… Gott auserwähltem Volk, die Texte des Neuen Testaments stellen die Geschichte von Jesus von Nazareth in den Fokus.
This selection of biblical texts is not intended to represent a cross-section of the Bible, nor is it intended to provide an overview of it. Rather, it is intended to encourage readers to read the Book of Books themselves, even though, or perhaps precisely because, the messages of the Bible…
… for the rights of Jews with his humanitarian and liberal ideas and contributed significantly to their legal status in Prussia. Among his most significant achievements are the translation of the Hebrew Bible and the founding of the Israelite Bible Institute. Philippson was editor of the »Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums« (General Newspaper of Judaism), which was considered the mouthpiece of the Jewish reform…
… of the composer and performer themselves.The present study refrains from dealing with polemical literature in the environment of Pietism, but rather draws on texts that treat passages of the Bible dealing with music. In addition to the biblical commentaries of August Hermann Francke, Joachim Lange, Johann Jakob Rambach, Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten, and Johann Salomo Semler, poetic texts also come…
… (1629-1711), Johann Friedrich Ruopp (1672-1708) and Justus Lüders (†1708). In 1719 and 1721 the important collections of Carl Hildebrand Freiherr von Canstein (1667-1719), the founder of the Canstein Bible Centre, and Andreas Achilles (1656-1721) found their way into the Foundations. In 1721 18,000 volumes had already accumulated and there was no longer enough space in the main building of the Foundations,…
… itself. In these early days, the theologian Francke was primarily concerned with the care and education of poor and orphaned children. In the early modern period, these children had access only to the Bible and schoolbooks as reading material – forms of literature that can still be found today in the library established with the founding of the orphanage. It was not until the 18th century that literature…
… for sustainable development and be carried out either in the Pflanzgarten School Garden or in the classroom of the greenhouse. Children experience the garden with all their senses: They recognize Bible plants, learn to distinguish between medicinal and aromatic plants, taste food plants and Christmas spices or try out plant design.
The project »Education for Sustainable Development in the…
