Jewish Studies

Tobias Krämer reconstructs the history of the origin of Christian baptism. He analyzes central passages of New Testament tradition and examines their historical content: the baptism of John, the baptism of Jesus, the baptizing of the pre-Easter Jesus and early post-Easter transmissions of baptism.

Due to the widespread fear of an imminent apocalypse, the concept of time was extensively debated in the Eastern Roman Empire of the sixth century. Topics such as de-eschatologization, acceleration, retardation, pluritemporality, and non-temporality were explored. Mischa Meier explores the different aspects of this lively debate, which has not yet received sufficient attention from researchers.

The society of the Reformation and its traditional model of the three estates (education, defence, and those engaged in agriculture or trades; nobility, clergy, and peasantry) was set in motion from 1520/21 as lay people of both sexes, peasants, knights, clergy, townspeople, and the nobility saw themselves called upon to 'change' the existing order. The dynamics of the early Reformation ended in the Peasants' War.

Featuring articles on influential figures such as esteemed teachers, rabbis, Church Fathers, exegetes, mystics, jurists, and polymaths, the present volume offers a comprehensive picture of how education was understood and practiced in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures across various historical periods.