlage De Gruyter und Brill sichtbar. In der Programmgestaltung bleiben die Marken Brill, De Gruyter und Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht weiterhin unterscheidbar. So legen wir hier den Katalog theologischer und religionswissenschaftlicher Titel 2025 aus dem Haus De Gruyter vor und informieren Sie in bewährter Weise über unsere Neuerscheinungen. Sonderseiten aus den anderen Verlagsmarken erlauben einen ersten Blick auf Schwerpunkte der Kolleginnen und Kollegen. Da das neue Lektorat Religionswissenschaft, Bibelwissenschaft und Theologie eine deutlich größere Zahl an Neuerscheinungen publizieren wird, überdenken wir das bisherige Format des Neuerscheinungskatalogs. Wir werden geeignete Formen finden, Sie weiterhin über ein breit aufgestelltes, interessantes und innovatives Programm zu informieren.
Zwei neue Lehrbücher richten sich an Lehrende und Studierende: Thomas Klie legt einen innovativen Entwurf der Kasualtheorien vor (S. 43); Michael Stausberg und Katharina Wilkens haben Beiträge aus allen religionswissenschaftlichen Instituten des deutschsprachigen Raums für eine komplett neu geschriebene Neuauflage von Religionswissenschaft gewinnen können (S. 66).
Die zweibändige kritische Edition der Praktischen Theologie markiert einen wichtigen Meilenstein der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe Friedrich Schleiermachers (S. 34); der Band Konfirmationsunterricht vervollständigt unser Bild des praktischen Theologen Schleiermacher mit bisher unveröffentlichtem Material (S. 34).
In der Islamischen und der interreligiösen Theologie ergänzen mehrere neue Reihen unser Programm: Traditions in Transformation. Thinking with Theology bietet ein offenes Forum für theologische Debatten über Religionsgrenzen hinweg und für die theologische Auseinandersetzung mit anderen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen (S. 62). Theology and Tradition in Islam: Studies on Prophecy, Transmission and Spirituality widmet sich der Bedeutung von Prophetie und deren Überlieferung für die Herausbildung islamischer Theologie und Spiritualität (S. 53–55). Comparative Theology, Islam and Society bietet genuin islamisch-theologische Zugänge zur Komparativen Theologie und den Kultur- und Rechtswissenschaften (S. 51). Das Team von De Gruyter Theologie und Religion (S. 85–86) dankt unseren Autorinnen und Autoren für das Vertrauen, welches sie in uns setzen, und allen Leserinnen und Lesern für das Interesse an unseren Publikationen.
Publishing Director Religion, Bible, and Theology
Dear readers,
The new publishing house De Gruyter Brill is gradually taking shape. The new website, the new logo and joint book stands make the merger of the De Gruyter and Brill publishing houses visible. However, the brands of Brill, De Gruyter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht remain distinct in terms of their program. Here we present the catalog of new titles 2025 in Theology and Religion from De Gruyter and inform you in the usual way about our new publications. Special pages from the other publishing brands provide a first glimpse of our colleagues' areas of focus. As the new editorial team for Religion, Bible, and Theology will be publishing a significantly larger number of new publications, we are rethinking the previous format of the new publications catalog. We will find suitable ways to continue informing you about a broad, interesting and innovative program.
Two new textbooks are aimed at teachers and students: Thomas Klie presents an innovative outline of the religious ceremonies of the church: Kasualtheorien (p. 43), Michael Stausberg and Katharina Wilkens have been able to bring together contributions from all institutes of religious studies in the German-speaking world for a completely rewritten new edition of Religionswissenschaft (p. 66).
The two-volume critical edition of Praktische Theologie marks an important milestone in Friedrich Schleiermacher's Kritischer Geamtausgabe (p. 34), while the volume Konfirmationsunterricht completes with previously unpublished material our picture of Schleiermacher as a practical theologian (p. 34). In Islamic and interreligious theology, several new series complement our program: Traditions in Transformation. Thinking with Theology offers an open forum for theological debates across religious boundaries and for theological discussions with other academic disciplines (p. 62). Theology and Tradition in Islam: Studies on Prophecy, Transmission and Spirituality is dedicated to the significance of prophecy and its transmission for the development of Islamic theology and spirituality (p. 53–55). Comparative Theology, Islam and Society offers genuinely Islamic-theological approaches to comparative theology and cultural and legal studies (p. 51).
The team at De Gruyter Theology and Religion (pp. 85–86) would like to thank our authors for the trust they place in us and all readers for their interest in our publications.
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Gonzalo Rubio, Klaus Wagensonner (Eds.)
Scholars and Scholarship in Ancient Mesopotamia
Series: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) 34
December 2025
English, Approx. 300 pp.
HC *RRP € 114.95 / US$ 124.99 / £ 102.50
ISBN 978-1-5015-2130-0
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This book provides an overview of intellectual and academic life in ancient Mesopotamia, bringing together leading experts to survey the education system, history of the scribal industry, key organization and outputs of scholarship, and major areas of intellectual inquiry. It serves as a point of entry to the current research in this field.
History of science; scribal industry; education system; intellectual and academic life
Gonzalo Rubio, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA; Klaus Wagensonner, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Steven
Garfinkle, Gonzalo Rubio (Eds.)
Economy and Society of Ancient Mesopotamia
Series: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) 35
October 2025
English, 170 pp.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 97.50
ISBN 978-1-5015-2112-6
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This study is a diachronic survey of the economy and society in ancient Mesopotamia from the Third through the First millennia, focusing on the rich written tradition provided by cuneiform archives.
Ancient Near East; Economy; Society; Cuneiform Literature
Steven Garfinkle, Western Washington University, and Gonzalo Rubio, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Nils P. Heeßel, Marten Stol (Eds.) Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen
Founded by Franz Köcher
Ulrike Steinert (Ed.) Band 12: Women’s Healthcare in Ancient Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BCE
An Edition of the Textual Sources
Funded by European Research Council (ERC)
October 2025
English, Other Languages, Approx. 300 pp., 61 fig.
HC *RRP € 174.95 / US$ 196.99 / £ 155.50
ISBN 978-1-5015-1525-5
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This volume offers a comprehensive edition of ancient Mesopotamian texts concerned with women’s health. The corpus covers diagnostic and therapeutic cuneiform texts from the first millennium BCE and selected sources from earlier periods, including medical prescriptions, healing incantations and rituals. These texts document an impressive range of therapeutic strategies and specialist knowledge about women's diseases, fertility and reproduction.
Medical cuneiform texts; ancient Mesopotamian gynaecology and obstetrics; healing rituals and incantations; drug-based remedies
Ulrike Steinert, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.
Open Access
Alexander Johannes Edmonds
Triumph and Betrayal
Assyria’s Path to Empire, 935–745 BC
Funded by Assyrian Cultural Foundation
Series: Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie 17
April 2025
English, XV, 361 pp., 16 fig.
HC *RRP € 174.95 / US$ 188.99 / £ 156.00
ISBN 978-3-11-144200-6
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This book re-examines Assyria’s rise to become ‘the world’s first empire’, presenting a new history of the early Neo-Assyrian period (935–746 BC) with detailed regional studies and thematic investigations. It finds that this period was riven with internal political conflicts, compromises, and sudden policy shifts; contrary to structuralist interpretations, Assyria’s path to empire was a competition between rival visions for its future.
Neo-Assyrian; Assyria; expansionary politics
Alexander Johannes Edmonds, University of Münster, Germany.
Hekmat Dirbas (Hrsg./Ed.)
Rasāʾil nisāʾiyya min alsharq al-qadīm
Maḥfūẓāt qaṣr Mārī (Tall al-Ḥarīrī)
Wathāʾiq mismāriyya min al-ʿ aṣr al-bābilī al-qadīm
Funded by Max Weber Stiftung
Series: Bibliotheca Islamica 64
July 2025
Arabic, English, Approx. 498 pp., 16 fig.
HC *RRP € 99.95 / RRP US$ 109.99 / RRP £ 91.00
ISBN 978-3-11-155292-7
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The book provides an Arabic edition of Old Babylonian letters from the Mari Archives (Tell Hariri, Syria) known among Assyriologists as ‘women’s letters’ or ‘feminine correspondence’. Court and elite women from Mari and neighboring areas act as receivers, senders, or both. They tell about their personal stories, but also deliver information on political, cultural, religious, and social aspects of life in ancient Mesopotamia and Syria.
Babylon, Assyria, History of Everyday Life
Hekmat Dirbas, The Ohio State University, USA.
Ralph Birk, Laurent Coulon (Eds.) The Thebaid in
Times of Crisis
Revolt and Response in Ptolemaic Egypt
Funded by Einstein Center Chronoi
Series: Chronoi 13
January 2025
English, VIII, 372 pp., 28 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 49.95 / US$ 54.99 / £ 45.50
ISBN 978-3-11-160784-9
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This collective volume explores crises in the Upper Egyptian Thebaid during the Ptolemaic Period. As a result of an international conference held at the Freie Universität Berlin (May 2–4, 2019), the presented case studies ask how societal actors – and modern scholars – of Ptolemaic Egypt shape and frame times of crisis, from small-scale insurgencies to full-fledged secession, by bringing a wide array of sources and perspectives into dialogue.
Ralph Birk, Einstein Center Chronoi, FU Berlin, Germany; Laurent Coulon, Collège de France, Paris, France.
OOpen Access
Marta Pallavidini (A)synchronic (Re)actions
Crises and Their Perception in Hittite History
Funded by Einstein Center Chronoi
Series: Chronoi 14
May 2025
English, XIV, 74 pp., 5 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 29.95 / US$ 32.99 / £ 27.50
ISBN 978-3-11-171212-3
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This book aims to study the perception of crises in Hittite Anatolia (1650–1180 BCE) from different perspectives: the one of the Hittites, the one of the neighboring polities, and ours as historians. The book will consider four case-studies that are considered key moments in Hittite history. The final goal is to re-define crises in Hittite Anatolia considering the multi-temporality of the (a)synchronic perception of crises.
Crisis; Hitita; synchronicity; time perception
Marta Pallavidini, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Christoffer Theis
Der polymorphe Bes
Untersuchungen zu Entwicklung, Devianz und Tradition eines mehrköpfigen Wesens im alten Ägypten
[The Polymorphic Bes: Studies on the Development, Deviance, and Tradition of a Multi-Headed Being in Ancient Egypt]
Reihe/Series: Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde – Beihefte 17
Aus dem alten Ägypten ist Bes als polymorphe Gestalt mit mehreren Köpfen überliefert. Er war den Quellen nach ein recht verbreitetes und vor allem beliebtes Wesen, das im königlichen wie im privaten Umfeld rezipiert und in schutzmächtigen Ritualen angewandt wurde. Diese Entität ist durch viele Quellen wie Reliefs, Statuetten, Texte und Vignetten seit dem 7. Jhd. v. Chr. an belegt und wurde noch während der Spätantike auf Gemmen dargestellt.
Bes has been transmitted from Ancient Egypt as a polymorphic figure with several heads. According to the sources, he was a fairly widespread and especially popular being that was received in both royal and private contexts and used in protective rituals. This entity has been documented in many sources since the seventh century BCE, such as reliefs, statuettes, texts, and vignettes, and was even depicted on gems in late antiquity. Egyptian religion; Ancient Egypt; Late Period; cultural interaction; history of religion
Christoffer Theis, Ägyptologisches Institut, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Deutschland.
Vassiliki Panoussi, William Hutton (Eds.)
Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome
Series: Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 190
December 2025
English, Approx. 530 pp., 40 fig.
HC *RRP € 139.95 / US$ 153.99 / £ 127.00
ISBN 978-3-11-119731-9
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-119745-6
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The essays in this volume consider the triptych of memory, ritual, and identity in ancient Greece and Rome. With contributions on Roman literature, politics, religion, and material culture, this volume examines from a multidisciplinary perspective how memory and ritual interact in the construction of identity in Greco-Roman antiquity and how that interaction evolves over time from archaic Greece to the early days of Christianity.
Ancient Greek Religion; Ancient Roman Religion; Ancient Social History
Vassiliki Panoussi and William Hutton, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg VA, USA.
Christian Zgoll (Hrsg./Ed.)
Mysterientexte. Die orphisch-bakchischen Goldplättchen
Als geheime, auf den mythischen Sänger Orpheus zurückgehende Texte des Dionysischen Mysterienkults gelten die in Gräbern des Mittelmeerraums entdeckten Orphischbakchischen Goldplättchen (Ende 5. Jh. v. Chr. – Anfang 3. Jh. n. Chr.). Der Band bietet erstmals eine Edition von allen bislang gefundenen und weiteren verwandten Texten mit deutscher Übersetzung und Kommentierung sowie eine Einführung zu den Dionysischen Mysterien.
The Orphic-Bacchian gold plates discovered in Mediterranean graves (late 5th cen. BC – early 3rd cen. AD) are considered secret texts of the Dionysian mystery cult, dating back to the mythical singer Orpheus. This volume offers, for the first time, an edition of all texts discovered to date, as well as other related texts, with German translations and commentary, as well as an introduction to the Dionysian mysteries.
Mystery cults; Dionysian mysteries; Concepts of the afterlife; Initiation
Christian Zgoll, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Deutschland.
Ghattas Eid
The Phonology of Maaloula Aramaic
July 2024
English, X, 249 pp., 20 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 39.95 / US$ 43.99 / £ 36.50
ISBN 978-3-11-144704-9
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-144712-4
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The book describes the sound system of Maaloula Aramaic, an under-researched and endangered Western Neo-Aramaic dialect. It provides solutions to previously unaddressed problems at the descriptive, methodological and theoretical levels. The analyzed language data come from the Maaloula Aramaic Speech Corpus (MASC) and from collaboration with native speakers. The book is intended for linguists who may or may not be familiar with Semitic languages. Aramaic language; lingustics; Maaloula; phonology
Hannes Bezzel, Karen Covello-Paran, Joachim J. Krause, Omer Sergi (Eds.) Palace-Clan
Relations in the Bronze and Iron Ages Levant
Textual and Material Approaches
In collaboration with Johannes Seidel Series: Archaeology of the Biblical Worlds 6
July 2025
English, Approx. 210 pp., 55 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 97.50
ISBN 978-3-11-140551-3
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-141133-0
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The book presents studies on the social and political structure, interaction, and formation of different Levantine polities in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Based on archaeological as well as on literary sources, the contributions focus on kinship relations as a longue durée phenomenon of Ancient Middle Eastern societies and the fragmented nature of Bronze and Iron Ages polities in the Levant.
Iron Age; Levant; Political anthropology; Social archaeology
H. Bezzel, Univ. of Jena; K. Covello-Paran, Israel Antiquities Authority; J. J. Krause, Ruhr Univ. Bochum; O. Sergi, Tel Aviv Univ.
Kyle Henry Keimer, Chris McKinny, Aharon Tavger (Eds.)
New Studies in the Historical Geography of the Ancient Near East
Series: Archaeology of the Biblical Worlds 8
February 2026
English, Approx. 220 pp., 55 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 120.99 / £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-167695-1
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-167786-6
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This volume includes historical, geographical studies that cover the history of the field, the historical geography of Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age Egypt and Canaan, the role of geography in dating biblical texts, and historical geography of the Hebrew Bible, the Second Temple Period, and the New Testament. The volume illustrates how historical geographic studies combine archaeological discoveries with developments in textual analysis.
Im Zusammenspiel von Analysen einschlägiger biblischer Texte (insb. Hag und Sach 1-8; Esr 1-6; Gen 14; Ps 110) und außerbiblischer Quellen rekonstruiert die Studie die Entstehung eines politisch einflussreichen Jerusalemer Hohepriesteramtes. Entgegen einem breiten Forschungstrend kommt sie zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Politisierung des Jerusalemer Hohepriesteramtes nicht vor der seleukidischen Zeit eingesetzt hat. Jerusalemer Hohepriester; Joschua; Melchisedek; Persische und hellenistische Zeit
In an interplay of analyses, relevant biblical texts (esp. Hag.; Zech. 1–8; Ezra 1–6, Gen. 14; Ps. 110) and extra-biblical sources, this study reconstructs the development of the politically influential office of the high priest in Jerusalem. Countering a widespread research trend, this study draws the conclusion that the politicization of the Jerusalem office of the high priest did not begin before the Seleucid age.
High priests of Jerusalem; Joshua; Melchizedek; Persian and Hellenistic Age
Sarah Schulz, Friedrich-AlexanderUniversität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Maximilian Häberlein
Speaking to Job in Greek
Text, Translation Technique, Literary and Theological Profile of OG Job 38:1-42:6
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 560
September 2024
English, IX, 442 pp.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 120.99 / £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-139744-3
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-139900-3
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The Old Greek translation of Job has long challenged scholars. How can the difference in length, literary profile, and theology be described? This study investigates text, translation technique, literary contexts, and theological profile of God‘s speeches (Job 38:1-42:6) in OG Job. By focussing on translational strategies and reading of the Greek text in its own right, this study provides new perspectives on the Book of Job in its Greek form.
Septuagint; Old Greek Job; Book of Job; Old Greek
Maximilian Häberlein, Universität of Würzburg, Germany.
Georg
Braulik
Das Buch Deuteronomium
Bibeltheologische Aufsätze
Reihe/Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 561
Der vorliegende Sammelband, der siebente des Autors zum Buch Deuteronomium, enthält 14 Aufsätze, darunter zwei unveröffentlichte. Die Beiträge sind zwischen 2019 und 2024 in verschiedenen theologischen Zeitschriften, Sammelbänden und Festschriften erschienen. Sie behandeln zentrale bibeltheologische Themen des Deuteronomiums, beziehen aber zum Teil auch andere dafür relevante Schriften des Alten Testaments ausführlich in die Untersuchung ein. Theologie, systematische; Theologie, biblische; Deuteronomium
This anthology, the author’s seventh on the book of Deuteronomy, contains 14 essays, including two unpublished ones. The articles were published between 2019 and 2024 in various theological journals, anthologies and commemorative publications. They deal with central biblical-theological topics of Deuteronomy, but some also include other relevant Old Testament writings in the study. Deuteronomy; Old Testament; Theology Georg Braulik, Universität Wien, Österreich.
Tyler D. Mayfield, Penelope Barter (Eds.)
Ezekiel’s Sign-Acts Methods and Interpretation
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 562
November 2024
English, XII, 228 pp.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 97.50
ISBN 978-3-11-151973-9
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-152101-5
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The Ezekiel passages describing the instructions for, and dramatization of, divine messages are among the most bizarre in the Hebrew Bible. Yet these sign-acts are often overlooked within Ezekiel studies, which tend to focus on the book’s strange visions and controversial oracles. This volume addresses the growing diversity in approaches in Ezekiel studies by inviting international scholars to focus on the texts concerning Ezekiel’s sign-acts.
Ezekiel; sign acts; Old Testament; Hebrew Bible
Tyler D. Mayfield, Lousville, KY, USA; and Penelope Barter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ryan D. Schroeder
Let Us Go to the Seer!
Prophecy, Scribal Culture, and the Invention of Hebrew Scripture
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 563
March 2025
English, XV, 290 pp., 2 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 97.50
ISBN 978-3-11-152568-6
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-153248-6
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Biblical prophecy has long been regarded as distinct from pagan divination: while the nations solicited divine messages, Hebrew prophets received revelation spontaneously. Ryan D. Schroeder challenges this false dichotomy. Rereading the Hebrew Bible and comparative West Asian texts, he argues that the spontaneity of Israelite revelation is largely a mirage produced by ancient scribes and modern scholars reifying a superior “biblical” religion.
Prophecy and divination; Hebrew Bible and Assyriology; scribal culture; power and religion
Ryan D. Schroeder, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Stefan C. Reif Jewish Manuscripts, Prayers and Scholars
An Anthology of Historical, Linguistic and Liturgical Essays
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 564
December 2024
English, VIII, 363 pp., 2 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 97.50
ISBN 978-3-11-157539-1
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-157764-7
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Studies of the history of manuscripts and of their acquisition demonstrate their impact on research into Jewish studies and on modern Judaism. The analysis of medieval liturgical content reveals ideological and theological notions that lie behind prayer texts and the variant forms that they take. Scholars in Jewish studies had common characteristics but much remained that was individual about their lives, research publications and achievements.
Judaism; Hebrew; manuscripts; liturgy
Stefan C. Reif, St John’s College, University of Cambridge, England.
Emanuelle Pastore
La sagesse mise à l’épreuve
La visite de la reine de Saba dans le cycle de Salomon (1 Rois 2 – 11) : une comparaison entre le Texte Massorétique et la Septante
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 566
La péricope de la reine venue de Saba et se rendant à Jérusalem pour éprouver Salomon par des énigmes (1 R 10,1-13) constitue la porte d’entrée de cette étude portant plus largement sur le cycle de Salomon (1 R 2-11). L’auteur s’intéresse à la construction narrative et théologique de 1 R 2-11 dans ses deux versions textuelles, avant de reconstituer les principales étapes rédactionnelles de ces chapitres.
Livres des Rois; Texte massorétique; Septante; Histoire deutéronomiste
The pericope of the queen who came from Sheba and went to Jerusalem to test Solomon with riddles (1 Kgs 10:1–13) serve as a gateway to this study, which focuses more broadly on the Solomon cycle (1 Kgs 2–11). The author examines the narrative and theological construction of 1 Kgs 2–11 in its two textual versions before reconstructing the main editorial stages of these chapters. Books of Kings; Massoretic Text; Septuagint; Deuteronomistic History
Emanuelle Pastore, Institut Catholique de Paris, France.
Maximilian Rechholz
Die „Hiskianische Sammlung“ im Sprüchebuch
Zur Genese von Prov 25–29 und ein Vergleich mit den demotischen Weisheitstexten
[“Hezekiah’s Collection” in the Book of Proverbs: The Genesis of Prov 25–29 and a Comparison with the Demotic Wisdom Texts]
Reihe/Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 570
Die Arbeit hinterfragt die traditionelle Datierung der sogenannten „Hiskianischen Sammlung" im Sprüchebuch (Kap. 25–29) ins späte 8. Jh. v. Chr. Durch eine Analyse der mehrfach bezeugten Einzelsprüche innerhalb des Sprüchebuchs sowie einem Vergleich mit den demotischen Lehren der ägyptischen Spätzeit erweist sich eine spätere Datierung in die nachexilische Zeit als plausibler, was zu einem neuen Verständnis der „Hiskianischen Sammlung" führt.
Hebräische Bibel; Demotische Sprache; Buch der Sprüche; Weisheitsliteratur
This study challenges the traditional dating of "Hezekiah's Collection" in the Book of Proverbs (chapters 25–29) to the late eighth century CE. An analysis of the frequently attested individual proverbs within the Book of Proverbs and a comparison with Demotic teachings from the Egyptian Late Period suggest a later, more plausible dating to the post-exilic period, resulting in a fresh understanding of the "Hezekiah’s Collection."
Maximilian Rechholz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Mariana Assaf Water Imagery in the Book of Jeremiah
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 571
October 2025
English, 335 pp.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 120.99 / £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-914733-0
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-220666-9
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The powerful imagery of water, with its recurring and complex manifestations, gives unity and structure to the Book of Jeremiah. Through a close reading of each occurrence of this image, this study demonstrates how the Book of Jeremiah offers a theological reinterpretation of the entire political and religious history of Israel, from the crisis of the covenant to its rupture and ultimately to its restoration in a new covenant.
Water; Metaphor; Covenant
Mariana Assaf, Rom, Italy.
Open Access
Ulrich Berges
Justice and Righteousness in the Old Testament
OAndrew Montanaro
The Sage in Relation
Family in Ben Sira's House of Discipline
Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 45
Reflecting on Slavery in the Hebrew Bible Series: Dependency and Slavery Studies 20
June 2025
English, 8 , 227 pp.
HC *RRP € 89.95 / US$ 98.99 / £ 82.00
ISBN 978-3-11-914721-7
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This book combines two closely related research interests that have not yet received sufficient recognition: The investigation of justice in the Hebrew Bible and the position of male and female slaves within it. Justice in the ancient Near East and in the Old Testament is of a transcendent quality that precedes God and humans alike. In this worldview, the link between act and consequence is constitutive, but slaves are excluded as mere property.
Old Testament; ethics; God / Sovereignty
Ulrich Berges, University of Bonn, Germany.
April 2025
English, XVIII, 316 pp.
HC *RRP € 124.95 / US$ 140.99 / £ 111.00
ISBN 978-3-11-075228-1
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Living in a time of growing Hellenistic pressures, the Jewish sage Ben Sira sought to strengthen his students' piety. He accomplishes this by uniting the conception of the sage as father of his students to the spousal relationship the sage shares with personified Wisdom. In developing these themes, Ben Sira provides the model by which his students can raise pious children in a family that resembles their pedagogical situation under Ben Sira.
Wisdom; Family Language; Second Temple.
