In The Danielic Discourse on Empire in Second Temple Literature, Alexandria Frisch asks:
how did Jews in the Second Temple period understand the phenomenon of foreign empire …

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 …

The challenge of reconceptualizing mythological concepts like the Devil in contemporary
Christian theology is well known, but some interpreters find a demythologized Devil already …

The Testament of Moses, also known as the Assumption of Moses, is a pseude pigraphon
that contains Moses's farewell discourse to his successor, Joshua. In this document, Moses …

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 focus of this dissertation is to investigate whether the ancient motif of Divine Warrior
imagery can aid in understanding the violent imagery in the book of Revelation. The specific …

Reconstructing the history of the Qumran community through the Dead Sea Scrolls
continues to frustrate scholars. This is largely because the authors of these texts preferred to …

On the face of it, circumcision seems to express the essence of Jewishness. Male Jews must
be circumcised as demanded in Gen 17: 10. Because of the eternal covenant, Jews …

My thesis, entitled “The Antichrist Tradition in Second Temple Judaism and Early
Christianity”, answers the following research question: in ancient Jewish and early Christian …

The New Testament never explicitly cites Daniel 9: 24–27 to say that Jesus fulfils the
prophecy of the seventy sevens. This author (Ulrich 2014: 1062–1083) has previously …