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This volume contains the plenary papers and a selection of shortpapers from the Seventh Annual RefoRC conference, which was held May 10-12th 2017 in Wittenberg. The contributions concentrate on the effects of Luther¿s new theology and draw the lines from Luther¿s contemporaries into the early seventeenth century. Developments in art, catholic responses and Calvinistic reception are only some of the topics. The volume reflects the interdisciplinarity and interconfessionality that characterizes present research on the 16th century reformations and underlines the fact that this research has not come to a conclusion in 2017. The papers in this conference volume point to lacunae and will certainly stimulate further research. Contributors: Wim François, Antonio Gerace, Siegrid Westphal, Edit Szegedi, Maria Lucia Weigel, Graeme Chatfield, Jane Schatkin Hettrick, Marta Quatrale, Aurelio A. García, Jeannette Kreijkes, Csilla Gábor, Gábor Ittzés, Balázs Dávid Magyar, Tomoji Odori, Gregory Soderberg, Herman A. Speelman, Izabela Winiarska-Górska, Erik A. de Boer, Donald Sinnema, Dolf te Velde.

Dries De Crom intends to stimulate the cross-fertilization of Septuagint Studies and Translation Studies, particularly the theoretical framework of Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS). It engages with concepts and theories from DTS in order to demonstrate their applicability to the study of the Septuagint. The aim is not to replace the established methods of Septuagint Studies, but rather to show that they are fully compatible with descriptive approaches to translation. The greater part of the volume is dedicated to a meticulous verse-by-verse comparison between the LXX and MT texts of Song of Songs. As there is at present no full critical edition of the Greek texts of Song of Songs, due attention is given to the most important witnesses to the pre-Hexaplaric text. The textual study engages with matters of translation technique, textual criticism, linguistic interference and the interpretation of LXX Song of Songs. On the basis of this textual analysis, the volume explores the question of Kaige-Theodotion and LXX Song of Song's relation to it, as well as the peculiar textual-linguistic profile of LXX Songs of Songs, against the background of translational norms, interference, interlanguage and literary code.

Das Phänomen Transidentität oder Transsexualismus begegnet uns heutzutage an vielen Orten. Transidente Menschen treten auch in Talkshows und Doku-Sendungen auf, wo sie über ihr Leben berichten in einer im Vergleich zu früheren Zeiten zwar toleranteren, aber noch längst nicht wirklich akzeptierenden Gesellschaft. Udo Rauchfleisch skizziert den Weg vom Pathologiekonzept »Transsexualismus« zur »Genderdysphorie« bis hin zur »Geschlechtsinkongruenz« und dem nichtpathologischen Begriff der »Transidentität«. Er fordert die absolute Selbstentscheidung der Transidenten über die von ihnen gewünschten Schritte in ihrer sogenannten Transition. Eine professionelle Begleitung Transidenter hat meist den Charakter eines transaffirmativen Coachings. Neben Transmenschen selbst und ihren Angehörigen richtet sich das Buch vor allem an Fachleute der verschiedenen Disziplinen, die an der Begleitung und Therapie von Transidenten beteiligt sind.