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The New Testament book known as "The First Letter of Peter" describes how Christians should relate to the world. Specifically, it suggests how Christians should define themselves against a powerful and sometimes hostile culture. Written to first-century Christians in Asia Minor who were suffering from religious persecution, this letter brings Biblical and extra-Biblical traditions together to forge an original and unique pastoral strategy. At the same time, in its depiction of "practical piety," the letter is an impressive display of early Christian theology. Here, one of the world's...

Since ancient times, depictions of the divine have been painted with the colors of divine power. Not surprisingly, power language became a central part of the New Testament's understanding of God and human relationships. In "Power, Service, Humility," biblical scholar Reinhard Feldmeier reads across the New Testament canon--the Gospels, Pauline epistles, and Revelation of John--to distinguish two ways in which power works. Feldmeier's chief claim is that power based on oppression, the kind Satan offers Christ, is a far different kind of power than the empowerment that God grants Jesus in...

Die Vorlesung widmet sich der Frage, wann und unter welchen Umstanden die Rezeption orientalischer Traditionen in der antiken griechischen Kultur stattfand. Durch spektakulare Thesen uber die orientalische Herkunft der homerischen Epen ist die Frage in jungster Zeit wieder hochst aktuell geworden und wird kontrovers diskutiert. Albrecht Dihle geht das einschlagige Material von den orientalischen Lehnwortern im Griechischen uber die kunstgeschichtlichen Einflusse der klassischen Zeit bis hin zu den philosophischen Diskursen und den Mysterienkulten der Spatzeit Punkt fur Punkt durch. Auf...