The developments in Judaism which occurred during the Second Temple period (c. 550 BC
to 100 AD) were of great importance for the nature of Jewish religion in later centuries, yet …

In a new study on the Pauline adoption metaphors, Erin Heim applies a wide array of
contemporary theories of metaphor in a fresh exegesis of the four instances of adoption …

Mateusz Kusio traces and investigates the references to the Antichrist across ancient Jewish
and Christian literature. Beginning with a reception-historical study of a number of …

In Revelations of Ideology, G. Anthony Keddie proposes a new theory of the social function
of Judaean apocalyptic texts produced in Early Roman Palestine (63 BCE–70 CE). In …

Within Lukan scholarship, studies on the theme of Passover have mostly been confined to
the pericope of the Last Supper (Luke 22: 1-20). Few have ventured outside it and explored …

Recent studies of the Christology of John's Gospel have agreed in recognizing the centrality
of the concept of messianism, but differ markedly in their interpretation of its character …

This monograph principally investigates the relationship between the portraits of new
creation in the Hauptbriefe (specifically, in 2 Corinthians and Galatians) and Ephesians. Part …

This study examines how the concept of “Israel” was constructed and contested among
Jews, Samaritans, and (eventually) Christians in the Second Temple period. It explores how …

In this paper I will explore the relation between 'Bildung'and religion in John's Gospel by
drawing attention to John's understanding of Jesus' own learnedness and the potential …

The Psalms of Solomon are a collection of 18 pseudonymous Jewish poems that struggle
with the issue of soteriology. although attributed to the biblical king Solomon, several of the …