Andrew Montanaro, Alexandria, VA, USA.
Topias K.E. Tanskanen Jacob in Jubilees
Jacob, the Torah and the Abrahamic Promise
Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 57
August 2025
English, Approx. 385 pp., 1 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-142841-3
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The study concerns how the Jacob Story of the Book of Genesis was interpreted by the author of the Book of Jubilees in the 2nd century BCE. It focusses on three key themes, the patriarch Jacob as the people of Israel, Jacob’s close relationship to the Mosaic Torah (esp. Deuteronomy), and Jacob as the recipient of all the promises given to Abraham. Jacob exemplifies the perfect Israelite who fulfils the Torah and can thus inherit the promises.
Book of Jubilees; reception history of the Bible; interpretation of the Bible; parabiblical literature
Topias K. E. Tanskanen, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
Benedikt Josef Collinet, Frank Ueberschaer (Eds.) Jew-hatred in
the Second Temple Period
Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 58
June 2025
English, German, VIII, 301 pp.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 93.50
ISBN 978-3-11-103237-5
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The volume presents studies on Jew-hatred and how it was encountered in the Second Temple period. It includes contributions on literature from the Hellenistic and Roman times from different proveniences, ranging from Jewish literature in Greek language (e.g. Septuagint and Philo) to prejudices and resentments in the works of Greek and Roman authors.
Antijudaism; Hellenism; Second Temple Period; Jew-hatred
Benedikt Collinet, Passau University; Frank Ueberschaer, Martin-LutherUniversität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
Viktor Kókai-Nagy, Ádám Vér (Eds.)
Josephus and the Maccabees
Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 59
February 2026
English, 200 pp.
HC *RRP € 104.95 / US$ 115.99 / £ 95.50
ISBN 978-3-11-914918-1
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In most cases, the literature on the books of the Maccabees considers Josephus as a supplementary source. In this volume, we take Josephus as our primary source and explore how and what he wrote about the Maccabees. With 11 essays in English and German and an introduction by Steve Mason on the history of research, this volume aims to bring the reader closer to Josephus' view of the Maccabees and his interpretation of these works.
Josephus; Maccabees; Books of; Second Temple Judaism; Hasmoneans
Viktor Kókai-Nagy, János-Selye-University, Slovakia; Ádám Vér, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary.
Benedikt Josef Collinet
Durch das Meer
Ein Neuentwurf kontextueller Exegese am Beispiel der Exodusrezeption in den Deuterokanonika
[Through the Ocean: A New Concept of Contextual Exegesis Based on the Reception of Exodus in the Deuterocanonical Books]
Reihe/Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 55
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Eine wichtige Frage der Gegenwart ist, wie man heute heilige Texte im säkularen und theologischen Kontext lesen kann. Dieses Buch wagt den Versuch, ein zweistufiges Modell vorzuschlagen, das pluralitätsfähig und integrativ ist. Die Neubesinnung auf kontextuelle Exegese wird dabei an der innerbiblischen Wirkungsgeschichte des ExodusStoffes erprobt, genauer daran, wie er sich in den „hellenistischen" Büchern der Bibel und des Frühjudentums zeigt.
Exodus; Biblische Hermeneutik; Intertextualität
One important question being asked today is how to read sacred texts in secular and theological contexts. This books proposes a two-stage model that is integrative and capable of plurality. It attempts a rethinking of contextual exegesis by looking at the inner-Biblical reception history of the Exodus material – to be more precise, by examining how it is revealed in the "Hellenistic" books of the Bible and early Judaism.
Exodus; Biblical hermeneutics; intertextuality
Benedikt Josef Collinet, Universität Innsbruck, Österreich.
Isaac W. Oliver, Jocelyn McWhirter, Joshua Scott (Eds.)
Luke and Acts with(in) Second Temple Judaism
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 256
December 2025
English, Approx. 650 pp., 18 fig.
HC *RRP € 124.95 / US$ 140.99 / £ 111.00
ISBN 978-3-11-078490-9
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Specialists explore the relationship of Luke and Acts to Judaism. Convinced that no NT text can be properly understood apart from its Jewish matrix, key questions concerning Luke’s authorship, audience, and interests are revisited. The volume also evaluates Luke and Acts within their Greco-Roman environment in light of their Jewish character. Finally, it compares Luke and Acts with other early Christian writings in relation to Jews and Judaism.
Christian origins; Jewish-Christian relations; "Parting of the Ways"; Jewish context of the New Testament
Isaac W. Oliver, Bradley University; Jocelyn McWirther, Albion College; Joshua Scott, University of Michigan, USA.
Ryan D. Collman
The Apostle to the Foreskin
Circumcision in the Letters of Paul Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 259
November 2024
English, X, 246 pp.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / US$ 21.99 / £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-162799-1
Winner of Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise (2023).
This study offers a comprehensive examination of circumcision and foreskin in the undisputed Pauline epistles from a 'Paul within Judaism' perspective. In this revisionist reading, Collman argues that the category of ethnicity is critical for understanding Paul on circumcision. Through this lens, Collman offers a number of new readings of difficult Pauline texts.
Pauline Epistles; Circumcision; Foreskin; Paul within Judaism
Ryan D. Collman, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Benjamin Edsall, Joseph Verheyden, Jens Schröter (Eds.)
Modes of Scriptural Interpretation in Early Judaism and Early Christianity
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 265
December 2025
English, Approx. 332 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-132925-3
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-132953-6
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The present contributions examine three modes of interpretation – rewriting, appropriation, and commentary – within early Jewish and Christian texts. These modes co-exist, operating side by side across the early period, rather than conforming to a developmental scheme. In the end, the category of interpretation itself turns out to be capatious, including material from sectarian Halakhah to Valentinian mythology to Rabbinic heresiological discourse.
B. Edsall, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne; J. Schröter, Humboldt University Berlin; J. Verheyden, Catholic University Leiden.
Stephen Hultgren
Mighty in Word and Deed
Book 1. Social Memory, Christology, and the Construction of a Gospel Narrative
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 270/I
May 2025
English, XVI , 498 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-143262-5
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This is a 2-volume study of the Synoptic tradition of the Gospels against the background of the recent discussion about orality, narrativity and form criticism. It brings together textual criticism of Q and the early oral tradition about Jesus with literary analysis, taking narrative as a fundamental vehicle of social memory. This first volume sets out the problem and task, along an approach and methods of textual study.
Stephen Hultgren, Australian Lutheran College, North Adelaide, Australia.
Stephen Hultgren
Mighty in Word and Deed
Book 2. Elijah Typology, Time Maps, and the Construction of a Gospel Narrative Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 270/2
October 2025
English, Approx. 460 pp.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 97.50
ISBN 978-3-11-143265-6
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-143445-2
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This is a 2-volume study of the Synoptic tradition of the Gospels against the background of the recent discussion about orality, narrativity and form criticism. It brings together textual criticism of Q and the early oral tradition about Jesus with literary analysis, taking narrative as a fundamental vehicle of social memory. This second volume 2 focuses on how narrative functioned to integrate different memories of Jesus in the tradition.
Stephen Hultgren, Australian Lutheran College, North Adelaide, Australia.
ROMANS 8 REVISITED
Edited by Markus Öhler and Jason Valdez
Markus Öhler, Jason Valdez (Eds.) Romans 8 Revisited
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 273
February 2026
English, Approx. 300 pp.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 120.99 / £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-171154-6
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This volume offers fresh approaches to aspects of Romans 8. Interpretive topics include the status of the law for those "in Christ", Christology, and what being "in" the Spirit might mean. The collection treats the overall structure and conceptuality of the argument within the letter as a whole, as well as insights gleaned from epigraphic sources, the interplay of moral and cosmological themes, and the underlying anthropology of the chapter.
Romans; Paul; New Testament
Markus Öhler and Jason Valdez, University of Vienna, Austria.
Rechtsgeschichtlicher Kommentar zum Neuen Testament
Folker Siegert (Hrsg./Ed.)
Band II: Die Logienquelle und das Markusevangelium
[A Law History Commentary of the New Testament, Volume II: The Four Evangelists and Their Sources]
In Zusammenarb. mit/In collab. with Johann Maier (†), Detlev Dormeyer In Gemeinschaft mit/Together with Susanne Benöhr-Laqueur
Das Neue Testament enthält Rechtsfälle und -begriffe, die noch keine fachkundige Behandlung erfahren haben. Hier wird interdisziplinär nach heutigem Wissensstand ermittelt, welche Rechtsbegriffe, aramäisch, hebräisch, griechisch oder römisch, dem Verhalten der Menschen sowie der sprachlichen Darstellung zugrunde lagen, differenziert nach Ort und Zeit. Daraus ergeben sich konkretere Textaussagen.
The New Testament contains legal cases and terms that have never received scholarly attention. This interdisciplinary study draws on the latest research to differentiate by period and location which legal concepts – Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, or Roman – determine people’s behavior in the text and the applicable linguistic forms. This approach reaches concrete new conclusions about the text.
Pre-rabbinic law; classical Roman law; Lutheran systematic theology; history of law
Folker Siegert und Susanne BenöhrLaqueur, Universität Münster.
Katharina D. Sandmeier
Ägyptisches Buchwesen
Koptische und griechische Interpunktion im Johannesevangelium
[Egyptian Book Culture: Coptic and Greek Punctuation in the Gospel of John]
Reihe/Series: Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 59
Dieser Band liefert erstmalig eine umfassende Studie zu Interpunktion in koptischen und griechischen Handschriften aus dem spätantiken Ägypten. Die Funktion der gesetzten Lesehilfen wird an ausgewählten Zeugen des Johannesevangeliums differenziert erschlossen und verglichen; dabei werden sowohl Gemeinsamkeiten in der Pausensetzung beider Sprachen als auch eigenständige Entwicklungen der koptischen Interpunktion festgestellt.
This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive study on punctuation in Coptic and Greek manuscripts from late ancient Egypt. It provides a nuanced exploration of how the reading aids functioned by looking at selected documents from the Gospel of John, identifying both similarities in the use of pauses in both languages as well as independent developments in Coptic punctuation.
Punctuation; Coptic language; Gospel of John; Egypt in late antiquity
Katharina D. Sandmeier, Universität Münster.
Georg Gäbel, Matthias Geigenfeind, Darius Müller (Hrsg./Eds.)
Textforschung zu Septuaginta, Hebräerbrief und Apokalypse
Die Relevanz von Textkritik für die Erforschung des frühen Judentums, des Neuen Testaments und des frühen Christentums. Festschrift für Martin Karrer zum 70. Geburtstag
[Textual Studies on the Septuagint, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the Book of Revelation: The Relevance of Textual Criticism in Explorations of Early Judaism, the New Testament, and Early Christianity; Festschrift for Martin Karrer’s Seventieth Birthday]
Reihe/Series: Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 60
Dieser Band ehrt Martin Karrer mit Beiträgen zu Aspekten der Textgeschichte der Bibel. Die Sammlung dokumentiert die Breite der wissenschaftlichen Interessen Martin Karrers und gibt Einblick in die Vielfalt der Bezüge heutiger Textforschung und ihre Relevanz für die Erforschung des frühen Judentums, des Neuen Testaments und des frühen Christentums.
This volume in honor of Martin Karrer contains chapters on aspects of the textual history of the Bible. The collection documents the breadth of Martin Karrer’s scholarly interests, giving insights into their diverse connections to contemporary textual studies and their relevance for explorations of early Judaism, and early Christianity.
Septuagint; manuscripts; editio critica maior; epistle to the Hebrews
Georg Gäbel, Matthias Geigenfeind, Universität Münster; Darius Müller, Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal.
Now in Paperback
Angela Kim Harkins, Harry O. Maier (Eds.)
Experiencing the Shepherd of Hermas
Series: Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages 10
June 2024
English, XII, 275 pp.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / US$ 21.99 / £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-150244-1
This book breaks new ground in the study of the Shepherd of Hermas, one of the most widely read works in the early church. Leading scholars explore religious experience in the Shepherd with the help of a variety of interdisciplinary tools that include critical literary theory, anthropology, cognitive science, affect theory, gender studies, intersectionality, and text reception.
Prophecy; visions; Self / Subjectivity; religious experience
Angela Kim Harkins, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, USA, and Harry O. Maier, Vancouver School of Theology, Canada.
Saskia Dirkse
The Greek Gospel Kephalaia
A Diachronic Study with Critical Editions and Translations
Series: Manuscripta Biblica 11
August 2025
English, Approx. 180 pp., 30 fig.
HC *RRP € 139.95 / US$ 153.99 / £ 127.00
ISBN 978-3-11-118698-6
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-118994-9
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The Greek Gospel kephalaia are a type of text division dividing the Gospels into sequential sections based around themes and events from the text. By focusing on its various functions within a literary and manuscript context and on different aspects of the tradition over time, this study offers a broad picture of the development of this key Gospel paratext from the 5th-century Codex Alexandrinus to Erasmus and beyond.
New Testament; Greek manuscripts; Text Divisions; Codex Alexandrinus
Constance M. Furey, Peter Gemeinhardt, Joel Marcus LeMon, Thomas Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR)
Volume 24: Pesher, Pesharim – Pontus
October 2025
English, Approx. XXX, 600 pp., 55 fig.
HC *RRP € 279.00 / US$ 310.00 / £ 254.00
Standing Order price for subscribers to the complete work
*€ 219.00 / US$ 250.00 / £ 199.50
ISBN 978-3-11-062832-6
The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is intended to serve as a comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on the background, origins, and development of the canonical texts of the Bible as they were accepted in Judaism and Christianity. Unprecedented in breadth and scope, this encyclopedia also documents the history of the Bible's interpretation and reception across the centuries, not only in Judaism and Christianity.
Bible; Reception of the Bible; Encyclopaedia; Cultural History; Exegesis
Thomas L. Martin (Ed.)
Handbook of Literary Apologetics
The Imagination’s Journey to God
Series: De Gruyter Reference
August 2025
English, Approx. 570 pp.
HC *RRP € 169.95 / US$ 186.99 / £ 154.50
ISBN 978-3-11-079457-1
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-079464-9
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Literary apologetics is the study of the characteristic moves by authors who take readers on their journey of faith with them. That tradition begins with Latin authors, spreads across Europe in a continuous literary culture, and extends over world literature to the present. It probes ultimate questions, adumbrates numinous experience, and extrapolates ethical outcomes of Christian teachings across a variety of literary forms.
Philosophy; theology; aesthetics; Christian faith
Thomas L. Martin, Wheaton College, Wheaton IL, USA.
Annette Schellenberg (Ed.)
The Song of Songs Through the Ages
Essays on the Song’s Reception History in Different Times, Contexts, and Genres
Series: Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) 8
November 2024
English, VII, 513 pp., 32 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 29.95 / US$ 32.99 / £ 27.50
ISBN 978-3-11-162094-7
Read as an allegory of God’s love for Israel, the Church, or individual believers, the Song of Songs became one of the most influential texts from the Bible. The essays in this volume cover the Song’s rich reception history from antiquity to the present, paying attention to diverse interpretations in commentaries, sermons, and other literature, as well as the Song’s impact on spirituality, theological and intellectual debates, and the arts.
Song of Songs; reception history; allegory; interpretation; spirituality
Annette Schellenberg, Vienna University, Austria.
Rachelle Lynda Gilmour, Benjamin Johnson (Eds.) Explorations in
the Interpretation of Samuel
intertextuality and reception
Series: studies of the Bible and its reception (sBr) 26
December 2024 english, Vii, 273 pp.
HC *rrP € 109.95 / us$ 117.99 / £ 97.50 isBn 978-3-11-114364-4
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The volume consists of 21 essays from an international group of scholars. The volume is broken into two parts: Reading Samuel with the Hebrew Bible, and beyond the Hebrew Bible. Each section will offer readings of portions of the Book of Samuel that engage with other texts. The chapters are arranged in the order of the narrative sequence of Samuel to highlight the way reading with other texts can inform a reading of the Book of Samuel. Samuel; Wirkunsgeschichte; reception; Hebrew Bible
Rachelle Gilmour, University of Melbourne, Australia; Benjamin Johnson, LeTourneau University, USA.
Constantin Oancea
Reading Genesis in Lent reception of the Biblical creation and Paradise narrative in Byzantine hymnography
December 2025
english, Approx. 270 pp.
HC *rrP € 99.95 / us$ 109.99 / £ 91.00 isBn 978-3-11-164521-6
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Orthodox Christians read the entire book of Genesis during Lent, and several liturgical hymns refer to the story from Genesis 1–3. How did Byzantine poets understand this narraitve? Why was Adam so crucial to them? What techniques did they use in the process of interpreting biblical texts? This book provides a comprehensive understanding of this unique interpretation of Genesis in Byzantine hymnography.
Constantin Horia Oancea, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania.
Eusebius Caesariensis Werke
Franz Xaver Risch (Hrsg./Ed.)
Eusebius von Caesarea
Kommentar zu den Psalmen
Cordula Bandt (Hrsg./Ed.)
Eusebius X
Der Psalmenkommentar
2. teil, 2. Band: Kommentare und Fragmente zu Psalm 72–100
[Eusebius X: Commentary on the Psalms; Part II, Volume II: Commentary and Fragments on Psalms 72–100]
Reihe/Series: Die griechischen christlichen schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte n.F. 35
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Der zweite Teilband des zweiten Teils der kritischen Edition des Psalmenkommentars des Eusebius von Cäsarea (ca. 265–340) enthält alle erhaltenen Kommentare zu Psalm 72–100 und basiert auf der Auswertung des einzigen Textzeugen der integralen Überlieferung (Codex Coisl. 44). Sowohl der integral überlieferte Teil als auch die darin fehlenden Psalmen 95,4–100 wurden auf Grundlage aller relevanten Katenenfragmente ausgewertet. Eusebius von Cäsarea; christliche Psalmenauslegung; frühes Christentum; Hexapla
The second subvolume of Eusebius of Caesarea’s (ca. 265–340) Commentary on the Psalms contains all his surviving commentaries on Psalms 72–100, based on an analysis of the sole extant manuscript preserving the most complete known transmission (Codex Coisl. 44). Missing passages have been supplemented using relevant catena fragments. Eusebius of Caesarea; Christian Psalm exegesis; early Christianity; Hexapla Cordula Bandt, BBAW, Berlin.
Cordula Bandt, Reinhart Ceulemans (Eds.) Research on Psalter Catenae
Current Trends and Recent Developments
Series: Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 197
July 2024
English, X, 314 pp., 8 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 97.50
ISBN 978-3-11-150240-3
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-150259-5
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To reduce the tradition of commentaries on the Bible to a manageable format, late antique Christianity developed the form of the catena commentary, in which excerpts from the works of authoritative theologians are juxtaposed. Catenae on the Psalms are by far the largest corpus in this tradition. This book presents ongoing research on this complex tradition, including methodological developments, tools and studies of the Oriental versions.
Psalm catenae; Byzantine christianity; Christian commentary literature
Cordula Bandt, BBAW, Berlin; Reinhart Ceulemans, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Clark R. Bates
The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Ephesians
Text, Translation, and Commentary
Series: Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 198
June 2025
English, Ancient Greek, XVIII, 424 pp., 10 fig.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / US$ 142.99 / £ 118.50
ISBN 978-3-11-914947-1
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-169235-7
This volume advances the understanding of the production and purpose of the Ps.Oecumenian catena on Ephesians through the creation of a critical edition, translation, and commentary. The edition is created by the transcription and collation of catena manuscripts on Ephesians and is presented alongside an English translation with theological commentary, analyzing the content of the scholia against longstanding patristic exegesis.
Catena; Ephesians; Patristics
Clark R. Bates, Forge Theological Seminary, Summerville, US and Istituto di formazione evangelica e documentazione, Padova, Italy
Emanuela Prinzivalli
The Gospel and the Church
The Words of Jesus in the Process of Ecclesiastical Institutionalization in Rome (First to Fifth Centuries)
Series: Hans-Lietzmann-Vorlesungen 23
March 2025
English, VIII, 41 pp.
Pb. *RRP € 34.95 / US$ 35.99 / £ 29.50
ISBN 978-3-11-157397-7
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-157415-8
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Christian churches all refer to the figure of the Jewish Jesus of Nazareth, considered Christ and the Son of God. The Christian Bible includes four Gospels that contain many teachings of Jesus. One might expect Jesus' words to be important for the churches and their leaders. But, has this been the case historically? The author seeks to address the question, particularly focusing on the early centuries and using the Church of Rome as a case study.
Words of Jesus; Roman Church; origins of christianity
Emanuela Prinzivalli, University of Rome, Italy.
Peter Nagel † (Hrsg./Ed.)
Das »Buch der Stufen« (Liber Graduum)
Aus dem Syrischen übersetzt und eingeleitet
[The "Book of Steps" (Liber Graduum): Translated from Syriac with an Introduction]
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-157747-0 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-157831-6
Das »Buch der Stufen« (Liber Graduum) ist eine Sammlung von dreißig Traktaten in syrischer Sprache, in denen ein unbekannter asketischer Lehrer des vierten Jahrhunderts eine summa des christlichen Lebens niedergelegt hat. Die neue Übersetzung ist bemüht, diesem eigentümlichen Quellenzeugnis der syrischen Askese, Frömmigkeit und Theologie des vierten Jahrhunderts einen breiteren Zugang zu eröffnen.
Syrisch; Johannesakten; Manichäismus
The Book of Steps (Liber Graduum) is a collection of thirty treatises written in Syriac, in which an unknown fourth-century ascetic teacher lays out a summary of Christian life. The new translation aims to open this unique fourth-century source material on Syriac asceticism, piety, and theology up to a broader public.
Syriac; Acts of John; Manichaeism; asceticism
Peter Nagel †, univerities of Halle and Bonn, Germany.
Emily Ruth Chesley (Ed.)
Visual Culture in Medieval Syriac Traditions
Series: Sense, Matter, and Medium 13
December 2025
English, Approx. 590 pp., 131 fig.
HC *RRP € 117.95 / US$ 129.99 / £ 107.50
ISBN 978-3-11-143705-7
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This groundbreaking volume presents the arts and material culture of medieval Syriac Christianity for English-speaking audiences. With contributions from the world’s eminent scholars of Syriac visual culture, it examines the interconnectedness of Syriac art and artisans in an increasingly global medieval world, even as it draws attention to the understudied field of Syriac art history and introduces new sources for art history.
Syria; Middle Ages; art history; visual culture
Emily Ruth Chesley, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
D. Jeffrey Bingham
The Tyranny of Time?
Time, World, and Knowledge in SecondCentury Christian and Christian-Gnostic Texts
Series: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 163
December 2024
English, XII, 262 pp.
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Henri-Charles Puech (1950s) claimed that contrary to the early “Christian” view, “Gnosticism” disparaged time, history and world with its anti-cosmic, anti-historical bias. This book rebuts his thesis by analyzing his “Gnostic” texts along with a wider array of literature from within second-century Christian and Gnostic-Christian communities. This close reading displays an era of broad theological discussion with a spectrum of proposed models.
Puech; Second Century; Christian-Gnostic; Time
D. Jeffrey Bingham, Southwestern Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
David Vopřada, Markéta Dudziková, Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko (Eds.)
The
Pattern and the Image
Insights from the Alexandrian Exegetical Tradition
Series: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 164
June 2025
English, IX, 289 pp.
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The papers collected in this volume examine the Platonic concept of the world as an image of the intelligible pattern and the reception of this concept in late antiquity. The book focuses on the reinterpretation of the pattern–image concept in Philo of Alexandria, Plotinus, and early Christian authors, such as Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Eusebius, Athanasius, Gregory Nazianzus, Didymus the Blind, Ambrose of Milan, and PseudoAthanasius.
Alexandrian exegesis; Pattern and Image; Platonic; Philonic; and Origenian studies; Arian controversy
David Vopřada, Markéta Dudziková, and Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Alfons Fürst, Christoph Markschies (Hrsg./Eds.) Origenes
Werke mit deutscher Übersetzung
[Origen: Works with a German Translation]
Alfons Fürst (Hrsg./Ed.)
Band 25: Briefe
Texte, Fragmente und Testimonien sowie die Briefe des Julius Africanus an Origenes und Aristides [Volume 25: Letters]
Von über 100 Briefen des Origenes (185–254) sind nur zwei im griechischen Original erhalten sowie ein längeres lateinisches Fragment und einige kleine Fragmente und Nachrichten bei diversen spätantiken Autoren. Diese wenigen Überreste der Briefsammlung werden erstmals in einer eigenen Ausgabe gesammelt, übersetzt, kommentiert und mit einer ausführlichen Einleitung versehen.
Origenes; Julius Africanus; Gregor der Wundertäter; Susanna
Of over 100 letters of Origen (185–254), only two were preserved in the original Greek along with a longer Latin fragment and several small fragments and reports by diverse late-Classical authors. These sparse remnants of the correspondence are collected, translated into German, annotated, and prefaced by a detailed introduction.
