Profanität und Sakralisierung im Alten Testament

Old Testament texts on the Sabbath, on the domestic utilisation of animals and on legal life are examined for evidence of profanity and sacralisation. The sources do not reveal whether the profanity of the areas examined is the result of a process of secularisation. They show rather that the cult is advancing into everyday life- the cultic community provides its own specific means for maintaining customs and usages deemed worthy of protection and for establishing legal peace.


Volker Wagner ist Pfarrer i.R. der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Landeskirche Sachsens. Er hat mehrere Arbeiten zu exegetischen und rechtsgeschichtlichen Problemen des Alten Testaments veröffentlicht.