Missing information in one of the first three writings of the Book of the Twelve can be filled in by reading all three of them in sequence, so that understanding one prophet depends on reading the others. Five topics—the superscriptions, the call to return to YHWH, the Day of the Lord, the end of God's patience, and the Sinai Torah—are considered in detail before introducing redaction-critical hypotheses.

Most philosophical examinations of the concept of exploitation center on analyzing two-party interactions between individuals. Mathias Risse and Gabriel Wollner introduce an account of exploitation that seeks to transcend this ‘individualist paradigm’ in three ways: Through exploitation of and by agential groups, of or by non-agential groups and by social structures. In this paper, I argue that while the concepts of non-individual and structural exploitation do offer each their way of transcending or revising the individualist paradigm, the most ambitious and (...) original attempt to break with the paradigm is offered by the concept of non-agential exploitation. I then discuss this concept, but ultimately conclude that it suffers from too many shortcomings in its current form to offer a plausible departure from the individualist approach. (shrink)

Sappho, um 600 v. Chr. auf der Insel Lesbos geboren, gilt als die bedeutendste griechische Lyrikerin. Früh schon rankten sich Gerüchte um den Kreis der Freundinnen, den sie um sich scharte. Sapphos Liebesgedichte, größtenteils nur in Fragmenten erhalten, zeugen von großer Intimität und Empfindungstiefe, verbunden mit homoerotischen Untertönen. In ihrer Sprache verbinden sich Ausdruckskraft und musikalische Schönheit. Der Band enthält auch das 2004 erstmals veröffentlichte Kölner Papyrusfragment, eine lyrische Klage über das Alter.