Antiquity

John M. G. Barclay Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews

In these seminal essays, John M. G. Barclay examines aspects of the construction of early Christian identity, especially within the Pauline tradition. Treating topics as diverse as food, family, money, circumcision, constitutional theory, and ethnic stereotypes, these essays place Christian communities in close comparison with Diaspora Judaism.   (read more...)

Antiquity

Revelation, Literature, and Community in Late Antiquity

Edited by Philippa Townsend and Moulie Vidas

Leading scholars in the study of ancient religions explore the role of claims to divine revelation in the construction of religious identities, communities, and texts.   (read more...)

 

Antiquity

Flavius Josephus Aus meinem Leben (Vita)

Kritische Ausgabe, Übersetzung und Kommentar

[My Life (Vita). Critical Edition, 2nd revised edition.]

Herausgegeben von Folker Siegert, in Zusammenarbeit mit Heinz Schreckenberg, Manuel Vogel und dem Josephus-Arbeitskreis des Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, Münster

This is the established “Münster” edition of the Vita with unaltered texts but revised attachments.   (read more...)

Middle Ages

Miriam Goldstein Karaite Exegesis in Medieval Jerusalem

The Judeo-Arabic Pentateuch Commentary of Yusuf ibn Nuh and Abu al-Faraj Harun

Miriam Goldstein presents an introduction to the exegetical methods in the Judeo-Arabic Bible commentaries of the Karaite exegetes of Jerusalem (10th-11th c. CE), who were a crucial link between the world of traditional rabbinic Bible commentary and the Jewish Bible exegesis composed in Europe.   (read more...)