Covenant - Concepts of Berit, Diatheke, and Testamentum: Proceedings of the Conference at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston, Texas, November 2019

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Title
Preface
Table of Contents
Christian A. Eberhart / Wolfgang Kraus — Introduction
History of Research and the Questions of Origin
	Siegfried Kreuzer — Background and Origin of Covenant Theology in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
Ancient Near East
	Poppy Tushingham — The adê Covenants of the Assyrian Empire: Imposed by Humans, Enforced by the Gods
Hebrew and Greek Bible
	Thomas Hieke — Abram/Abraham as Prefiguration of the Covenant in the Torah
	Richard J. 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 (Old Greek Ezekiel and its Hebrew Vorlage and MT-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 M. Macatangay — Ideas of Covenant in the Apocrypha
	Martin Rösel — Is διαθήκη an Appropriate Translation for ברית Covenant, Contract, and Testament in the Septuagint
Second Temple Judaism
	Brent A. Strawn — ברית in the “Sectarian” Texts from Qumran
	Heinz-Josef Fabry — ברית in den “non-sectarian” Schriften in Qumran
	Gert J. Steyn — Covenant in the Writings of Philo and Josephus
	Matthias Henze — Covenant in the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
New Testament
	Christian 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 des Paulus
	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 Church
	Martin Meiser — Covenant in the Early Church Writings
	Tobias Nicklas — The Covenant in Christian Apocrypha. Fragmentary Evidence of a Spectrum of Ideas
Late Antiquity
	Jörg 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 God
Covenant in the Arts and in Systematic Discourse
	Martin 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
Names of Contributors
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Authors
Subject Index