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Summary: Treatise on which books are to be considered canonical, by Andreas Rudolff-Bodenstein von Karlstadt, Luther's more radical Wittenberg colleague.

Summary: This is another academic disputation by Eck at Ingolstadt on monastic vows including 160 theses "in praise of those men who practice the monastic life."

Summary: After Karlstadt had been driven out of Saxony, he sought refuge in South Germany. When this proved impossible, he returned to Wittenberg. Karlstadt publish a retraction of his former opinions and then publish nothing else without prior approval. This is the retraction with Luther's preface. Needless to say, Karlstadt did not find these conditions at all acceptable and he was soon on the move again. He came to settle in Switzerland, first in Zurich and finally in Basel, where he died on Christmas Eve, 1541.

Summary: One of nine 1524 printings of this short anti-monastic tract by the Nuremberg cobbler and playright Hans Sachs.

Summary: Public renunciation of his monastic vows and earlier teachings by Sebastian Meyer, a preacher in the city of Strassburg and an early follower of Martin Luther.

Summary: First printing of F. von Oberweimar's narrative of her escape from the convent of New-Helfta. She came to Luther in Wittenberg in 1524, and he published her explanation of her actions.

Summary: Fredrick the Wise asked Luther to write to Emperor Charles V after the publication of his Open letter to the Christian Nobility in order to express his loyalty. Spalatin convinced Luther to write this letter of submission and edited it for publication.

Summary: First edition of Ulrich Pinder's Passion narrative richly illustrated with 77 woodcut images (39 full page). Pinder was medical doctor, who had served as the court physician of the Elector Frederick the Wise os Saxony. After 1493 he was the town physician for the city of Nuremberg, where he also wrote several medical tracts and published a variety of books with the printer Friedrich Peypus. For this work, Pinder employed the services of the engravers Hans Schaufelein, who contributed 39 woodcuts, and Hans Baldung Grien, who contributed 21 woodcuts.

Summary: One of three 1522 printings of an essay on monastic vows written by Luther during his stay at the Wartburg Castle after the Diet of Worms. It is addressed to monks, whose conscience is troubled by the conflict between their vows and their desire to leave the monastic life. Luther frequently referred to this piece throughout his career, and it became one of his most influential works.

A program for the 40th Annual meeting of the National Association of Biblical Instructors and the 12th Annual meeting of the Midwestern Section, held at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 27-28, 1949.

A program for the 37th Annual meeting of the National Association of Biblical Instructors, held at Union Theological Seminary in New York on December 29-30, 1946.

A program for the 38th Annual meeting of the National Association of Biblical Instructors, held at Union Theological Seminary in New York on December 27-29, 1947.

A program for the 41st Annual meeting of the National Association of Biblical Instructors, held at Union Theological Seminary in New York on December 28-30, 1950.

A program for the 42nd Annual meeting of the National Association of Biblical Instructors, held at Union Theological Seminary in New York on December 26-27, 1951.

A program for the 43rd Annual meeting of the National Association of Biblical Instructors, held at Union Theological Seminary in New York on December 28-29, 1952.

A program for the 46th Annual meeting of the National Association of Biblical Instructors, held at Union Theological Seminary in New York on December 27-28, 1955.

A program for the 47th Annual meeting of the National Association of Biblical Instructors, held at Union Theological Seminary in New York on December 28-29, 1956.

A program for the 18th Annual meeting of the Midwestern Section of the National Association of Biblical Instructors and the Chicago Society of Biblical Research, held at The Disciples Divinity House of the University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, on February 17-18, 1956.

A program for the 48th Annual meeting of the National Association of Biblical Instructors, held at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, on December 27-29, 1957.

A program for the 9th Annual meeting of the Southern Section of the National Association of Biblical Instructors and the 10th Annual meeting of the Southern Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, held at Berea College in Berea, KY, on March 25-26, 1957.