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Anzelm [Paul Johann Anselm] Feuerbach (1775–1833), the founder of the theory of psychological compulsion (Theorie des psychologischen Zwanges), was also famous as an author of criminal stories. In 1827 he published a book titled Aktenmäßige Darstellung merwürdigen Verbrechen, which contained more than 30 stories based on criminal cases involving manslaughter. One of these stories, with the original title Andreas Bichel, der Mädchenschlächter (Andreas Bichel, the slaughterer of girls), presents the history of a notorious murderer of young women. The motive of his acts was basically robbery. Law, especially legal proceedings, plays an important role in this story.
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This essay epitomizes the history of an idea: the stranger. The almost inexhaustible meanings of the word allowed the author to trace a fascinating trajectory of this notion within the history of culture and the history of ideas. The archaic significance defines the stranger in the political and legal context of the Greek polis, a status which is described by Plato in The Laws. The system of thought of the Hellenistic Gnosticism incorporates the image of the stranger as a symbol revealing the traumas and beatitudes of the human soul on the way towards redemption. In this respect, The Hymn of the Pearl stands as a masterpiece of the Gnostic literature. Furthermore, the symbol of the stranger was borrowed into the spiritual realm of philosophical and mystical Islam, in the Middle Ages. Towering figures of Sufi wisdom, such as Ibn Bajja, Saadi and Suhrawardi, used the image of the stranger in order to create priceless literary and religious brilliance.
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Leonard I. Greenspoon is Senior Professor at Creighton University, Nebraska, USA, and an internationally revered scholar in the field of Septuagint and Qumran Studies. He hold his Ph.D. in Classical and Hebrew Studies from the University of Harvard. In the present essay he analyses the image of God as Divine Warrior in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, with special reference to the history of Palestine in Biblical times.
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