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Knight G: Exploring the Letters of John
& Jude

Exploring the Letters of John & Jude

A Devotional Commentary

Handbuch zum Neuen Testament

Christian Blumenthal analyzes and interprets the Epistle of Jude and the Second Epistle of Peter in their cultural setting and illuminates their relationships to their Jewish and Greco-Roman contemporaries. A major focus of the interpretation is on the analysis of strategic theological ambiguities and vagueness in both letters and their pragmatic potential: The author shows how "Jude" uses the sharply drawn black-and-white contrast to open up an ecclesiological middle ground in which mercy toward theological "border crossers" is demanded. At the same time, he elaborates on how "Peter," despite literary polarization, insinuates gray areas and explores border zones. Both, "Jude" and "Peter", develop an understanding of God and Jesus that combines distinction and unity. They describe Christian existence as a tension between the current state of salvation and its yet-to-come completion defined by freedom from danger.

Der Judasbrief. Der Zweite Petrusbrief

Eva Puschautz undertakes a detailed analysis of Mk 3:20f.31-35, centering on the question of how Mary is portrayed within the narrative and theological framework of the Gospel of Mark. Combining textual, literary, form-critical, and redactional methods with narrative analysis, the author applies feminist hermeneutics to interpret Mary not as an idealized or marginalized figure, but as an autonomous actor.
 

 By reconstructing the socio-historical background, the author shows that Mary is plausibly understood as a widow in precarious circumstances, dependent on her eldest son's support. Against this backdrop, her attempt to bring Jesus home appears both understandable and strategically motivated. The author shows how Mark combines two traditions: a family conflict and the definition of the disciples as Jesus' true family. Rather than harmonizing these strands, Mark preserves their tension, which proves challenging for both early communities and modern readers. Through synoptic comparison and intertextual study - for example, with Mk 6:1-6 - the author demonstrates how Mary's image evolves within the transmission of the tradition and how the motif of the rejected prophet is embedded in biblical discourse.
 

 Eva Puschautz contributes to feminist and historical-critical exegesis by highlighting Mary as both historical figure and symbolic character. She provides a solid foundation for New Testament research and feminist theology, offering a nuanced perspective of Mary as an independent actor rather than as an idealized topos.

Eine feministisch-historisch-kritische Lektüre von Mk 3,20f.31-35

Maria - Mutter im Konflikt

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe

John 7,53-8,11, known as the 
 Pericope Adulterae
 (PA), is well known for its problematic textual history, which includes questions about its authenticity and its place within the Gospel of John. While previous studies on PA have largely limited themselves to the examination of the textual status of PA or to the interpretation of a few verses from PA, Rayan J. Lobo demonstrates that the entire 
 Pericope Adulterae
 can be read within its current literary context and understood in a meaningful way as part of the Gospel of John. He employs both synchronic and diachronic methods, focusing on the origin, form, and interpretation of PA, as well as its role in Jn 7-8. In doing so, the author systematically demonstrates that the roots of PA lie in the oral tradition, that it follows the literary form of wisdom tales, and that it must be interpreted as a Jewish trial of Jesus.

A Narrative-Intertextual Reading of John 7,53-8,11

A Johannine Reading of the Pericope Adulterae

Following the earlier volume by Martin Dibelius and Hans Conzelmann, this commentary offers an entirely new interpretation of First and Second Timothy and Titus. Contemporary scholarship continues to debate the authenticity and connection of the two letters to Timothy and the letter to Titus. Stefan Krauter critically engages with these current discussions and carefully weighs the respective positions. On the basis of the available evidence - both within the texts themselves and in external sources - a definitive judgment is not possible; an assessment, however, can be ventured: the three letters are read as a deliberately composed pseudepigraphical letter collection that, in the second century, supplemented the ten other Pauline letters already in circulation as a corpus. The unknown author concisely summarizes the central ideas of the earlier Pauline letters. He develops their themes in linguistically innovative ways appropriate to his own time and brings them into dialogue with motifs drawn from the Gospel tradition. In this way, he tries to influence the subsequent reception of Paul. His writings are not a forgery in the sense of fabricating a Pauline intervention in specific second-century controversies. Rather, they give rise to a constructed image of the apostle as the founder of the Christian community who shapes its future by instructing his co-workers. Stefan Krauter situates the letters within the literature and culture of imperial antiquity, with particular emphasis on their philological, cultural and religio-historical interpretation.

Die Pastoralbriefe

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. Zweite Reihe

Alberto Solano offers a comprehensive reappraisal of the Sinai narrative's function within the Epistle to the Hebrews. He challenges the dominant paradigm in Hebrews scholarship that views the audience as a wandering people in the wilderness, instead proposing they are a waiting people stationed at the foot of the mountain. Through a reading that follows the epistle's sequential progression, he examines how the author employs the Sinai event as a constructive theological framework rather than a discarded relic of the old covenant. Set within the context of first-century Second Temple Judaism, the book engages with contemporary Jewish literary traditions to place Hebrews in dialogue with its original milieu. Drawing on a dual cosmology, Solano argues that the audience participates in heavenly realities while inhabiting the earthly realm. This dual cosmology repositions the role of Torah, suggesting that the Sinaitic revelation remains valid alongside the new covenant's high priestly ministry. Solano challenges supersessionism by demonstrating that the message of Jesus builds upon, rather than departs from, the revelation at Sinai. By shifting the focus from wilderness wandering to active waiting, Solano provides new interpretive possibilities for understanding early Christian identity in Hebrews.

Rethinking the Place of Sinai in the Epistle to the Hebrews

Sinai and Hebrews

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Andreas-Christian Heidel examines the significance of religious experience for the emergence and early development of the Christian movement in Roman Corinth in the first century CE. The book's central thesis is that religious experiences - understood as the interplay of individual and communal experiences and the interpretive processes they generate - played a decisive role in the early development of the Christian community in Corinth. As a driving force that has so far received little attention in scholarship, such experiences also become visible as a distinctive feature of early Christian practice within the Greco-Roman world.
 

 Methodologically, the book combines perspectives from religious and cultural studies on religious experience with a historical-philological analysis of literary, documentary, and archaeological sources. Engaging a range of approaches, including those of Gerd Theissen, Ann Taves, and Rodney Stark, it describes religious experience as an encounter with a transcendent or encompassing power within culturally shaped contexts of interpretation and practice-an encounter that is interpreted and negotiated both individually and collectively.
 

 In this respect, the book renews a concern of the 
 Religionsgeschichtliche Schule
 , as formulated, for example, by Hermann Gunkel, without reverting to the now outdated search for dependencies and causal relationships in the history of religions. Instead, it introduces religious experience as an analytical category that allows ancient sources to be examined phenomenologically in their bodily, emotional, reflective, and behavioral dimensions, and with respect to their intensity.

Paulus und die frühchristliche Bewegung im Kontext ihrer griechisch-römischen Erfahrungswelt

Religiöse Erfahrung in Korinth

'Werdet wie die Kinder', sagt Jesus von Nazareth, andernfalls 'werdet ihr nicht ins Himmelreich kommen' (Mt 18,2). Doch was bedeutet dieses 'wie'? In theologischer Perspektive ist vom 'Kind Gottes' und der Gotteskindschaft des Glaubens die Rede; humanwissenschaftlich geht es um das biologische und soziale Kindsein, um Kindheit als Lebensalter eines heranwachsenden Menschen. Welche Gemeinsamkeiten, aber auch welche Unterschiede gibt es hier? Entsprechende Fragen, die auch mit der Zukunft der Kirche, den Anfängen im Glauben und dem aktuellen Umgang mit Kindern in der Kirche zu tun haben, behandeln diese Beiträge in interdisziplinärem Kontext. 

 

 Der Band dokumentiert die Vorträge der 27. Jahrestagung der Rudolf-Bultmann-Gesellschaft für Hermeneutische Theologie e.V. und weitere Beiträge von H. Christiansen, G. Huian, U. H. J. Körtner, M. D. Krüger, A. Lindemann, S. Luther, J.v. Oorschot, B. Sendler-Koschel, H. Simojoki, S. Sinn und H.-G. Ulrichs, ergänzt durch Werkstattberichte von J. Böckmann, J. Drube, N. Mariani, P. S. Neven Du Mont, M. Stracke-Bartholmai und W. Zager.

 

 [Children of God. Thinking about Childhood Theologically] 
 

 'Become like children', says Jesus of Nazareth, otherwise "you will not enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 18:2). But what does this 'like' mean? From a theological perspective, it refers to the 'child of God' and the divine sonship of faith; from a human sciences perspective, it relates to biological and social childhood, to childhood as the age of a growing human being. What similarities and differences can be seen here? These contributions address corresponding questions, which also relate to the future of the Church, the beginnings of faith and the current treatment of children in the Church, in an interdisciplinary context.

Kindheit theologisch denken

Kinder Gottes

The contributors to this volume illustrate the way in which exegesis of the book of Isaiah was developed in early Christianity. Reception unfolded within spaces opened, shaped, and defined along Judaeo-Christian borderlines. The book of Isaiah was of utmost importance to the first Jesus followers and their literary production, particularly in the way they articulated their beliefs. Consequently, scholars have often referred to Isaiah as "the fifth Gospel." 
 

 The present volume collects investigations into the specific ways the book of Isaiah was received in various early Christian contexts - from the canonical gospels to early Syriac Christian literature. The contributors explore the different modes and purposes of reading Isaiah and integrating its ideas, style, and concepts into new writings.

Early Christian Reception and Interpretation

Isaiah between Judaism and Christianity

History of Biblical Exegesis

Swiss theologian Adolf Schlatter (1852-1938) remains underappreciated in much English-language scholarship, despite his extraordinary productivity and enduring influence on Protestant theology in the German-speaking world. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to recover Schlatter's distinctive theological vision at the intersection of New Testament exegesis and dogmatics. The contributors argue that Schlatter offers a convincing alternative to both reductionist historicism and abstract doctrinal speculation by insisting that theology answers to the concrete reality of God's action in history, centered on the person and work of Jesus Christ. The contributors situate Schlatter in his life, work, and theological legacy, attending to his academic settings and the continuing significance of his intellectual project. They engage Schlatter as a New Testament theologian by examining his approach to parables, his interpretive practices, and the way his work negotiates the relationship between historical inquiry and theological judgment. In doing so, they highlight Schlatter's enduring contribution to hermeneutics, especially his resistance to disciplinary fragmentation and his insistence that theological interpretation remains accountable to the text's historical and theological claims. Furthermore, the contributors acknowledge Schlatter as a dogmatic theologian through his sustained focus on Christology and the theology of the cross, accompanied by a long-overdue English translation of Schlatter's treatise Jesus' Divinity and the Cross. Finally, they engage Schlatter as a "complete theologian" by probing the nature of faith within his dogmatic thought, testing the task of "historical" investigation for theological studies, and placing Schlatter in fresh dialogue with major theological interlocutors.

Global Conversations on Faith, Jesus Christ, and the Cross

Engaging with Schlatter

A¿esja Lavrinovi¿a undertakes a detailed critical examination of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, a passage that has played a decisive role in debates on women's participation in early Christian worship. Drawing on textual criticism, redaction criticism, and linguistic analysis, she explores the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic dimensions of the verses in close dialogue with manuscript traditions, with particular attention to early Greek and Latin witnesses. This investigation is framed against centuries of exegetical engagement, from patristic interpretation to modern scholarly debate.
 

 The author's analysis demonstrates that verses 34-35 form a discrete textual unit with tenuous syntactic links to the surrounding context. Pronoun usage, verbal forms, and central terms such as ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, ¿¿¿¿¿¿, and ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ exhibit striking incongruities, reinforcing the hypothesis of interpolation. Furthermore, she highlights the function of verses 33b and 36 as an editorial frame that universalizes the prohibition of women's speech in order to emphasize ecclesiastical unity. This insight supports the conclusion that the passage is not authentically Pauline but the product of later editorial activity.
 

 Challenging rhetorical approaches that assume textual coherence, the author proposes instead that textual incoherence be read as evidence for interpolation. The findings shed new light on questions of Pauline authorship, the role of women in early Christian assemblies, and the processes by which doctrinal norms were established.

A Study of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

Mulier taceat

In his collected essays on international biblical intertextuality research, Stefan Alkier demonstrates what distinguishes the concept of intertextuality when both components - the spatial "inter" and the theoretical "textuality" - are taken at face value. In doing so, he highlights the innovative and productive contributions this concept makes to the exegesis of biblical texts. At the center is a decentralizing concept of meaning generation that takes into account the semiotic dynamics, performativity, complexity, and limitations of interpretive processes, as well as the inexhaustible richness of biblical texts in their intertextual and intermedial relationships and respective communicative contexts. Through concepts from intertextuality research, fundamental questions of human communication are thus brought into discussion: What can be meant by the "meaning" of a text, where and how is this meaning to be sought or constructed, and what characterizes the sign structure of a text? While the hermeneutic tradition of historical-critical exegesis is oriented toward the preposition "in" and presupposes a fixable locus of meaning, the preposition "inter" replaces the notion of a singular locus of meaning with a dynamic space of textual relationships that are constantly re-performed through the creative work of text producers and text recipients. The essays included in this volume offer a representative selection of Stefan Alkier's contributions to international intertextuality research over the past 25 years. The epilogue features an annotated bibliography looking back on 40 years of intertextuality research, as well as a previously unpublished in-depth interview with Richard B. Hays, the founder of New Testament intertextuality research, who passed away in 2025.

Theoretische Grundlegungen - Kanontheologische Dispositionen - Intertextuelle Studien. Gesammelte Aufsätze, Band 2

Intertextualität als Konzept neutestamentlicher Wissenschaft

The contributors to this volume examine fear and fear of God as decisive factors in the religious and cultural worlds of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. Drawing on philological, historical, and anthropological perspectives, they investigate how emotions, particularly fear, informed ritual practice, social order, and concepts of the self. Biblical texts, Rabbinic literature, and early Christian writings are read alongside Egyptian and Mesopotamian traditions, thereby situating Jewish and Christian sources in a broader intercultural framework. Epigraphic evidence, such as inscriptions from Aphrodisias, provides further depth and comparative perspective.
 

 Rather than treating fear merely as a sign of submission or religious coercion, the contributors highlight its complex role in shaping modes of communication, group identity, and cultural interaction. Their studies demonstrate how linguistic, literary, and ritual expressions of fear reflect wider processes of negotiation within communities and across traditions. This interdisciplinary approach thus exposes the conceptual networks in which fear was embedded, challenging reductionist models and opening new perspectives on ancient religious life. By bringing together leading experts from multiple disciplines, the volume advances scholarship on emotions, the sociology of religion, and the intercultural history of religions in antiquity, thereby offering essential insights for future research.

Philological and Historical Perspectives on the World of Ancient Judaism and Christianity

Fear, Fear of God, God-Fearers

Exploring the Letters of John & Jude

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