Within the
frame work of the general biblical knowledge, students were given
systematic training
in the exegesis of the biblical passages after the
manner of «the Great Interpreter», Theodore of Mopsuestia, whose sober, literal textual interpretations were always the Nestorian model.
Between 1968 and 1970, Baumgarten undertook a
systematic photographic study of how several European ethnographic museums
frame the viewer's perception through the
manner in which their objects are displayed.