Religious Studies

Christian Kamleiter shows how Rudolf Otto's theory of religion is based on extensive reflections on the possibilities and limits of religious communication. He places a special focus on Otto's unpublished lecture on dogmatics and reconstructs how Otto's theory of religious communication is an actualization of concepts prefigured by Friedrich Schleiermacher.

Aļesja Lavrinoviča reassesses 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 through textual criticism and linguistic analysis. By combining manuscript study with pragmatics, she demonstrates that the passage constitutes a later editorial interpolation rather than Pauline authorship.

What role did standing stones play in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East during the Bronze and Iron Ages? Mathias Litzenburger analyzes archaeological evidence, inscriptions, and biblical texts, revealing the stones' polyvalent functions as markers, images, and ritual objects.