Gelübde Im Antiken Judentum Und Frühesten Christentum
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 14393
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1163/9789004441835
- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004441842
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The author traces the earliest discourses on vows, as recorded in ancient Jewish and early Christian sources since the Second Temple. He shows how Judaism and Christianity have participated in ancient forms of vow-making since late antiquity and how they developed these discourses. By presenting these discourses on the basis of a broad range of sources, he reveals how in Jewish and Christian perception, voices of esteem and of reservation have been raised throughout the centuries. Vows are a cult-practical exercise in which well-being and disaster are in closer proximity than in most other acts of devotion. Written in German.