Edited by Walter Homolka and Heinz-Günther Schöttler
X, 377 pages ;
24 cm
Studia Judaica ;
Band 64
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
The Talmudic Rabbi as Holy Man / Judith Hauptman -- Offices? Roles, functions, authorities and their ethos in earliest Christianity : a look into the world of Pauline communities / Tobias Nicklas -- Insights into the Christian office in late antiquity / Annette von Stockhausen -- Change or continuity? How the Reformation changed the role of the pastor / Jürgen Kampmann -- Modern Rabbinical training : intercultural invention and political reconfiguration / Carsten L. Wilke -- Rabbis as preachers, 1800-1965 : Regensburg Conference lecture / Marc Saperstein -- The professionalization of the American Rabbinate / Lawrence A. Hoffman -- The Protestant pastoral office : its self-understanding and its challenges today / Eilert Herms -- Whom does the Priest represent? The theology of the ordained ministry following the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) / Erwin Dirscherl -- The Protestant pastor and the communication of the Gospel : Public ministry in the present Protestant church / Ulrike Wagner-Rau -- A female Rabbi is like an orange on the Passover plate. Women and the Rabbinate : challenges and horizons / Dalia Marx -- Functional secularization and conversion : on the changed demands made on ministerial action in the Catholic Church / Johannes Först -- Islamic clerics : Tradition and transition / Reuven Firestone -- "...Invited to preach to the people" (Origen) : A theological plea for "lay" preaching in the Catholic Church / Heinz-Günther Schöttler -- Word workers : the Rabbinate and the Protestant pastoral office in dialogue / Alexander Deeg -- The modern community Rabbi in Germany : towards the development of a contemporary occupational profile / Walter Homolka