Books written by Martin Hengel

Between Jesus and Paul: Studies in the Earliest History of Christianity

According to this the hall of pillars , with a single nave four hundred cubits long , was situated on the east side of the sanctuary of Solomon dropping steeply to the Kidron valley ; that is , this part of the outer forecourt probably ...
The Son of God: The Origin of Christology and the History of Jewish-Hellenistic Religion

This work significantly advances the critical discussion of New Testament Christology. Hengel examines the titles Son and God.
The 'Hellenization' of Judea in the First Century after Christ

This short but highly significant study is the first real sequel to Professor Martin Hengel's classic and monumental work 'Judaism and Hellenism'.
Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in their Encounter in Palestine during the Early Hellenistic Period

Martin Hengel gathers an encyclopedic amount of material, ancient and modern, to present an exhaustive survey of the early course of Hellenistic civilization as it related to developing Judaism.
Victory Over Violence and Was Jesus a Revolutionist?

'Victory over Violence' This book, 'Victory over Violence', deals with Òpolitical theologyÓ - as it developed within Palestinian Judaism between 334 B.C. and the time of Christ, and as it is being advocated now by radical theologians and ...
Earliest Christianity

This volume brings together two important historical studies by Professor Hengel, Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity, and Property and Riches in the Early Church. Together they give a...
Studies in Early Christology

An important collection of Martin Hengel's studies on early Christology, including previously unpublished work.The essays include 'Jesus the Messiah of Israel', 'Jesus as Messianic Teacher of Wisdom and the Beginnings of Christology', 'Sit ...
The Son of God: The Origin of Christology and the History of Jewish-Hellenistic Religion

This work significantly advances the critical discussion of New Testament Christology. Hengel examines the titles Son and God.
Paul Between Damascus and Antioch: The Unknown Years

This important new book covers the time between Paul's conversion in Damascus and his arrival in Antioch, set against a detailed background of the early Christian world, the church in Damascus to which Paul was introduced on his conversion, ...
Crucifixion in the Ancient World and the Folly of the Message of the Cross

In a comprehensive and detailed survey on its remarkably widespread employment in the Roman empire, Dr. Hengel examines the way in which the most vile death of the cross was...
Studies in the Gospel of Mark

Here Professor Hengel argues with a wealth of documentation that the traditional views of the origin and tradition of the Gospel of Mark have far more to be said for them than has been usually allowed by modern New Testament scholars.
Between Jesus and Paul: Studies in the Earliest History of Christianity

Certainly these decades are crucial to our understanding of the development of earliest Christianity. However, they are very much a "tunnel" period, and there is little to shed light on it. This volume does something to pierce the darkness.
Paulus zwischen Damaskus und Antiochien: die unbekannten Jahre des Apostels

... freilich mit umgekehrter Intention : Der Mensch scheitert daran , denn dieses Gebot kann jetzt die tödliche Begierde wecken . Nur der Geist vermag die Begierde der oớps und damit die Macht der Sünde zu überwinden .
The Atonement: The Origins of the Doctrine in the New Testament

The second part of the book is devoted to tracing the doctrine of atonement, moving back from the letters of Paul, through the pre-Pauline tradition, to Jesus.
The Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Investigation of the Collection and Origin of the Canonical...

Asks how the term 'gospel' came to be used both for proclamation and narrative, and why the church in forming the canon of scripture chose to include four different and...
The Charismatic Leader and His Followers

What he offers here takes its starting point in only one such pericope; yet the flood of light that this study sheds on Jesus' teaching and life is such that this book stands as one of the most important contributions to the continuing ...
Jesus und die Evangelien

Sehr wahrscheinlich hat der unbekannte judenchristliche Lehrer aus Sy- rien sein Werk nach dem Vorbild des älteren Markus ... Der Evangelist Markus und die Petrustradition in Rom In Wirklichkeit ist das Markusevangelium die früheste ...
The 'Hellenization' of Judea in the First Century after Christ

His Vita and Development as a Historian , Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 8 , Leiden 1979 , 244-6 ... Brussels 1979 , 159-71 ; S.S.Miller , Studies in the History and Traditions of Sepphoris , SJLA 37 , Leiden 1984 ...
Paulus und Jakobus

Appendices have been added to the first two essays, 'Between Paul and Jesus: The Hellenists, the Seven and Steven, ' and 'The Pre-Christian Paul.' All the other essays have been expanded or checked. German description: .
Saint Peter: The Underestimated Apostle

In Saint Peter: The Underestimated Apostle Martin Hengel rejects the common minimalist view about Peter s role in the Scriptures and in the early church.