Angelika Berlejung Books

This Handbook delves into diverse exegetical methods applied to the Biblical text, including historical criticism, feminist perspectives, and liberation theology. It examines archaeological findings, Hebrew epigraphy, and iconography to enhance understanding of the scriptures. By integrating various approaches and sources, the book provides a comprehensive framework for interpreting Biblical texts and their historical contexts.

Focusing on two central themes, this collection of essays explores the complex interplay between divine images and human constructs. The first set examines the significance and evolution of divine representations in Ancient Mesopotamia, while the second delves into how human imagination shapes memories and meanings related to existential themes such as death, love, and disaster. The volume offers a rich analysis of the human condition, making it a valuable contribution to biblical scholarship and a source of inspiration for scholars beyond continental traditions.

The volume presents a collection of papers read during three workshops held in Leipzig (2016), Jerusalem (2017), and Vienna (2018). International scholars from different disciplines and methodological approaches explored gender-specific constructions of foreignness/strangeness in the Old Testament, Egypt, and Mesopotamia from their particular perspectives. They showed that when combined, strangeness/foreignness and gender can take on very different forms. Various processes of the „othering“ of women are of importance, which differ from the „othering“ of men. The contributions investigate specific questions, individual female figures and individual phenomena as model cases. The basic question was when, where, how and for what purpose the categories of foreignness and gender were connected and activated in literary tradition. The collection is a preliminary and basic work for further study of gender-specific concepts of foreignness/strangeness in the ancient Mediterranean cultures of the first millennium BCE.

This congress volume of the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times combines theoretical approaches to historical research on autonomy or independence in ancient cultures and then presents articles which study the subject using Aram and Israel in antiquity as examples. These articles show clearly how strongly Syria and Palestine were linked to one another and how they constituted one single cultural region which was connected by its economy, politics, language, religion, and culture.

The volume collects the papers of the International Conference on Disaster and Relief Management in Ancient Israel/Palestine, Egypt and the Ancient Near East held from the 4th of October to the 6th of October 2010 in Leipzig. Scholars from different fields are having a close look at the concepts of disasters in antiquity, their impact on society, possible dynamics and cultural dimensions. They give insights into their actual research on the destructivity and productivity of disasters, including the possibility that disasters were used as topoi in ideological, mythological and theological discourses. Their contributions in this volume represent a first step to a cultural history of disasters in antiquity.

Menschenbilder und Körperkonzepte gehören eng zusammen und bestimmen maßgeblich anthropologische Lehren und Fragestellungen. Sie sind zudem eng mit der Sozialstruktur des jeweiligen Kulturraums verflochten, wobei dieselbe zwar ununterbrochen konditionierenden Einfluss auf menschliche Handlungen und Haltungen hat, sie aber zugleich auch das Ergebnis menschlicher Handlungen und Haltungen ist. Auf diesen Grundlagen haben sich Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher Disziplinen zusammengefunden, um aus der Perspektive ihres jeweiligen methodischen Ansatzes dem Thema in ihrem jeweiligen Kulturbereich (Altes Testament/Palästina, Ägypten und Alter Orient) nachzugehen. Dabei werden Textquellen ebenso in die Untersuchungen mit einbezogen wie Bildquellen. Gemeinsames Ziel ist, zeit- und kulturgebundene Spezialentwicklungen präzise zu profilieren und Grundfragen der conditio humana in den Blick zu nehmen.

The present volume contains the updated versions of the papers presented at the workshop “Wandering Arameans: Arameans Inside and Outside of Syria”, held at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Leipzig in October 2014. The intention of the workshop was to explore Aramean cultures and their impact on their neighbors, including linguistic influences. The division of the volume into the sections “Syria and Palestine” and “Mesopotamia and Egypt” reflects the areas in which the presence of Arameans or of their language, Aramaic, in the first millennium BCE is visible. Arameans (including the Aramaic languages) in Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Egypt cannot be treated as a single entity but have to be carefully distinguished. The contributions in this volume show that identifying “Arameans” and defining pertinent identity markers is a difficult task. Interactions between Arameans, including their languages, and their neighbors were complex and depended on specific cultural and historical circumstances.

Arameans, Chaldeans, and Arabs in Babylonia and Palestine in the First Mill. B. C. edited by Angelika Berlejung and Michael P. Streck comprises the papers presented at an international workshop in the Villa Tillmanns/Leipzig on 24th and 25th of June 2010. The interdisciplinary event was part of the research projects on „Space and Mobility in Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine in the Time of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Period“. Organized by the Universities of Leipzig and of Halle-Wittenberg among others, the projects are part of the Collaborative Research Center „Difference and Integration“ (SFB 586). The resulting volume has ist focus on the interaction between nomadic, mobile and settled cultures, and possible mechanisms of inculturation. The contributors examine the material finds and written sources in order to deepen our understanding of the history, geography, culture, and religion of the Aramean, Chaldean and Arabian tribes.

Siebenunddreißig Einzelstudien nähern sich der 'Theologie des Alten Testaments' unter unterschiedlichen Aspekten. Sie sind um fünf Kernbereiche herum gruppiert, wobei die ersten drei dem Kanon und der Anordnung der Septuaginta verpflichtet sind, die letzten beiden thematische und hermeneutische Fragestellungen ansprechen. Die Beiträge schließen judaistische, neutestamentliche, kirchengeschichtliche sowie homiletische Dimensionen ein und gehen Grundfragen der Kanonbildung, weisheitlichen Konzepten ebenso wie eschatologischen Entwürfen nach. Zudem werden Fragestelungen der alttestamentlichen Anthropologie und des Gottesbildes behandelt. Klar umrissene exegetische Detailforschungen stehen neben übergreifenden ethischen, religions- und theologiegeschichtlichen Untersuchungen. I. Pentateuch und Geschichtsbücher II. Lehrbücher III. Prophetische Bücher IV. Thematische Aspekte V. Hermeneutische Aspekte