Journal of Early Christian History: Strangers in the Light: Philonic...
The present volume by the Norwegian scholar Torrey Seland looks at important issues in 1 Peter through the lens of Philo's treatment of these and related issues. First Peter addresses the readers as...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: ,,Nicht wie die Heiden": Studien zur...
Beim Beten sollen Christen nicht plappern wie die Heiden (Mt 6:7). Auch sonst soll sich ihre Lebensgestaltung von Nichtchristen unterscheiden. Die Welt sollen sie nicht liebhaben (1 Joh 2:15). Doch wie...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: Jesus van Nasaret, I. Spangenberg et al....
In the past few decades, in South Africa, there has been much debate on the historical nature of Jesus and its implications for present-day faith and religion. In the popular media this debate has...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: Commentary on the New Testament Use of...
The use of the OT in the NT, and the OT's substructure underlying the NT's literary features and theology have become one of the most active and interesting "storm centres" in biblical studies during...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: From Messiah to Preexistent Son: Jesus'...
The question whether and to what extent Jesus of Nazareth saw himself as the Messiah of God has been at the heart of the christological debate of the past two centuries. Many scholars argued that it...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: Der Finger in der Wunde: Die Geschichte...
Neben Jesus, Petrus und Paulus gilt in der Forschung der vergangenen Jahre das Interesse verstärkt auch anderen Einzelgestalten des Urchristentums. Neben einer ganzen Reihe von Studien zu Jakobus,...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: Vehicles of divine initiative : the...
This article investigates the function of angels in Acts. The basic thesis is that angels in Acts function as vehicles of divine initiative, comprising three areas: revelation of the divine plan,...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: The mechanism of redemption and the...
Although redemption is a central Christian confessional statement, the mechanism of redemption gets little attention in the New Testament as well as in the early creeds. The hot debate of early...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: Hebrews' angelology in the light of early...
Hebrews' references and allusions to angels are investigated in the light of early Jewish apocalyptic imagery and against the backdrop of similarities with a number of aspects that possibly underlie...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: The whole world or not quite :...
John 16:8-11 has always been a crux interpretum in Johannine scholarship. One of the difficulties in this passage is how one should read the phrase τόν κόσμον in verse 8. Recent interpretations have...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: Angels in the gospel according to John
Angelology in John's Gospel is not a well-developed theme, or so it seems. However, the picture changes if one considers the way in which the devil and his influence are described. In the case of...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: Origen the Christian Middle /...
On the basis of a close analysis of the sources and of new arguments I support the identification of Origen the Christian philosopher-theologian with Origen the Platonist. My thesis is that it is...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: Maria Angelina Palaiologina : abused wife...
This article analyses the controversy around the personality of Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina (b. ca. 1350, d. Dec. 28, 1394), who ruled over Epiros from 1385-1386. According to two opposing...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: The Urkunden of the eparchos of Nobadia...
This article analyses and 'dissects' the Urkunden of the eparchos of Nobadia according to the rules, applied in the Byzantine diplomatique, thereby examining the Nubian Archives of Qasr Ibrim and...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: The angels of the congregations in...
The study explores the textual history of the book of Revelation with special regard to the angels of the congregation in chapters 2-3. These angels has been interpreted in the reception history as...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: The Day of Atonement as a hermeneutical...
This study contributes to the discussion of the hermeneutics of Hebrews by considering the book's background thought and central theme. Specifically, we attempt to show how the worldview(s) and...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: Carthaginian critiques of adornment
Throughout the ancient world, dress and adornment were significant forms of expressing social status but they were also subject to severe scrutiny by the group. Women's dress, in particular, faced...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: In defense of Peter and Paul : the...
This article offers translations of ten scholia from the third volume of J. A. Cramer's Catenae Graecorum Patrum in Novum Testamentum, which collects patristic comments on the book of Acts. The scholia...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: The arrival motif of Malachi's...
The writer argues that Luke uses Malachi's motif of eschatological figures as is clear from the literary and thematic structure of the Gospel of Luke. The Lord's messenger and הָאָרוֺן (the messenger of...
View ArticleJournal of Early Christian History: Acta-forschung - quo vadis? Acht neue...
Das Interesse am lukanischen Doppelwerk ist ungebrochen. Kaum ein Monat vergeht, in dem nicht zwei oder drei neue Monographien zum Werk des Lukas erscheinen, von einer Fülle von Artikeln in...
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