Das Heiligtum Gottes in Der Wüste Sinai

In his liner-notes to Hermann Max’s C.P.E Bach oratorio Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu the German musicologist Peter Wollny writes: "In the second half of the eighteenth century the German oratorio was marked by two characteristics. The tendency toward a highly individual depiction of emotions and the avoidance of dramatic operatic plots." Therefore composers turned away from stories from the Old Testament which were so successfully used, for instance, by Handel for his dramatic oratorios, and focused rather on the person of Jesus Christ. Bach's oratorio Die Israeliten in der Wüste seems to contradict this statement.

Nachdem Ollie von seiner großen Liebe schmählich enttäuscht wurde, landen "Dick & Doof in der Wüste". In der Fremdenlegion müssen sie so manches Abenteuer bestehen und werden zu Helden wider Willen…