Teachers matter in school development is the premise of Professional Development and School Improvement, a book based on case studies from the European-funded project EUDIST (European Development of Innovative Science Teaching). The authors, from Austria, Germany, Spain, Ireland, and Sweden, present their national experiences and results from qualitative studies of educational planning in Curriculum Workshops and related science teacher professional development. In a cross-case study a European/Canadian writing team elaborates different aspects of European reform and teachers'...

The first part-volume of the New Wettstein on the Gospel of Matthew covers chapters 1-10. Special emphasis is on the childhood history and the texts on the Sermon on the Mount. Here it is remarkable how many striking and interesting parallels exist in the history of religion. They document how deeply even the Jewish Christian Gospel of Matthew was embedded in the religious and philosophical debates of Hellenism.

Der Neue Wettstein ist die einzige vollstandige und durchgehende Kommentierung aller neutestamentlichen Stellen mit chronologisch und philologisch geordnetem Material aus dem Hellenismus. Der Band zum Markusevangelium bietet ca. 1300 Texte und dokumentiert, dass es auch zur Jesus-Uberlieferung sowohl auf formaler als auch auf inhaltlicher Ebene zahlreiche hellenistische Parallelen gibt.