Power and Peril

Power and PerilThe series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fr die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZNW) is one of the oldest and most highly regarded international scholarly book series in the field of New Testament studies. Since 1923 it has been a forum for seminal works focusing on Early Christianity and related fields. The series is grounded in a historical critical approach and also explores new methodological approaches that advance our understanding of the New

and severely exploited

The book offers close attention to race and racism in American Catholicism

two final essays—one on the Pennsylvania Dutch religious sects and "A Letter to My Father"—are particularly delightful

What began as outrage over the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin and the exoneration of his killer

transforming himself from petty criminal to national hero

and explores how Muhammad’s image – which was apparently modelled after that of the anonymous prophet repeatedly alluded to in the Qur'ān – originally matched that of other prophets and/or charismatic figures distinctive in the late-antique sectarian milieu out of which Islam gradually emerged

Zielgruppe dieses Buches sind alle diejenigen

Tajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat al-dhimmah is a scholarly

Settje examines how Christian institutions reacted to this moral and ethical collapse

to the people

In analyzing its mystical appeal

Links early modern English drama and empire studies