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Redeemer

(4,527 words)

Author(s): Rudolph, Kurt | Roloff, Jürgen
[German Version] I. Religious Studies Religious studies has adopted the term redeemer from the biblical language of Christianity to represent Latin redemptor (Vulgate) and Greek ῥυόμενος/ rhyómenos or λυτρωτής/ lytrōtḗs (Job 19:25; Isa 63:16; Acts 7:35; Rom 11:26). Luther used Erlöser (“redeemer”) in these cases, but Heiland (“savior”) to represent Latin salvator and Greek σωτήρ/ sōtḗr. The terms are synonymous in both German and English. The worldwide use of the term in non-Christian contexts has increasingly made it part of the metalinguistic terminology of religious studies …

Andreas roman:(Zwölferkreis)

(187 words)

Author(s): Roloff, Jürgen
[German Version] and his brother Simon Peter (I) were the first two disciples called by Jesus (Mark 1:16–18 parr.). While Peter with the two sons of Zebedee (John, son of Zebedee; James, Son of Zebedee) was among Jesus' three closest friends, the Synoptic Gospels do not present Andrew as a distinct individual. Apart from the lists of the disciples (Mark 3:13–19 parr.; Acts 1:13), he appears only in Mark 1:29; 13:4. The situation is different in John, which displays an interest in Andrew that goes beyond biographical detail (1:40, 44). Andrew was called even before Peter (1:41); with Philip (the disciple), he appears in conversation with Jesus (6:1–5) and mediates between Jesus and certain “Greeks” (12:22). The latter incident suggests that the bilingual Andrew (as his Greek name suggests) was a pioneer of the Gentile mission. Early ecclesiastical tradition points in the same direction (Euseb…