Many gods lived in the Roman Empire. All ancient peoples, including Jews and, eventually,
Christians, knew this to be the case. Exploring the ways that members of these groups …

Die vorliegende Untersuchung wurde im Sommersemester 2022 von der Fakultät für
Katholische Theologie der Universität Regensburg als Dissertationsschrift angenommen …

What does it mean to be human? This timeless question proves critical as we seek to
understand our purpose, identity, and significance. Amidst the many voices clamoring to …

What was the apostle Paul's relationship to Judaism? How did he view the Jewish law? How
did he understand the gospel of Jesus's messiahship relative to both ethnic Jews and …

Most interpretations of the Temple and Torah in the Gospel of Mark have held a negative
view toward the Jewish institutions, declaring that the old has been replaced by the new …

In Divine Holiness and Divine Action Mark Murphy seeks to establish four key claims: first,
that divine holiness consists in a supreme desirability of creaturely union with God and a …

In this book, Michael Patrick Barber examines the role of the Jerusalem temple in the
teaching of the historical Jesus. Drawing on recent discussions about methodology and …

Previous scholarship on 1 Corinthians 5.1–5 has primarily used parallels from the Greek
Magical Papyri (PGM) and curse formulae (defixiones) to understand Paul's instructions …

This article offers a new reading of the story of the woman with the flow of blood in Mk 5: 25–
34 that focuses on the intersection of gender and social status. Moving away from …

“We are meant to take the Bible seriously, not literally.”—from the Introduction In Even the
Devil Quotes Scripture, Robyn J. Whitaker looks to the Bible as a guide to interpreting the …