Cilliers Breytenbach, born 1954, Dr. theol., is Professor of the New Testament with a focus on literature, religion and the history of early Christianity at the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin and Associate Professor of the New Testament at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa). Rudolf Hoppe, born 1946, Dr. theol., is Professor of New Testament with a focus on New Testament Contemporary History at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn.