Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Reference

Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history, and above all of the Expulsion of 1492. There are numerous"portraits" that have been painted of him by pre-modern and modern scholars. And still we hesitate and cannot discern which is the true one. This first critical edition of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters opens a unique window on a complex cultural process of assimilation and dissimulation of humanism among the fifteenth-century Jewish elite. On the one hand, it establishes Abravanel's assimilation of...

Die Soteriologie des lukanischen Doppelwerks gehort seit Jahrzehnten zu den umstrittensten Feldern neutestamentlicher Theologie. Auch wenn dem Verfasser heute meist eigenstandige Positionen in der Heilstheologie zugestanden werden, sind zentrale Inhalte und konzeptionelle Konsistenz weiterhin umkampft: Wie verortet Lukas das mit der Sendung Jesu seinen Anfang nehmende Geschehen im Gesamt der Heilsgeschichte? Wie kann der Verfasser mit Nachdruck davon sprechen, der auf Erden wirkende Jesus vermittle in der Begegnung mit ihm das Heil, wenn er es nicht in Beziehung zum Kreuzestod Jesu setzt?...

When you spiritually interpret what you read in the Bible, you will more clearly understand your amazing relationship to God. The Bible is an enjoyable reference book for your life, once you have some tools with which to bring to light its true meaning. It is also a sacred text written by inspired teachers who expressed it in the context of the ancient civilization in which they lived. And yet it is the story of your inner...

We know how the story of the Roman Empire ended with the "triumph" of Christianity and the eventual Christianization of the Roman Mediterranean. But how would religious life have appeared to an observer at a time when the conversion of the emperor was only a Christian pipe dream? And how would it have appeared in one particular city, rather than in the Roman Empire as a whole?

This volume takes a detailed look at the religious dimension of life in one particular Roman city Caesarea Maritima, on the Mediterranean coast of Judea. Caesarea was marked by a complex religious identity from...