Zürich: Chronos Verlag 2013. 351 S., br., ill., € 39,50. ISBN 978‐3‐0340‐1134‐1.

Stanley Milgram was the first who tried to apply the results of his experiment on National Socialism. Historical science has hardly picked up on this subject with the exception of the American historian Christopher Browning. Despite of some serious problems which have occured by transferring the Milgram-experiment onto National Socialism we are convinced that the possibilities Milgram has opened up for contemporary history have not been exhausted yet. In this connection we would like to plead for a stronger distinction of (...) types of perpetrators, taking into account the latest results in criminology. The Milgram-experiment refers methodically to local studies of massacres and genocides. Its application on the bureaucracy of destruction seems particularly promising to us. Also, there should be included the rescuers of jews into the research on perpetrators as a controlling body. (shrink)

It is in fact possible to speak of a revolution in the way the Bible relates masters to slaves. This revolution forms the presuppositions for the New Testament's Christology and anthropology, and whenever... given an adequate hearing, it creates movements of unrest which... will continue until this revolution finally reaches its goal.

In the eighth century, prophets began to appear whose words were addressed to the nation as a whole, because the mission of these prophets was to set the life of the people of God in the light of the future God was preparing for them.

The most prominent theme of the Elohist is the Fear of God.