This monograph is an investigation of Yahwistic votive practice during the Hellenistic period. The dedicatory inscriptions from the Yahweh temple on Mount Gerizim are analyzed in light of votive practice in Biblical literature and in general on the basis of a thorough terminological and theoretical discussion.
A special focus is laid on remembrance formulae, which request the deity to remember the worshipper in return for a gift. These formulae cannot only be found at Gerizim, but also in other Semitic dedicatory inscriptions. Therefore these texts are interpreted in their broader...

Gender in the Book of Ben Sira is a semantic analysis and, also, an investigation of hermeneutical pathways for performing such an analysis. A comparison of possible Greek and Hebrew gender taxonomies precedes the extensive delineation of the target-category, gender. The delineation includes invisible influences in the Book of Ben Sira such as the author's choices of genre and his situation as a member of a colonized group within a Hellenistic empire. When the Book of Ben Sira's genre-constrained invectives against women and male fools are excluded, the remaining expectations for...

The volume contains eight original studies, each of which focuses on a different chapter or central passage in Daniel and offers a new interpretation or reading of the passage in question. The studies span the Danielic tales and apocalypses, offering innovative analyses that often challenge the scholarly consensus regarding the exegesis of this book. The eight chapters relate to Daniel 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, Susanna, and the conception of angelology in Daniel.
The studies are all based on careful textual analysis, including comparison between the Hebrew/Aramaic and Greek versions...

Von den Erkenntnissen der modernen Ubersetzungswissenschaft wird in der Septuagintaforschung bisher nur wenig Gebrauch gemacht. Die vorliegende Studie wendet die Skopostheorie auf das griechische Numeribuch an und ermittelt dadurch den "Sitz im Leben" der Ubersetzung. Das griechische Numeribuch prasentiert sich als ein Dokument der alexandrinischen Diaspora, dessen Skopos in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Historisierung und Aktualisierung liegt.

This study offers a reconstruction of Sennacherib s campaign against Judah and Jerusalem in 701 BC. It contrasts and compares various, partly contradictious readings of this event and challenges established narratives. By giving equal weight to a great variety of different sources, whether literary or archaeological, the author comes to a new and profound understanding of this complex military conflict.

Die vorliegende Studie bietet eine historisch-kritische Untersuchung zum Prophetenbuch Micha. Ihr Verfasser nimmt eine Neubestimmung des Textbestandes vor, der sich auf den historischen Propheten zuruckfuhren lasst. Wahrend die Forschung seit Bernhard Stade (1881) die Kapitel Mi 1-3 fur weitgehend ursprunglich erachtet, erhebt der Verfasser ein Gedicht uber das Unheil der Schefela in Mi 1 als Nukleus des Prophetenbuches und als Ausgangspunkt der Traditionsbildung. In sechs Stadtspruchen, die das Gedicht enthalt, klagt ihr Urheber uber den Niedergang der judaischen Schefela im Umfeld...

The story of Massah-Meribah is a pluriform tradition within the Hebrew Bible. Part One of this book uses redaction analysis to assess diachronically the six reminiscences of this tradition within Deuteronomy (Deut 6:16; 8:15; 9:22; 32:13, 52; 33:8). The relative chronological relationship of these texts, and the tradition components they preserve, reveals a framework of five formative stages of this story's tradition-history from the perspective of the tradents responsible for the production of Deuteronomy. Part Two is a redactional study of the tradition's narratives in Exod 17:1-7 and...

Mit dem Namen von Alfred Rahlfs verbindet sich vor allem seine 1935 erschienene Handausgabe', die noch immer als weltweit gebrauchte Standardedition der Septuaginta gilt. Demgegenuber geriet sein umfassendes wissenschaftliches Gesamt uvre zunehmend in Vergessenheit, wahrend seine Biographie bis heute weitgehend im Verborgenen geblieben ist. In der vorliegenden Monographie wird zum ersten Mal der Versuch unternommen, die gesamte Vielfalt der Rezensionen, Abhandlungen und Textausgaben von Rahlfs einer detaillierten werkgeschichtlichen Analyse zu unterziehen, an die sich eine synthetische...

What was Judaean religion in the Persian period like? Is it necessary to use the Bible to give an answer to the question? Among other things the study argues that

- the religion practiced in the 5th c. BCE Elephantine community and which is reflected in the so-called Elephantine documents represent a well-attested manifestation of lived Persian period Yahwism,
- as religio-historical sources, the Elephantine documents reveal more about the actual religious practice of the Elephantine Judaeans than what the highly edited and canonised texts of the Bible reveal about the...