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[German Version] I. Comparative Religion – II. Biblical – III. Church History I. Comparative Religion The terminolog…

[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 burial rites, and recognized the worldwide distribution of the notion that death must be a state of transition and transformation in phases. Van Gennep's classic analysis of transition rites incorporated burial ceremonies into the three-phase model of rites of separation, transformation and assimilation. Bendann noted the close interconnection of the burial complex with cultural and social lifestyles; mono-causal derivations and linear concepts of development cannot account fo…

1. General 1.1. Term The term “sociohistorical exegesis” covers various sociologically oriented analyses of the literary sources of the OT and NT. Biblical categories of sources and text types can usually be put in different religious-social, sociopolitical, and cultural groups and movements that may differ locally, regionally, and also in time. 1.2. History This type of exegesis involves several types of research. Social history plays a large part in recent international study. Economic history is a central ¶ …