The authors of this volume follow the tracks of the darker side of the Reformation and study the relationship with Judaism based on Lutheran theology and on a sense of "dignity of difference" (Jonathan Sacks).To the present day Luthers antisemitic polemics have proved to be a burden to the Lutheran Churches. In the media his writings have not been repelled but rather taken up. That is reason enough for members of the Protestant-Lutheran Churches to break with some of the basics of their own church and seek solutions for facing this problem. The authors of this collection point out the positive consideration given modern Judaism in Protestant teachings as a near cousin to its own foundations, particularly at the point at which it would appear to be most difficult to sustain: in dogmatics.

1979"1982: Repetent in Tübingen 1983"1991: Pfarrer in Eschwege 1984: Promotion (Dr. theol.) in Tübingen 1990: Habilitation (Neues Testament) in Heidelberg 1991"1996: Professor für das Neue Testament an der Universität Neuchatel (Schweiz), Faculté de Théologie Seit 1996: Direktor der Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum