Beate Ego

Armin Lange

Hermann Lichtenberger

Kristin de Troyer

The Biblia Qumranica is a unique tool for text-critical analysis which allows for the first time to analyse and interpret the textual witnesses of the Hebrew Bible as preserved from the Second Temple period in comparison to each other.

Volume 3 B. Minor Prophets

Biblia Qumranica

Charlotte Hempel

H. Lichtenberger

This volume comprises the lectures delivered at a conference on the sapiential texts from Qumran hosted by A. Lange and H. Lichtenberger in Tubingen (1998) as well as a number of additional contributions. This literature, although found in the Qumran library, is mostly of non-Essene origin and can be dated to the third and second century BCE with a single exception which might be even older. The sapiential texts from Qumran add to the sparse corpus of postexilic sapiential literature and shed new light on the later Israelite and Jewish wisdom as well as on the sources from which early Christian wisdom traditions originated. Therefore, the volume attempts to understand the wisdom literature from Qumran in the broader context of sapiential thought in the Ancient near East, the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Judaism and the New Testament. Beyond this, the volume further includes treatments of introductory and linguistic questions as well as articles on specific sapiential texts.

The Wisdom Texts from Qumran and the Development of Sapiential Thought

Christof Landmesser

Hans-Joachim Eckstein

Die Autoren der Beiträge in diesem Band interpretieren in historischen, exegetischen und hermeneutischen Untersuchungen Aussagen des Neuen Testaments über das Endgültige gegenüber allem Vorläufigen. Die verschiedenen eschatologischen Vorstellungen erhellen zugleich theologische Grundentscheidungen. In allen diesen Texten ist das Verhältnis eschatologischer Vorstellungen zum Christusgeschehen entscheidend. Das Verständnis der Zeit und der Geschichte mit Blick auf ihr Ende, die Frage nach der Auferstehung und nach dem Gericht, nach der endgültigen Versöhnung und der Gottesgemeinschaft sowie nach der spannungsreichen gegenwärtigen eschatologischen Existenz sind damit verbundene Themen. Die individuellen, die universalen und die kosmischen Dimensionen der Eschatologie werden vor ihrem traditions- und religionsgeschichtlichen Hintergrund so entfaltet, dass ihre theologische Bedeutung erhellt wird. The authors of the contributions in this volume interpret statements of the New Testament concerning the final things as opposed to all things provisional in historical, exegetical, and hermeneutical investigations. The various eschatological ideas elucidate at the same time basic theological decisions. In all these texts, the relationship between eschatological ideas and the Christ-event is decisive. The understanding of time and history with regard to its end, the question of the resurrection and judgment, the final reconciliation and divine community as well as the intense contemporary eschatological existence are related issues. The individual, the universal, and the cosmic dimensions of eschatology are developed in such a way that their theological significance is illuminated in the light of their tradition-historical and religio-historical background.

The Sixth Durham-Tubingen Research Symposium: Eschatology in Old Testament, Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Tubingen, September, 2009)

Hermann Lichtenberger

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