Covenant - Concepts of Berit, Diatheke, and Testamentum

Christian A. Eberhart (Herausgegeben von) Born 1964; 2000 doctorate; 2011 Habilitation; Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Houston, Texas.Wolfgang Kraus (Herausgegeben von) Born 1955; 1990 doctorate; 1994 Habilitation; Professor emeritus for New Testament Studies at the University of the Saarland, Saarbruecken.Richard J. Bautch (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) Born 1961; 2001 Dr. theol. University of Notre Dame; Professor of Humanities, St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.Matthias Henze (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) Born 1965; 1997 PhD Harvard University; Isla Carroll & Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas.Martin Rösel (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) Born 1961; 1993 doctorate; 1999 habilitation; Professor at the University of Rostock.

• Christian A. Eberhart/Wolfgang Kraus: IntroductionHistory of Research and Questions of OriginSiegfried Kreuzer: Background and Origin of Covenant Theology in the Hebrew Bible/Old TestamentAncient Near EastPoppy Tushingham: The adê covenants of the Assyrian Empire: imposed by humans, enforced by the godsHebrew and Greek BibleThomas Hieke: Abram/Abraham as Prefiguration of the Covenant in the Torah - Richard Bautch: Priestly Polemics in the Covenant of Levi - Karin Finsterbusch: The New Covenant for Israel in Jeremiah. Notes on the Different Textual Versions of the Pericope and their Meaning - Karin Finsterbusch: Concepts of Covenant in the Variant Literary Editions of Ezekiel - Eberhard Bons: Das Thema des Bundes in den Psalmen - Manfred Oeming: Bundeskonzeptionen in der Achämenidenzeit unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Neh 8-10 - Bonifatia Gesche: Covenant and Holiness in the Book of Ben Sira - Francis Macatangay: Covenant in the Old Testament Apocryphal Writings - Martin Rösel: Is διαθήκη an Appropriate Translation for ברית? Covenant, Contract, and Testament in the SeptuagintSecond Temple JudaismBrent A. Strawn: ברית in the "Sectarian" Texts from Qumran - Heinz-Josef Fabry: ברית in den "non-sectarian" Schriften in Qumran - Gert Steyn: Covenant in the Writings of Philo and Josephus - Matthias Henze: Covenant in the Old Testament PseudepigraphaNew TestamentChristian A. Eberhart: Between "My Blood of the Covenant" and the "New Covenant in My Blood": Origins, Meanings, Ramifications - Florian Wilk: Bundesterminologie und Bundeskonzeption in den Korintherbriefen - Jens Herzer: The Significance of Covenant Theology in Galatians and Romans - Wolfgang Kraus: Διαθήκη in the Letter to the Hebrews - Martin Karrer: The Ark of the Covenant in Revelation (11:19)Early ChurchMartin Meiser: Covenant in the Early Church - Tobias Nicklas: The Covenant in Christian Apocrypha. Fragmentary Evidence of a Spectrum of IdeasLate AntiquityJörg Ulrich: Diskurse über den Gottesbund im Dialog Justins mit dem Juden Trypho - Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen: Der Alte und der Neue Bund bei Hieronymus - Sara Ronis: Sons of the Covenant? The Rabbinic Body and the Covenant with GodCovenant in the Arts and in Systematic DiscourseMartin Karrer: The Mosaic of the Ark of the Covenant at Germigny-des-Prés - Margit Ernst-Habib: Covenant as Convivence. The Relevance of Covenantal Theology in Contemporary Theological Discourses