History

In the present volume, the manifold practice of biblical exegesis is taken up methodically and transferred into an integrative overall model of textual interpretation. Students receive the fundamental “tools” for a scholarly, reflective treatment of New Testament texts and their receptions.

This volume contains three sources and studies drawn from the late medieval records of the Benedictine convent of Lüne near Lüneburg - the edition of the statute book with the rites of admission to the monastic community, the diary of the prioress Mechthild Wilde about her own election, and a study on the networks of the Lüne provosts, especially with regard to their acquisition of benefices.

Drawing on three broad, cross-genre and cross-confessional studies on the use of key New Testament texts during the Reformation and the age of Confessionalization, Patrick Bahl positions interpretation history as a central sub-discipline of church history and explores its hermeneutical and methodological foundations.

The Heidelberg Assembly of 1848 paved the way for the Paulskirche Constitution. This volume focuses on a milestone in the German history of freedom and democracy, examining the significance of the assembly for the development of parliamentarianism in Germany and for the city of Heidelberg in the pre-March period.