Origen; Julius Africanus; Gregory the Wonder Worker; Susanna Alfons Fürst, Universität Münster.
Heinz Ohme
Das 6. Ökumenische Konzil von Konstantinopel (680/681)
Eine engelgleiche Versammlung?
[The Sixth Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (680/681): An Angelic Assembly?]
Das Konstantinopler Konzil von 680/681 hat mit seiner Lehrentscheidung zum zweifachen Wirken und Willen Jesu Christi für die Römisch-Katholische Kirche und die Orthodoxen Kirchen normative Bedeutung. Bisher fehlte eine moderne Darstellung seines Zustandekommens und seiner Folgen. Diese Studie analysiert in historischer, philologischer und theologischer Hinsicht die Akten und Protokolle seiner 18 Sitzungen auf der Basis ihrer kritischen Edition.
Konzil; Christologie; Ökumene; Papst
The Constantinople Council of 680/681, and its doctrinal decision regarding the dual wills and operations of Jesus Christ, is of normative significance for the Roman-Catholic and Orthodox Churches. There has never been a modern presentation of its development and impact. This study takes a historical, philological, and theological perspective to analyze the records and minutes of its eighteen sessions on the basis of their critical edition. Council; Christology; Ecumenism; Pope Heinz Ohme, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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Maria Dell’Isola (Ed.) Female Authority and Holiness in Early and Medieval Christianity
May 2025
English, VII, 163 pp.
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This collective volume investigates the connection between women’s holiness and the notion of time from a diachronic perspective. By looking at temporality as intertwined with the construction of social and gendered roles, the volume analyses narratives related to the varying articulation of female authority, considered against the wider background of Christian ideals of holiness between early Christianity and Byzantium.
Temporality; gender; religion; Christianity
Maria Dell’Isola, University of Milan, Italy.
Open Access
Giovanni Colpani
Poems on Bishops by Gregory of Nazianzus and Ephrem the Syrian
This study is the first extensive comparison of poems by Gregory of Nazianzus and Ephrem the Syrian focused on their form, imagery and literary strategies. The poems selected have historical significance thanks to their common theme: Gregory and Ephrem are the first to write verse on bishops in Greek and Syriac respectively. A new English translation of the texts is appended to the study.
Ephraem; Syrus; Gregorius; Nazianzenus; Late Antiquity; poetry
Giovanni Colpani, Gymnasium, Kolleg und Fachoberschule St. Matthias, Wolfratshausen, Germany.
Jeffrey Michael Featherstone, Juan Signes Codoñer (Eds.)
Chronographiae quae Theophanis
Continuati nomine
fertur Liber VI
Recensuerunt anglice verterunt indicibus instruxerunt Michael Featherstone et Juan Signes Codoñer
Series: Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae –Series Berolinensis 58
March 2025
English, Ancient Greek, X, 465 pp.X, 152*, 313
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The volume presents a new edition and translation of the final part of the chronicle Theophanes Continuatus, recounting the period AD 886 to 963. Product of a team working within the Palace the text follows upon two classicising texts ascribed to the emperor Constantine VII. Though stylistically inferior, this final part illustrates the current methods of re-writing sources and constitutes our main historical source for 10th-century Byzantium.
Ancient Greek; Byzantine Empire; Constantine VII; Theophanes Continuatus
Michael Featherstone, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France; Juan Signes Codoñer, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
Isabelle Mandrella (Hrsg./Ed.)
Honorius Augustodunensis
Ein frühmittelalterlicher Bestsellerautor zwischen Originalität und Wirkung
Reihe/Series: Veröffentlichungen des GrabmannInstitutes zur Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie 71
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Über Honorius Augustodunensis (1. Hälfte 12. Jh.) ist kaum etwas bekannt. Die Schriften dieses produktiven Autors aber waren erstaunlich weit verbreitet, wie hunderte von Handschriften, die seine Werke überliefern, eindrucksvoll belegen. Honorius war ein frühmittelalterlicher Bestsellerautor mit einer bemerkenswerten Wirkungsgeschichte, deren Bedeutung jedoch noch weitestgehend unerforscht ist und dessen Originalität es wiederzuentdecken gilt.
Honorius Augustodunensis; Eriugena-Rezeption; Platonismus; Frühmittelalter
Little is known about Honorius Augustodunensis (1st half of the 12th century). However, the writings of this prolific author were astonishingly widespread, as is impressively demonstrated by the hundreds of manuscripts of his works that survived . Honorius was an early medieval bestselling author with a remarkable history of influence, whose significance is still largely unexplored and whose originality needs to be rediscovered.
Honorius Augustodunensis; Early Middle Ages; Platonism; Reception of Eriugena
Eine Synthese der Kommentare des Thomas von Aquin zur aristotelischen Metaphysik und zum platonischen ›Liber de causis‹
Reihe/Series: Veröffentlichungen des GrabmannInstitutes zur Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie 72
Dezember/December 2025
Deutsch/German, 456 S./pp., 0 Abb./fig.
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Zwei Bücher, Metaphysik des Aristoteles und Liber de causis, wurden im 13. Jahrhundert an der Pariser Universität im Rahmen eines einheitlichen Studienzusammenhangs zur Metaphysik gelesen. Waren die aristotelischen und platonischen Theorieelemente demnach vollständig miteinander vereinbar?
Die vorliegende Studie präsentiert eine mögliche Synthese, indem sie eine Lektüre vorschlägt, die Thomas von Aquins Kommentare zu beiden Werken zusammenführt.
Metaphysik; Philosophie des Mittelalters; Thomas von Aquin
Two books, Aristotle's Metaphysics and Liber de causis, were read at the University of Paris in the 13th century as part of a unified study of metaphysics. Were the Aristotelian and Platonic theoretical elements therefore fully compatible? This study presents a possible synthesis by proposing a reading that brings together Thomas Aquinas’ commentaries on both works.
Medieval Philosophy; Metaphysics; Thomas Aquinas
Kyuhee Park, Katholische Universität Korea, Seoul, Südkorea.
Stephen J. Molvarec, Demetrio S. Yocum (Eds.)
Carthusian Monasticism
History, Life, World, Texts
Series: Monastic Life and Venerated Spaces
December 2025
English, 460 pp., 20 fig.
HC *RRP € 107.95 / US$ 124.99 / £ 98.00
ISBN 978-1-5015-1784-6
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As a multi-pronged and interdisciplinary study, this volume offers a comprehensive, yet nuanced re-examination of the Carthusian way of life: one that often challenges longstanding assumptions about the Carthusians and their place within Western Christianity and civilization. The breadth and depth of this volume will appeal not only to the seasoned scholar and graduate students, but also to newcomers to the field.
Carthusians; Church History; monastic life; spirituality
S. J. Molvarec, SJ, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, and D. S. Yocum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
Iva Adámková
Bernhard von Clairvaux: Apologia
Monastische Tradition und Rhetorik im 12. Jahrhundert
[Bernhard von Clairvaux: Apologia; Rhetoric in the Apology and the TwelfthCentury European Monastic Tradition]
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Die Apologia ad Wilhelmum abbatem S. Theoderici Bernhards von Clairvaux (1091–1153) ist der wichtigste Beitrag seitens der Zisterzienser in der Kontroverse mit dem traditionellen Benediktinermönchtum.
Das Buch behandelt diese polemische Schrift und möchte sich der stilistische Ebene, der genutzten rhetorischen Strategien sowie auch dem gesamten Ton der Apologie nähern. Daher deutet es auch Texte, welche auf die Apologie unmittelbar reagieren.
Mittelalter; Zisterzienser; Bernhard von Clairvaux; Apologia ad Willhelmum abbatem; Rhetorik
Die Apologia ad Wilhelmum abbatem S. Theoderici by Bernhard von Clairvaux (1091–1153) is the most important Cistercian contribution to the debate with traditional Benedictine monasticism. This book examines this polemical work, focusing on its style, rhetorical strategies, and the overall tone of the apology. It also interprets texts that directly react to the apology.
Middle Ages; Bernhard von Clairvaux; Cistercians; rhetorics; Apologia ad Willhelmum abbatem
Die Studie analysiert die deutschsprachige Rezeption zweier Passionsstundenlieder, ‚Patris sapientia‘ und ‚Matutino tempore‘, in Spätmittelalter und früher Neuzeit. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung steht die Position der volkssprachigen Bearbeitungen im Spannungsfeld von liturgischer Struktur und persönlichem Gebet. Das Buch bietet eine Edition der zum größten Teil neu erschlossenen Übertragungen der beiden Stundenlieder. Tagzeitenliturgie; Passionsfrömmigkeit; Gebet; Übersetzung
This study analyzes the German reception of two hymns of the Hours, "Patris sapientia" and "Matutino tempore," from the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period. It focuses on the role of the vernacular adaptations between the poles of liturgical structure and personal prayer. This book provides an edition of the translations of these two hymns of the Hours, which are explored here for the first time.
Liturgy of the Hours; passion piety; prayer; translation
On the Statutes and the Beginnings of the Teutonic Order
March 2025
English, VI, 158 pp.
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The book presents a new state of research on the origins of the Teutonic Order. Previous research is based on romantic ideas of the Kingdom of Prussia and the legend of Wilhelminian Germany. The surviving sources are late and therefore unreliable. The history of the order, including its Joannite beginnings, was reconstructed by tracing the evolution of its statutes and comparing the results of the studies with papal, imperial and royal documents.
Die Figur des Teufels repräsentiert menschliche Verfehlungen und moralische Überzeugungen. Die Studie beleuchtet anhand der im 15. Jahrhundert im Bodenseeraum entstandenen Reimpaardichtung Des Teufels Netz, wie der Teufel zudem zur individuellen Selbstreflexion und Gewissensbildung beiträgt. Die Grundlage hierfür bildet eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Relevanz des Gewissens für die Literatur und den theologischen Diskurs des Mittelalters.
Mittelalter; Frühe Neuzeit; Teufel; Gewissen
The figure of the Devil represents human folly and moral convictions. This study looks at the fifteenth-century rhyming couplet poem Des Teufels Netz (The Devil’s Net) from the Bodensee region to examine how the Devil also facilitated the individual’s self-reflection and formation of conscience. The foundation for this is an exploration of the relevance of conscience for the literature and theological discourse of the Middle Ages. Middle Ages; Early Modern times; devil; conscience
Sarah Brigitta Bender, Universität Leipzig.
Nina Fahr
Das Konstanzer Gebetbuch der Margaretha von Kappel
Wort, Bild und Zeit in der spätmittelalterlichen Gebetsüberlieferung
[The Constance Prayer Book of Margaretha von Kappel: Word, Image, and Time in the Tradition of Late Medieval Prayer]
Reihe/Series: Kulturtopographie des alemannischen Raums
Das Gebetbuch der Margaretha von Kappel (1482) ist ein bemerkenswertes Zeugnis der Bildung und Frömmigkeit einer Konstanzer Patrizierin. Margaretha war selbst maßgeblich an der Komposition ihres Gebetbuchs beteiligt. Die vorliegende Studie erschließt dieses Zeugnis privater Spiritualität in Text und Bild, ordnet es in den historischen Kontext ein und analysiert die religiösen und literarischen Interessen einer spätmittelalterlichen Patrizierin.
Gebetbuch
The prayer book of Margaretha von Kappel (1482) is a remarkable testament to the education and piety of one of Constance’s patrician. Margaretha herself played a significant role in the composition of her prayer book. This study explores this example of private spirituality in text and image, places it in its historical context, and analyzes the religious and literary interests of a late medieval patrician.
Prayer book
Nina Fahr, Schaffhausen/Zürich, Schweiz.
Sarah Glenn DeMaris
The Unterlinden Sisterbook
A Study and Edition of Elisabeth Kempf’s Final Revision, circa 1470
Series: Kulturtopographie des alemannischen Raums
October 2025
English, German, Approx. 494 pp., 25 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / US$ 131.99 / £ 109.50
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Early in the 14 century Dominican prioress Katharina von Gueberschwihr composed the Vitae sororum: spiritual lives of early sisters at Colmar’s Unterlinden convent. Some 150 years later her successor Elisabeth Kempf edited and translated the book into German. The current study examines transmission of these related texts and Kempf’s possible collaboration with fellow Dominican Johannes Meyer. A critical edition of the German text is included.
Underlinden Sisterbook; Elisabeth Kempf; Katharina von Gueberschwihr; Johannes Meyer; Dominican Order
Sarah Glenn DeMaris, Valparaiso University, USA.
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Sigrid Hirbodian
Geistliche Frauen und städtische Gesellschaft in Straßburg
Stiftsdamen, Klosterfrauen und Beginen im Spätmittelalter
Reihe/Series: Studien zur Germania Sacra. Neue Folge 15
Straßburg war im spätmittelalterlichen Reich nach Köln die Stadt mit den meisten religiösen Frauengemeinschaften. Die Studie beleuchtet das breite Spektrum an religiösen Lebensformen für Frauen in einer spätmittelalterlichen Stadt, ihre enge Einbindung in die städtische Umwelt sowie die teilweise erhebliche Handlungsmacht der geistlichen Frauen in politischen, wirtschaftlichen und religiösen Belangen.
After Cologne, Strasbourg was the city with the most religious women's communities in the late medieval empire. The study sheds light on the broad spectrum of religious lifestyles for women in a late medieval city, their close integration into the urban environment and the sometimes considerable power of clerical women in political, economic and religious matters.
Clergywomen; Strasbourg; women's convents; religious lifestyles
Sigrid Hirbodian, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Étienne Doublier, Enrico Faini (Hrsg./Eds.) Krise und Aufbruch
‚Deutschland‘ und ‚Italien‘ jenseits des Investiturstreits (ca. 1050 – ca. 1130)
[Crisis and Awakening: ‘Germany’ und ‘Italy’ beyond the Investiture Contest]
Reihe/Series: Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom 149
Im 11./12. Jh. kam es in Europa zu einer Beschleunigung tiefgreifender Veränderungen; ein Teil der Geschichtsforschung spricht von einer ersten Revolution. Dieser Band untersucht das Spezifikum deutscher und italienischer Gebiete und beleuchtet dabei vor allem den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Investiturstreit und den Wandlungen in politischer und medialer Kommunikation, der Ausübung von Herrschaft sowie den sozialen Beziehungsstrukturen.
Politische Kommunikation; Herrschaftsausübung; Netzwerke; Schriftlichkeit
Europe went through a period of profound transformation in the 11th/12th centuries, leading some historians to refer to this time as a first revolution. This volume explores specific developments in German and Italian regions, with particular focus on interconnections between the Investiture Contest and changes in political and media communication and the structures of social relationships. Political communication; execution of power; networks; written culture
Étienne Doublier, Universität zu Köln; Enrico Faini, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italien.
Germania Sacra
Die Kirche des Alten Reiches und ihre Institutionen
[Germania Sacra: The Churches of the Old Empire and Their Institutions]
Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Hrsg./Ed.)
Dritte Folge
[Third Installment]
Editors Jasmin Hoven, Bärbel Kröger, Nathalie Kruppa, Christian Popp
Christian Hillen Band 24: Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz Köln. Das Erzbistum Köln 8: Die Kölner Erzbischöfe von 787 bis 1099
[Volume 24. The Bishoprics in the Ecclesiastical Province of Cologne: The Archdiocese of Cologne 8; Cologne’s Archbishops from 787 to 1099]
Der Band behandelt das Leben und Wirken der Kölner Erzbischöfe in der formativen Phase des Kölner Metropolitansprengels und seiner Ausbildung. Sie waren wichtige Säulen der königlichen und kaiserlichen Macht, prägten die Stadt Köln durch Stiftsund Klostergründungen und beeinflussten die innere Struktur der Gemeinden. Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts wurde ihre Herrschaft durch eine sich langsam sichtbar werdende Bürgerschaft herausgefordert.
Erbistum Köln; Kirchengeschichte
This volume deals with the life and work of Cologne's archbishops in the formative phase of the Colognian metropolitan diocese and its development. They were important pillars of royal and imperial power, shaped the city of Cologne with the founding of monasteries and convents, and influenced the inner structure of parishes. In the late eleventh century, their rule faced a challenge from the slowly emerging citizenry.
Archdiocese of Cologne; church history
Christian Hillen, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln.
Christian Popp, Joachim Stephan
Band 25: Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz Mainz. Das Bistum Halberstadt 2: Die Halberstädter Bischöfe bis 1023
[The Bishoprics of the Ecclesiastical Province of Mainz: The Bishopric of Halberstadt 2; The Halberstadt Bishops Until 1023]
Der Band beschreibt die Entstehung und Entwicklung des Bistums Halberstadt bis zum Ende der ottonischen Königsherrschaft. In dieser Zeit entwickelte sich das frühmittelalterliche Sachsen zum Kerngebiet des Ostfrankenreichs. Die neue Zentralität der Harzregion bewirkte die beschleunigte kirchliche Erschließung mit Pfarreien, Klöstern und Stiften und den Aufstieg von Plätzen wie Magdeburg und Quedlinburg zu Hauptorten der ottonischen Monarchie.
This volume describes the establishment and development of the bishopric of Halberstadt until the end of Ottonian royal rule. In this period, early medieval Saxony became the key area in East Francia. The new centrality of the Harz region accelerated the expansion of the church in the form of parishes, cloisters, and convents, with the rise of seats like Magdeburg and Quedlinburg into main centers of Ottonian monarchy.
Bishopric of Halberstadt; ecclesiastical province of Mainz; church history
Christian Popp, Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen; Joachim Stephan, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu.
Christian Hoffmann Band 26: Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz BremenHamburg. Das Erzbistum Bremen-Hamburg 1: Das Domstift Bremen bis 1648. Teil 1: Personallisten
Das Bremer Domkapitel war die wichtigste Einrichtung des Erzbistums HamburgBremen, entstanden aus dem Domkloster des 10. Jahrhunderts. Es umfasste Domherren aus verschiedenen sozialen Schichten, vom Bürger bis zum Hochadel, und war konfessionell gemischt. Viele Domherren wurden später Bischöfe oder Landesherren. Das Kapitel bot Versorgung und Karrierechancen, auch für Kriegsmänner. Der Band enthält Kurzbiografien der Domherren und Bediensteten. Erzbistum Bremen-Hamburg; Kirchengeschichte
The Bremen Cathedral chapter was the most important institution of the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen, originating from the cathedral monastery in the 10th century. It comprised canons from various social classes, from the commoners to the nobility, and was religiously mixed. Many canons later became bishops or territorial rulers. The chapter offered provisions and career opportunities, even for soldiers. This volume contains short biographies of the canons and their servants. Archdiocese of Bremen-Hamburg; Church History Christian Hillen, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln.
Michael Calder
Art and Drama on a Late Medieval Rood Screen
Unveiling a Mystical Passion
Series: Early Drama, Art, and Music
December 2024
English, XIV, 309 pp., 128 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / US$ 129.99 / £ 107.00
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The painted panels on the church screen at Berry Pomeroy have long been overlooked. The unlocking of their true meaning has led to the discovery of an unknown late medieval iconographic programme which conceals a mystical interpretation calling for the active engagement of the beholder and inviting them to identify with the Virgin Mary. This book will be of great interest to students of art history, medieval theatre, and Christian theology.
Rood-screens; The Ordinalia; Virgin Mary; English Medieval Mysticism; Gesture
Michael Calder, independent scholar and author, Kingsbridge, Devon, UK.
Dimitris Paradoulakis
Kyrillos Loukaris as an Author of Sermons (1602–1626)
Inventory of the Autograph Codices in the Collection of the Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre
Series: Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History 21
January 2025
English, English, VIII, 569 pp., 8 fig.
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In addressing the emerging subject of Eastern (Orthodox) homiletics in the early modern period, the volume focuses on the case of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Kyrillos Loukaris (c. 1570–1638) as a preacher and author of sermons from the years 1602 to 1626. The study includes a codicological and paleographical description, as well as a detailed inventory of Loukaris’ autograph Didachae. Kyrillos Loukaris; Greek Orthodox Homiletics; Interchurchal relationsships; Post-Reformation Preaching
Dimitris Paradoulakis, Universität Hamburg, Germany.
Urs Leo Gantenbein (Hrsg./Ed.)
Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim)
Theologische Werke
Mit einer Einl. v./With an introd. by Urs Leo Gantenbein
Urs Leo Gantenbein (Hrsg./Ed.)
Band 2: Die Salzburger Schriften (1524/25)
Von der Jungfrau Maria zur radikalen Reformation
[Volume 2: Salzburg Writings (1524/25): From the Virgin Mary to Radical Reformation]
Erstmals nach den Handschriften herausgegeben, vermitteln die frühesten theologischen Schriften des Arztes und Naturphilosophen Paracelsus (1493/94–1541) ein eindrückliches Bild vom Geist der frühen Reformation. Zeitgleich mit dem Bauernkrieg 1524/25 wandelte er sich vom glühenden Marienverehrer zum scharfen Kritiker der kirchlichen und sozialen Missstände. Als beginnender Bibelexeget widmete er Luther eine erste Auslegung zum Matthäusevangelium. Paracelsus; Mariologie; Reformation; Bauernkrieg
This is the first manuscript edition of the earliest theological writings of Paracelsus (1493/94–1541), offering powerful insights into the spirit of the early Reformation. Around the time of the German Peasants’ War (1524/25), the ardent Marian devotee transformed into a fierce critic of ecclesiastical and social injustices. The budding Biblical exegete dedicated his first commentary on the Gospel of Matthew to Luther. Paracelsus; Mariology; Reformation; Peasants’ War Urs Leo Gantenbein, ETH Zürich, Schweiz.
Giuseppe Marino
La «Historia Religionis Christianae Japoniae» de Alessandro Valignano (1601)
Edición crítica
[Alessandro Valignana's "Historia Religionis Christianae Japoniae" (1601). Critical Edition]
En Del principio y progreso de la religión cristiana en Japón, Alessandro Valignano explora la introducción y expansión del cristianismo en Japón (1543–1570). Su análisis riguroso y matizado se basa en cartas y manuscritos, a menudo inéditos, en latín y en castellano. Esta edición unifica estos documentos en español de la época, incluyendo notas filológicas detalladas y comentarios que proporcionan contexto histórico, cultural y religioso.
In Del principio y progreso de la religión cristiana en Japón, Alessandro Valignano explores the introduction and spread of Christianity in Japan (1543–1570). His rigorous and nuanced analysis is based on often unpublished Latin- and Spanish-language letters and manuscripts. This edition unifies these documents in contemporary Spanish and includes detailed philological notes and commentary that offer historical, cultural and religious context.
Giuseppe Marino, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España.
Filip Malesevic (Ed.)
Guglielmo Sirleto Monumenta Sirletana Romanae Curiae
The Collected Works and Correspondence of Cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto
Filip Malesevic (Ed.)
Section A: Epistulae, vol. 1
Guglielmo Sirleto’s Early Correspondence, 1539-1545
Guglielmo Sirleto
Funded by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
June 2026
English, Latin, Approx. 380 pp., 1 fig.
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The first volume of Guglielmo Sirleto’s epistles provides an apparatus for reconstructing his pathway from his outset in Southern Italy towards the ecclesiastical environment of the Roman Curia. The edition of Guglielmo Sirleto’s first letters demonstrates how the Greek scholar from Calabria entered Cardinal Cervini’s enterprises concurrently with the failure of the negotiations at the Dialogues of Religion (1539-1541).
Guglielmo Sirleto; Marcello Cervini; printing press; Council of Trent
Filip Malesevic, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Section C: Regestae
Filip Malesevic (Ed.)
Register of letters to volume A.1: The Early Correspondence, 15391545
Guglielmo Sirleto
Funded by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
August 2026
English, Approx. 280 pp.
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The registered letters corresponding to Guglielmo Sirleto’s epistles provide an apparatus for reconstructing his pathway from his outset in Southern Italy towards the ecclesiastical environment of the Roman Curia. The present edition demonstrates how Sirleto’s starting affiliation with Cardinal Cervini started to emerge for gradually substituting the papal librarian Agostino Steuco within the administration oft he Vatican Library.
Guglielmo Sirleto; Marcello Cervini; printing press; Council of Trent
Filip Malesevic, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Filip Malesevic
Rome Unveiled
Cardinal Cesare Baronio and San Giovanni in Laterano
Funded by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
October 2025
English, 568 pp., 160 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-143471-1
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This book provides new and fresh insights into the history of Rome’s Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano. It traces the probable contribution by the Cardinal Cesare Baronio in designing an iconographic program for the transept inside the Roman church edifice during Clement VIII’s (Aldobrandini) pontificate. The book provides a reconstruction of the history and Curial interventions at the Patriarchum Lateranensis during the 16th century.
16th century; San Giovanni in Laterano; Early Modern Papacy; Cesare Baronio
Filip Malesevic, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Michael Haykin (Ed.)
Andrew Fuller
The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller
Robert William Oliver, Michael Haykin (Eds.)
Volume 5: Apologetic Works 1
The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation
November 2025
English, Approx. 450 pp., 3 fig.
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This is the first critical edition of Fuller's seminal work, The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation: or The Duty of Sinners to Believe in Jesus Christ, and contains both of the first two printed editions. The treatise provides a window into the late 18th century debate in Baptist theology concerning the intersection of divine sovereignty and individual faith and contributed to the development of Baptist missionary movements.
Robert W. Oliver, London Theological Seminary (retired), UK.
Maxim Baz
The Papal Arts of Peace and Civilization
War Avoidance, War Mitigation, and Preventive Pacification from Leo XIII to
John Paul II
Series: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 165
March 2025
English, XVII, 327 pp.
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The 20th-century papacy developed a new ethical framework for addressing the challenges of international war and peace. This framework combines three moral doctrines: War Avoidance, War Mitigation, and Preventive Pacification. The book explores the evolution of this paradigm from Leo XIII to John Paul II, arguing that its principles will become crucial for the 21st-century's quest for a civilization of love.
Just War; Papacy; War and Peace
Maxim Baz, PhD, SThD
Open Access
Orlin Sabev
The Müteferrika Press
Arabic Typography in an Ottoman Context
Funded by European Research Council (ERC)
Series: Early Arabic Printing in the East 5
May 2025
English, XXVII, 404 pp., 100 fig.
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This book provides an overview of the activity and the output of the first Turkish press in the Ottoman Empire. Known as the Müteferrika Press, it was founded in Istanbul and was operated most actively from 1726 until 1747. This volume retells the foundation story and activity of this press, focusing on its publications that were printed in Turkish but in Arabic script.
Orlin Sabev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
OOpen Access
Habib Ibrahim
The Correspondence of Mūsā Ṭrābulsī (1732-1787)
Critical Edition, English Translation, and Introduction
Funded by European Research Council (ERC)
Series: Early Arabic Printing in the East 6
November 2025
English, Approx. 240 pp., 20 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-164223-9
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This volume presents an Arabic edition of Mūsā Ṭrābulsī’s letters together with English translations. It includes biographies of this secretary of Patriarch Sylvester of Antioch and his correspondants, including Sophronius of Kilis and Yūsuf Mark, explaining their roles in Sylvester’s printing activities in the Romanian Principalities and Ottoman Syria. It also presents a previously unknown work authored by Mūsā, a new source for his biography.
Church of Antioch; Chism; Printing Press; Sylvester of Antioch
Habib Ibrahim, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.
Franca Buss
Lebenszeichen
Erinnerungsstiftung und Jenseitshoffnung in der Grabmalkultur des 18. Jahrhunderts
Franca Buss untersucht, wie sich aufklärerische Debatten auf die europäische Grabmalkultur des 18. Jahrhunderts auswirkten. In einem kunsthistorischen close-reading analysiert sie ausgewählte Grabmalensembles aus Mitteleuropa und England und stellt sie in einen größeren geistesgeschichtlichen Kontext. Sie zeigt, dass die Kunst ihre eigenen Entwicklungslogiken verfolgt, die sich teleologischen Verallgemeinerungen entziehen.
Franca Buss examines the way that Enlightenment debates affected European tombstone art in the 18 century. In an art-historical close reading, she analyzes selected funerary ensembles from Central Europe and England and places them in a broader intellectual-historical context. She demonstrates how art will pursue its own logic of development, defying teleological generalizations. art; culture; 18th century; funerary monument; Europe; Enlightenment; sculpture; death; memory Franca Buss, Universität Hamburg.
Cornelius Bickel, Alexander Deichsel, Dieter Haselbach, Wilhelm Knelangen, Maike Manske, Carsten Schlüter-Knauer, Robert Seyfert (Hrsg./Eds.)
Ferdinand Tönnies
Gesamtausgabe (TG)
[Complete Works]
Im Auftrag von/On behalf of Ferdinand-TönniesGesellschaft e. V.
Jens Herold (Hrsg./Ed.)
Band 3,2: 1896–1925
Thomas Hobbes. Leben und Lehre
[Volume 3.2. 1896–1925: Thomas Hobbes; Life and Teachings]
Dieser Band enthält Tönnies’ Monografie über Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), die 1896 erstmals veröffentlicht wurde, 1912 in 2. und 1925 in 3. Auflage erschien. Das Werk spiegelt die sukzessiven Fortschritte und die abschließende Synthese von Tönnies’ lebenslang betriebenen Studien über den englischen Philosophen und gilt als früher Meilenstein der internationalen Hobbesforschung. Soziologie; Tönnies, Ferdinand; Hobbes, Thomas
This volume contains Tönnies’s monograph on Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), which was first published in 1896, with the 2nd and 3rd editions published in 1912 and 1925, respectively. The work reflects the continued progress and concluding synthesis of Tönnies’s lifelong studies on the English philosopher and is considered an early milestone in international Hobbes studies.
Sociology; Tönnies; Ferdinand; Hobbes; Thomas Jens Herold, Historiker, Berlin.
Stefan Muckel, Manfred Baldus, Norbert Diel (Hrsg./Eds.)
Entscheidungen
in Kirchensachen seit 1946
[Rulings in Ecclesiastical Matters Since 1946]
Begr. v./Founded by Carl J. Hering, Hubert Lentz
Manfred Baldus, Stefan Muckel, Norbert Diel (Hrsg./Eds.)
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Die Sammlung bietet die Judikatur staatlicher Gerichte zum allgemeinen Religionsrecht und zum Verhältnis von Kirche und Staat. Sie ist die einzige ihrer Art im deutschsprachigen Raum. Seit Band 39 ist die für die Verhältnisse in Deutschland relevante Rechtsprechung europäischer Gerichtshöfe in die Sammlung einbezogen.
Entscheidungen in Kirchensachen; Kirchenrecht
This collection compiles the rulings of state courts on general religious law and the relationship between church and state. It is the only one of its kind in the German-speaking world. Since volume 39, the collection has included rulings made by European courts that are relevant to the situation in Germany. Ecclesiastical Law
Manfred Baldus, Landgericht Köln a.D.; Stefan Muckel, Universität zu Köln; Norbert Diel, Rechtsanwalt, Vettweiss.
Manfred Baldus, Stefan Muckel, Norbert Diel (Hrsg./Eds.)
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Manfred Baldus, Landgericht Köln a.D.; Stefan Muckel, Universität zu Köln; Norbert Diel, Rechtsanwalt, Vettweiss.
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Band 24: Konfirmationsunterricht
Notizen und Nachschriften
[Volume 24: Confirmation Lessons: Notes and Lecture Transcripts] April/April 2025
Die Vorlesungen zur Praktischen Theologie gehören zu den Hauptwerken des bedeutenden Theologen und Philosophen Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834). Im Rahmen der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe liegen sie hier erstmals in einer kritischen Edition vor: sämtliche Manuskripte Schleiermachers sowie sechs umfangreiche Nachschriften verschiedener Vorlesungsjahrgänge. Schleiermacher gilt als Urheber der Praktischen Theologie als wissenschaftlicher Disziplin.
Friedrich Schleiermacher; 19. Jahrhundert; Praktische Theologie; Kritische Ausgabe
The Lectures on Practical Theology are one of the main works by important theologian and philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834). This is the first critical edition of the lectures as part of the Critical Collected Works. It includes all of Schleiermacher’s manuscripts as well as six extensive sets of transcripts from different academic cohorts. Schleiermacher is considered the inventor of practical theology as a scholarly discipline. Friedrich Schleiermacher; 19th century; practical theology; critical edition
Simon Gerber, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Der Band widmet sich einem umfänglichen Arbeitsbereich Schleiermachers, der bislang wenig beleuchtet wurde. Auf Grundlage autographischer Textzeugen, Nachschriften und amtlicher Materialien bietet die Publikation aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven Einblicke in die Praxis des Konfirmationsunterrichtes und stellt der Forschung Quellen zur Verfügung, die biographisch, systematisch theologisch und nicht zuletzt pädagogisch ausgewertet werden können.
This volume delves into an extensive area of Schleiermacher’s work that has found little attention until now. On the basis of autographic text documents, transcripts, and official records, this publication offers insights into the practice of confirmation lessons from various perspectives, providing researchers with sources that can be analyzed biographically, systematic-theologically, and not least pedagogically.
Der Berliner Theologe und Philosoph Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) führte eine umfangreiche Korrespondenz. Band 17 der 5. Abteilung der Krit. Gesamtausgabe Schleiermachers enthält die Briefe der Jahre 1825–1828. Der Streit um die vom König der evangelischen Kirche Preußens verordnete Liturgie erreicht den Höhepunkt; Schleiermacher steht an der Spitze der Opposition. Eine Reise im Sommer 1828 führt Schleiermacher nach Holland und England. 19. Jahrhundert; Kirchengeschichte; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Biedermeier und Restauration
Berlin theologian and philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) engaged in extensive correspondence. Volume 17 of the 5th Section of the crit. ed. of Schleiermacher’s Collected Works contains his letters for 1825–1828. The controversy surrounding the liturgy decreed by the King of the Protestant Church of Prussia reaches its climax, with Schleiermacher leading the opposition, while a trip in summer 1828 takes him to Holland and England.
Schleiermacher; 19th Century; Church History; History of Science; Prussian Reform and Restauration
Simon Gerber, Friederike Koch und Sarah Schmidt, BBAW.
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Gangolf Hübinger (Hrsg./Eds.)
Ernst Troeltsch
Kritische Gesamtausgabe
[Critical Complete Edition]
Friedrich
Wilhelm Graf (Hrsg./Ed.)
Band 3: Beiträge zu Enzyklopädien und Lexika (1897–1914)
[Volume 3: Articles in Encyclopedias und Lexicons (1897–1914)]
Band 3 bietet alle von Troeltsch geschriebene Artikel für Lexika. Bei einigen Artikeln können auch Marginalien und Korrekturen aus Troeltschs Handexemplaren geboten, bei anderen erste Fassungen in Vorveröffentlichungen kritisch annotiert werden. Die neun Artikel in englischsprachigen Lexika lassen sich durch ein eigenes Sachregister erschließen. Editorische Berichte und Notizen bieten Informationen zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Artikel.
Weimarer Republik; Ernst Troeltsch; Theologie
Volume 3 presents all the articles that Troeltsch wrote for lexicons. For some articles, marginal notes and corrections from Troeltsch’s hard copies are included, while for others, early prepublication drafts have been critically annotated. The nine articles in English-language lexicons can be understood with the help of a dedicated subject index. Editorial reports and notes provide information on the genesis of the articles.
Weimar Republic; Ernst Troeltsch; theology
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, LudwigMaximilians-Universität München.
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Anlässlich des 100. Todestages von Ernst Troeltsch am 1. Februar 2023 versammelt dieser Band Beiträge zur Theologie, Religionsphilosophie, Christentums- und Kulturgeschichte sowie Politik. Zugleich würdigen sie Leben und Werk Troeltschs und ziehen eine Zwischenbilanz der Troeltsch-Forschung. Theologie; Ernst Troeltsch; Politik
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Ernst Troeltsch's death on February 1, 2023, this volume brings together contributions on theology, philosophy of religion, Christian and cultural history, and politics. At the same time, they honor Troeltsch's life and work and provide an interim assessment of Troeltsch research.
Ernst Troeltsch; Theology; Politics
Friedemann Voigt, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
Christian Danz, Marc Dumas, Werner Schüßler (Hrsg./Eds.)
The Future of Protestantism
Yearbook 2023/2024
Reihe/Series: International Yearbook for Tillich Research / Internationales Jahrbuch für die TillichForschung / Annales internationales de recherches sur Tillich 16
Paul Tillich hat zahlreiche Publikationen zum Protestantismus im Horizont der Moderne vorgelegt. Das Thema zieht sich durch sein Werk und gehört zu den signifikanten Bestandteilen seiner Theologie. Protestantismus meint dabei vor allem ein kritisches Prinzip. Doch Tillich belässt es nicht bei der Kritik vom Unbedingten her, er thematisiert auch die geschichtliche Realisierung des Protestantismus sowie ein mögliches Ende der protestantischen Ära.
Paul Tillich published numerous volumes on Protestantism in the context of modernity. It is a topic that runs through his oeuvre, constituting one of the significant elements of his theology. For him, Protestantism is above all a critical principle. But Tillich’s critique is not just from the perspective of the Absolute; he also addresses Protestantism’s historical development and the potential end of the Protestant era.
Der Band thematisiert erstmals die Theologie des jungen Paul Tillich vor dem Hintergrund seiner akademischen theologischen Lehrer, Kommilitonen und Zeitgenossen. Auf diese Weise entwirft er ein Bild der komplexen theologischen Debatten um 1900 und zeichnet anhand der Formierung der Theologie Tillichs die Entwicklung des Selbstverständnisses der Theologie als Wissenschaft in den ersten beiden Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts nach.
Paul Tillich; Theologiegeschichte; Systematische Theologie; Religionsbegriff
This volume is the first to examine the theology of the young Paul Tillich against the background of his academic theological teachers, fellow students and contemporaries. It sketches a picture of the complex theological debates around 1900 and traces the development of theology’s self-image as a science in the first two decades of the 20th century on the basis of the formation of Tillich’s theology.
Paul Tillich; History of Theology; Systematic Theology; Concept of Religion
Christian Danz, Universität Wien, Österreich.
Jens Trusheim
Bedeutsamkeit. Studien zu einem Grundbegriff hermeneutischer Religionsphilosophie
Band 2: Die systematische Bearbeitung von Bedeutsamkeitsdimensionen bei Paul Ricœur
[Significance: Studies on a Key Concept in Hermeneutic Religious Philosophy – Volume 2: Paul Ricœur’s Systematic Exploration of the Dimensions of Significance]
Paul Ricœur hat sich ausführlich mit der Bedeutsamkeit von Symbolen, Metaphern und Erzählungen auseinandergesetzt und phänomenologische, strukturalistische, psychoanalytische sowie Einflüsse der Analytischen Philosophie für die Hermeneutik fruchtbar gemacht. Dieser Band setzt die begriffsgeschichtlichen Studien zum Bedeutsamkeitsbegriff fort, kann aber auch für sich gelesen werden.
Paul Ricœur engaged extensively with the significance of symbols, metaphors, and narratives, drawing on phenomenological, structuralist, and psychoanalytical influences, as well as on influences from analytical philosophy, to enrich hermeneutics. This volume is a continuation of the studies on the concept of significance, but can also be read in itself. Metaphers; Ricœur; Paul; Religious philosophy; symbol
Interpretation der Theologie Karl Barths entwickelt Bruce L. McCormack in mehreren miteinander verbundenen Schritten einen systematisch-theologischen Neuentwurf, dessen Entwicklungsgeschichte hier zum ersten Mal sichtbar wird. Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert in deutscher Erstübersetzung dessen wichtigste Arbeiten auf dem Weg dorthin.
Karl Barth; Christologie; Systematische Theologie; Gotteslehre
Bruce L. McCormack draws on his multiaward-winning interpretation of Karl Barth’s theology in several interconnected steps to develop a new systematic theological approach, the developmental history of which becomes visible here for the first time. This volume documents the most important studies on this journey, offered here in their first German translation.
Karl Barth; Christology; Systematic Theology; Doctrine of God
B. L. McCormack, University of Aberdeen, Scotland; J. Geilhufe, Großschirma, Deutschland, M. Gockel, Universität Basel, Schweiz.
Hajo Kenkel
Eberhard Jüngels
Theologie der Liebe
Theologie, Anthropologie und Ethik
[Eberhard Jüngel’s Theology of Love –Theology, Anthropology, and Ethics]
Auch in einer zunehmend säkularen Gesellschaft ist die Popularität der Liebe ungebrochen, bleibt selbst der Glaube an die Liebe zentral. Kaum ein anderer Begriff erscheint darum geeigneter, den christlichen Glauben für unsere Zeit verständlich und erfahrungsnah zur Sprache zu bringen. Eberhard Jüngels Theologie der Liebe ist einer der interessantesten und anspruchsvollsten Versuche, diesem Anliegen zu entsprechen. Ihr gilt dieses Buch.
Even in an increasingly secular society, the popularity of love remains unbroken, and even the belief in love remains central. Hardly any other concept seems more appropriate to express the Christian faith in a way that is understandable and relevant to our times. Eberhard Jüngel's Theology of Love is one of the most interesting and challenging attempts to address this concern. This book is dedicated to it.
Christoph Schwöbel shaped a generation of theologians with his vision of the Trinity as an eternal conversation which addresses all humans and draws them into conversation with each other and God. This volume continues Schwöbel’s theology through essays engaging his central topics of conversation: Trinity, tradition, the arts, religion and society.
Christoph Schwöbel; Trinity; Conversation; Dialogue
Judith Wolfe and Margaret McKerron, University of St Andrews, Schottland.
Nils Schütz
Tierethik als Gestaltung
Vom Ereignis zur beziehungsorientierten
Verantwortungsübernahme
[Animal Ethics as Creation – From Event to the Relationship-Based Assumption of Responsibility]
Soziale Beziehungen zwischen Menschen und Tieren sind so zahlreich wie komplex und verlangen nach einer differenzierten
Aufmerksamkeit. Der vorliegende Band trägt hierzu bei, indem er sich konstruktiv-kritisch mit den gedanklichen Voraussetzungen bisheriger Verhältnisbestimmungen von Mensch und Tier auseinandersetzt und die Frage nach der verantwortlichen Gestaltung mensch-tierlicher Beziehungen in (theologisch-)ethischer Perspektive reflektiert.
Tierethik; Metaethik; Verantwortung; Alterität
Social relationships between humans and animals are as numerous as they are complex, and they require differentiated attention. This volume constructively and critically examines the conceptual presuppositions of previous definitions of the relationship between humans and animals, reflecting on the question of the responsible design of human-animal relationships from a (theological-) ethical perspective.
Animal ethics; meta ethics; responsibility; alterity Nils Schütz, Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg.
Jonathan Steensen Dynamisierung Öffentlicher Theologie
Das Drei-Ebenen-Modell von Elisabeth Klaus und die Dynamik der Ekklesiologie
[The Dynamization of Public Theology: The Three-Level Model of Elisabeth Klaus and the Dynamics of Ecclesiology]
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Die vorliegende Studie überträgt eine dynamische Öffentlichkeitskonzeption auf theologische Debatten um die Stellung der Kirchen im Öffentlichen. Sie entwickelt davon ausgehend eine Verhältnisbestimmung, die sich eignet für Zeiten des Umbruchs. Das methodische Vorgehen weicht damit bewusst ab von traditionellen Studien, die Öffentlichkeit und Kirchen aus der Perspektive des Bestehenden untersucht haben.
This study applies a dynamic concept of the public sphere to theological debates about the public role of the church. On this basis, it develops a way to understand relationships that is suitable for times of upheaval. The method thereby consciously departs from traditional studies, which have examined the public sphere and churches from the perspective of the status quo.
Model theory; three-level model; public theology; dynamization
Jonathan Steensen, Friedrich-SchillerUniversität Jena.
Wilfried Härle diskutiert in Form eines inneren Streitgesprächs strittige Grundfragen des christlichen Glaubens: Gottes- und Schöpfungsglauben, Leiden und Tod, Jungfrauengeburt und Gottessohnschaft, Kreuz und Auferweckung Jesu. Dabei werden nicht nur Bibeltexte und Glaubensüberzeugungen, sondern auch naturwissenschaftliche Aussagen kritisch geprüft. Am Ende des Buches steht die Feststellung, dass sich der Dialog für beide Seiten gelohnt hat.
Glaubenszweifel
Wilfried Härle explores key Christian debates in the form of an inner dialogue, addressing topics like suffering and death, belief in God and creation, the virgin birth and divine sonship of God, and the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. He critically examines not just Biblical texts and religious beliefs but also scientific perspectives. By the end of the book, it is clear that the dialogue has been rewarding for both sides.
Crisis of faith
Wilfried Härle, Universität Heidelberg.
Niels Wilde Isotopography
Kierkegaard’s Topological Realism
Series: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series 50
August 2024
English, XIV, 266 pp., 11 fig.
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To become oneself is a movement at the place by becoming the place where God is. This is a key sentence in Kierkegaard’s existential philosophy, but the specific notion of place in question remains undertheorized. This book is an attempt to make up for that. Humans and non-humans alike are individual entities placed as this rather than that within bounds. Where we are is never exhausted by being the place where we humans are.
The Search of the Authentic Life and the Problem of Existential Entrapment
Series: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series 51
October 2024
English, XIV, 269 pp.
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The book brings together the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard with that of another prominent proto-existentialist thinker, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Exploring the question: "What constitutes an authentic Christian life?", the book traces the ethical and religious struggles of the many protagonists and pseudonymous authors of Kierkegaard’s and Dostoevsky’s works and offers an insight into their understanding of Christian ethics.
Petr Vaškovic, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Elizabeth X. Li, René Rosfort (Eds.) Kierkegaard
in Copenhagen
Reading and Using the Authorship Series: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series 52
December 2025
English, Approx. 360 pp.
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Coining for the first time the "Copenhagen School" as an interpretative tradition in Kierkegaard-scholarship, this volume presents a distinct methodology and brand-new readings of key Kierkegaardian concepts by experts and scholars working in this tradition today offering a new way to approach and open up one of the most rich and complex authorships in modern theology and philosophy for new as well as seasoned readers of Kierkegaard. Copenhagen School; Søren Kierkegaard; philosophy; theology
Elizabeth X. Li and René Rosfort, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Karl Verstrynge
What Obligates Us
Karl Verstrynge
Volume 2: An Essay on Thinking and Existence
November 2025
English, Approx. X, 220 pp.
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What do we humans claim when we define ourselves as thinking beings? What do we mean when we claim to know something? When can we claim something to be true? To what are we committed for all our knowing? In following up on the first volume of the trilogy What Obligates Us and with specific focus on human being’s capacity of thinking, such and other questions are being addressed from the perspective and the tradition of existential thought.
Karl Verstrynge, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Daniel R. Esparza
Forgiving Philosophy
Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Arendt on the question of Forgiveness
September 2024
English, XI, 176 pp.
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This book explores forgiveness as a philosophical matter, responding to the curious omission of forgiveness in much of Western philosophy and examining common themes and divergences on forgiveness in the works of Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Arendt. It follows their insights to imagine forgiveness as a hidden existential capacity of engaging transgressions and in a way undoing them. Forgiveness; Augustine; Søren Kierkegaard; Hannah Arendt
Daniel R. Esparza, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain.
Nicole Kunkel, Torsten Meireis (Eds.)
The War between Russia and Ukraine
An Intercontinental Peace Ethical Conversation
J une 2025
English, IV, 301 pp., 1 fig.
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Peace ethical perspectives on the RussianUkrainian war differ considerably. While many Northern, Western, Middle and South Eastern European states stress the illegitimacy of Russia's invasion in Ukraine, some European and many states in the global South and East take a different stance. This book brings together disciplinary voices from three continents for an intercontinental public theological and interdisciplinary conversation. Ethics of Peace; Russia; Ukraine
Torsten Meireis und Nicole Kunkel, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Kerstin Roth
Lebensbeschreibungen
im Diskursuniversum Religion
Herrnhutischer Sprachgebrauch im 18. Jahrhundert
[Religious Functional Writing: Language Use in Moravian Biographies of the Eighteenth Century]
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Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, Sprachgebrauch im 18. Jahrhundert ausfindig zu machen und damit Zugang zu Menschen, Diskursen und Kontexten eines vergangenen Jahrhunderts zu ermöglichen. Ausgehend von einer religionslinguistischen Perspektive werden textlinguistische, lexikalische und semantische Zugänge zur Textsorte Herrnhuter Lebensbeschreibung vorgestellt und auf Basis der hier vorliegenden kritischen Edition handschriftlicher Texte fundiert.
The goal of this volume is to explore language use in the eighteenth century, providing access to the people, discourses, and contexts of a bygone century. From the perspective of religious linguistics, it introduces text linguistic, lexical, and semantic approaches to the genre of Moravian biography on the basis of the critical edition of handwritten texts presented here. Moravian Brotherhood; historical language use; functional religious variety
Bei den Kasualien zeigt sich, wie Kirche wahrgenommen wird. Sie agiert hier auf einem religiösen Markt, der durch säkulare Konkurrenzangebote und religiöse Abstinenz bestimmt ist. Und zugleich weitet sich das kasuelle Feld und es differenziert sich aus, u.a. durch Kasualagenturen. Die Theorie, die dieses Feld erfassen will, muss heute deutlich mehr im Blick haben als die vier klassischen Kasualien Taufe, Konfirmation, Trauung und Bestattung.
