The concept of faith is at the core of Paul's theology, and the classic assage for his understanding of pistis is Genesis 15:6. After discussing the history of scholarship on the Pauline concept of faith, Benjamin Schliesser explores the literary, tradition-historical and structural questions of Genesis 15 and offers a detailed exegesis of verse 6 with its fundamental terms count, righteousness, and believe. He then points to the theological significance of this testimony on Abraham for the Jewish identity; it comes into sight in a multifaceted and nuanced process of reception, from later Old...

English summary: The contributions in this volume mostly go back to a symposium held in Zurich in the fall of 2013. Using the example of Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, they reflect on the interdependence of Paul's thought and speech and the diverse intellectual traditions and social conventions that were part of his Hellenistic-Roman context. The individual essays reflect the broad diversity of such references and take aspects including philosophy and ethics, social and legal history as well as rhetorics and communication strategy into account. German description: Die Beitrage dieses...