 This was to become one of Bauer's best-known works—a three-volume, critical edition.In 1834 he began to teach in Berlin as a licentiate of theology, and in 1839 was transferred to the University of Bonn.In 1838 he published his "Kritische Darstellung der Religion des Alten Testaments" (Critical Exhibition of the Religion of the Old Testament) in two volumes.