The perception of sacraments reveals how the church is perceived. Here, it operates in a religious market characterized by secular competition and religious abstinence. At the same time, the sacramental field is expanding and becoming more differentiated, including through sacramental agencies. The theory that seeks to capture this field today must focus on much more than the four classic sacraments of baptism, confirmation, marriage, and burial.
Occasional services; Official acts; Rites; Priests Thomas Klie, Theologische Fakultät Universität Rostock.
Cornelia F. Bock Zwischen Ritualität
und Diversität
Die Aushandlung interkultureller Identitäten im deutsch-afrikanischen Gottesdienst
[Between Ritual and Diversity: Negotiating Intercultural Identities in German-African Worship Services]
Die Studie untersucht, wie in einem deutschafrikanischen Gottesdienst mit der vorhandenen Diversität im Kontext von Ritual und Gemeinschaft umgegangen wird, um mögliche Hürden der gemeinsamen Religionsausübung zu überwinden. Es wird gezeigt, welche unterschiedlichen Erwartungen und Präferenzen an einen Gottesdienst aufeinandertreffen, welche Identitätsaspekte dabei relevant werden sowie wie Ritualdurchführung und Gemeindebildung zusammenspielen.
Identität; Sprache und Religion; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Interkultureller Gottesdienst
This study examines how the diversity at a German-African worship service is dealt with in the context of ritual and community in order to overcome any potential obstacles to joint religious practice. It reveals which different expectations and preferences collide at a worship service, which aspects of identity become relevant in the process, and how rituals and community-building interact.
Identity; language and religion; intercultural communication; intercultural worship services Cornelia F. Bock, Hamburg, Deutschland.
Christof Breitsameter Trust Love
A Farewell to Catholic Sexual Morality
August 2025
English, Approx. 300 pp.
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Notions of the church’s sexual morality suggest that such doctrines are timeless and universally valid. Yet a historical lens reveals a much more contradictory picture – one which has surprising consequences, particularly for the moral evaluation of divorce, remarriage, contraception and homosexuality, which prove to be contingent on context. The systematic section of this study therefore formulates a distinctly modern approach to these topics.
Love; sexual morality; catholic moral theology
Christof Breitsameter, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany.
Alexandra Modesta Hopf (Hrsg./Ed.)
Künstlerische Therapien und Spiritualität
Das Leben mit den Künsten begleiten: Ansichten, Befunde, Perspektiven
[Artistic Therapies and Spirituality: Nurturing Life Through the Arts –Perspectives, Findings, Prospects]
Gefördert von/Funded by Konsortium der sächsischen Hochschulbibliotheken
Erstmals finden hier durch 15 renommierte Autor*innen wissenschaftlicher Diskurs und empirische Übersichtsforschung zur Bedeutung der Spiritualität im Kontext Künstlerischer Therapien und deren Anwendungskontexten statt. Die Erörterungen zielen darauf ab, Eingang in künstlerisch-therapeutische Hochschulcurricula zu finden und Konzepte zu entwickeln, die in die künstlerischtherapeutische oder -soziale Anwendungen eingebettet werden können.
This book is the first to bring together scholarly discourse and synoptic empirical research into the significance of spirituality in the context of artistic therapies and their fields of application, presented by fifteen renowned authors. The discussions aim to find their way into artistic therapy curricula at institutions of higher learning and to develop concepts that can be embedded within artistic therapy and social applications.
Funded by Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München
Series: Studies in Spiritual Care 14
December 2025
English, 268 pp., 19 fig.
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Karl Jaspers’ concept of the “boundary situation” refers to the limits of action and life, such as struggle, guilt, suffering and death. Patients who must endure severe physical or emotional suffering can experience their situation as a boundary situation. Against the background of Spiritual Care, this volume explores the question of how to support patients in boundary situations from a philosophical, psychological, and spiritual perspective.
Jaspers; Spiritual Care; Boundary Situation
Eckhard Frick and Rico Gutschmidt, Technische Universität München.
Simon Peng-Keller, Fabian Winiger, David Neuhold (Eds.)
Spiritual Care at the Crossroads
Towards a Common Vision for the Future of Christian Healthcare Chaplaincy
Funded by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
Series: Studies in Spiritual Care 15
November 2025
English, Approx. 200 pp., 10 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-914742-2
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Healthcare chaplaincy is in the midst of a far-reaching transformation process. Part of this process is a reevaluation of the Clinical Pastoral Education paradigm, and the development of (a more) outcome-oriented chaplaincy. This results in several challenging questions that are addressed in this volume. Chaplaincy; Spiritual Care; Healthcare
Simon Peng-Keller and Fabian Winiger, Universität Zürich; David Neuhold, Universität Luzern.
Karina Frick, Lea Gröbel, Christina Margrit Siever (Hrsg./Eds.)
Tod und Trauer –analog:digital
Linguistische und theologische Perspektiven
[Death and Grief – Analog: Digital; Linguistic and Theological Perspectives]
Dieser Band vereint Beiträge aus Linguistik, Theologie und weiteren Disziplinen, die sich mit den Themen Tod und Trauer in analogen und digitalen Kontexten auseinandersetzen. Die interdisziplinäre Annäherung an die Thematik eröffnet wertvolle Einblicke in die Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen der kommunikativen Praktiken im Hinblick auf existenzielle menschliche Erfahrungen in einer digitalisierten Welt.
Todes- und Trauerpraktiken; Online-Offline-Nexus; Religionsförmige Praktiken; Digital Religion
This volume brings together chapters from linguistics, theology, and other disciplines that deal with the topics of death and grief in analog and digital contexts. The interdisciplinary approaches to this topic offer valuable insights into the possibilities and challenges of communicative practices in relation to existential human experiences in a digitalized world.
Practices of death and grief; online-offline nexus; religious practices; digital religion
Karina Frick, Universität Zürich/Leuphana Universität Lüneburg; Lea Gröbel und Christina Margrit Siever, Universität Zürich.
Thomas Schlag, Katharina Yadav (Eds.)
Religious Communication, Interaction
and Transformation in a Culture of Digitality
Insights into the Zurich University Research Priority Program “Digital Religion(s)”
Funded by University of Zurich
October 2025
English, Approx. 280 pp., 25 fig.
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The University Research Priority Program (UFSP) ‘Digital Religion(s). Interaction, communication and transformation in the Digital Society’ (2021–2032) explores in theology, religious studies, linguistics and computational linguistics, sociology, media and communication studies, and law, how individual and institutional religious actors communicate in different fields of digital religious practice and assert their public claim for orientation.
Digital religion(s); digital theology; interdisciplinary work; digital transformation
Thomas Schlag, Katharina Yadav, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Stefan Schorch (Ed.)
Samaritan Languages, Texts, and Traditions
Collected Studies
Series: Studia Samaritana 8
November 2025
English, Approx. 420 pp., 10 fig.
HC *RRP € 114.95 / US$ 144.99 / £ 103.50
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The volume collects 18 studies dealing with Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic, the Samaritan Pentateuch and Targum, medieval Samaritan exegetical texts in Arabic, the image of the Samaritans in the New Testament and in Rabbinic literature, theology, genealogy, and research into Samaritan artifacts and the relevance of Samaritan traditions for further fields of research and reflect the current status quaestionis in Samaritan studies. Samaritan Pentateuch; Samaritan Targum; Hebrew linguistic; Samaritan Arabic.
Stefan Schorch, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Now in paperback
Daniel Stein Kokin (Ed.)
Hebrew between J ews and Christians
Series: Studia Judaica 77
November 2024
English, VI, 357 pp., 9 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / US$ 21.99 / £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-161995-8
Though typically associated more with Judaism than Christianity, the status and sacrality of Hebrew has nonetheless been engaged by both religious cultures in often strikingly similar ways. The language has furthermore played an important, if vexed, role in relations between the two. Hebrew between Jews and Christians closely examines this frequently overlooked aspect of Judaism and Christianity's common heritage and mutual competition.
Jewish Studies; Jewish-Christian relations; Christian Hebraism; Christian Theology
Daniel Stein Kokin, University Greifswald, Germany.
Now In Paperback
Hannah M. Cotton Ofer Pogorelsky (Ed.) Roman
Rule and Jewish Life
Collected Papers
Series: Studia Judaica 89
June 2024
English, XXXII, 607 pp., 1 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 29.95 / US$ 32.99 / £ 27.50
ISBN 978-3-11-151853-4
The collected papers in this volume illuminate fundamental, often legal, questions concerning daily life under and the exercise of Roman rule and administration in the early imperial period, and especially, their impact on life as it was lived in the province and the period where Roman and Jewish history fatefully intersected. The volume includes a complete bibliography of her publications. Provincial Jurisdiction; Jewish law; legal contracts; conflicts of law
Hannah M. Cotton, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Now In Paperback
Judith Frishman, Thorsten Fuchshuber (Eds.)
Samuel Hirsch
Philosopher of Religion, Advocate of Emancipation and Radical Reformer
Series: Studia Judaica 97
June 2024
English, VII, 355 pp., 1 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / US$ 21.99 / £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-151859-6
Rabbi Samuel Hirsch is one of the most important transnational Jewish Reform theologians and philosophers of religion of the 19th century. He remains a key figure for understanding the contemporaneous debates in Western Europe and the United States on questions of Jewish emancipation, Jewish identity, the compatibility of religion, state and society, the relationship between particularism and universalism as well as the critique of antisemitism.
Reform Judaism; 19th century; Luxembourg; philosophy of religion
Judith Frishman, Leiden University, The Netherlands, and Thorsten Fuchshuber, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Christoph Schmidt Legitimität der jüdischen Aufklärung
Nach den radikalen Destruktionen der deutsch jüdischen Aufklärung in den politischen Theologien von Orthodoxie und Zionismus nach dem ersten Weltkrieg, versuchen Gershom Scholem und Martin Buber eine dialogische Form jüdischer Aufklärung zu entwerfen, die gegen den nationalen und den orthodoxen Exodus – auf deren postsäkulare Relegitimation zielt.
Kulturgeschichte; Symboltheorie; Deutschjüdische Geschichte; politische Theologie
Following the radical destruction of the German-Jewish Enlightenment in the political theologies of Orthodoxy and Zionism after the First World War, Gershom Scholem and Martin Buber attempted to develop a dialogic form of Jewish Enlightenment aimed at countering the national and Orthodox exodus and at their post-secular relegitimization. Cultural studies; symbol theory; German-Jewish history; political theology
Christoph Schmidt, Hebräische Universität, Jerusalem, Israel.
Open Access
Gavin McDowell
The Rewritten Bible in Late Antiquity
»Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer«, »Jubilees« and the »Cave of Treasures«
Series: Studia Judaica 138
July 2025
English, Approx. XIII, 506 pp.
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This study analyzes the sources of Pirqe deRabbi Eliezer (PRE), an eighth-century "Late Midrash" thought to have drawn from the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. It focuses on the two Pseudepigrapha which are closest in form and content to PRE, the Second Temple Jubilees and late antique Cave of Treasures, all three of which are types of Rewritten Bible. In the end, PRE drew from its own cultural environment rather than long-lost texts. Pseudepigrapha; Rewritten Bible; Rabbinic literature; Syriac literature
Gavin McDowell, Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, CNRS, Paris, France.
Katja Šmid, David Bunis, Chava Turniansky (Eds.)
Rabbinical Literature in Yiddish and Ladino
Series: Studia Judaica 139
November 2025
English, Approx. 400 pp., 13 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / US$ 129.99 / £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-157536-0
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A broad introduction to the rabbinical literature written in the two major Jewish languages of Europe, Yiddish and Ladino. The essays shed light on traditional genres such as rabbinical responsa, halakhic compendia, minhagim books, Biblical commentaries, ethical works, and paraliturgical compositions; as well as on modern genres with rabbinic content such as the periodical press that began to appear in the mid-nineteenth century.
Yiddish; Ladino; Rabbinical literature; Jewish languages
Katja Šmid, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, David M. Bunis and Chava Turnansky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Stefan C. Reif, Richard S. Sarason (Eds.)
Jacob Mann: A Centennial Review
Papers delivered at a conference held at St John’s College, Cambridge in July 2023
Series: Rethinking Diaspora 10
June 2025
English, VI, 248 pp.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 120.99 / £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-220579-2
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Jacob Mann was a major figure in Genizah studies in the early twentieth century. This volume evaluates his contributions to the field in the light of developments since then. Based on papers delivered at a centennial-marking conference at St. John’s College, Cambridge, it appraises his work in the areas of medieval Jewish history, particularly Geonica; Jewish liturgy and homiletics; calendar studies; Jewish messianism; and Karaitica.
Genizah studies; medieval Jewish history; rabbinic literature and liturgy; Karaitica.
Stefan C. Reif, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, U.K., and Richard S. Sarason, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Günter Stemberger
The Wisdom of the Fathers
A Commentary on Tractate Avot
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 565
June 2025
English, XII, 272 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-155686-4
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Tractate Avot ("The Fathers"), commonly dated in the third century, is the most popular tractate of the Mishnah. It belongs to the Wisdom Literature and is a strongly ethical tractate. The main emphasis of the commentary is not only on the meaning of its sayings, but on the transmission history of the tractate in order to subject the traditional date and the place of the tractate in rabbinic Judaism to a critical re-evaluation.
Pirqe Avot; reception history; rabbinic theology; wisdom literature
Günter Stemberger, University of Vienna, Austria.
Dagmar Börner-Klein (Hrsg./Ed.)
Jalkut Schimoni
Rabbinische Bibelauslegung im Mittelalter
[Yalkut Shimoni: Rabbinical Biblical Interpretation in the Middle Ages]
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Der Jalkut Schimoni ist ein Sammelwerk rabbinischer Auslegungen zur gesamten Hebräischen Bibel. Unerforscht ist, nach welchen Kriterien die Auslegungen ausgewählt wurden und ob das Werk als umfassendes Nachschlagewerk für exegetische Fragen, zur Verbindung von Bibelauslegung in Talmud und Midrasch oder zur Reform der rabbinischen Auslegungstradition konzipiert wurde. Die Übersetzung des Werkes ist ein erster Schritt, diese Fragen zu beantworten. Rabbinisches Judentum; Genesis; Jüdische Schriftauslegung; Mittelalter
The Yalkut Shimoni is a compilation of rabbinic interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. There has been no research into the criteria used to select them, nor do we know whether the work was intended as a reference work for exegetical issues, for connecting biblical interpretations in the Talmud and Midrash, or for reforming the rabbinic tradition of interpretation. The translation in this volume is a first step toward answering these questions. Genesis; Jewish biblical exegesis; Middle Ages; rabbinic Judaism
Dagmar Börner-Klein, Universität Düsseldorf, und Beat Zuber (†), Neudorf, Schweiz.
Evi Michels (Ed.)
Polemical Jewish Entertainments in Amsterdam
A Yiddish Manuscript of ‚Toledot Yeshu’ (Ms. Amsterdam, EH 47 A 21)
February 2026
English, Yiddish, Approx. 300 pp., 6 fig.
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Jewish polemical Jesus stories ("Toledot Yeshu") are based on the gospels and on Christian legends. They circulated since the Middle Ages in different text versions. In the Amsterdam Jewish metropole, a religiously open climate prevailed in the 18th century. The Yiddish manuscript, which is edited here for the first time, is an outstanding testimony how Ashkenazic Jews from Amsterdam took notice of their Christian neighbors and their believes.
Tôledôt Yēšû; polemic; Amsterdam; edition Evi Michels, University of Tübingen, Germany.
David B. Ruderman
The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Scholar
The Unconventional Life and Thought of Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767–1838)
Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts 29
June 2025
English, X, 234 pp., 28 fig.
HC *RRP € 89.95 / US$ 98.99 / £ 82.00
ISBN 978-3-11-033693-1
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This book is a study of the life and thought of the Polish Jew Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767-1838). Arriving in London, he encountered an educated group of English literati who found him useful for their own intellectual purposes while respecting his commitment to Judaism and his talents as a biblical exegete and translator of the Hebrew Bible. Jewish-Christian relations; Bible commentary; Art and Religion; Biblical translation
David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Susanne Plietzsch
Geteilte Diskurse
Moritz Rahmers „die hebräischen traditionen in den werken des hieronymus" zum Buch Genesis
[The Presence of Judaism in Christianity: Parallel Motifs in Moritz Rahmer’s Discussion of Jerome on the Book of Genesis]
Unter Mitarb. v./In collab. with Victoria Zimmerl-Panagl, Oliver Achilles Gefördert von/Funded by Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF)
Die Dissertation des Breslauer Rabbinatskandidaten Moritz Rahmer (1837-1904) zu den Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesin des Hieronymus wird bis heute zitiert. Rahmers Anliegen war es, die Einflüsse jüdischer Lehrer auf den Kirchenvater ins Bewusstsein der akademischen Öffentlichkeit zu rücken. In dieser kommentierten Neuedition werden Rahmers Textbeispiele diskutiert und die Dissertation in den Kontext der Wissenschaft des Judentums gestellt.
Bibelexegese; Rabbinische Literatur; Wissenschaft des Judentums; Patristik
The dissertation by Breslau rabbinical candidate Moritz Rahmer (1837–1904) on Jerome’s Quaestiones Herbraicae in Genesin is still being cited today. Rahmer’s objective was to draw the attention of the academic public to the influence of Jewish teachers on the Fathers of the Church. This annotated new edition discusses examples from Rahmer’s text and situates his dissertation within the context of Jewish scholarship. Jewish scholarship; biblical criticism; Patristics Susanne Plietzsch, Universität Salzburg.
Christian Wiese, Stefan Vogt, Doron Kiesel, Gury Schneider-Ludorff (Hrsg./Eds.)
Kontexte zur jüdischen Geschichte Hessens
schriften aus dem Projekt synagogenGedenkbuch hessen
Christian Wiese, Stefan Vogt, Doron Kiesel, Gury Schneider-Ludorff (Hrsg./Eds.)
Band 4: Jüdisch-christliche Nachbarschaften
dimensionen sozialer, politischer, kultureller und wirtschaftlicher interaktion [Volume 4: Jewish-Christian Neighborhoods: Dimensions of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic Interaction]
Der Band widmet sich den vielfältigen Formen direkter Interaktion zwischen Jüdinnen und Juden und Christen und Christinnen bzw. Nichtjuden und Nichtjüdinnen andererseits vom Mittelalter bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Er fragt danach, wie das Zusammenleben konkret ausgesehen hat und wie Fremdheit und Nähe hergestellt und erlebt.
This volume addresses diverse forms of direct interaction between Jews and Christians and non-Jews from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. It investigates what exactly life together looked like and how otherness and proximity were produced and experienced. Jews; Jewish-Christian relations; antisemitism; Middle Ages
Ch. Wiese, St. Vogt, Uni Frankfurt/M.; D. Kiesel, Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland; G. Schneider-Ludorff, Augustana-Hochschule.
Christian Wiese, Stefan Vogt, Doron Kiesel, Gury Schneider-Ludorff (Hrsg./Eds.)
Das mehrbändige Synagogen-Gedenkbuch Hessen „Zerbrechliche Nachbarschaft" erforscht und dokumentiert erstmals umfassend die Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinden und ihrer Synagogen auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Bundeslandes Hessen. Der erste Band umfasst in zwei Teilbänden die Synagogen und Gemeinden im südlichen Teil des Regierungsbezirks Darmstadt. Teilband 1 bietet darüber hinaus einleitende Aufsätze zur jüdischen Geschichte Hessens. Darmstadt, Regierungsbezirk; Hessen, jüdische Geschichte; Geschichte, jüdische; Gemeinden, jüdische; Synagogen
Christian Wiese und Stefan Vogt, Universität Frankfurt, Doron Kiesel, Berlin/ Frankfurt, Gury Schneider, Hochschule Neuendettelsau.
Sophia Justine Schmitt Anklage und Abwehr
Die Ritualmordbeschuldigung gegen die jüdische Gemeinde Regensburg [Accusation and Defense: The Ritual Murder Allegation against Regensburg’s Jewish Community]
Reihe/Series: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam –Tension, Transmission, Transformation 26
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Im Jahr 1476 erschütterte ein Ritualmordvorwurf die jüdische Gemeinde Regensburg. Die Studie untersucht die folgenden Ereignisse im Kontext jüdisch-christlicher Beziehungen. Aus vielfältigen Quellen enthüllt sie Vorurteile der Ankläger, sowie Verteidigungsstrategien der Angeklagten. Sie bietet einen fesselnden Einblick in die Regensburger Vergangenheit und ein Plädoyer für die Integration jüdischer Perspektiven in die mittelalterliche Geschichte.
Regensburg; Ritualmordlegende; Jüdischchristliche Beziehungen; 15. Jahrhundert
In 1476, an accusation of ritual murder shook Regensburg’s Jewish community. This study examines the events that transpired within the context of Jewish-Christian relations, investigating a range of sources to uncover the prejudices of the accusers as well as the defense strategies employed by the accused. It provides fascinating insights into Regensburg’s past and calls for Jewish perspectives to be integrated into medieval history. Jewish history; Regensburg; Jewish-Christian relations; blood libel
The Destruction of Jerusalem in Nineteenth-Century German Culture
Funded by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
July 2025
English, German, 870 pp., 37 fig.
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Exploring a wealth of intermedial sources, this book examines in a comparative approach the cultural productivity in nineteenth-century Germany of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple by the Romans. The historical occurrence emerged as a major factor in negotiations of both German and Jewish identities vis-à-vis such decisive socio-cultural and political developments as the Kulturkampf and the rise of nationalism and antisemitism.
Antisemitism; 19th century; Jerusalem; identity
Axel Stähler, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Fabian Freiseis
Religion, Esoterik und Nation im frühen Zionismus (1900-1923)
Eine genealogische Untersuchung zu Buber, Gordon und Borochov [Religion, Esotericism, and the Nation in Early Zionism (1900–23): A Genealogical Study of Buber, Gordon, and Borochov]
Identitätsdebatten prägen unsere Gegenwart. Im Zentrum der Publikation stehen Werke von Martin Buber, Aharon Gordon und Ber Borochov und die Frage, wie diese jüdisch-zionistische Identität inmitten global nachzuweisender Vorstellungen von Nation, Religion und Esoterik auf je eigene Weise konstruiert haben. Dieser Nachvollzug identitätsbildender Prozesse macht deutlich, wie bereits im frühen Zionismus um Tradition und Erneuerung gerungen wurde. Postkolonialismus; Identitätsdiskurse; Identität, jüdische; Frühzionismus
Ours is an age shaped by identity debates. This publication focuses on works by Martin Buber, Aharon Gordon, and Ber Borochov, and asks how these authors construed JewishZionist identity in the midst of global notions of nation, religion, and esotericism – each in their own way. This exploration of processes of identity building illustrates the struggles over tradition and reform, even in early Zionism.
Identity; Post-colonialism; global history of religions; identity discourses.
Fabian Freiseis, Universität Heidelberg.
Axel Stähler
Jack Ross (Ed.)
Liberal Jewish Anti-Zionism
The American Council for Judaism, A Primary Source Reader
With an introd. by Mark Glickman
June 2025
English, XI, 274 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-153366-7
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Jewish opposition to Zionism is typically associated with either ultra-Orthodox Jews or revolutionary socialist Jews far removed from Jewish religion. Until recently, the liberal Jewish dissent has been all but written out of the historical record. This reader is the first collection of primary sources on the American Council for Judaism, founded during World War II and active through the 1960s, and their social democratic allies.
Anti-Zionism; Middle East; Reform Judaism
Jack Ross, Brooklyn, New York.
Open Access
Sarah M. Ross, Tom Kellner (Eds.)
Jewish Heritage in Light of Critical Heritage Studies
Interdisciplinary Approaches and Positions
Series: Jüdische Gegenwart / Contemporary Jewish Life 1
March 2026
English, Approx. 300 pp., 15 fig.
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Drawing on the approaches of Critical Heritage Studies, this anthology discusses how various manifestations of Jewish cultural heritage are constructed, constantly selected, recreated and renegotiated as a social, cultural and religious practice in the present. The focus is on contemporary relationships between people, cultural heritage and power, particularly looking into the position of the legitimate speaker.
Jewish Cultural Heritage; Critical Heritage Studies; Contemporary Jewish Studies
Sarah M. Ross, HMTM Hannover, Germany.
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ISLAMIC THEOLOGY
Islamic theology engages with Islam from within its own tradition, raising faith-related questions and answering them on the basis of Islamic sources (Qur’an, Hadith) and with their own methods (kalam, tafsir). De Gruyter expands its growing program in this important field with the three new series Kalām Studies, Theology and Tradition in Islam, and Comparative Theology, Islam, and Society.
Luca Patrizi IN THE PRESENCE OF THE KING Intermediation and Intercession in Islam
Theology and Tradition in Islam 1 2025. vii, 193 pp., 3 fig.
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Georges Tamer (Ed.) HANDBOOK OF QUR’ĀNIC HERMENEUTICS
Volume 5: Contemporary Qur‘ānic Hermeneutics
2025. vii, 522 pp., 2 fig.
