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[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Archaeology – III. Old Testament – IV. Judaism – V. Christianity – VI. Missiology – VII. Funerary Art I. Religious Studies A burial manifests and represents the culture-bound nature of personality and religious traditions that shape community; consequently, it is also a key to the metaphysics of cultural and civil religion. The history of research in religious studies is associated on many levels with the problem of burial. Studies examine agreements and differences with respect to the overwhelming multiplicity and complexity of rites, ceremonies, feasts, concepts, attitudes, myths, and emotional reactions to the death of persons of different social classifications. According to J.J. Bachofen, human civilization owes its oldest cult to graves. H. Spencer sought the roots of all religion in the cult of ancestors. Hertz started with the universal distribution of second (or multiple) burial, drew attention to relationships between birth, marriage and…