| Summary: | Cover -- 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.
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