1.4.8.
A variety of methods and interdisciplinary research are absolutely ESSENTIAL today. Interdisciplinarity and invitations

to specialists from other disciplines to work on equal terms on issues in Biblical studies are indispensable in today’s world.

1.4.9.
According to our modern understanding of science, access to science should not be limited according to a scientists’ world view; in other words, it is counterproductive to forbid people with the wrong world view to take part in scientific work at state-funded universities for scientific research.