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Hossam Ouf HADITHÜBERLIEFERUNG UND KONFESSIONALITÄT
Al-Buḫārīs al-Ǧāmiʿ aṣ-ṣaḥīḥ und al-Kulaynīs alKāfī in den sunnitischen und zwölferschiitischen Hadithwissenschaften
Theology and Tradition in Islam 2 2024. IX, 223 S., 1 Abb., 3 Tab. Geb.
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Abdul Rahman Mustafa FROM GOD’S NATURE TO GOD'S LAW Theology, Law and Legal Theory in Islam
Kalām Studies 1 2024. v, 257 pp.
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James Weaver
THE SHĪʿA IN IRAQI HERESIOGRAPHY
The Structure and Transmission of the Material up to al-Ash arī (d.324/935)
Comparative Theology, Islam, and Society 1 12/2025. Approx. 400 pp., 10 fig., 20 tab.
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Rodrigo Adem THE LAST TAYMIYYAN
An Edition, Translation, and Study of Ibn Qāḍī al-Jabal’s Defense of Ibn Taymiyya
Kalām Studies 6
10/2025. Approx. iv, 140 pp.
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Naciye Kamcili-Yildiz WAS HAT DAS MIT MIR ZU TUN?
Zugänge zur Tradition in der islamischen Religionspädagogik
Comparative Theology, Islam, and Society 3 2025. VI, 218 S., 12 Abb.
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Georges Tamer (Ed.)
Vol. 5: Contemporary Qur’ānic Hermeneutics
Series: de Gruyter handbook
march 2025 english, VII, 522 pp., 2 fig.
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A collection of hermeneutical approaches to the Qurʾān of the most prominent Qurʾānic scholars in Islamic intellectual history. Not only scholars who wrote commentaries on the Qurʾān in the narrow sense (tafāsīr) are presented, but also those who dealt hermeneutically with the Qurʾān in various ways. The Handbook of Qurʾānic Hermeneutics is the first to discuss all the hermeneutic fields of the Qurʾān. It will be published in 7 volumes. Islamic Studies; Religious Studies; Hermeneutic; Qur’ān
Georges Tamer, University of ErlangenNuremberg, Germany.
Georges Tamer (Ed.)
Vol. 6: Qur’ānic Hermeneutics by Non-Muslims
Series: de Gruyter handbook
december 2025 english, approx. 430 pp.
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A collection of hermeneutical approaches to the Qurʾān of the most prominent Qurʾānic scholars in Islamic intellectual history. Not only scholars who wrote commentaries on the Qurʾān in the narrow sense (tafāsīr) are presented, but also those who dealt hermeneutically with the Qurʾān in various ways. The Handbook of Qurʾānic Hermeneutics is the first to discuss all the hermeneutic fields of the Qurʾān. It will be published in 7 volumes. Islamic Studies; Religious Studies; Hermeneutic; Qur’an
Georges Tamer, University of ErlangenNuremberg, Germany.
Johanne Louise Christiansen Oppression and Other Power Relations in the Qur’ān
Series: IQsa studies in the Qur’an 6
april 2026 english, approx. 300 pp., 10 fig.
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What happens if you study the Qurʾān through one of its central Arabic roots? This book pursues this academic endeavour with the central root ẓ-l-m, which translates as ‘to do wrong’, ‘to act unjustly’, ‘injustice’, ‘evildoing’, or ‘oppression’. Through a philological and semantic study, the book deals with central ethico-religious and power themes in the Qurʾān, focusing on a notion of oppression in particular.
Qur’ān; semantic studies; oppression; power Johanne Louise Christiansen, University of Southern Denmark.
Katarzyna K. Starczewska
Multilingual Islamic Manuscripts in Eastern and Western Europe
Languages, Scripts, and Messages
Series: The European qur'an 11
October 2025
English, Approx. 270 pp., 47 fig.
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The book explores the manuscript traditions of Muslim populations in Europe, offering insights into their religious and intellectual history. This collective volume presents new studies on cataloguing, textual transmission, scripts, and linguistic analysis of Islamic texts, with a focus on the Tatar manuscripts, Ottoman influences, and manuscript transmission and circulation of significant European collections.
Quranic translations; Muslim Minorities in Europe; Multilingual manuscripts; Islamic textual heritage
Katarzyna K. Starczewska, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain.
Marianus Hundhammer
Die arabischen Völker und ihre Propheten
Transformation, Funktionswandel und Theologisierung narrativer Strukturen
Reihe/Series: Theology and Tradition in Islam: Studies on Prophecy, Transmission and Spirituality 5
Die drei „arabischen“ Prophetengeschichten des Koran sind bislang kaum erforscht. Woher stammen die Narrative von Hūd und dem Volk der ʿĀd, von Ṣāliḥ und den Ṯamūd sowie von Šuʿaib und dem Stamm der Madyan? Wie entwickeln sie sich zu ihrer endgültigen Form im Korantext und wie werden sie interpretiert? Das vorliegende Buch ist die erste islamwissenschaftliche Studie zu diesem Thema und liefert grundlegende Antworten auf diese Fragen.
Historisch-Kritische Forschung; Spätantike; Propheten; Koran; Islam
The three 'Arab' prophetic stories have rarely been researched. What are the roots of the narratives about Hūd and the ʿĀd people, about Ṣāliḥ and the Ṯamūd people as well as Shuʿayb and the tribe of Madyan? Islam; Quran; Prophets; Historical-critical research; Late Antiquity
Diese Studie rekonstruiert die Herausbildung Allāhs als einen langen Prozess der Verschiebung und Rekonfiguration spätantiker polytheistischer und paganer Gegebenheiten. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf zwei zentralen Voraussetzungen, die zur Genese Allāhs beitrugen: dem Kultus und den Synkretisierungsprozessen mit den in der Spätantike weit verbreiteten Götterepitheta und Götternamen. Kultus; Polytheismus; Synkretismus; Monotheismus
This study reconstructs the genesis of Allāh through a long process of reconfiguration of late antique, polytheist and pagan contexts. It focuses on two central prerequisites for this process: the cultus and the processes of syncretization with other names and epithets that were wide-spread for gods in Late Antiquity. Polytheism; Cult; Syncretism; Monotheism
Hammoud Hamoud, Freie Universität Berlin.
Ryann Craig
The Qur’ānic
Cross and the Missing Substitute in Early Muslim-Christian Polemics
Tracing the qur’ānic Crucifixion (q 4:157–158) before the Rise of the Substitution Narrative
Series: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation 25
December 2025
English, Approx. 250 pp.
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By the ninth century, Muslim commentators put forth the idea that another person was crucified in Jesus’ place. However, mention of this substitution rarely occurs in early writings between Muslims and Christians, even when discussing the cross. This study demonstrates the lack of evidence for the substitute narrative as an established interpretation among Muslim and Christian theologians from the eighth to the eleventh centuries.
Ryann Craig, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.
Luca Patrizi
In the Presence of the King
Intermediation and Intercession in Islam
Series: Theology and Tradition in Islam: Studies on Prophecy, Transmission and Spirituality 1
May 2025
English, XVII, 193 pp., 3 fig.
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The notions of intermediation and intercession play a central role in the theology of monotheistic religions. In the Islamic context, the specific doctrine connected to the intermediation and intercession of the prophet Muḥammad towards God, widely attested in the primary sources, represent at the same time one of the main controversies between the different subdivisions of modern and contemporary Islam.
Luca Patrizi, University of Turin, Italy.
Denis Gril (Hrsg./Ed.)
Sainteté et héritage prophétique en Islam
Études sur Ibn al-‘Arabī et l’histoire de la sainteté dédiées à la mémoire de Michel Chodkiewicz
Series: Theology and Tradition in Islam: Studies on Prophecy, Transmission and Spirituality 3
July 2025
French, English, Approx. XV, 773 pp., 3 fig.
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Ce volume rassemble des contributions en mémoire de Michel Chodkiewicz et porte sur l'étude du soufisme et de l'œuvre d'Ibn ʿArabī ainsi que sur sa réception en particulier. Les contributeurs ont souhaité témoigner de leur reconnaissance et de leur dette à l'égard d'une œuvre féconde qui a porté de nombreux fruits, dans les domaines des études islamiques et de l'histoire de la spiritualité. Soufisme; Ibn Arabi; Études islamiques; Théologie islamique
This volume brings together contributions in memory of Michel Chodkiewicz and focuses on the study of Sufism and the work of Ibn ʿArabī and its reception in particular. The contributors wished to bear witness to their gratitude and their debt to a fertile work that has borne much fruit, in the field of Islamic studies and the history of spirituality.
Sufism; Ibn ‘Arabī; Islamic Studies; Islamic Theology
Denis Gril, Aix-Marseille Université, France; Francesco Chiabotti, INALCO, Paris, France.
Mehdi Berriah, Hassan Bouali (Hrsg./Eds.) Discours et imaginaires eschatologiques
dans le monde islamique
Des débuts de l'islam à nos jours
Series: Theology and Tradition in Islam: Studies on Prophecy, Transmission and Spirituality 4
Cet ouvrage propose, par une approche transhistorique et pluridisciplinaire, un large panorama de l'eschatologie musulmane.
S'appuyant sur des sources variées (Coran, hadiths, inscriptions épigraphiques, textes dévotionnels, textes philosophiques et théologiques, réseaux sociaux, écrits contemporains), il enrichit la compréhension du discours eschatologique musulman dans une perspective à long terme. Islam; eschatologie; salut; damnation
This book provides, through a transhistorical and multidisciplinary approach, a broad overview of Muslim eschatology. Drawing on a variety of sources (Qur’an, Hadith, epigraphic inscriptions, devotional texts, philosophical and theological texts, social networks, contemporary writings), it adds a new dimension to the understanding of Muslim eschatological discourse from a longterm perspective.
Islam; eschatology; salvation; damnation Mehdi Berriah, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Hassan Bouali, Université Paris Nanterre.
Mohammad Gharaibeh, Bacem Dziri, Amir Dziri (Eds.)
Canon and Censorship in Islamic Intellectual History
Funded by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
Series: Islam – Thought, Culture, and Society 16
December 2025
English, Approx. 320 pp., 3 fig.
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Within Islamic Intellectual History, there have so far been few approaches that systematically examine canonisation and censorship processes. This volume examines how texts, positions and persons gain or lose authority, and which structural, contextual and institutional factors contribute to the establishment or suppression of this claim. This construction and deconstruction of canonical authority is analyzed on the basis of various case studies.
Islamic studies; Islamic authority; religious authority; canon / censorship
Mohammad Gharaibeh and Bacem Dziri, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany and Amir Dziri, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Emre Ilgaz, Ahmad Milad Karimi (Hrsg./ Eds.)
Al-Māturīdī und Māturīdīya
Beiträge zur Forschung einer vernachlässigten Denktradition
[Al-Māturīdī and Māturīdīya –Contributions to Research into a Neglected Tradition of Thought]
Die Denktradition der Māturīdīya gehört zu einer der bedeutendsten und einflussreichsten Kalām-Traditionen des Islams. Im Zuge der Einrichtung der Islamischen Theologie an deutschen Universitäten soll der systematischen Erarbeitung dieses Desiderats der Forschung mit einschlägigen Beiträgen Rechnung getragen werden.
Al-Māturīdī is one of Islam’s most significant theologians, and his intellectual impact continues to this day. This volume delves into the trajectory of al-Māturīdī’s thinking historically and systematically.
Al-Māturīdī; Islamic Theology; Philosophy of Religion
Emre Ilgaz und Ahmad Milad Karimi, Zentrum für Islamische Theologie der Universität Münster.
Rodrigo Adem
The Last Taymiyyan
an edition, translation, and study of Ibn Qāḍī al-Jabal’s defense of Ibn taymiyya
Series: Kalām studies 6
July 2025
english, arabic, approx. 140 pp.
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Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) is commonly characterized as a fundamentalist inspiration of Salafism, although new research reveals that his earliest critics deemed him too philosophical. The text edited and published here in Arabic and English for the first time as The Defense of Ibn Taymiyya, is a record of how, just a few decades after Ibn Taymiyya’s death, he was accused of Avicennism and defended from that accusation by Ibn Qāḍī al-Jabal (d. 1370).
Islamic Theology; Arabic Philosophy; Ibn Taymiyya; Hanbalis
Rodrigo Adem, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī’s (d. 465/1072) theological works remain under-investigated, overshadowed by his Sufi legacy. Scholars assert that his theology merely repeats Ashʿarite views and anchors Sufism to orthodoxy. This study re-evaluates his three main creeds, revealing a theological diversity. AlLumaʿ shows a traditionalist bent, al-Fuṣūl is distinctly semi-rationalist, and al-Risāla presents a mystical theology relevant to Sufi adepts.
Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī; Asharite; Kalam; Sufism
Baldredeen Ismail, The Classical Institute, Birmingham, UK.
Mostafa Najafi
Language and Reason in Islamic Thought
faḫr l-dīn al-rāzī’s reconciliation of manṭiq and Bayān
Funded by Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (SAGW) and Schweizerischer Nationalfunds (SNF)
Series: welten des Islams – worlds of Islam –mondes de l’Islam
december 2025 english, V, 215 pp.
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This study examines Faḫr l-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (1149–1210) language theory, focusing on his views on conceptualization (taṣawwur) and his theory of composition (naẓm) regarding the Qurʾān’s linguistic uniqueness. By analyzing these interconnected aspects, the work reveals al-Rāzī’s synthesis of logical and linguistic traditions in the Islamic world, offering a comprehensive theory of linguistic understanding.
Faḫr l-Dīn al-Rāzī; Bayān; Manṭiq; Language Theory
Mostafa Najafi, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland.
OOpen Access
Abdulrahman Al-Salimi (Hrsg./Ed.)
Jalā’ al-abṣār fī ta ’wīl alakhbār
Abū Saʿd al-Muḥsin b. Muḥammad b. Karrāma al-Jushamī al-Bayhaqī
Funded by Max Weber Stiftung
Series: Bibliotheca Islamica 67
July 2025
Arabic, English, Approx. 648 pp.
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The book Jalāʾ al-abṣār (The Clear-Sightedness) by Muʿtazilī theologian al-Ḥākim Abū Saʿd/Sa‘īd al-Muḥsin/al-Muḥassin b. Muḥammad b. Karrāma al-Jushamī alBayhaqī (413-494/1022-1101) is a compendium of the lessons the author gave at the Jusham Mosque in Nishapur. They were given after the Friday Prayer over a period of three years from Ramadan 478/Dec-Jan 1086 to Ramadan 481/Dec 1088. The lessons were held over sixty sessions.
Muʿtazila; Islamic theology; Islamic education Abdulrahman al-Salimi, German University of Technology, Sultanate of Oman.
Eliza Tasbihi
Hidden in Plain Sight
İsmāʿīl Anḳaravī’s commentary on ‘Book Seven’ of Rūmī’s Mathnawī
Series: Sufism Studies 2
December 2024
English, XX, 234 pp., 12 fig.
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The book offers a new reading of Rūmī from an Ottoman perspective through examining manuscripts, which have never been analyzed before. It explores the impact of Ottoman commentary practices on the development of Sufism and literature in the Ottoman Empire through the translation of Rūmī’s poetry. The study also sheds light on religio-political conflicts between various social groups in Ottoman society in which this texts played a major role.
Persian Sufi literature; Ottoman Empire; Rumi; Sufism
Eliza Tasbihi, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Arash Ghajarjazi
Remembering ‘Umar Khayyām
Episodes of Unbelief in the Reception
Histories of Persian quatrains
Series: Sufism Studies 3
March 2025
English, , XIV, 302 pp., 20 fig.
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This book explores the reception history of ʿUmar Khayyām’s poetry and persona. It is the first systematic study of how Khayyām was remembered across different periods, from medieval times to the modern era, both in Iran and Europe. Khayyām has been an exceptional figure in Persianate Sufism and world literary heritage. The thorny ideas in his quatrains elicited responses from various tiers of society, including established Sufis and theologians.
Umar Khayyām; memory; secularity; reception history
Arash Ghajarjazi, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Dancing before God’s Beauty
exploring rūmī’s Poetic universe, mystical Philosophy, and reception history
Series: sufism studies 4
June 2025
english, , VI, 305 pp., 12 fig.
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This book offers fresh perspectives on the life and legacy of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī. It introduces a hagiography by Rūmī’s son describing Rūmī's passionate bond with his beloved Shams. It re-reads the Mathnavī, analysing topics such as shāhid-bāzī, music, sense, and sensorium. It also covers Rūmī’s reception in the works of Anqaravī, Gölpınarlı, Kader Abdolah, and others, surveying Rūmī’s visual legacy, and his popularity in the USA.
Rumi; Sufism; classical Persian poetry; Persianate world
Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Sheridan
Polinsky
Sufism in Late Mamlūk Cairo
the life and thought of Ibn mughayzil (fl. 895/1490)
Series: sufism studies 7
august 2025 english, approx. 176 pp.
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This book is the first study of the Egyptian Sufi Ibn Mughayzil (fl. 895/1490). Through examination of the themes and aims of his writings as well as their key topics, such as the waking vision of Prophet Muḥammad, the author is shown to be both a passionate Sufi apologist and creative synthesizer, drawing from a wide array of sources in his stated goal of uniting the rationalist and traditional sciences, such as law and hadith, and Sufism. Ibn Mughayzil; Shādhiliyya; Mamlūk-era Sufism; Sufi Thought
Sheridan Polinsky, Concordia University, Canada.
Sarhan Dhouib, Anke Kügelgen (Hrsg./Eds.)
Konzepte von Toleranz und Intoleranz in der arabischen Moderne
Band II: eine anthologie
[Concepts of Tolerance and Intolerance in Arab Modernity, Volume II: An Anthology]
Reihe/Series: Philosophie in der nahöstlichen moderne 5
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Die Anthologie präsentiert bislang nicht übersetzte Essays von fünfzehn Intellektuellen der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis in unsere Gegenwart. Der Band lotet unterschiedliche Konzeptionen des Toleranz-Begriffes aus und diskutiert auch die entsprechenden Gegenbegriffe. Neben einer differenzierten Analyse der Terminologie im Arabischen werden vor allem die konzeptuellen Unterschiede und Rechtfertigungsstrategien in den Blick genommen.
This anthology presents previously untranslated essays by fifteen intellectuals, written from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present day. It sounds out various concepts of tolerance while also discussing relevant counter-concepts. Alongside a nuanced analysis of the Arabic terminology, it also examines conceptual differences and justification strategies.
In der vorliegenden Monographie wird das philosophische Werk von ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān Badawī – einem der ersten Existenzphilosophen der arabischen Welt – vorgestellt. Die Autorin analysiert Badawīs existenz- wie auch kulturphilosophischen Schriften und erfasst die darin verhandelten philosophischen Diskurse in ihrer Genese innerhalb von multiplen, sich überlagernden intellektuellen und politischen Kontexten.
This monograph presents the philosophical work of Abd ar-Ramān Badawī’ – one of the Arab world’s first existential philosophers. The author analyzes Badawī’s existential and cultural philosophical writings and explores the philosophical discourses they negotiated as they emerged within multiple overlapping intellectual and political contexts. transfer of knowledge; Martin Heidegger; Egypt; cultural philosophy
Sevinç Yasargil, Universität Bern, Schweiz.
Aslıgül Aysel, Yaşar Sarıkaya Akzeptanz, Formation und Transformation
Eine empirische Studie zum islamischen Religionsunterricht an Grundschulen in Hessen
[Acceptance, Formation, and Transformation: An Empirical Study on Islamic Religion Education at Elementary Schools in Hesse]
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Die Studie zeigt, dass der islamische Religionsunterricht positiv von Grundschüler*innen, Eltern und Lehrern aufgenommen wird. Der Unterricht fördert Akzeptanz, Bildung, Integration und interreligiösen Austausch, Denk- und Handlungsveränderungen. Er trägt zur Bildung religiöser Mündigkeit bei und hilft, Vorurteile abzubauen. Empfohlen wird, die Erkenntnisse in die Praxis umzusetzen, um den Mehrwert zu stärken.
This study shows that Islamic religious education is positively received by elementary school students, parents, and teachers. Lessons foster acceptance, education, integration, interreligious exchange, and shifts in thinking and behavior. They contribute to the development of religious maturity and help to dismantle prejudices. The study recommends putting the insights gained into practice to maximize their value.
Islamic religious education; elementary school; Islam; integration
Aslıgül Aysel, Universität Innsbruck, Österreich; Yaşar Sarıkaya, Justus-LiebigUniversität Gießen.
Yaşar Sarıkaya (Hrsg./Ed.)
Herausforderung Digitalisierung
Islamische Theologie im digitalen Zeitalter
[The Challenge of Digitalization: Islamic Theology in the Digital Age]
Zweifellos ist Digitalisierung einer der wesentlichen Begriffe, die die Bedingungen der Gegenwart auch in der islamischen Theologie zum Ausdruck bringen. Im vorliegenden Band bezieht sich Digitalisierung auf den heutigen zeitlichen und sozialen Kontext als einen digital geprägten Kontext, in dem Digitalisierung unser Denken und Handeln, Bildung und Wissenschaft sowie soziale Interaktion tiefgreifend beeinflusst und transformiert.
Digitalisierung; Islamische Theologie; Bildung
Without a doubt, digitalization is one of the key concepts reflecting contemporary conditions – in Islamic theology, too. In this volume, "digitalization" refers to the contemporary temporal and social context as a digitally influenced environment where digitalization is profoundly shaping and transforming how we think and act, education and scholarship, as well social interactions.
Digitalization; Islamic theology; education
Yaşar Sarıkaya, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.
Rotraud Wielandt
Felix Körner (Hrsg./Ed.)
Schriften zum Islam und zur arabischen Literatur der Gegenwart
[Writings on Islam and Contemporary Arabic Literature]
Rotraud Wielandts Œuvre umfasst Studien zur modernen arabischen Literatur und zur Koranexegese und islamischen Theologie der Gegenwart. Ihre Artikel wurden großenteils im Rahmen von interdisziplinären Projekten, in Festschriften für Nichtorientalisten und in weniger verbreiteten Zeitschriften veröffentlicht, die von ihren Fachgenossen nicht regelmäßig rezipiert werden. Dieses Buch macht eine von der Verfasserin autorisierte Auswahl zugänglich.
Arabisch / Literatur; Islam
Rotraud Wielandt produced her studies on modern Arabic literature and contemporary Islamic exegesis and theology during forty years of research. Although the texts contain important insights and original observations, some of them had appeared in remote venues. These works needed to be made accessible to contemporary Arabic and Islamic studies, and they are now available in a carefully revised edition.
Islam; Arabic literature; 19th century; 20th century
Rotraud Wielandt, Universität Bamberg (em.) und Felix Körner SJ, HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin.
Daniel
Martin Varisco
Handbook of Rasulid Yemen (13th–15th Centuries CE)
Series: De Gruyter Handbook
September 2025
English, Approx. 480 pp., 4 fig.
HC *RRP € 164.95 / US$ 176.99 / £ 146.50
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Rasulid dynasty (13th–15th centuries CE) in Yemen. Topics include the history of Rasulid scholarship, geography, politics and administration, diplomatic relations with the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and other governments, trade and sailing seasons in the Indian Ocean network through the major port of Aden, weights and measures used throughout Yemen and relations with Yemen’s Zaydi imams.
Rasulids; Yemen; Mamluks; Indian Ocean
Daniel Martin Varisco, American Institute for Yemeni Studies.
Nadine El-Hussein
Ibn Ǧubayr und die Almohaden
Religion und Politik in der ›Riḥla‹
[Ibn Jubayr and the Almohads: Political, Religious, and Intellectual Implications of his Travelogue]
Reihe/Series: Islam – Thought, Culture, and Society 18
Der aus al-Andalus stammende Gelehrte Ibn Ǧubayr (gest. 614/1217) beschreibt in dem als Reisebericht bekannten Text (Riḥla) seine Wallfahrt nach Mekka und seine Rückreise nach Granada. Erstmals untersucht diese Studie diesen Reisebericht als politischen Text vor dem Hintergrund der almohadischen Herrschaft in al-Andalus und im Maghreb. Mittelalter; al-Andalus; Mittelmeerraum; Wallfahrt
The travelogue (Rihla) by scholar Ibn Jubayr from al-Andalus (d. 614/1217) describes the author's pilgrimage to Mecca and his return to Granada. For the first time, this study examines his travelogue as a political text against the backdrop of Almohad rule in alAndalaus and the Maghreb.
