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Crucifixion in Antiquity
Gunnar Samuelsson investigates the philological aspects of how ancient Greek, Latin and Hebrew/Aramaic texts depict crucifixions. A survey of the texts shows that there has been …
Hekhalot Literature in Context
Over the past 30 years, scholars of early Jewish mysticism have, with increasing confidence, located the initial formation of Hekhalot literature in Byzantine Palestine and …
Divine Revelation and Divine Titles in the Pentateuchal Targumin
Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World
John Granger Cook traces the use of the penalty by the Romans until its probable abolition by Constantine. Rabbinic and legal sources are not neglected. The material contributes to …
Martyrs and Archangels
The three hitherto unpublished Coptic literary texts edited and translated here derive from the famous monastery of St Michael at Hamuli and currently belong to the collections of …
Seeing the God
The first inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary work of its kind, this book focuses on the importance of visual culture in the study of classical, Roman, and Christian …
Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real
In the Roman Empire, travelling was something of a central feature, facilitating commerce, pilgrimage, study abroad, tourism, and ethnographic explorations. The present volume …
The Dynamics of Language and Exegesis at Qumran
The discovery of the Qumran scrolls sixty years ago revolutionized our understanding of the development and exegesis of the Hebrew Bible. It became clear that both are mutually …
Law by Algorithm
Digitization, blockchain technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are fundamentally changing the fabric of societies, influencing lawmaking, legal scholarship and legal …
Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
This volume, originating from a conference on "Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity" hosted by Örebro School of Theology (Sweden) in 2018, deals …
Divine Presence and Absence in Exilic and Post-Exilic Judaism
The catastrophic events at the beginning of the sixth century BCE resulted in a theological crisis for the Judean elite. The end of the only surviving Hebrew kingdom was explained …
Who was 'James'?
This volume takes up the current scholarly debate on the literary profile and the author of the Letter of James. The approach reaches beyond the conventional historical quest for …