This Festschrift honours Günter Stemberger on the occasion of his 75th birthday on 7 December 2015 and contains 41 articles from colleagues and students. The studies focus on a variety of subjects pertaining to the history, religion and culture of Judaism – and, to a lesser extent, of Christianity – from late antiquity and the Middle Ages to the modern era.
The contributions compiled in this volume comprise studies of Jewish texts – biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern –, as well as of patristic and medieval Christian texts, and in one case, a passage of the Muslim text par excellence, the Quran. The authors, scholars in the fields of Jewish Studies, Catholic and Protestant Theology, Islamic Studies, German philology etc., invited to reflect on texts of their respective disciplines in context-sensitive interpretations, taking into account the link connecting Midrash, hermeneutics, and narrative, provide illuminating narratological and/or hermeneutical insights into the texts in question. This interdisciplinary dialogue proves to be rich and full of potential for further research.
Die kulturellen Phänomene des europäischen Mittelalters, die die Dimensionen der Barlaam und Josaphat-Legende erreichen konnten, sind selten. Der hier vorgelegte Band umfasst Beiträge zu verschiedenen Aspekten dieses Phänomens sowie eine bislang unedierte lateinische Fassung. Aufgrund des interdisziplinären Charakters der Publikation richtet sie sich an Germanisten, Romanisten, Mittellatinisten, Byzantinisten und Kunsthistoriker.