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[German Version] I. Person and Work …

[German Version] I. Old Testament – II. New Testament – III. Early Judaism – IV. Church History – V. Philosophy – VI. Philosophy of Religion – VII. Dogmatics – VIII. Ethics – IX. Sociology, Politics, and Law I. Old Testament 1. The concept of political freedom, which originated in the Greek polis (City cult), first appeared in Hellenistic Jewish historiography. The Stoics' concept of freedom, which contrasts inner freedom and outward constraint, has no counterpart in the OT. The OT is rooted in an internal mythological culture and an organic society, which recognized the difference between master and servant but not between domestic and foreign political freedom. In postexilic Judaism, furthermore, by the time of the Deuteronomic blessing and curse sanctions (Deut 28) at the latest, the belief prevailed that God repays individuals according to their deeds (Job 34:11), a view that was stabilized in the Hellenistic period through belief in the Last Judgment (Divine Judgment: II) of the living and the dead (cf. Dan 12:2 wit…

[German Version] I. Form Criticism – II. Theology – III. Liturgy – IV. Music I. Form Criticism 1. Old Testament Derived from the expression δόξαν λέγειν ( dóxan légein; cf. Ps 28:9 LXX), in the OT doxology…