Böcker av Jorg Frey

Der vorliegende Band befasst sich mit der Beziehung von Paulus zu Rom in historischer und wirkungsgeschichtlicher Perspektive. Damit tritt er neben den 2020 in derselben Reihe erschienenen Band zu Petrus, dem anderen wichtigen Apostel Roms und des stadtrömischen Christentums. Behandelt werden die einschlägigen literarischen und archäologischen Zeugnisse der Beziehung des Paulus zu Rom und deren Bedeutung für die Rezeption des Apostels in der Geschichte des Christentums. Als wichtige literarische Dokumente werden der Römerbrief des Paulus, dessen Beziehung zum stadtrömischen Christentum intensiv diskutiert wird, die Apostelgeschichte des Neuen Testaments, der 2. Timotheus- und der 1. Clemensbrief sowie Texte der Paulusrezeption des 2. und 3. Jahrhunderts behandelt. Weitere Beiträge sind der Paulusbasilika an der Via Ostiensis über dem Grab des Paulus, dem wichtigsten archäologischen Zeugnis für Paulus in Rom, und der Bedeutung der Paulusreliquie für den päpstlichen Machtanspruch gewidmet.

Alexandria was one of the main hubs of the Hellenistic world and a cultural and religious "kaleidoscope." Merchants and migrants, scientists and scholars, philosophers, and religious innovators from all over the world and from all social backgrounds came to this ancient metropolis and exchanged their goods, views, and dreams. Accordingly, Alexandria became a place where Hellenistic, Egyptian, Jewish, and early Christian identities all emerged, coexisted, influenced, and rivaled each other. In order to meet the diversity of Alexandria's urban life and to do justice to the variety of literary and non-literary documents that bear witness to this, the volume examines the processes of identity formation from a range of different academic perspectives. Thus, the present volume gathers together twenty-six contributions from the realm of archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, religious studies, philosophy, the Old Testament, narratology, Jewish studies, papyrology, and the New Testament.

The present volume aims at a comparative study of the processes of reception, rewriting and interpretation between canonical and apocryphal texts in early Jewish and early Christian literature. A closer look at the respective developments in both corpora of literature can open up new perspectives for understanding the developments and changes between texts that were already considered authoritative and their reception in new, 'parabiblical' or 'apocryphal' compositions. The way of reception may also influence the perspective on canonical texts. The range of texts considered includes the LXX, Targumim and Pesharim, books such as Jubilees, the Genesis Apocryphon, the Gospel of Thomas, and Apocryphal Acts, traditions about Esther, Ezra, Manasseh, Peter and Paul, depictions of hell from Enoch to the Apocalypse of Paul, and the development of miracle stories. Contributors:Veronika Bachmann, Michael Becker, Claire Clivaz, Jörg Frey, Wolfgang Grünstäudl, David Hamidovic, Meghan Henning, Alberdina Houtman, Jutta Jokiranta, Stefan Krauter, Martin Meiser, Simon Mimouni, Tobias Nicklas, Karl-Heinz Ostmeyer, Enno-Edzard Popkes, Jörg Röder, Julia Snyder, Michael Sommer, Janet Spittler