impact on Martin Luther. He lectured on these books of Scripture and in this order: (1) Psalms (1513–15) (2) Romans (1515–16) (3) Galatians (1516–17) (4) Hebrews (1517–18) (5) Second series on the Psalms (1518–21) Gradually, Luther was coming to reject the scholastic methods of interpretation. He now began applying the grammatical-historical approach to the Bible. He studied Greek under Melanchthon, while teaching theology to Melanchthon, who joined the faculty in 1518. Luther was converted
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