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(Sep 3, 1865, Lübeck – Mar 8, 1920, Gießen), liberal New Testament scholar (History of Religions school). He gained his habilitation in 1890, and became Professor in Göttingen in 1896, and in Gießen in 1915. In Kyrios Christos, Bousset locates the early Christian affirmations about Jesus in the context of worship. On the tradition of “ruler/lord,” cf. also Der Antichrist (1895). For Bousset, the texts of early Christianity are in a particular manner symbols of “the eternal.” He demonstrated that the New Testament is embedded in Jewish-hel…