This chapter asks what the depiction of Ezekiel 37 on the walls of the Dura synagogue can tell us about conceptions of resurrection and dis- ability among the Jewish community at Dura. Bodily resurrection is a common theme among ancient Jewish literature, and while text is a useful medium for conveying conceptions of revivification and life after…[Read more]

Paulus war wahrscheinlich nicht sehr groß oder sogar kleinwüchsig. Einen ersten Anhaltspunkt bietet der Ausdruck σαργάνη in 2Kor 11,33. Neutestamentler haben das Fassungsvermögen dieses »Korbs« bisher eher überschätzt. Eine Analyse antiker Quellen zeigt, dass ein σαργάνη das Durchschnittsgewicht eines Mannes nicht hätte tragen können. Diese…[Read more]

This article reads Genesis 18-19 in the light of the principal of exchange at work in ancient religious belief concerning divine justice. Genesis 18.1-15 and 19.1-29, as examples of the well-worn tale of the divine visitor, are narrative expressions of confidence in a divine justice that rewards the kind and punishes the inhospitable. In the…[Read more]

his article looks at the repeated gnomic phrase in the Book of Qoheleth, “All is vanity and a chasing after wind” (NRSV) and reads it as a disjunctive parallelism in which the terms lbh and jwr denote mortality and the divine spirit, respectively, thus showing the sense of the phrase to be, “All is mortal, but strives for immortality”. Using R…[Read more]

An analysis of multiple traditions in the Hebrew Bible on the founding of Jerusalem.