The interpretations of Pauline letters produced by Martin Heidegger in the context of his early lectures on the phenomenology of religion deserve particular attention in terms of the history of his research. They offer aninsight into the creations of his early years where terms and concepts appear in nuce, which were to become pivotal for the lines of his argument in 'Sein und Zeit'. Modern reflections on hermeneutics and methodology of the discipline of New Testament studies, however, can only receive an indirect impulse from these early studies of Heidegger. Even if the concepts of the sciences of history and religion that Heidegger argued against are also regarded as inappropriate by the said disciplines now, hisstudies demonstrate clearly the change that his later interdisciplinary cooperation with Rudolf Bultmann evoked in his work. It was not Heidegger'sown work on Paul but only his encounter with Bultmann that made him the philosopher who was to influence like no other the development of last century's research on the New Testament.

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Personen: Popkes, Enno Edzard

Schlagwörter: Exegese Phänomenologie Paulusbriefe