Konrad Schmid

A solid summary of how the Bible developed in both Jewish and Christian contexts. It's good in not presenting a supersessionist view of the topic (i.e. it doesn't present the development of the Hebrew Bible as important only inasmuch as it's a "precursor" of the Christian Bible, or only happening before the 1st century CE), but probably too dense in approach and prose style for those who don't have a grounding in the topic already. I'd use this only in a very advanced undergraduate if not in a postgraduate course setting.… (meer)

Handy overview of the history of Zurich's theology faculty, which can lay claim to being the nucleus out of which the university grew, thanks to the lectures Zwingli and his colleagues held daily. When the university was founded, financing came from the disbanded monks' chapter of the city's main cathedral, the Grossmünster. The faculty soon gained international renown for offering a post to liberal New Testament scholar Daniel Friedrich Strauss. Since then, many leading scholars, such as Gerhard Ebeling, have given the faculty lasting influence.… (meer)