Nadine El-Hussein, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Carol Bier
Geometry in Islamic Art
Number, Shape, and the Nature of Space
Series: Islam – Thought, Culture, and Society 15
November 2025
English, Approx. 300 pp., 60 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-157346-5
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What accounts for the vast array of patterns in Islamic ornament? Bier presents a compelling narrative that links the histories of architecture and mathematics. Ornament communicates through its forms, relating number and shape to the nature of space. Her study suggests that the discovery of twodimensional space in Islamic visual culture of the 11 and 12 centuries is as significant as the discovery of linear perspective in the Renaissance.
Islamic art; aethetics; history of mathematics; visual culture
Carol Bier, Center for Islamic Studies/ Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA.
Murat Arpacı, Öykü Gürpınar, Şükrü Aslan Sibel Yardımcı
Historische ethnische Geographie
der Türkei
Verteilung der Muttersprachen (1927–1965)
[Historical Ethnic Geography of Turkey: Distribution of Native Languages (1927–1965)]
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Anhand einer umfangreichen Kartensammlung und von Muttersprachendaten der Volkszählungen untersucht dieses Buch die ethnokulturelle Homogenisierung im Nationalbildungsprozess der Türkei. In der Analyse provinzbasierter Daten von 21 Muttersprachen in der Volkszählung von 1927–1965 diskutiert das Buch eine Türkifizierungspolitik gegenüber verschiedenen ethnischen Gruppen im historischen Prozess.
This book draws on an extensive map collection and language data from censuses to examine the ethnocultural homogenization in Turkey's nation-building process. In an analysis of province-based data on twenty-one native languages in the censuses of 1927–1965, the book discusses a policy of Turkification directed at different ethnic groups throughout the historical process.
Murat Arpacı, Erzincan University, Turkey; Öykü Gürpınar, International Centre for Migration, Turkey; Şükrü Aslan and Sibel Yardımcı, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey.
Kefajat Hamidi (Ed.)
The Collapse of Afghanistan
Insights from the Inside Series: ANOR Central Asian Studies 26
November 2025
English, Approx. 350 pp., 45 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 39.95 / US$ 43.99 / £ 36.50
ISBN 978-3-11-141257-3
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This anthology is the first public collection of Afghan positions and analyses on the 20-year development process in Afghanistan and its ultimate failure with the Taliban takeover in August 2021. This anthology thus represents the first public collection of local knowledge of Afghan origin on this topic from a domestic perspective, which is suitable to serve as an enriching corrective to the currently prevailing discourses in Western countries. Central Asia; Afghanistan; Afghan diaspora; foreign policy
Kefajat Hamidi, Leipzig University.
OBernhard Nitsche, Ufuk Topkara (Hrsg./Eds.)
Zur Resonanz von Gottesbild und Lebensform
Christliche und islamische Perspektiven in Auseinandersetzung mit Hartmut Rosa
[The Resonance Between God's Image and Ways of Life: Christian and Islamic Perspectives in Dialogue with Hartmut Rosa]
Reihe/Series: Traditions in Transformation. Thinking with Theology 1
Die breite theologische Rezeption der Resonanztheorie Hartmut Rosas steht bislang noch aus. Um das Potential der Resonanztheorie für die christliche wie islamische Theologie auszuloten, wird diese im Hinblick auf Gottesbild und Lebensform interdisziplinär untersucht und unter den Leitmotiven religiöser Erfahrung, unveräußerlicher Würde, Freiheit, Verantwortung und Gottebenbildlichkeit diskutiert.
Resonanztheorie; Politische Theologie; Christentum; Islam
Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance has not yet received widespread attention in theological circles. In order to sound out the potential of the theory of resonance for both Christian and Islamic theology, this volume examines it interdisciplinarily in relation to God's image and ways of life, considering key themes like religious experience, universal dignity, freedom, responsibility, and likeness to God. Theory of resonance; political theology; Christianity; Islam
Bernhard Nitsche, Universität Münster; Ufuk Topkara, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Reuven Kiperwasser, Aryeh Kofsky, Serge Ruzer
Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues
Religious Aspects and Cultural Backgrounds
Series: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation 27
December 2024
English, VI, 174 pp.
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This volume discusses Christian and Jewish travel narratives against the background of both biblical exempla and the heavy presence of broader storytelling cultures. Special attention is paid to narrative strategies, aiming at outlining, modifying, and erasing borders with “monotheistic competitors” as well as pagan patterns. While the first part highlights appalling sea adventures, the second focuses on the travel to and around Holy Land.
Travel Fiction; migrating persona; early Christianity; Rabbinic Judaism
The Concept of Justice in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Series: Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses 4
June 2025
English, VIII, 218 pp.
Pb. *RRP € 29.95 / US$ 32.99 / £ 27.50
ISBN 978-3-11-056062-6
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The concept of justice is a fundamental tenet of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, influencing their theological, ethical, and social perspectives. The pursuit of a just world is a central concern of these religions, emphasizing human responsibility, compassion, and mercy. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the understanding of justice in each one of the three religions, elucidating the similarities and differences between them. Interreligious dialogue; ethics; cosmology; Justice; interreligiosity; vindication; social justice
Catharina Rachik and Georges Tamer, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Catharina Rachik, Georges Tamer (Eds.)
The Concept of Tolerance in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Series: Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses 7
November 2025
English, Approx. 180 pp.
Pb. *RRP € 29.95 / US$ 32.99 / £ 27.50
ISBN 978-3-11-077288-3
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Tolerance as a universal value of modernity is not usually associated in popular consciousness with religion, which is often regarded as inherently intolerant. This book addresses the hermeneutics of tolerance regarding Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions and traces the promotion of tolerance in different historical and cultural settings. It demonstrates that tolerance occupies in fact an important place in the three monotheistic religions. Pluralism; exclusivism; minority
Catharina Rachik and Georges Tamer, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Catharina Rachik, Georges Tamer (Eds.)
The Concept of Evil in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Series: Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses 16
November 2024
English, VIII, 177 pp.
Pb. *RRP € 29.95 / US$ 32.99 / £ 27.50
ISBN 978-3-11-158622-9
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This volume explores aspects of the concept of evil in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, including major theodicy discussions as well as contemporary developments. Throughout history and even today, religions have struggled with the question of how a benevolent God can allow evil to exist in the world. The book offers diverse answers to existential questions and highlights the similarities and differences among the three religions on this topic. eschatology; interreligious dialogue; theology
Catharina Rachik and Georges Tamer, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Torsten Meireis, Mira Sievers, Clemens Wustmans (Hrsg./Eds.)
Intertheologie
XXXI. Werner-Reihlen-Vorlesung
Reihe/Series: Beihefte zur Berliner Theologischen Zeitschrift
Das Konzept der Intertheologie umfasst Überlegungen, nach denen eine zukunftsorientierte Kooperation der Theologien plausibel ist, insbesondere angesichts der These, dass zentrale theologische Gehalte und Konzepte auch in der Geschichte von Judentum, Christentümern und Islam immer auch intertheologisch, also in kreativen, komplexen und durchaus auch konflikthaften Interaktionsprozessen von Aneignung und Abgrenzung gewonnen wurden.
The concept of inter-theology encompasses considerations that make a future-oriented cooperation between theologies plausible, particularly in light of the thesis that central theological content and concepts have always been developed inter-theologically, even in the history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, i.e., in creative, complex, and even conflictual interaction processes of appropriation and demarcation.
Torsten Meireis, Humboldt-Universität Berlin; Mira Sievers Universität Hamburg; Clemens Wustmans, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.
Andrea Worm, Maria Streicher (Eds.)
The Menorah and the Seven-branched Candelabrum
Jewish and Christian Manifestations in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Funded by Tübingen SFB 1391, Andere Ästhetik
Series: Andere Ästhetik – Studien 15
August 2025
English, German, Ca./Approx. 667 pp., 230 fig.
HC *RRP € 139.95 / US$ 153.99 / £ 127.50
ISBN 978-3-11-116411-3
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For both Judaism and Christianity, the Menorah is an iconic artefact. It played a prominent role as an implement of the Tabernacle in the desert and the Temple, and it also figures prominently in Christian imagery. This volume brings together reflections on the Menorah in both Jewish and Christian traditions and contributes to a better understanding of their cultural entanglement in pre-modern times.
Menorah; seven-branched candelabrum; Middle Ages; early modern times
Andrea Worm and Maria Streicher, Department of Art History, Tübingen University, Germany.
In 27 anschaulich geschriebenen und allgemein zugänglichen Kapiteln vermitteln Religionswissenschaftler:innen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz in diesem Band einen einzigartigen Einstieg in die aktuelle Religionswissenschaft. Die zentralen und forschungsnahen Themen zeigen die Vielstimmigkeit des Faches. Gerahmt werden die Kapitel von einer Einleitung, einem Epilog, ergänzt durch ein Glossar und eine Bilderreihe.
Religionswissenschaft; Religion; Religionswissenschaftliches Studium
This volume offers a unique introduction to contemporary religious studies in twentyseven accessible, clearly written chapters written by religious studies scholars from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The central, research-driven topics showcase the field’s rich diversity of perspectives. The chapters are framed by an introduction and an epilogue, supplemented by a glossary and an image series.
Religious studies; religion
Michael Stausberg, Universität Bergen, Norwegen und Katharina Wilkens, Universität Tübingen.
Fabio Rambelli (Ed.) Gagaku
The Cultural Impact of Japanese Ceremonial Music
Series: Religion and Society 90
March 2025
English, XIX, 371 pp., 28 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / US$ 129.99 / £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-157263-5
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Gagaku, the classical ceremonial music of the imperial court, Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in Japan, was established in the early eighth century and continuously performed since. This is the only book on the cultural history of Gagaku outside of Japan. It discusses religious, philosophical, and socio-cultural aspects of this fascinating music with focus on Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, and the impact of modernization and globalization.
Gagaku; Japanese music; Japanese religions; religion and music
Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Moritz Maurer
Kosmos, Gesellschaft, Religion
Zoroastrische und manichäische Sozialordnungsdiskurse in der langen Spätantike
[Cosmos, Society, Religion: Zoroastrian and Manichaean Discourses of Social Order in Long Late Antiquity]
Reihe/Series: Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 80
Das Sāsānidenreich war über 400 Jahre eines der mächtigsten Reiche der Spätantike. Hier entwickelten zoroastrische religiöse Spezialisten ein System, um diese komplexe Gesellschaft zu ordnen. Anhand zahlreicher Primärquellen wird dieser Prozess im Kontext der sāsānidischen Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte rekonstruiert und sein Fortleben in den Texten der Zoroastrier untersucht.
For over 400 years, the Sasanian Empire was one of late antiquity’s most powerful empires. Zoroastrian religious specialists came up with a system to order its complex society. By looking at numerous primary sources, this volume reconstructs that process in the context of Sasanian social and economic history and examines its afterlife in Zoroastrian texts. Late antiquity; Zoroastrianism; Manichaeism; Sasanians
Moritz Maurer, Universität Heidelberg.
Joseph
L. Kimmel Power in the Name
A Comparative Analysis of Onomastic Invocations
Series: Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages 15
May 2025
English, Approx. 235 pp., 9 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 97.50
ISBN 978-3-11-136028-7
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How do divine names channel power?
This comparative study of powerful names analyzes onomastic invocations from two distinct contexts, the ancient Mediterranean and tenth-century Tibet. It examines how names like Aphrodite, Jesus, and the Indic deity Bhṛkuṭī were invoked verbally and on objects (e.g., amulets) for healing, protection, and even to harm enemies. This study also analyzes why and how names were believed to work so powerfully.
Divine Names; Invocations; Early Christianity; Tibet
Joseph L. Kimmel, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA.
Helmut Zander
Religion und Politik in Christentum und Islam
Überlegungen zu kulturellen
Grammatiken, Pfaddispositionen und Wahrscheinlichkeiten
[Religion and Politics in Christianity and Islam: Deliberations on Cultural Grammars, Pathways, and Probabilities]
Warum gestalten Christentum und Islam die Beziehungen zur Politik unterschiedlich?
Weil sie über eine eigene „Grammatik“ verfügen. Ihre kanonischen Schriften haben unterschiedliche Inhalte, die frühen politischen Erfahrungen waren gegensätzlich. Die Konsequenzen prägen die politische Praxis und Theorie bis in die Gegenwart. Mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit werden christlich geprägte Kulturen eine andere Form der Demokratie als islamische entwickeln.
Why do Christianity and Islam approach their relationship to politics in distinct ways? Because they each have their own "grammar." Their canonical scriptures have different contents; their early experiences of politics were fundamentally dissimilar. The consequences influence political practice and theory to this day. It is highly likely that cultures shaped by Christianity develop a different form of democracy than those shaped by Islam.
Islam; Christianity; legal system; history of religion
Helmut Zander, Vergleichende Religionsgeschichte und Interreligiöser Dialog, Universität Fribourg.
Viktoria Vitanova-Kerber, Helmut Zander (Eds.)
Esoteric Catholicism / Esoterischer Katholizismus
Funded by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
Series: Okkulte Moderne 8
May 2025
English, German, VI, 395 pp., 18 fig.
HC *RRP € 59.95 / US$ 65.99 / £ 54.50
ISBN 978-3-11-131005-3
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Open to deviance, Catholic theology and devotional practice managed to integrate stigmata, revelations, visions, "magic," and spiritualistic contact – more so than Protestantism. At the same time, esoteric groups did not usually become independent as “separate” communities. We analyze the social structures and intellectual concepts behind the existence of this tolerance toward “heterodox” phenomena.
Esotericism; 19th-century; 20th century; catholicism; history of religion
Viktoria Vitanova-Kerber and Helmut Zander, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland.
Global Secularity. A Sourcebook
Christoph Kleine, Karénina KollmarPaulenz, Hubert Seiwert (Eds.)
Volume III: Buddhist Asia
April 2025
English, XIII, 377 pp., 5 fig.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / US$ 142.99 / £ 118.50
ISBN 978-3-11-121734-5
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This volume seeks to map and elucidate the diverse relationships between the religious and secular spheres in South, East, Southeast, and Inner Asia, as well as the Himalayan region – areas where Buddhism became one of the most prominent traditions. Presenting texts spanning approximately 2000 years, the volume aims to illustrate the emergence of culturally specific forms of secularity in Asia, by exploring emic discourses.
Secularism; Global History
Magnus Echtler, Marian Burchardt (Eds.)
Volume V: Sub-Saharan Africa
Funded by Universität Leipzig
December 2025
English, Approx. 424 pp., 23 fig.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / US$ 142.99 / £ 118.50
ISBN 978-3-11-121741-3
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This volume calls into question the widespread notion that Africans are, to quote John Mbiti, “notoriously religious”. Presenting legal, political, and public debates from numerous African countries, our sources show how both colonialists and African actors reconfigured religious-secular boundaries, suggesting that contemporary secularities in Africa emerged from specific socio-cultural histories, and political conflicts and contestations.
Africa; secularity; religion; politics
Marian Burchardt, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany; Magnus Echtler, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
OTodd H. Weir
Roter Säkularismus
Sozialismus und freigeistige Kultur in Deutschland 1890 bis 1933
Mit einem Vorwort v./Preface by Benjamin Ziemann
Übers. v./Transl. by Christine Brocks Gefördert von/Funded by University of Groningen
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-169202-9 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-169329-3
Diese Studie beleuchtet den Roten Säkularismus, als eine radikale Subkultur, die an der Schnittstelle von der freigeistigen Bewegung und dem Sozialismus im späten 19. Jahrhundert entstand. Freigeistige Intellektuelle brachten populäre Wissenschaft und monistische Weltanschauung unter ehrgeizige Arbeiter und frühe Feministinnen, gerieten aber oft mit der SPD in Konflikt. Säkularismus; Sozialismus; Kommunismus; Deutschland
This is a German translation of the author's English-language work on secularism in Germany, examining the intersection of secularism and socialism at the end of the 19th and the first part of the 20th century. Weir shows the role of red secularism in the political struggles over religion and the development of the National Socialist government. Secularism; Germany; Communism; Socialism Todd H. Weir, Universität Groningen, Niederlande.
Marcus Schmücker (Ed.)
Tradition and Transformation
of Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta
Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
Series: Beyond Boundaries 12
October 2025
English, Approx. 300 pp.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 121.99 / £ 96.50
ISBN 978-3-11-078100-7
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The volume examines the rich tradition of Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta from diverse perspectives, exploring its interactions with Indian philosophical and religious schools, including Mīmāṃsā, Sāṅkhya, and Pāñcarātra. It highlights theological debates on self-surrender, divine agency, and the Goddess, offering insights into the systematization and development of Śrīvaiṣṇava thought.
Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta; philosophical theology; tradition; transformation; Mīmāṃsā Marcus Schmücker, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Gerrit Lange
Naiṇī mātā – Cobra Mum
Unearthing and Enacting the Feelings of Nine Himalayan Hindu Goddesses
Series: Religion in Contemporary Asia 1
June 2025
English, Approx. 400 pp., 32 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 120.99 / £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-163096-0
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What does a goddess feel? The Hindu goddess Naiṇī or Nāginī of Pindar valley in the Indian Himalaya walks through her territory for half a year, embodied in a bamboo pole carried by her human devotees. They carry her to make her happy and to ease her anger about a lack of worship. To approach Naiṇī’s feelings, this study explores the emotions named in narrations about her as well as the feelings displayed in ritual interactions with the goddess.
Hindu goddess; contemporary Himalayan religion; emotions; more-than-human societies
Gerrit Lange, University of Bochum, Germany.
Stuart Gray
The Political Theory of the Bhagavad-Gita
Deep Ideology, Nationalism, and Democratic Life on the Indian Subcontinent
March 2025
English, VIII, 189 pp.
HC *RRP € 90.00 / US$ 99.99 / £ 82.00
ISBN 978-3-11-158231-3
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This book is the first systematic analysis of the Bhagavad-Gita as a work of political theory. It fills a crucial gap by comprehensively exploring the classical text, and offers insights into the enduring impact of the Gita’s ideas on Indian political ideologies, movements, and rhetoric today. This innovative volume will be of interest to scholars of political theory & philosophy, political ideologies, religious studies, and South Asian studies. Bhagavad-Gita; Mahabharata; Political theory; Hindu nationalism; Brahmanic political ideology; Hinduism
Stuart Gray, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, USA.
Martin Lutz, Maren Freudenberg, Moritz Hinsch (Hrsg./Eds.)
Handbuch
Wirtschaft und Religion
Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
[Handbook Economy and Religion. Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries]
Reihe/Series: Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Das Handbuch bietet einen systematischen Überblick über das Verhältnis von Religion und Wirtschaft mit Fokus auf Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. In 5 thematisch gegliederten Teilen geben die Kapitel einen kritischen und problemorientierten Einblick in die aktuelle Forschungsdiskussion und bieten historische Beispiele zur Veranschaulichung. Das Themenspektrum greift auch neuere Diskussionen, z. B. zur Migration und Verhaltensökonomik, auf.
The handbook provides a systematic overview of the relationship between religion and economics, focusing on Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. In five thematically organized parts, the chapters provide critical and problem-oriented insight into the current research debate and offer historical examples for illustration. The range of topics also picks up on more recent discussions, e.g., on migration and behavioral economics. Business ethics; religious enterprise; prosperity; moral economy
Maren Freudenberg, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Moritz Hinsch, LudwigMaximilians-Universität München; Martin Lutz, Universität Bielefeld.
Ninja Bumann, Kerstin S. Jobst, Stefan Rohdewald, Stefan Troebst (Eds.)
Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region
Funded by Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), University of Vienna
December 2024
English, XIV, 776 pp., 29 fig.
HC *RRP € 184.95 / US$ 203.99 / £ 168.50
ISBN 978-3-11-072311-3
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This first handbook on the Black Sea region provides an overview on relevant structural features from a cultural-historical perspective and thereby examines to what extent this region constitutes a historical meso-region sui generis. Particular attention is paid to phenomena and developments which connect the different shores of the Black Sea and present a unifying characteristic of the region.
Black Sea; History; Culture
N. Bumann, Justus Liebig University
Giessen, K. Jobst, University of Vienna, S. Rohdewald und S. Troebst, Leipzig University, Germany.
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Die illusio daemoniaca spielt in den Debatten um Magie und Hexerei in der Frühen Neuzeit eine zentrale Rolle. Der Band analysiert dämonologische Traktate, narrative Texte und Theaterstücke aus Deutschland, Frankreich, England und Spanien und zeigt, wie hier die dämonische Täuschung in ästhetische Illusion umschlägt. Im Sinne des SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik wird so eine ‚andere‘ Genealogie der ästhetischen Konzepte Schein und Illusion sichtbar.
Dämonologie; Frühe Neuzeit; Illusion; Ästhetik
The illusio daemoniaca played a central role in debates about magic and witchcraft in the Early Modern period. This volume analyzes demonological treatises, narratives, and plays from Germany, France, England, and Spain to show how in these texts demonic deception transforms into aesthetic illusion. Demonology; early modern era; illusion; aesthetics Susanne Goumegou und Jörg Robert, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Moritz Lampe (Ed.)
Photographic Practices and the Making of Religion
December 2025
English, German, 296 pp., 152 fig.
HC *RRP € 82.00 / US$ 90.99 / £ 75.00
ISBN 978-3-11-120836-7
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This publication examines photography's transformative role in religion from the 19th century to the present day. Through case studies and theoretical insights, it explores how photographs document, shape, and challenge religious practices. Topics include print retouching, image authentication, devotional uses, offering fresh perspectives on photography’s intersections with art history, religion and material culture.
art; photography; history of photography; modern art; religion; spirituality; cultural practices; colonialism; ethnology; anthropology; materiality; rite; Jewish tradition; sacred image
Chaosbilder kann es eigentlich nicht geben, denn sie zeigen den Zustand der Welt vor ihrer Entstehung. Dennoch gab es seit der Antike über das Mittelalter, China inbegriffen, bis in unsere Zeit immer wieder Anläufe, bildlich erfahrbar zu machen, was sich der Erfahrung entzieht. Das Wechselspiel mit der Begriffsgeschichte des Chaos treibt die Chaosbilder in ikonische Aporien, mit denen sich das vorliegende Buch erstmals umfänglich auseinandersetzt.
Images of chaos cannot truly exist, as they would show the state of the world before its creation. Nevertheless, from antiquity through the Middle Ages, including in China, up to the present day there have been repeated attempts to visualize what eludes our experience. Interplay with the conceptual history of chaos forces images of chaos to iconic aporias: this book is the first to deal extensively with such ideas.
Franz Engel, Kunsthistoriker, derzeit wiss. Mitarbeiter, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Open Access Open Access
Wolfram Kinzig, Barbara Loose (Eds.) Control, Coercion, and Constraint
The Role of Religion in Overcoming and Creating Structures of Dependency
Series: Dependency and Slavery Studies 14
December 2024
English, VIII, 333 pp., 42 fig.
HC *RRP € 89.95 / US$ 98.99 / £ 82.00
ISBN 978-3-11-138043-8
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The equality of all human beings before the divine is deeply rooted in religious thought. Yet religious discourse has also been used to explain, justify, and establish structures of strong asymmetrical dependency that may even include hierarchies of metaphysical beings. The contributors to this volume explore the role of religion in overcoming and creating structures of dependency from different disciplines and academic backgrounds. Slavery; religion; persecution; emancipation
Wolfram Kinzig and Barbara Loose, University of Bonn, Germany.
Sinah Theres Kloß, Lena Muders, Taynã Tagliati (Eds.)
Transforming Spirit Bodies
Materialization and Embodied Dependencies in South America
Series: Dependency and Slavery Studies 17
March 2025
English, VIII, 182 pp., 18 fig.
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This edited volume is a comprehensive exploration of the bodies and embodiments of spirits, their (im-)materialities, and their bodily transformations. It focuses on the embodied experiences of asymmetrical dependencies among humans and spirits and how experiences of (inter-)dependence are negotiated in such interactions. It highlights the ambivalent relationship between spirits and materiality and processes of (de-)materialization.
Corporeality; South America; spirit
Sinah Theres Kloß, Lena Muders, Taynã Tagliati, University of Bonn, Germany.
Anna Peterson With God on Our Side
Religion, Social Movements, and Social Change
Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 33
September 2024
English, XIII, 229 pp.
HC *RRP € 89.95 / US$ 98.99 / £ 82.00
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Religion plays a central role in a variety of social movements, including many that are not explicitly faith-based. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the ways religion contributes movements for social change. It draws on a variety of global case studies to build an argument about religion’s distinctive capacity to provide logistical support, to inspire activist practices, and to link big ideas to everyday experiences.
Social Movements; Religion; Social Change; Activism; Religious Movements
Anna Peterson, University of Florida, USA.
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Mirko Novák, Mary Frazer, Joost Hazenbos, Claudia E. Suter (Hrsg./Eds.) Altorientalische Forschungen
Band/Volume 52 (2025)
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, Französisch/ French, 2 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./ Approx. 322 S./pp.)
Die Zeitschrift Altorientalische Forschungen veröffentlicht philologische und archäologische Beiträge und Forschungsberichte zu Geschichte, Kultur und Sprachen des Alten Orients unter Einbeziehung von angrenzenden Regionen wie Iran, Ägypten und der Ägäis.
The journal Altorientalische Forschungen publishes articles, reports, and short contributions covering the history, culture, and languages of the ancient Near East, including the adjacent regions such as Iran, Egypt, and the Aegean world.
Manuela Consonni, Martina Weisz (Editors-in-Chief)
Analysis of Current Trends in Antisemitism - ACTA
Volume 44 (2025)
English, 1 issue per volume (Approx. 50 pp.)
ISSN 2568-9347
The ACTA papers focus on contemporary trends of antisemitism world-wide. The eJournal allows for a prompt publication of contributions that analyze current phenomena of antisemitic prejudice, occurrences, and mechanisms. It is a platform for innovative, cutting-edge research. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, they scrutinize the singularities of anti-Jewish prejudice with relation to and in the context of other forms of discrimination.
Peter von Möllendorff, Joachim Jacob, Sibylle Baumbach, Bernhard Huss, Gernot Michael Müller, Karen Piepenbrink, Robert Seidel, Johannes Süßmann (Hrsg./Eds.)
Antike und Abendland
Band/Volume 71 (2025)
Deutsch/German, Italienisch/Italian, Englisch/English, Französisch/French, 1 Heft pro Band/issue per volume (Ca./Approx. 194 S./pp.)
Das Jahrbuch Antike und Abendland versteht sich als Forum für eine fächerübergreifende Diskussion von Themen aus dem Bereich der Antike und ihrer Wirkungsgeschichte. Im Herausgebergremium sind die Disziplinen Klassische Philologie, Alte Geschichte, Germanistik, Romanistik und Anglistik vertreten.
The yearbook Antike und Abendland is a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of topics related to Antiquity and the history of its reception. The Editorial Board contains representatives from the disciplines of Classical Studies, Ancient History, Germanic Studies, Romance Studies and English Studies.
eJournal with free online access
YSusanne Bickel, David Frankfurter, Sarah Iles Johnston, Gabriella Pironti, Jörg Rüpke, John Scheid, Zsuzsanna Várhelyi (Hrsg./Eds.)
Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
In Gemeinschaft mit/Together with: Mary Beard, Corinne Bonnet, Philippe Borgeaud, Alexander Knysh, Charles Malamoud, Stefan Maul, Robert C. T. Parker, Shaul Shaked, Guy Stroumsa, Michel Tardieu, Youri Volokhine
Impact Factor: 0.2
5-year Impact Factor: 0.5
Band/Volume 27 (2025)
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, Französisch/ French, 1 Heft pro Band/issue per volume (Ca./ Approx. 300 S./pp.)
Das Archiv für Religionsgeschichte beschäftigt sich hauptsächlich mit den Religionen der Alten Welt. Die verschiedenen Aspekte dieses Forschungsgebietes werden in Form von Aufsätzen, Berichten über religionswissenschaftliche Hauptgebiete und Einzelreferaten behandelt.
Archiv für Religionsgeschichte is a specialised journal dealing primarily with religions of the ancient world. The different aspects of the field of research are covered in essays, reports on the main areas of religious studies and in individual articles.
Hans Otto Horch, Robert Jütte, Miriam Rürup, Werner Treß, Markus Wenninger (Hrsg./Eds.)
Aschkenas
Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Band/Volume 35 (2025)
Deutsch/German, 2 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./Approx. 500 S./pp.)
Aschkenas – ursprünglich die hebräische Bezeichnung für Deutschland – versteht sich vor allem als Organ der seit den späten 70er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts verstärkt einsetzenden deutschsprachigen Forschung zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur des mittel- und westeuropäischen Judentums. Im Zentrum steht die Geschichte und Kultur des mittel- und westeuropäischen Judentums von der ausgehenden Antike bis zur Emanzipation und darüber hinaus
Aschkenas is a journal of Central and Eastern European Jewish history and culture. It primarily covers the period from the beginnings of Ashkenazi Judaism in late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages through the emancipation of the Jews in the 19th century. However, it also publishes contributions that extend beyond these temporal and geographical boundaries.
Ruth Conrad, Daniel Cyranka, Mohammad Gharaibeh, Katharina Greschat, Ursula Ulrike Kaiser, Rebekka Klein, Torsten Meireis, Katharina Pyschny, Ulrike Schröder, Jens Schröter, Henrik Simojoki, Friedemann Stengel, Markus Witte (Hrsg./ Eds.)
Berliner Theologische Zeitschrift
In Zusammenarbeit mit/In Cooperation with: Lubomir Batka, Ingolf U. Dalferth, Wilfried Engemann, Risto Saarinen, Joseph Verheyden Managing Editor: Markus Witte
Band/Volume 42 (2025)
Deutsch/German, 1 Heft pro Band/issue per volume (Ca./Approx. 400 S./pp.)
Die Berliner Theologische Zeitschrift informiert über gegenwärtige theologische Entwicklungen, stellt sich aktuellen Fragen zur Situation von Kirche und Gesellschaft und bietet ein Forum für das Gespräch über das Profil der Theologie in Deutschland. Sie ist für die theologische Fortbildung von Pfarrerinnen und Pfarrern, Religionspädagoginnen und Religionspädagogen außerordentlich geeignet und wendet sich an alle theologisch Interessierten.
The Berliner Theologische Zeitschrift is a journal on current developments in theology. It poses questions about the situation of Church and society and offers a forum for discussions on the profile of theology in Germany. It is especially designed for pastors and religious educators who want to delve deeper into theology and anyone else interested in the subject.
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Albrecht Berger (Hrsg./Ed.)
Byzantinische Zeitschrift
Band/Volume 118 (2025)
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Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, 4 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./Approx. 1560 S./pp.)
Das traditionsreiche Organ der internationalen Byzantinistik vertritt Literatur, Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte einschließlich der damit verbundenen Neben- und Randdisziplinen gleichermaßen in allen Abteilungen (Aufsätze, Rezensionen, Bibliographie) und trägt so entscheidend zur Förderung und Entwicklung der byzantinischen Studien bei.
The Byzantinische Zeitschrift is the leading journal in the field of Byzantine Studies. It publishes articles and reviews on all aspects of Byzantine literature, history, society, and culture. Each issue of the journal contains a large bibliographic section. This so-called III. Abteilung serves as the standard bibliography in Byzantine Studies.
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Stefan Heidemann, Gottfried Hagen, Andreas Kaplony, Rudi Matthee, Kristina L. Richardson (Hrsg./Eds.)
Der Islam
Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East
Band/Volume 102 (2025)
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5-year Impact Factor: 0.5
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, Französisch/ French, 2 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./ Approx. 600 S./pp.)
Die Zeitschrift Der Islam stellt seit ihrer Gründung 1910 durch Carl Heinrich Becker ein Forum für die Erforschung der Geschichte und Kultur der Gesellschaften des Vorderen Orients vor den Modernisierungen im 19. Jhdt. dar, von der Iberischen Halbinsel bis nach Zentralasien. Die Aufsätze präsentieren neueste Arbeiten der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften auf Grundlage der literarischen, archivalischen und archäologischen Überlieferungen.
Founded by Carl Heinrich Becker in 1910, the Journal Der Islam provides a forum for the study of the history and culture of the Middle East before the age of modernisation in the 19th century, from the Iberian Peninsula to Central Asia. Articles present the latest research in the humanities and social sciences based on literary traditions, and archival, material, and archaeological evidence. Islamic World/History; Islamic World/Culture
Júlio Cézar Adam, Jaco Dreyer, Solange Lefebvre, Swee Hong Lim, Vhumani Magezi, Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Mary Elizabeth Mullino Moore, Richard Osmer, Bernd Schröder, Friedrich Schweitzer, Terry A. Veling, Claire Wolfteich (Eds.)
International Journal of Practical Theology
Volume 29 (2025)
Managing Editors: Pamela Couture, Felix Roleder, Steve Simmons, Birgit Weyel In Cooperation with: Nadine Bowers Du Toit, Kristin Merle
Impact Factor: 0.1
5-year Impact Factor: 0.2
English, German, 2 issues per volume (Approx. 320 pp.)
The journal publishes contributions to an empirical-descriptive and critical-constructivist theory of the Church and religious practices. A guiding concept is a broad understanding of religious practice that examines diverse forms of lived religion as they relate to the normative self-concept of churches, ecclesiastical groups, and denominations.
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Mark D. Chapman, Theodore M. Vial, Jr., Friedrich Wilhelm Graf (Eds.) Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere
Theologiegeschichte
Volume 32 (2025)
In Cooperation with: Alf Christophersen
Impact Factor: 0.1
5-year Impact Factor: 0.1
English, German, 2 issues per volume (Approx. 320 pp.)
The journal contains contributions on the history of theology since the Enlightenment. In addition to the various directions of Protestant theology and philosophy of religion, theological and religious-philosophical tendencies in Roman Catholicism and Judaism are considered. It also includes historical contributions on the development of theology in other European countries as well as in North America.
Steven Garfinkle (Editor-in-Chief)
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History
Volume 12 (2025)
Founded by Marc Van De Mieroop
Impact Factor: 0.5
English, German, French, 2 issues per volume (Approx. 180 pp.)
The Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History seeks to encourage and stimulate the study of the history of the ancient Near East, which is broadly defined to include areas from Iran to the western Anatolian coast and the Black Sea to Southern Arabia from its prehistoric foundations to the Late Antique period.
Wim François, Violet Soen (Editors-inChief)
Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Tarald Rasmussen, Rady Roldan-Figueroa (Eds.)
Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Volume 12 (2025)
Impact Factor: 0.1
English, German, French, 2 issues per volume (Approx. 320 pp.)
The Journal of Early Modern Christianity (JEMC) intends to contribute to interdisciplinary, interconfessional, and comparative research on early modern Christianity. The journal bears out its interdisciplinary character by including a variety of relevant disciplines, such as church history, social history, cultural history, art history, literary history, history of ideas, history of music and archeology.
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Jorunn Oekland, Katherine Marsengill, Christopher Ocker (Eds.)
The Journal of the Bible and Its Reception (JBR) promotes the study of the reception history of the Bible in terms of both methodology and content. Published twice annually, JBR aims to shed light on the broader horizon of the impact of the Bible in a wide variety of academic fields and cultural settings. Articles focus on the field of Reception History, delivering new research results as well as upto-date academic discourse.
Heiko Schulz, Jon Stewart, Karl Verstrynge (Eds.)
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook
In Cooperation with: Peter Šajda
Impact Factor: 0.2
Volume 30 (2025)
English, German, French, 1 issue per volume (Approx. 350 pp.)
The editorial and advisory boards of the KSYB are deeply committed to creating a genuinely international forum for publication which integrates the many different traditions of Kierkegaard studies and brings them into a constructive and fruitful dialogue. To this end the yearbook publishes articles from all related fields (philosophy, theology, literary studies etc.) in English, French and German.
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Materialdienst
des konfessionskundlichen Instituts
Bensheim
Band/Volume 76 (2025)
Managing Editor: Kai Funkschmidt
Deutsch/German, 4 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume
Der „Materialdienst des Konfessionskundlichen Instituts" (MdKI) wird vom Konfessionskundlichen Institut des Evangelischen Bundes e.V. (Arbeitswerk der EKD) in Bensheim herausgegeben. Er informiert umfassend über konfessionskundliche Themen und ökumenewissenschaftliche Diskussionen und ist ein unabdingbares Instrument für das Kennenlernen der anderen Konfessionen aus evangelischem Blickwinkel und für den ökumenischen Dialog.
"Materialdienst des Konfessionskundlichen Instituts" (MdKI) is published by De Gruyter on behalf of the Konfessionskundliches Institut des Evangelischen Bundes e.V. in Bensheim. It provides comprehensive information on denominational topics and ecumenical discussions. It is an indispensable source of knowledge, from a Protestant perspective, about the other denominations and about ecumenical dialogue.
YWolfram Brandes, Laura Carrara, Dennis Pausch, Rene Pfeilschifter, Karla Pollmann (Hrsg./Eds.)
Millennium
Jahrbuch zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. / Yearbook on the Culture and History of the First Millennium C.E.
Band/Volume 22 (2025)
Deutsch/German, Mehrsprachig/Multilingual, 1 Heft pro Band/issue per volume (Ca./Approx. 300 S./ pp.)
Millennium überschreitet Grenzen, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Die Schriftenreihe Millennium-Studien ist, genauso wie das Jahrbuch, international, interdisziplinär und epochenübergreifend ausgerichtet. Das Herausgebergremium und der Beirat repräsentieren ein breites Spektrum von Fächern.
Millennium transcends boundaries – between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the journal Millennium-Jahrbuch, the Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary approach that cuts across historical eras. The editorial and the advisory board represent a broad spectrum of disciplines.
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Benjamin Pollock, Daniel Weidner, Christian Wiese (Hrsg./Eds.) Naharaim
Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte (Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History)
Band/Volume 19 (2025)
Managing Editor: Amit Levy
Impact Factor: 0.1
5-year Impact Factor: 0.1
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, 2 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./Approx. 280 S./pp.)
Gegründet vom Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Forschungszentrum Jerusalem widmet sich Naharaim der aktuellen Forschung zu philosophischen, literarischen und geschichtlichen Aspekten deutsch-jüdischer Kultur. Ausgehend von der jüdischen Geistesgeschichte knüpfen die Beiträge auch an außerjüdische Problemhorizonte und übergeordnete Theoriedebatten an.
Naharaim is a peer-reviewed journal of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is devoted to current research in philosophical, literary, and historical aspects of GermanJewish culture. The contributions are mainly in German or English.
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Johannes Zachhuber (Hrsg./Ed.) Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische
Theologie und Religionsphilosophie
Band/Volume 67 (2025)
In Zusammenarbeit mit/In Cooperation with: Lubomir Batka, Philippe Büttgen, Christine Helmer, Shao Kai Tseng, Grant Kaplan, Johanne S. T. Kristensen, Cornelia Richter, Hartmut von Sass, Christiane Tietz, Robert Vosloo, Simeon Zahl
Impact Factor: 0.2
5-year Impact Factor: 0.2
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, 4 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./Approx. 560 S./pp.)
Die Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie dient dem interdisziplinären Dialog zwischen lutherisch-reformatorischer Theologie und Philosophie im weitesten Sinn. Durch multiperspektivische Fragestellungen und den internationalen Herausgeberkreis deckt sie ein breites Spektrum ab und liefert neben den Beiträgen in jeder Ausgabe auch eine aktuelle Zeitschriftenschau.
The journal examines the exciting dialogue between Lutheran-Reformed theology and philosophy in the broadest sense, seeks to keep open a breadth of responsible thought in the controversial issue of contemporary theology, and offers a variety of ways to formulate questions. Through its international editorial board, it guarantees an exchange of theological research in German and English.
Open Access
Charles Taliaferro (Editor-in-Chief)
Open Theology
Volume 11 (2025)
Impact Factor: 0.3
5-year Impact Factor: 0.4
English, 1 issue per volume
ISSN 2300-6579
Open Theology is an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal that welcomes contributions written in English addressing religion in its various forms and aspects: historical, theological, sociological, psychological, and other.
Open Access
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Regula Forster (Hrsg./Ed.)
Orientalistische Literaturzeitung
Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft vom ganzen Orient und seinen Beziehungen zu den angrenzenden Kulturkreisen Band/Volume 120 (2025)
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, 6 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./Approx. 600 S./pp.)
Die Orientalistische Literaturzeitung ist das älteste Rezensionsorgan für die Orientalistik. Seit 1898 setzt sich die Zeitschrift kritisch mit der aktuellen Forschung und Entwicklungen im Feld auseinander. Der Ansatz ist dabei epochenübergreifend und interdisziplinär.
The Orientalistische Literaturzeitung is the oldest international review journal covering the field of Oriental studies. Founded in 1898, in keeping with the development of the field, it has widened its scope and covers all time periods.
Eckhard Frick, Simon Peng-Keller (Editors-in-Chief)
Alexander Bischoff, Holger Eschmann, Annette Haußmann, René Hefti, Maria Kotulek, Ruth Mächler, Lydia Maidl, Beate Mayr, Michael Utsch (Hrsg./Eds.)
Spiritual Care
Zeitschrift für Spiritualität in den Gesundheitsberufen
Band/Volume 14 (2025)
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, 4 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./Approx. 400 S./pp.)
Die Zeitschrift dient dem multiprofessionellen Austausch der in Gesundheitsberufen Arbeitenden und Forschenden über das Gebiet Spiritual Care. Ziel ist die Information über Forschung im Bereich Spiritual Care, über die Umsetzung von Spiritual Care in die Praxis und über die Relevanz des Gebietes für die Ausbildung in Gesundheitsberufen.
This journal facilitates multi-disciplinary exchange between those working in the health professions and researchers in the area of spiritual care. The aim is to provide information for implementing spiritual care in practice, and to demonstrate the relevance of the discipline for training in the health professions.
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Mathias Schmoeckel, Andreas Thier, Heinrich de Wall (Hrsg./Eds.)
Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte:
Kanonistische Abteilung
Band/Volume 111 (2025)
Deutsch/German, Französisch/French, Spanisch/ Spanish, Englisch/English, Italienisch/Italian, 1 Heft pro Band/issue per volume (Ca./Approx. 470 S./ pp.)
Die Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte (ZRG, auch Savigny-Zeitschrift) stellt einen festen Bestandteil der europäischen rechtshistorischen Forschung dar und prägt maßgeblich den aktuellen Stand der Disziplin.
The Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte (ZRG, also known as the Savigny Journal) represents an integral part of European legal history research, having made a significant contribution to the current state of the discipline.
Die Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum fördert den Dialog zwischen historischer Religionswissenschaft und klassischer Altertumswissenschaft. Im multidisziplinären Austausch wird das antike Christentum in seinem sozialen und kulturellen Kontext betrachtet und kann so in der ganzen Breite behandelt werden.
The Journal of Ancient Christianity is a peerreviewed academic journal which aims at encouraging the dialogue between scholars of church history, history of religion, and classical antiquity with all its subdisciplines.
Walther Sallaberger, Antoine Cavigneaux, Grant Frame, Alice Mouton, Adelheid Otto (Hrsg./Eds.)
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie
Band/Volume 115 (2025)
Impact Factor: 0.5
5-year Impact Factor: 0.4
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, Französisch/ French, 2 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./ Approx. 280 S./pp.)
Die Zeitschrift veröffentlicht Aufsätze und Rezensionen auf dem Gebiet der altorientalischen Philologie, der Religions-, Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte sowie der Vorderasiatischen Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte. Einzugsgebiete sind primär Mesopotamien, Nordsyrien, Anatolien, Altarmenien, Elam.
The journal publishes papers and reviews from the field of Ancient Eastern Philology, and religious, legal, economic and social history, together with Middle Eastern archaeology and art history. The main geographical areas covered are Mesopotamia, Northern Syria, Anatolia, Ancient Armenia and Elam.
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Jürgen van Oorschot, Jan Christian Gertz, Sebastian Grätz, Markus Saur (Hrsg./Eds.)
Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
Band/Volume 137 (2025)
Impact Factor: 0.2
5-year Impact Factor: 0.3
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, Französisch/ French, 4 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./ Approx. 640 S./pp.)
Seit über hundert Jahren ist die Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft das führende Fachorgan auf dem Gebiet der Erforschung des Alten Testaments und des Frühen Judentums. International und überkonfessionell bietet die ZAW jährlich vier Hefte und informiert in einer umfassenden Zeitschriften- und Bücherschau über die Neuerscheinungen in ihrem Fachgebiet.
The ZAW has been the leading international and interconfessional periodical in the field of research in the Old Testament und Early Judaism for over one hundred years.
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Knut Backhaus, Lutz Doering, Jens Herzer, Judith Lieu, Markus Öhler, C. Kavin Rowe (Hrsg./Eds.)
Zeitschrift
für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
Band/Volume 116 (2025)
Managing Editor: Matthias Konradt
Impact Factor: 0.1
5-year Impact Factor: 0.3
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, Französisch/ French, 2 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./ Approx. 300 S./pp.)
Mit der Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft erscheint seit 1900 die international renommierteste Zeitschrift für neutestamentliche Exegese und Patristik. Neben Beiträgen, die in der Forschung zum Neuen Testament Maßstäbe setzen, bietet die ZNW auch einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Publikationen und Forschungslinien aus dem Feld.
A highly reputed journal published since 1900, the Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft is an international journal for the exegesis of the New Testament and knowledge of the early church (patristics).
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Ralf Koerrenz, Britta Konz, Martina Kumlehn, Thomas Schlag, Friedrich Schweitzer, Henrik Simojoki (Hrsg./Eds.) Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie
Band/Volume 77 (2025)
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, 4 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./Approx. 440 S./pp.) ISSN 1437-7160 e-ISSN 2366-7796
Die ZPT wurde 1949 als Der Evangelische Erzieher gegründet und ist eine der international führenden Fachzeitschriften für das gesamte Gebiet der Religionspädagogik. Sie führt in aktuelle Forschungskontexte ein, informiert über neuere Entwicklungen und Veröffentlichungen, initiiert Debatten und bietet – schularten- und lernortübergreifend – innovative Impulse für die Praxis religiöser Bildung in Schule und Gemeinde.
Founded in 1949 as Der Evangelische Erzieher, the ZPT is a leading international journal for the entire field of religious education. It introduces current research topics, provides information about new developments and publications, launches discussions, and offers innovative stimulus for the practice of religious education in schools and communities.
Die Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft ist ein Forum für methodisch und theoretisch bedeutsame Themen und Thesen in der ganzen Breite des Faches und seines Umfeldes. Sie befasst sich in komparativer Perspektive mit historischen und gegenwärtigen, europäischen und außereuropäischen Gegenständen der Religionsgeschichte und der religiösen Gegenwartskultur.
The journal provides a forum for exploring important methodological and theoretical issues and topics across the full breadth of the discipline, including related areas in the humanities, cultural studies, and the social sciences. It focuses on comparative studies about historical and contemporary European and non-European aspects of the history of religion and of contemporary religious culture.
DBrennan Breed, Constance M. Furey, Peter Gemeinhardt, Joel Marcus LeMon, Thomas Chr. Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online
English, 12 issues per volume
User Interface: English, German Update Frequency: Four times per year
The EBR serves as a comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on the background, origins, and development of the texts of the Bible. Unprecedented in breadth and scope, this encyclopedia also documents the history of the Bible’s interpretation and reception, not only in Judaism and Christianity, as well as in Islam and other religious traditions, but also in literature, visual art, music, film, and dance.
DWalter Homolka (inactive as of May 2022), Rainer Kampling, Amy-Jill Levine, Christoph Markschies, Peter Schäfer, Martin Thurner (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of JewishChristian Relations Online
Managing Editors: Kathy Ehrensperger, Juni Hoppe
English
User Interface: English, German Update Frequency: Twice a year (spring/autumn) ISSN 2569-3530
The database provides an overview of JewishChristian interaction over the centuries up until today, and thus establishes a standard reference work of interdisciplinary research. International experts at the cutting edge of their disciplines will investigate in two hundred entries more than two thousand years of Jewish-Christian interaction, assess the achievements of dialogue and provide joint perspectives and new avenues for the future.
Susanne Rau, Jörg Rüpke (Eds.) Religion and Urbanity Online
Managing Editor: Elisabeth Begemann
English
User Interface: English, German Update Frequency: Twice a year ISSN 2750-8080
The DFG-funded research project investigates the historical contribution of religion to urbanization and the long-term evolution of religion and the urban. The project seeks to gain insights into the formation of human settlements and thereby to describe different paths of urbanization and their inter-relationships with the development of religion.
Erica Baffelli, Alexander van der Haven, Michael Stausberg (Eds.)
Religious Minorities Online
English
User Interface: English, German Update Frequency: Twice a year ISSN 2748-1328
Available as an Open Access publication and written in an accessible style, Religious Minorities Online is an indispensable resource not only for students and academics but also to broader audiences that include politicians, journalists and activists. RMO is designed as dynamic Online Reference. New articles will be published online twice a year. A printed version, the Handbook of Religious Minorities, will be available at the end of the project.
Mit Tillich Online wird erstmalig das gesamte Werk des bedeutenden deutsch-amerikanischen Theologen Paul Tillich (1886–1965) in einer bilingualen Datenbank elektronisch zugänglich gemacht. Neben dem umfangreichen deutschsprachigen Œuvre werden nach und nach auch Tillichs englische Texte – sowohl Originale als auch Übersetzungen seiner deutschen Texte – ergänzt.
Tillich Online is the first bilingual database to make the entire work of the important German-American theologian Paul Tillich (1886–1965) electronically accessible. In addition to Tillich’s extensive German-language oeuvre, users can access original English material authored by Tillich, as well as translations from the German, which are gradually being added to the database.
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Borgeaud, Philippe 72
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