Die aktuellen Diskussionen um Gentechnik, Neurobiologie und die Würde des Menschen zeigen, wie wichtig es ist, sich des eigenen Menschenbildes immer neu zu vergewissern. Theologie kann nicht anders als auch Anthropologie zu sein. Der Band versammelt Beiträge vornehmlich aus alttestamentlicher, aber auch aus neutestamentlicher und systematischer Perspektive zu einer Biblischen Anthropologie und nimmt dabei besonders neuere Entwürfe der philosophischen und theologischen Anthropologie sowie Impulse aus den Kulturwissenschaften auf.
Die aktuellen Diskussionen um Gentechnik, Neurobiologie und die Würde des Menschen zeigen, wie wichtig es ist, sich des eigenen Menschenbildes immer ...
Purity is a cultural construct that had a central role in the forming and the development of religious traditions in the ancient Mediterranean. This volume analyzes concepts, practices and images associated with purity in the main cultures of Antiquity, and discusses from a comparative perspective their parallel developments and transformations. The perspective adopted is both synchronic and diachronic; the comparative approach takes into account points of contact and mutual influences, but also includes major transcultural trends. A number of renowned specialists contribute a large variety...
Purity is a cultural construct that had a central role in the forming and the development of religious traditions in the ancient Mediterranean. This v...
Intermarriage and group identity in the Second Temple Period will be investigated from different points of view with regard to methodology and analyzed texts. With an introduction to the history of research and a summarizing final section, the individual contributions will be associated with the larger context of the recent debate. Thus not only the diversity of texts on mixed marriage within the Hebrew Bible and related scripture will be shown and emphasized but the question of continuity and discontinuity as well as the socio-historical background of marriage restrictions will be dealt...
Intermarriage and group identity in the Second Temple Period will be investigated from different points of view with regard to methodology and anal...