Each issue of Accessible German New Testament Scholarship (AGNTS) is a curated collection of significant contributions to New Testament scholarship from the German-speaking world. The contributions have been translated and presented here as an attempt to continue...
Self-Review of The Messianic Secret
I cannot publish a self-review of this book in Die Christliche Welt in a way that it would be homogeneous with the ways of thinking that are predominant in this magazine. This, however, is also not, after all, the expectation for the self-reviews published here. The...
Letter to Adolf von Harnack on Jesus as Messiah and Paul as a New Beginning
Esteemed friend!I wanted to answer your third card – for which I am sincerely thankful – immediately, but I could not find the time. I feel, however, compelled now to reply to it with a few words. … Download PDF to read more. Author: William Wrede Title: Letter to...
The Commandment of Love for Enemies in Matt 5.43–48 and Its Early Jewish Context
The commandment of love for enemies handed down in Matt 5.44 and Luke 6.27–28, 35 is undoubtedly one of the most striking forms that the commandment of love for neighbor took in ancient Judaism. There is a magnus consensus that we are dealing with authentic Jesus...
The Tübingen Biblical Theology of the New Testament – A Retrospective
It is time for a retrospective on the origin and main emphases of the biblical theology of the New Testament as it was taught in Tübingen. For what Hartmut Gese, Otto Betz (1917–2005), Martin Hengel (1926–2009), and I, together with Gert Jeremias (1936–2016) and...
Canon and Hermeneutics in Times of Deconstruction. What New Testament Scholarship Can Achieve Hermeneutically in the Present
The Christian Bible, together with the Quran, belongs to the canonical collections of Scriptures of late antiquity that rest upon the older Hebrew and Greek versions of the Scriptures of Israel (Tanak and Septuaginta) and thus reach back far into pre-Christian times,...
Paul as Storyteller? Conclusion
Talk of “narrative” structures in the Letters of Paul has significantly shaped the exegetical discussion in the Anglophone sphere for some time. The “narrative approach,” which was especially inspired by Richard B. Hays and N. T. Wright, faces, however, a skeptical...
Perfect Life Through Special Nourishment: Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses 5
In his listing out of the tasks of Christian theology and instruction in Haer. 1.10.3, the Gallic bishop Irenaeus ranks the redemption of the flesh as one of the central, universally agreed upon contents of the proclamation of the church. In the fifth book of his...