"This volume goes back to an international as well as interdisciplinary workshop, the Muilenburg-Koenig History of Religion Seminar, which was held in March 2013 at the San Francisco Theological Seminary" (Vorwort) Annette Schellenberg: "And God separated the light from the darkness" (Gen 1:4) : on the role of borders in the priestly texts of the Pentateuch Frank Ueberschaer: Borders between privacy and public in the thinking of Ben Sira Martina Kepper: What to do with borders when they become obsolete?: strategies of re-defining border concepts in the Hebrew and Greek text of Genesis David L. Balch: Borders: terms, ideologies, and performances: Jesus and the Samaritan/Judean border Harry O. Maier: Histoire croisée, entangled bodies, boundaries, and socio-political geography in the Letter to the Colossians Alexander Sokolicek: Betwixt and between: the cultural roles of the Magnesian Gate in Greek-Roman Ephesus Christine M. Thomas: The Magnesian Gate at Ephesos: variant readings of monumentality at the borders of the city Stefan Esders: Deditio and baptism: religious borders and the integration of barbarians in the later Roman empire Susanna Elm: Response to Stefan Esders: Deditio and baptism Barbara Schmitz: Space, borders and boundaries in the Letter of Aristeas Georgia Petridou: Amorphous epiphanies and divine bilingualism: crossing physical and cultural borders on the battlefield Anna-Katharina Rieger: Gods on the rocks: material approaches to the rock-face at Caesarea Philippi (Mount Hermon) Annette Weissenrieder: "Tear down the middle wall of the temple": the meaning of mesotoichon in Ephesians 2:14 Bart B. Bruehler: Open and shut: the real and metaphorical doors of the New Testament in their Mediterranean context Ivan Varriale: Otium and negotium: the breakdown of a boundary in the imperial villas: the case study of Pausilypon Barbara Böck: On the ancient Mesopotamian concept of "taboo": transgression and delimitation Ingrid E. Lilly: Rûaḥ embodied: Job's internal disease from the perspective of Mesopotamian medicine Gert J. Steyn: Crossing the border: reflections on Heb 13:13: "Let us then go to him outside the camp ..." Michael Bachmann: Important and delicate: borders according to Paul James R. Harrison: Who is the "Lord of grace"?: Jesus' parables in imperial context Holger Zellentin.: Jewish dreams between Roman Palestine and Sasanian Babylonia: cultural and geographic borders in rabbinic discourse (Yerushalmi Maʻaser Sheni 57c, 17-24 and Bavli Berakhot 58a-b) |
